Website: www.brgm.fr BRGM is France’s leading public institution in the Earth Science field for the sustainable management of natural resources (including mineral resources) and surface and subsurface risks. The various roles of BRGM can be described as follows: technological research and development and innovation; support for public policies and citizen information; international cooperation and development aid; safety and monitoring of former ...

Website: www.bangor.ac.uk Bangor University is a non-profit public body, and an organisation which combines higher education and research. Founded in 1884, Bangor University has a long tradition of academic excellence delivered through twenty three Academic Schools and is ranked in the top 100 Universities in the world for its international outlook. According to the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) ...

Website: www.nhm.ac.uk The NHM manages life and earth science collections that comprise some 70 million items, and host over 5 million visitors per year. Our distinctive approach to scientific research is to use the combination of our collections and specialist expertise to tackle a set of scientific challenges; “The Digital NHM, Origins, evolution & futures, Biodiversity discovery, Natural resources & hazards, ...

Website: www.sintef.no SINTEF is the largest independent contract research organization in Scandinavia and the 4th largest in Europe with approximately 2100 employees (70% of them are researchers). One of SINTEF’s business areas participating in the present proposal is SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (MC), which offers high competence within materials technology, applied chemistry and applied biology. The research division performs research and ...

Website: www.kuleuven.be KU Leuven (KUL) boasts a rich tradition of education and research that dates back six centuries. KUL is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure (EUR 455.1 million in 2015), and is a charter member of LERU. KUL conducts fundamental and applied research in all academic disciplines with a clear international orientation. ...

Website: www.idener.es IDENER is a high-tech research intensive SME originally rooted in a leading Systems and Control Engineering R&D group at the University of Seville’s School of Engineering. One of its most distinguishing traits is the sound scientific background of its research team, which is now specialized in a number of disciplines: chemical engineering, electrical and computer science, systems and control ...

Website: www.pnoconsultants.com PNO Innovation, part of the PNO Group (http://www.pnoconsultants.com/), is specialised in Innovation Management and funding, providing support services to private and public organizations in Innovation processes, Technology Transfer, IT solutions and funding for research, development and innovation. PNO is a European group, made up of a pool of around 250 professionals including scientists, engineers, consultants, a Brussels policy advisory ...

Website: www.tecnaliaventures.com Tecnalia Ventures commercialises of innovative technology-based deal flow generated by Tecnalia and its partner network, turning innovative technology assets into new profitable and sustainable businesses and generating economic value for society. Tecnalia Ventures focuses on accelerating the development of disruptive technologies to transform them into investable business opportunities and managing the portfolio of spin-offs of Tecnalia, currently integrated by ...

Website: www.monolithos-catalysts.gr MONOLITHOS has a fifteen-year experience in manufacturing, regenerating, and recycling of catalytic converters. MONOLITHOS Business Portfolio is based on 1,025 Professional Automotive Workshops Clients for aftermarket products and 1,335 Suppliers of spent automotive catalysts for recycling. Nowadays, MONOLITHOS possesses a cost-effective logistics optimized collection network for spent catalytic converters covering the whole Greek territory, islands included. For the purposes ...

Website: www.cometgroup.be Comet Traitements S.A. is an innovative (a.o. ECOCIR prize 2016, EBAE 2016-2017 finalist) high-growth company, processing and recycling shredder residues (SR), the by-product of the shredding of metallic wastes (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment, End of Life Vehicles, collected scrap). In 2002, the company set up a strategy to minimize the disposal of its final waste to landfills. 15 ...