CORDIS results pack on industrial demonstrators.
Date: 2019-03-26
Institutions: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union
Subjects: EU industrial policy, applied research, biotechnology, circular economy, digital technology, industrial development, innovation, new technology, public-private partnership, research project, research results

ISSN 2599-8293

industrial demonstrators

March 2019

Securing Europe’s industrial future 
through key enabling technologies 
and dedicated research partnerships

Research and 
Innovation

CORDIS Results Pack on A thematic collection of innovative EU-funded research resultsContents

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Industrial potential of composite components unlocked

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Combined technologies for hybrid composite  
car parts

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Energy-intensive sectors can be part of low carbon 
transition 

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Flexible solutions for tapping sustainable forest biomass

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Continuous manufacturing means lower-cost 
biopharmaceutical products

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Elevating Europe’s old neighbourhoods into smart 
communities 

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Delivering a robust set of oxidative enzymes as 
biocatalytic tools for green chemistry

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Applying the principles of industrial symbiosis for more 
sustainable manufacturing

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Safer human-robot collaboration for workplaces of the 
future 

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Smart energy management platform maximises building 
efficiency

Editorial

Securing Europe’s industrial future 
through key enabling technologies 
and dedicated research partnerships

European  industry  is  amongst  the  best  and  most  advanced 
in  the  world,  but  even  in  the  post-crisis  age,  new  industrial 
champions  continue  to  challenge  Europe’s  leading  position. 
As the second smallest continent with a declining population, 
Europe requires smart, innovative and efficient policies to help 
its industry flourish in the decades ahead. This CORDIS Results 
Pack  showcases  10  EU-funded  projects  that  demonstrate 
European prowess in some of the most innovative technological 
fields, from manufacturing and digital industry, to the circular 
economy and biotechnologies.

Technological  change  and  the  lingering  after-effects  of  the  2008-09  Great 
Recession have caused many Europeans to wonder about the security of their 
livelihoods and living standards. To address these fears and ensure a prosperous, 
safe and secure future for European citizens, sustainable economic growth is 
essential. Whilst much of the European economy is now services-based, industrial 
production will continue to have an essential role in the future success of the 
continent  and  allow  Europe  to  keep  up  and  match  its  main  international 
competitors, such as the United States and China. 

Supporting industry through Key Enabling Technologies 
and Public Private Partnerships

The European Commission is determined to help high-tech firms meet their goals, 
advance their products and revolutionise their manufacturing processes to ensure 
Europe’s competitive advantage. Therefore, the European Commission is pursuing 
its Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) policy, a crucial component of the EU’s wider 
industrial strategy. KETs are a group of six technologies: micro- and nanoelectronics, 
nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, advanced materials, photonics and 
advanced manufacturing processes. They have applications in multiple industries 
and help tackle many social challenges. The Commission’s strategy aims to help 
KET firms translate their knowledge base into marketable goods and services, a 
particular weakness for European industry.

Alongside the KETs strategy, the European Commission is also boosting industry 
through eight research-focused contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPPs) 
launched in 2013, leveraging more than EUR 6 billion of public investments to 
trigger additional investments for the development of new technologies, products 
and services. Some of the themes covered include ‘factories of the future’, energy-
efficient buildings, robotics and sustainable process industries. 

These two strategies have been a key part of Horizon 2020 and are expected to 
be continued and boosted through the proposed next Framework Programme, 
Horizon Europe. 

Demonstrating industrial innovation

Whilst there are many positive examples to showcase from these strategies, this 
Results Pack has chosen 10 EU-funded projects that are fantastic demonstrators 
of Europe’s industrial potential for the twenty-first century. Specifically, these 
projects are producing market-relevant outputs in the fields of manufacturing and 
digital  industry,  buildings  and  energy  efficiency,  the  circular  economy  and 
biotechnologies.

Industrial potential of 
composite components 
unlocked

The EU-funded ambliFibre project has scaled up production of fibre-reinforced plastic 

(FRP) composite components. Tubular FRP parts are increasingly used in a range of 

industrial products, for example oil and gas pipelines and pressurised tanks for the 

automotive sector. 

