Partner Projects
Quadriga has four project partners. Below you will find the profiles in brief of these partner projects. Additionally information about the complete portfolio of projects within the 6th and 7th Research and Development Framework Programmes, supported by the schemes of the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission can be found under the item `Related Projects`in the main menu
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Organic/Plastic Electronics Research Alliance
Vision & Aim
OPERA proposes to coordinate the work of academia and industry active in the field of organic and large area electronics [OLAE]. The overall objective is to strengthen the position of Europe as the leading force in OLAE in the world. The specific objective of OPERA is to create the conditions for the establishment of a number of competitive clusters in the EU, because competitive clusters have shown to provide a fertile substrate for the development of such global leadership.
There are a number of areas that meet the requirements for an OLAE cluster :
- The Aachen-Louvain-Endhoven triangle.
- UK, Cambridge area
- Germany, Dresden area
- Finland Oulu area
- Switzerland, Basel area
However, a number of key elements are missing from these OLAE clusters :
- Organic & large area electronics has grown autonomously in Europe without a coherent overall strategy. This leads to duplication of efforts, inefficiency, and poor synergy. These are major obstacles to the development of a truly force.
- Organic & large area electronics is still at too early stage of development to justify massive investments from the end-user industry. This would allow the sector to grow beyond critical mass.
To address these issues, OPERA has the following components :
- The development of an overall pan-European strategic framework maximising synergy and co-operation within the sector, accelerating technological progress and the development of commercial OLAE applications;
- The creation of channels of exchange of ideas and people;
- The development of tools for stimulating entrepreneurship by the private sector and public administration;
- The acceleration of the development of industry standards for OLAE;
- Enhancing the visibility of the field to the "outside world", stimulating the formation of "cross links"with related fields.
The consortium consists of Europe's leading authorities in OLAE and receives broad support from the entire stakeholder community. OPERA will run fro 3 years, but many of the processes initiated are considered to extend well beyond the duration of the project.
OPERA PROJECT NUMBER : 215150
PROJECT PARTNERS :
- Plastic Electronics Foundation, The Netherlands
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- University of Dresden, Germany
- Holst Centre R&D Institute, The Netherlands
- VTT Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus, Finland
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Switzerland
WEBSITE : www.opera-project.eu
TIMELINE : 36 months
BUDGET AND FUNDING SCHEME :
CSA - CA
Overall cost : € 1.050.000
EC Funding : € 1.050.000
CONTACT :
Mr. Ed van den Kieboom
P.O. Box 775
5600 AT Eindhoven, The Netherlands
e-mail : ed.vandenkieboom@plastic-electronics.org
Network of Excellence for the exploitation of organic and large area electronics
VISION AND AIM
The Network of Excellence [NoE] aims to establish Europe in the area of organic & large area electronics [OLAE] as the world leader in science, technology development and subsequent commercial exploitation of printing and large area technologies for hetero integration of flexible electronics.
Future industrial exploitation needs a research cooperation base and a service base to foster transfer from science to industry within the EU.Therefore fragmentation of the European research landscape has to be overcome.
The NoE PolyNet will support these aims with three core platforms :
- A research cooperation platform
- A service platform
- A knowledge platform
For a long/term integration of the European research landscape, concepts for the continuation of research cooperation and service offers will be developed, validated and put into operation.
Impact is expected not only on the European landscape of OLAE, but also indirectly on the European industry by long/term stimulation of innovative technologies and new companies.
POLYNET PROJECT NUMBER : 215150
PROJECT PARTNERS :
- VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, Germany
- University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Linkoping University, Sweden
- Technical University of Lodz, Poland
- ACREO AB, Sweden
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- CEA-LITEN, France
- Fraunhofer Institut for Zuverlassigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM, Germany
- IMEC, Belgium
- Joanneum Research mbH Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
- VTT Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus, Finland
- The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, The Netherlands
- TU Chemnitz, Germany
- University ofOulu, Finland
- University Paris Diderot, France
- Ecole Polytechnique, France
Website : www.vdivde-it.de/polynet/public
TIMELINE : 36 months
BUDGET AND FUNDING SCHEME :
NoE
Overall cost : € 5.395.494
EC Funding : € 3.300.000
CONTACT :
Mr. Lars Heinze
Steinplatz 1
10623 Berlin, Germany
e-mail : heinze@vdivde-it.de
Manufacturing and Production Equipment & Systems for Polymer and Printed Electronics
VISION AND AIM
The intention of the Coordination Action PRODI is to integrate European printing, coating, and other advanced processing machinery manufacturers, production line integrators, and process measurement and automation industry to work together to improve European excellence and competitiviness in roll-to-roll [R2R] Polymer and Printed Electronics manufacturing equipment and production lines business.
