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Lightweight Materials Summit
The Future of Mobility
23.10.2024
The European Lightweight Association (ELA) invites you to the Lightweight Materials Summit: The Future of Mobility in Helmond (Netherlands). The focus of the event is on the key technology of lightweight construction, which is of immense importance for climate protection and resource conservation. The event is free. We would like to invite all our partners to take part.
Lightweighting for climate action
29.08.2024
The European Lightweighting Network (ELN) focuses on leveraging lightweight technologies to support the objectives of the European Green Deal. A common lightweighting strategy was proposed at the 2024 ELN conference.
There is no way around lightweight construction in Switzerland either
17.05.2024
Lightweight construction applications and the framework conditions for promoting innovation in Europe were the focus of a prominent symposium at the Hightech Zentrum Aargau in Brugg.
Eureka Lightweighting Call 2024
Get ready to shape the future with the 2024 Eureka Lightweighting Call for transnational R&D projects.
23.04.2024
You can submit your R&D project application concerning Lightweighting for this call for projects between 29 May 2024 and 25 September 2024. Your project consortium must include organisations based in a minimum of two of the countries/regions listed in this call.
Nano & Industry 2024: Applications in lightweight construction
07.03.2024
Successful initiation and implementation of European lightweight construction projects
Project Cradle-ALP & polymer-based composites
Crafting a circular roadmap for composites – invitation to workshops
07.02.2024
This series of three virtual workshops organised in the frame of the Cradle-ALP project (Cradle to cradle, circular design and circular substitutions for linear products in industrial manufacturing processes in the Alpine Space) welcomes enterprises, academics, and public stakeholders from the composites industry to delve into crucial issues and drivers shaping the future of the industry in the Alpine region. The objective: to set up a Transformation Roadmap for the composites industry to reduce landfill disposal of composites to 10 % of total waste by 2035, aligning with the EU Landfill Directive.
EEN Matchmaking Platform at JEC World 2024
Registration is open now
26.01.2024
The JEC World 2024 is the best place for the latest innovations and cutting-edge technology in the field of composites. The Matchmaking Event of the Enterprise European Network (EEN) brings together companies (buyers as well as suppliers), researchers, start-ups and clusters from a large number of European countries. This is a unique opportunity to generate new business contacts. The participation in the EEN Matchmaking event ist free of charge.
3rd ELN Conference Stockholm 8-9 June 2023
14.06.2023
The overall goal of the European Lightweighting Network (ELN) is to contribute to the European Green Deal with lightweight technology as an enabler as input to policy decision on a strategical level. ELN Conferences are arranged yearly to promote sustainable multidisciplinary lightweighting innovation in many industrial sectors simultaneously in Europe.
Lightweight Made in Europe
Challenges and Opportunities
23.05.2023
During JEC World 2023 at the end of April, A2LT participated as representative of the European Lightweight Association (ELA) together with representatives of the European Lightweight Cluster Alliance (ELCA) in the panel discussion „Lightweight Made In Europe: Challenges and Opportunities“.
DeremCo
De&Remanufacturing for Circular Economy Investments in the Composite Industry
16.02.2023
30 europäische Partner aus Italien, Finnland, Österreich, Spanien, Slowenien, Belgien und Portugal arbeiten im Rahmen des EU-fianzierten DeremCo-Projekts zusammen, das im Dezember 2022 gestartet wurde.