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The key success of the ambliFibre (adaptive model-based Con-
trol for laser-assisted Fibre-reinforced tape winding) project 
has been to demonstrate that automated and reliable mass 
production of thermoplastic composite parts is possible by 
laser-assisted tape winding. Prototype machines capable of 
delivering pressurised tanks for the automotive industry and 
pipes for the oil industry have been developed, and the system’s 
modular technology is now available to industry. 

“Customers can come to our facility in Aachen and see the 
process in action,” explains ambliFibre project coordinator 
Dr  Martin  Schäkel  from  the  Fraunhofer  Institute  for 
Production Technology (IPT) in Germany. “From the range of 
new solutions developed by the multinational consortium, 
they can select precisely which technologies might fit their 
specific  needs,  such  as  the  data  mining  or  laser  optics 
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to continue optimising and enhancing the technology with 
our partners.”

and consolidated, layer by layer. A high-speed thermographic 
camera was developed to measure the resulting temperature 
distribution in real time. 

Reinforced demand 

There has been growing global demand for tubular thermoplas-
tic composite parts from across a range of industries. This is 
because these materials are flexible, resilient and lightweight, 
and  can  be  processed  without  the  need 
for pressure chambers or autoclaves. This 
makes them potentially cheaper and faster 
to manufacture than thermoset composites. 
Access to the mass market however has his-
torically been hampered by the perceived 
cost of scaling up production as well industry 
reluctance to switch to new materials. 

“The automotive sector has a lot of experi-
ence with using conventional materials like 
steel, and relationships with suppliers have 
been built up over the years,” explains Dr Schäkel. “We therefore 
have to first overcome scepticism within the industry by really 
addressing their need for efficient mass production, and by 
demonstrating this in a transparent way.” 

We’d like to adapt 
the technology to 
new parts and 
applications, to 
see what the full 
potential is.

On  the  software  side,  a  data  mining  engine  and  a  holistic 
process simulation model were devised to enable plants to 
optimise the process for their own specifications. Lifecycle 
modelling to assess the environmental impact of products 
and reliability modelling for the machine design complement 
the production system. This gives operators complete control 
and visibility over the automated process. 

“Industry interest was encouraged through public workshops 
with industrial stakeholders as well as demonstrations of our 
prototype machinery here in Aachen,” says Dr Schäkel. “We’d 
now like to adapt the technology to new parts and applications, 
to see what the full potential is.” 

Project partners still collaborate even though ambliFibre has 
been  completed.  “This  has  been  one  of  the  most  positive 
aspects of the project,” says Dr Schäkel. “It brought together 
a great package of different competences and capabilities. 
We are always looking for new projects to further adapt the 
technology to industry needs.”

Visible benefits 

To do this, the ambliFibre project undertook a modular approach 
to build on and improve an FRP tubular part production tech-
nique called tape winding. Different technologies were selected 
and integrated into prototype processing machines, capable 
of manufacturing discontinuous products such as pressurised 
tanks for the automotive industry as well as continuous cylindri-
cal products like oil risers. 

For hardware, a quality monitoring device was built into the 
system along with a thermographic camera to measure the 
quality of the part as it is being processed. This means that an 
operator has access to direct feedback during the manufac-
ture of an FRP pressurised tank for example, and can adjust 
or even stop the process immediately if needed. The project 
team also built new adaptive laser optics to optimise the heat 
input in the process zone, where subsequent tapes are melted 

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ambliFibre - adaptive model-based Control for 
laser-assisted Fibre-reinforced tape winding

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
Fraunhofer in Germany

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H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/678875

P R OJ E C T   W E B S I T E
amblifibre.eu

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsCombined technologies 
for hybrid composite  
car parts

A fully automated prototype production cell is up and running, manufacturing hybrid 

composite material parts. This success underlines the potential for automotive and other 

industrial sectors to replace existing metal parts with lightweight multi-material 

components.

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The production cell is located at the site of an industrial partner 
in the EU-funded FlexHyJoin (Flexible production cell for Hybrid 
Joining) project and continues to efficiently produce composite 
roof stiffener parts for cars. Though the project was officially 
completed at the end of December 2018, the consortium envi-
sions that the cell will operate for at least another three years, 

allowing potential customers of project partners – from the 
automotive sector and elsewhere – to come and visit and for 
other composite materials to be tested. 