The objective of the project include collecting the requirements for the new manufacturing, machinery, measurements and automation systems, and generating a common future vision for the industry on R2R polymer and printed electronics manufacturing equipment and production lines and systems.
Intensive education and training program is organised by means of various workshops, training events and seminars for distribution of the state-of-the-art multidisciplinary technology information to the industry.
The active consortium consists of six core research partners, leading European research organisations in R2R polymer and printed electronics, and an invited industril advisory board [10 to 15 members], a selected group of leading companies in the area of printing machinery, coating, laser, embossing/
imprinting, measurement and instrumentation, automation, and production line integration, to be the industrial reference, actively contributing, advising and supervising body within the project.
For the broader networking and exploitation an associate network [approx. 100 members] will be formed consisting of parties interested in monitoring the developments and future business opportunities of R2R polymer and printed electronics, and especially manufacturing equipment and production systems.
PRODI PROJECT NUMBER : 215150
PROJECT PARTNERS :
- VTT Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus, Finland
- Fraunhofer Institut Zuverlassigkeit und Mikrointegration, Germany
- ACREO AB, Sweden
- Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
- TNO Holst Centre, The Netherlands
- IMEC, Belgium
Website : http://www.project-prodi.eu/
TIMELINE : 36 months
BUDGET AND FUNDING SCHEME :
CSA-CA
Overall cost : € 750.000
EC Funding : € 750.000
CONTACT :
Mr. Juha Palve
Microkatu 1
70211 Kuopio, Finland
e-mail : juha.palve@vtt.fi
Technology roadmap of processes and materials for organic electronics
VISION AND AIM
The overall objective of PolyMap is to strengthen the position of Europe as the leading force in organic & large area electronics worldwide. For that purpose, PolyMap undertakes 3 actions :
- Mapping public funding in organic and large area electronics [OLAE] and setting up an ERA-NET [WP1]. This task will be coordinated together with the European stakeholder working group 1. Following an analysis of public funding in national and regional programs throughout Europe, a number of round table discuusions will be launched between the involved regional and national bodies to identify opportunities for trans-mnational cooperation. The setting will culminate in the setting up of an ERA-NET plus for the area of OLAE.
- Setting up a Wiki application for OLAE [To be defined].
- Supporting SME's. Small and Medium Sized Companies [SME's] are essential in the European research and industry area. In WP3 it is proposed to support the SME's, in coordination with the OPERA partner project. Within PolyMap their specific needs will be analyzed, a service and consultancy package will be prepared and proposed to the selected SME's. PolyMap is an essential member of the European house of OLAE imagined by the European Commission. Together with the other 3 European FP7 coordinating projects Polynet , Prodi ,OPERA it forms the "Quadriga" which, led by the European Commission, will help Europe to build its advance in OLAE.
PRODI PROJECT NUMBER : 216120
PROJECT PARTNERS :
- TNO Holst Centre, The Netherlands
- IZM Fraunhofer Institut Zuverlassigkeit und Mikro Integration, Germany
- VTT Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus, Finland
- CEA-LITEN, France
- Plastic ELectronics Foundation, The Netherlands
Website : http://www.polymap.eu
TIMELINE : 36 months
BUDGET AND FUNDING SCHEME :
CSA-CA
Overall cost : € 600.000
EC Funding : € 600.000
CONTACT :
Dr. Herman Schoo
High Tech Campus 31
P.O. Box 8550
5605 KN Eindhoven
The Netherlands
E-mail : herman.schoo@tno.nl
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