FP6 - 11730 IDECAT - Integrated Design of Catalytic Nanomaterials for a Sustainable Production

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Type of Project	Networks of Excellence
Contract No	FP6 - 11730
Total Cost	9,500 KEuro
EC Contribution	9,500 KEuro
Start Date	1-4-2005
Duration	60 Months

Abstract

The development of high-performance and conceptually innovative catalytic nanomaterials is crucial for industry and for Europe's sustainable future. In Europe, several excellent research teams exist working on catalysis, but there is a significant fragmentation in the area due to separate scientific communities (heterogeneous, homogeneous, and bio-catalysis) and a lack of thematic identity. IDECAT will address this fragmentation, creating a coherent framework of research, know-how and training between these various catalysis communities with the objective of achieving a lasting integration between the main European Institutions in the area.

IDECAT aims to provide a more general strategy for restructuring/reshaping catalysis research in Europe and focuses its research actions on

• the synthesis and mastering of nano-objects, the materials of the future for catalysis, integrating the concepts which are also common to other nanotechnologies, and
• the integrated design of catalytic nanomaterials to achieve their non-evolutionary and knowledge-based development.

The objectives of IDECAT are to

• create a critical mass of expertise going beyond collaboration,
• create a strong cultural thematic identity on nano-tech based catalysts,
• increase cost-effectiveness of European research,
• establish a frontier research portfolio able to promote innovation in catalysis use especially at the SMEs level
• increase potential for training and education in multidisciplinary approaches to nano-tech based catalysis
• spreading excellence beyond the NoE to both the scientific community and to the citizen.
• create a European Research Institute of Catalysis that becomes self-suporting beyond the period of Community support.

Coordinator

Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali, Italy

Partners

• Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas,Spain
• Leibniz Institut Für Organische Katalyse An Der Universität Rostock E.V.,Germany Stockholms Universitet,Sweden
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,Switzerland
• University of Southampton,United Kingdom
• Instytut Katalizy I Fizykochemii Powierzchni, Polska Akademia Nauk,Poland
• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,Netherlands
• Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche,Italy
• Technische Universität München, Germany
• Max Planck Gesellschaft Zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V.,Germany
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Belgium
• Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique,France
• University of St. Andrews,United Kingdom
• Universiteit Gent, Belgium
• J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Republic
• Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Contacts

Coordinator

• Gabriele CENTI / Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali / ITALY