“The production cell is a demonstrator that shows the capabil-
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combination with an online process control and non-destructive 
testing,” explains FlexHyJoin project coordinator Ms Nora Feiden 
from the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH) in Ger-
many. “Until now there has been keen demand, 
and one of our partners has already identified 
two potential customers.”

This was achieved by using a laser to join two of the fasteners, 
and by applying induction joining to the middle fastener. “We 
combined these two joining technologies because laser joining is 
ideal for smaller parts with a complex geometry,” 
Ms Feiden explains. “And induction is the fastest 
method for bigger parts that are not so complex.” 

New possibilities 

Composite materials open the door to new pos-
sibilities  across  a  range  of  industrial  sectors 
by  combining  the  best  properties  from  each 
constituent ingredient. They surround us every 
day; plastic polymers mixed with natural, glass 
or carbon fibres for example are used to make 
the kind of strong lightweight material you might find in sports 
equipment, building surfaces and airplanes. 

There has been 
keen demand and 
one of our 
partners has 
already identified 
two potential 
customers.

All  the  individual  process  steps  –  from  laser 
surface  texturing  through  to  laser  joining, 
induction joining and an online process control – 
were integrated into a fully automated production 
cell. Material flow was then optimised in order 
to provide each step with an effective process 
time to achieve an optimal result. In addition 
to the project’s specific material combination 
of glass fibre reinforced polymer and steel, an 
extensive range of other materials can also be handled by the 
cell after adaptation. 

“Composites are well known in the areas of renewable energies, 
e.g. in the blades of wind power stations or sports and  recreation 
such as in the manufacture of bicycles,” notes Ms Feiden. “But in 
most applications a very strong and form-fit connection between 
the existing metal structure and plastic part is required. This is 
where FlexHyJoin comes in. We focused on the use of composite 
materials in the automotive sector though, because demand 
to reduce CO2 emissions in transport is very high. One way of 
achieving this is by making vehicles lighter by substituting parts 
of them with hybrid composite materials.” 

Building up potential 

The FlexHyJoin project built on a previous lab-scale project 
to  create  a  pilot-scale  flexible  production  cell  capable  of 
manufacturing  composite  car  parts.  “We  developed  the 
production  technology  with  a  car  component  as  a  spin-off 
product,” says Ms Feiden. “The first challenge we faced was 
deciding what part we should use to demonstrate the technology. 
We wanted to focus on something applicable to everyday mass 
production passenger cars, and so we settled on a roof stiffener.” 

Roof stiffeners are usually made completely out of metal. The 
FlexHyJoin team substituted this with a lightweight glass fibre 
reinforced polymer composite with three metal brackets that 
then attach the stiffener to the car body. 

Representatives  from  the  car  industry  have  already  been 
expressing  an  interest  in  the  process.  “The  technologies 
themselves already existed,” says Ms Feiden. “What we’ve done 
in this project is shown that producing hybrid composite parts 
is possible by combining these different techniques. One of the 
major advantages of this EU-funded project was that it brought 
together different competences from five different EU countries.”

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FlexHyJoin - Flexible production cell for Hybrid 
Joining

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y 
Institute for Composite Materials (IVW) in Germany

F U N D E D   U N D E R 
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/677625

P R OJ E C T   W E B S I T E 
flexhyjoin.eu

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsEnergy-intensive sectors 
can be part of low carbon 
transition 

EU-funded researchers have demonstrated how carbon capture technology can be 

used by energy plants and other sectors to reduce emissions. What makes this 

innovation especially attractive is that the cost of installation can be offset through 

the creation of new revenue streams.

The MefCO2 (Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon 
dioxide using surplus electricity) project installed existing car-
bon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology at a coal-fired 
energy plant in Germany. This technology traps CO2 emissions 
and combines these with hydrogen in a process powered by 
renewable energy. 

This produces methanol, an industrial chemical that can be 
directly blended with gasoline or used as a building block for 
other  chemical  products  like  formaldehyde.  Not  only  does 
this technique reduce the amount of CO2 being released into 
the  atmosphere;  it  also  creates  a  potential  new  business 
opportunity.

