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FurnitReuse
Each year thousands of tons of office and domestic furniture made of particle board end their lives being thrown away by their users. At present there is no effective method for utilising such industrial waste except for shredding and combustion. The project proposes to mix crushed particle boards and plastics such as ABS in strictly controlled environment and thus to obtain a new type of a composite material. The range of proposed application of the composite material is vast including first applications in construction and transportation sector. The proposed process is environmentally friendly as no chemical compounds needs to be added to activate and control it.
| Project | Developing innovative method for recycling used particle board made furniture and plastics by producing new environmentally friendly multipurpose composite material |
|---|---|
| Acronym | FurnitReuse |
| Program | Research for the Benefit of Specific Groups (in particular SMEs) |
| Call | FP7-SME-2010-1 |
| List of participants | Country |
|---|---|
| Silesian University of Technology -Coordinator | Poland |
| HERMEX | Germany |
| MFKK Invention and Research Center | Hungary |
| TGAMA | Lithuania |
| Fraunhofer IGB | Germany |
| Ekotech | Poland |
| Ingen10 | Spain |
| KOBIT | Poland |
| COVIMAG | France |
| SANCAL | Spain |
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29/03/2010
eLearning Platform for SME
in the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development" was presented by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. The consortium is composed by members of the smE-MPOWER network, EURESEARCH, the Higher Education School of Western Switzerland, Itycom, Ability Europe, SalsaDev and the Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin. The tender also counts with an advisory group that includes relevant actors, such as the Nokia-Siemens Netwroks and Cegos
A success story
The final results of the 2009 CEEI/BIC Asturias project show an impressive success story:
- Ten companies have entered consortia that have presented a total of 13 project proposals
- One of the proposals was approved and is already underway (Research for the Benefit of SMEs)
- Five more projects were approved for financing and are now in negotiation (four within the Research for the Benefit of SMEs program and one EUROSTARS)
- Three projects exceded the minimum score required for financing
- One project reached the final evaluation in their call, reached by only two candidates
Evaluation process completed
IAM-INNOVIA Project
I+DEX has collaborated with DEX Hungary in the preparation of the proposal "Intellectual Assets Management for Innovative Network oriented Entrepreneurs" -IAM INNOVIA.
The project was presented to the FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1 call by a consortium of partners from 11 countries that included the European Economic Interest Grouping DEX New Europe.
