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The 2024 ELN conference took place on 28 to 29 May in Liège, Belgium
The 2024 ELN conference took place on 28 to 29 May in Liège, Belgium © Business Upper Austria

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.


Front row, from left: Leendert den Haan (HTZ/CH), Marc Pauchard, (Innosuisse/CH), Abhas Choudhary (SAM XL/NL), Marcus Morstein (HTZ/CH). Back row: Alexander Pogány, (Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology/AT), Werner Loscheider, (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection/DE) © Nadine Zielinski/Hightech Zentrum Aargau
Front row, from left: Leendert den Haan (HTZ/CH), Marc Pauchard, (Innosuisse/CH), Abhas Choudhary (SAM XL/NL), Marcus Morstein (HTZ/CH). Back row: Alexander Pogány, (Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology/AT), Werner Loscheider, (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection/DE) © Nadine Zielinski/Hightech Zentrum Aargau

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 © Eureka Association
Eureka Lightweighting Call 2024 © Eureka Association

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: Applications in lightweight construction
Nano & Industry: Applications in lightweight construction © Hightech Zentrum Aargau AG

Nano & Industry 2024: Applications in lightweight construction

07.03.2024

Successful initiation and implementation of European lightweight construction projects


Cradle-ALP Wokshops
Cradle-ALP Wokshops © Alpine Space Programme

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.


Sujet EEN Matchmaking at JEC World 2024
EEN Matchmaking at JEC World 2024 © iStock/PragasitLalao

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 Executive Report
3rd ELN Conference Executive Report © European Lightweighting Network

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.


Podiumsdiskussion auf der JEC World in Paris
V. l.: Dirk Vogel (RKW Sachsen), Pedro Mimoso (PIEP – Innovation in Polymer Engineering), Thomas Hipke (Fraunhofer IWU), Cecilia Ramberg (RISE Research Institute of Sweden), Martin Zottler (Business Upper Austria), Rene Adam (FACC), Ricardo del Valle Zermeño (Bax & Company) diskutierten die zahlreichen Potenziale von Leichtbau in Europa © FOUCHA-MUYARD

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. 


EUREKA Lightweighting Call
EUREKA Lightweighting Call © unsplash/Lenny Kuhn

EUREKA Lightweighting Call

02.02.2023

Lightweighting is an economic heavyweight and key to climate protection. Lightweighting is also a strategic research and innovation topic.


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