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“We’ve shown that CCU can be economically feasible,” says 
project coordinator Mr Angel Sánchez-Díaz from I-Deals Innova-
tion & Technology Venturing Services, Spain. “We were able to 
increase carbon capture viability from an economic perspec-
tive by using green hydrogen to produce a chemical of high 
industrial value.” 

CCU technology, says Mr Sánchez, can help other energy-intensive 
industries such as the steel sector to transition towards the low 
carbon economy. Facilitating additional revenue streams from 
industrial by-products like this one is also very much in keeping 
with the circular economy concept of turning waste into new 
value-added products.  

Industrial challenges 

While achieving Europe’s climate goals will require significant 
industrial  emissions  reductions,  access  to  cheap  energy  is 
important to guarantee competitiveness. The MefCO2 project 
demonstrated that European industry can be both greener and 
more competitive, and thus be part of the transition towards 
a low carbon economy. 

“Showing that CCU technology can deliver results in highly 
industrialised and complex settings is hugely significant,” says 
Mr Sánchez. “There is enormous pressure 
on  the  energy  sector  as  well  as  other 
energy-intensive industrial sectors, such 
as steel, to reduce their carbon footprint.”

We were able to 
increase carbon 
capture viability 
from an economic 
perspective.

While  a  project  partner  had  previously 
demonstrated that CCU technology can 
function  at  a  smaller  scale  in  Iceland, 
transferring  the  concept  to  Germany 
was  daunting.  “Look  at  the  challenges 
facing Germany,” says Mr Sánchez. “The 
country is committed to getting rid of nuclear power, focusing 
on renewables and meeting climate objectives, while at the 
same time remaining industrially competitive. It also has to 
deal with the fact that coal-fired power plants are still needed.” 

Low carbon transition 

As the project got underway, the technology first had to be 
adapted to meet the demands of the specific energy plant, and 
be integrated with the electricity grid. A catalyst to increase 
methanol  synthesis  efficiency  was  developed.  “We  really 
wanted to build a realistic case for CCU,” says Mr  Sánchez. 
“The challenge was demonstrating the technology in realistic 
working conditions.” 

With the pilot plant up and running, the consortium next put 
together a technology roadmap. “This is about how we can 
further scale up the technology and make possible the deploy-
ment of large-scale MefCO2-like plants,” says Mr Sánchez. “We 
see the results of this project as just the first chapter of a story 
that has only begun, and MefCO2 partners will continue to work 
together in developing this technology.”

Indeed, fostering cooperation has been a successful by-product 
of this project. “When you create the right working environment 
with different partners across Europe you are not only pursuing 
a common goal but creating a framework for future initiatives,” 
notes Mr Sánchez. “Without European funding this would not 
have been possible, because businesses and industry need 
incentives. This project brought together the right ingredients 
and conditions to make this happen.” 

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MefCO2 - Synthesis of methanol from captured 
carbon dioxide using surplus electricity

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
I-Deals Innovation & Technology Venturing Services 
in Spain 

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU 

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/637016

P R OJ E C T   W E B S I T E
mefco2.eu

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsFlexible solutions for 
tapping sustainable 
forest biomass

EU-funded researchers have identified and sustainably exploited several under-utilised 

sources of biomass in northern Europe. This could bring additional revenue streams for 

producers and deliver new raw materials for industry.

Following  studies  on  current  forestry  biomass  usage,  the 
MOBILE  FLIP  (Mobile  and  Flexible  Industrial  Processing  of 
Biomass) project developed and trialled a range of mobile 
technologies  designed  to  more  fully  exploit  forestry  raw 
materials  such  as  bark.  While  the  economic  and  environ-
mental benefits of using forestry biomass are well recognised, 

accessing processing technology at the scale required can be 
challenging. As a result, a great deal of material is currently 
thrown away.

This EU-funded project showed however that efficient pro-
cessing is possible. Several technical innovations such as an 

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improved pelletising system were successfully demonstrated, 
and will now move towards commercialisation.

