Projet CCIMC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The CCIMC EJD addresses the current lack of coordinated doctoral training at the European level on molecular catalysis. It aims to push the frontiers of knowledge in ligand design, coordination chemistry, precatalyst development, catalyst recovery and catalytic process implementation, while also offering full scale training in professional and personal transferable skills, to prepare a new generation of junior scientists to meet the economic and societal challenges of the chemical industry in the 21st century. To achieve these objectives, a consortium of 9 academic beneficiaries from 7 European countries will recruit 15 doctoral students to work on coordinated projects in close cooperation with the industrial sector. The projects use complementary know-how to address synthesis, high level spectroscopy, mechanistic and computational studies, bond activation, catalyst anchoring and confinement, optimization and scale-up. The innovative training approach also involves 8 partners from the non-academic sector that are fully integrated via secondment for all 15 ESRs and participation in the theoretical training and Network meetings. The training programme comprises a core course, tutorials and an international school, plus network meetings, international workshops and an international conference where the ESRs will present their work. The ESRs’ progress will be monitored by an Academic Board. The management structure involves all beneficiaries and partners plus students’ representatives and will receive input from an external Advisory Board. Gender balance is insured at all levels. The CCIMC outreach and public engagement will be implemented through a Communication Plan and a Dissemination and Exploitation Plan and will be monitored by an Outreach Committee. The Student Union, comprising all ESRs, will play an active role in the Network administration, in the outreach activities, and in the evaluation of the Network training.

Mots clés : ligand design, bond activation, homogeneous catalysis, computational chemistry, catalyst, anchoring and confinement, biphasic catalysis, continuous flow, recovery and recycling, sustainability

Participants :
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 501809.76 €
- Rovira i Virgili University (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 250904.88 €
- University of Warsaw (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 227478.6 €
- University of York (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 303172.56 €
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Leipzig University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 1374010.2 €
- University of Bucharest (Roumanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 219591.36 €
- Technical University of Denmark (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 595044.0 €