Mobile solutions

“At  least  one  participating  company  plans  to  start  selling 
new  equipment  for  producing  biochar  (charcoal  produced 
from  plant  matter  that  can  improve  soil),  while  another  is 
currently  negotiating  with  a  biogas  company  about  instal- 
ling  pre-treatment  technology  on  their  production  site,” 
says  MOBILE  FLIP  project  coordinator  Dr  Tarja  Tamminen 
from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. “Particle 
boards were also successfully produced from waste biomass.”  
Following project completion at the end of December 2018, 
partners are still working together to further refine ideas and 
identify even more opportunities.

Natural potential
Making better use of biomass – waste material sourced from 
vegetation not used for food or feed – could bring significant 
economic and environmental benefits. As a viable source of 
both renewable energy and industrial raw materials, biomass 
will  undoubtedly  play  a  critical  role  in 
Europe’s transition to more sustainable 
models  of  production.  There  is  also  a 
growing understanding about how bio-
mass can be exploited sustainably; from 
an  ecological  point  of  view,  some  bio-
mass should be left on the ground, for 
example. 

The  availability  of  raw  biomass  varies 
according  to  geography,  climate  and 
season. “In Central Europe for example, 
straw from wheat, corn and other cereals dominates,” explains 
Dr  Tamminen.  “The  Nordic  countries  on  the  other  hand  are 
covered in forest.”

At least one 
participating 
company plans to 
start selling new 
equipment for 
producing biochar.

This is why the MOBILE FLIP project focused on mobile tech-
nologies for small-scale processing. Project partners devel-
oped containerised equipment capable of being transported 
between raw material sites. “We included several interme-
diate  levels  of  mobility,”  explains  Dr  Tamminen.  “In  some 
cases, it might be feasible to transport raw materials to the 
production site. Using the electricity grid at a plant instead 
of a diesel generator in the field is beneficial from an envi-
ronmental point of view.”

A  total  of  five  technologies  were  identified  as  having  real 
potential:  pelletising  (compressing  biomass  into  a  useable 
pellet); hydrothermal pre-treatment for saccharification (turn-
ing into soluble sugars); hydrothermal carbonisation and torre-
faction for fuel; and slow pyrolysis (resulting in biochar). These 
technologies were then successfully demonstrated by indus-
trial  partners  using  selected  raw  materials.  Environmental, 
economic and legislative evaluations were also carried out. 

“Economic feasibility was a critical aspect given the limited 
capacity of end users,” says Dr Tamminen. “These calculations 
will help businesses to better understand the conditions nec-
essary to ensure that the processes are profitable. The wide 
range of competences available within the consortium also 
helped to make all relevant information about raw materials 
and processing available.”

P R OJ E C T
MOBILE FLIP - Mobile and Flexible Industrial 
Processing of Biomass

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Both bark and other forest residues, as well as agricultural 
residues, were therefore selected as the focus of the MOBILE 
FLIP project. These residues are often not collected at all, or 
are used as fuel when higher value applications are possi-
ble. Furthermore, biomass residues tend to be scattered and 
seasonally  available.  This  makes  it  difficult  for  large-scale 
industries to economically exploit the residues, as high vol-
umes of homogeneous raw material are typically required.

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/637020

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsContinuous manufacturing 
means lower-cost 
biopharmaceutical 
products

To cut the costs of developing, making and buying biopharmaceutical drugs,  

the EU-funded nextBioPharmDSP project is implementing continuous manufacturing 

into the downstream process.

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Although biopharmaceuticals are effective drugs for treating a 
range of pathophysiological conditions, their high costs keep them 
out of reach for many patients. According to Dr Gorazd Hribar, 
coordinator of the EU-funded nextBioPharmDSP (Next-generation 
biopharmaceutical downstream process) project, their high cost 

is the result of the complexity of the drugs themselves and the 
complicated manufacturing procedures used to produce them. 

“Biopharmaceuticals are made by biosynthesis in living cells, 
which is followed by a number of purification steps, each done 

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separately in so-called batch processing,” explains Dr Hribar. 
“This is a very time consuming and costly procedure, where each 
and every step is followed by careful analytics and confirmation 
of quality.” 

Continuous manufacturing represents a disruptive alternative to 
this traditional step-by-step method. Unlike batch manufactur-
ing, continuous manufacturing is composed of integrated (i.e., 
physically connected), continuous unit operations with zero or 
minimal hold volume between. 

Dr Hribar and his team of researchers are helping to spearhead 
this  transition  towards  continuous  manufacturing.  “Such  a 
process has the potential to not only substantially reduce the 
costs of manufacturing biopharmaceuticals, but also expand 
patients’ access to these highly efficient drugs,” he says.

Advanced technologies 

and solutions

To  lower  the  cost  of  biopharmaceutical  development  and 
manufacturing – and thus the end product – nextBioPharmDSP 
researchers focused their efforts on downstream processing 
(DSP). This is the purification process of 
biopharmaceuticals,  where  all  impuri-
ties are removed and the desired quality 
achieved. 

The most impressive 
outcome of this project 
is the establishment of 
a fully integrated 
continuous 
manufacturing platform 
for biologics.

In batch manufacturing, this is done via 
a  series  of  individual  chromatographic 
steps,  filtrations,  and  final  concentra-
tion and formulation. But with nextBio-
PharmDSP,  these  individual  steps  are 
replaced with continuous chromatography 
all the way to the final connected down-
stream process. This is possible thanks 
to single use continuous chromatography manufacturing-scale 
equipment developed by the project. “This continuous approach 
reduces the use of expensive protein A resin, allowing us to 
achieve a substantial reduction in costs,” explains Dr Hribar. 

tools  for  real-time  monitoring  of  quality  attributes  are  also 
incorporated. 

Increased productivity  

and reduced costs

The benefits of implementing such connected and continuous 
downstream processes are many. For example, although the 
complete DSP only takes up 30 m2, it is capable of processing 
material from a few thousand-litre bioreactors in just 24 hours. 
This in turn drastically reduces the required facility size compared 
to current standards. 

With its single-use equipment, the entire process becomes flex-
ible and mobile, meaning manufacturers can adapt production 
demands to market need. As a result, facility investments have 
decreased by at least 35 %, running costs by 30 %, and material 
costs by 50 %. But continuous manufacturing also brings envi-
ronmental benefits, including a 25 % decrease in CO2 emissions, 
reduced water consumption, and less energy use. 

“The  most  impressive  outcome  of  this  project  is  the 
establishment of a fully integrated continuous manufacturing 
platform for biologics,” says Dr Hribar. “This means faster times 
to market, more affordable drug prices, and a distinct competitive 
advantage for companies using this process.” 

P R OJ E C T
nextBioPharmDSP - Next-generation 
biopharmaceutical downstream process

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
Lek Pharmaceuticals d.d. in Slovenia

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-BIOTECH

Furthermore, the integration of continuous chromatography, 
together with the implementation of flow-through purification 
steps, results in the efficient removal of impurities and guar-
antees the quality of the final product. To ensure high product 
quality and efficient control of the process, advanced analytical 

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/635557

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nextbiopharmdsp.eu

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsElevating Europe’s old 
neighbourhoods into 
smart communities 

The EU-funded REnnovates project uses an innovative prefabricated concept for 

renovating existing building stock into net-zero-energy homes.

For much of Europe, the post-war era was defined by a building 
boom. Although lots of new homes were constructed during this 
time, many were built fast, cheap and with little-to-no thought 
towards energy efficiency. The result is that Europe now has 
a plethora of technically sound old homes that, due to their 
poor energy performance, pose a significant challenge to the 
EU meeting its 2020 Climate Goals. 

“With  buildings  being  responsible  for  30 %  of  all  energy 
consumption,  much  of  today’s  existing  building  stock  is 
incapable of meeting the energy requirements of tomorrow,” 
says Mr  Dennis van Goch, project coordinator of the EU-funded 
REnnovates (Flexibility Activated Zero Energy Districts) project. 
“The good news is that these houses can be renovated to 
become  more  sustainable  but  doing  so  requires  that  the 

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renovation projects go beyond the simple bricks and mortar 
and towards facilitating an energy transition.”

to control and monitor their energy use. As a bonus, all post-
renovation maintenance is provided by the project. 

The REnnovates project seeks to position Europe’s existing 
housing stock to better meet future challenges in terms of 
sustainability, comfort and costs. “Using a holistic approach 
that embraces the essential elements of energy savings, the 
project developed a sustainable yet flexible solution that brings 
value to all stakeholders,” adds Mr van Goch. 

A prefabricated approach to 

renovation 

The REnnovates project elevates old neighbourhoods to smart 
communities, thus improving the quality of living, extending 
a  building’s  lifespan,  and  reducing  its  impact  on  the  local 
energy infrastructure. “We do this using 
a  prefabricated  concept  for  renovating 
existing houses towards net-zero-energy 
and by better managing the flow of energy 
at  the  neighbourhood  level,”  explains  
Mr van Goch. “The end goal is to transform 
existing  houses  into  smart  homes  in  a 
commercially viable and scalable way.” 

The project’s unique prefabrication sys-
tem includes providing each house with 
a tailor-made insulating suit, an energy 
module, and connection to a local produc-
tion source. “To avoid excessive demand on 
the energy grid, all the renovated houses 
in a given neighbourhood are networked 
together, thus optimising energy use while ensuring individu-
alised comfort,” says Mr  van Goch. “This neighbourhood grid 
concept is essential to reducing the social cost of the energy 
transition while making large-scale renovation feasible.”

With buildings being 
responsible for 30 % 
of all energy 
consumption, much 
of today’s existing 
building stock is 
incapable of meeting 
the energy 
requirements of 
tomorrow.

Energy saving potential 

With over 250 demonstrator homes operating in the Nether-
lands and Spain, the REnnovates system has lowered energy 
consumption from over 15 MWh/year to an average of just  
6 MWh/year – a reduction of 60 %. Thanks to the energy sav-
ings made possible by the REnnovates system, occupants saw 
their energy bills go down by an average EUR 1 600 per year. 
In total, the project is responsible for saving more than 1 m 
tonnes of CO2 and generating 1.75 GWh of renewable energy 
– two numbers that are increasing every day. 

“These numbers clearly demonstrate that REnnovates’ radi-
cal concept and innovative business model has considerable 
energy saving potential,” says Mr van Goch. 

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REnnovates - Flexibility Activated Zero Energy 
Districts 

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
BAM Construction and Engineering in the 
Netherlands

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H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/680603

Users can stay in their homes during the renovation, which takes 
less than a week. After renovation, they receive a dashboard 

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of oxidative enzymes 
as biocatalytic tools for 
green chemistry

Towards a biobased economy, ROBOX has demonstrated the techno-economic viability 

of enzymatic bio-oxidation processes as a greener alternative to traditional  

chemical processes.

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Industrial chemical conversions are typically conducted under 
harsh conditions (high temperature and pressure), often requiring 
toxic chemicals and generating hazardous by-products. In the 
pursuit of greener alternatives, enzymes have been heralded 
as a replacement for chemical catalysts – a process referred 
to as biocatalysis. 

Enzymes typically operate under mild reaction conditions, use 
cheap cosubstrates (e.g. oxygen) and display outstanding selec-
tivity and good yields. Yet despite successes, full industrial-scale 
exploitation of biocatalysts is hampered by the instability of 
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The EU-supported ROBOX (Expanding the industrial use of Robust 
Oxidative Biocatalysts for the conversion and production of alco-
hols) project established a collection of stable enzymes, along with 
industrial conversion protocols. The project succeeded in: devel-
oping an enzyme capable of oxidizing glycerol, applying P450 
enzymes to produce drug metabolites on a large scale, applying 
ADH and BVMO enzymes to produce novel fragrance molecules, 
as well as precursors for specialty and performance polymers.

Demonstrating target 

reactions of robust oxidative 

enzymes

The sustainability and economics of industrial processes can 
be greatly improved with biocatalytic oxidation routes using 
molecular oxygen (from air) under benign and mild (pH) con-
ditions, such as ambient temperature and pressure. But this 
approach, with its high costs (> EUR 1 000/kg) associated with 
the enzyme-catalysed step, has been 
considered too expensive. 

These biocatalyst 
types perform 
oxidations with high 
selectivity and 
specificity, often 
accompanied with a 
good yield. Results 
difficult to obtain in 
standard chemical 
oxidations.

To address this, ROBOX explored the 
biotransformation  viability  of  four 
types  of  robust  oxidative  enzymes. 
“These  biocatalyst  types  perform 
oxidations with high selectivity and 
specificity, often accompanied with 
a good yield. These results would be 
difficult to obtain in standard chemical 
oxidations”, explains project coordina-
tor Prof. Marco Fraaije.

Glycerol  is  a  major  by-product  of 
biodiesel production and a promising 
building block chemical, as its oxida-
tion generates valuable compounds, such as glyceraldehydes, 
of interest for the production of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals 
or amino acids. 

Monooxygenase (P450) enzymes in the human liver are respon-
sible for detoxifying nearly all marketed drugs, and so biocatalyti-
cally producing drug metabolites at a large scale is of great impor-
tance for validating results in drug development and clinical trials.

ROBOX also developed and applied robust Alcohol DeHydrogenase 
(ADH), Alcohol OXidase (AOX) and Baeyer-Villiger MonoOxygenase 
(BVMO) enzymes, in the biocatalytic production of novel fragrance 
compounds and polymer precursors, illustrating the superiority of 
this group of oxidative enzymes over traditional chemistry.

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ROBOX validated and optimised the target reactions for these 
enzymes at the lab-scale in pharma, nutrition, fine chemical and 
material applications. Where needed, the respective enzymes 
were improved by protein engineering or novel robust enzymes 
were identified through genome mining. 

“This integrated approach involved the entire chain from enzyme 
discovery to application at a large scale”, Prof. Fraaije says. 
“During the project, we dismissed some target reactions as not 
viable according to a rigorous techno-economic assessment. 
But this strategy worked successfully for most, enabling further 
exploitation of oxidative biocatalysis.”

Expanding the toolkit of 

sustainable chemistry

The results of ROBOX contribute towards the production of green 
chemicals, as used in materials such as plastics, pharmaceuticals 
and inks – essential for the development of a biobased economy.

To start quantifying green credentials, the ROBOX team performed 
a comparative life cycle analysis for one of the BVMO target reac-
tions. “The respective enzymatic oxidation had a lower environ-
mental impact compared to its chemical equivalent, if recycling of 
solvents and enzymes is considered. Moreover, the climate change 
impact of the biocatalysed reaction can be decreased by 71 % 
when renewable electricity is used,” says Prof. Fraaije.

To date, the project has generated patents for project partners, 
as well as a start-up biotech company through the University 
of Groningen.

P R OJ E C T
ROBOX - Expanding the industrial use of Robust 
Oxidative Biocatalysts for the conversion and 
production of alcohols

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
University of Groningen in the Netherlands

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-BIOTECH

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/635734

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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsApplying the principles 
of industrial symbiosis 
for more sustainable 
manufacturing

Borrowing from the elegant coordination within the human body, the EU-funded 

SYMBIOPTIMA project has introduced the concept of ‘industrial symbiosis’ to the 

design of production management tools for increased manufacturing sustainability. 

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Improving the sustainability of contemporary industrial pro-
cesses requires a new paradigm whereby critical resources 
such  as  materials,  energy,  waste  and  by-products  can  be 
coordinated more efficiently between Production Units. 

production  units)  project,  was  ‘human-mimetic  symbiosis’ 
which takes its inspiration from the functioning of the human 
body. This approach rethinks and reuses production resources 
across  diverse  industries,  and  even  sectors,  for  increased 
efficiency with fewer adverse environmental impacts.

The paradigm, adopted by the EU-supported SYMBIOPTIMA 
(Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, man-
agement  and  optimization  of  a  symbiotic  cluster  of  smart 

SYMBIOPTIMA developed an integrated Energy and Resource 
Management System (ERMS), which offers tools for production 

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scheduling and demand response management and for Life 
Cycle  Sustainability  Assessments  (LCSAs).  It  also  created 
hardware for modular ‘plug and play’ monitoring of production 
plants, as well as an integrated toolset for all thermal energy 
sources, flows and sinks. Additionally, to maximise the reuse 
of waste, it developed a unique de-polymerisation process 
for plastics (PET). 

‘Closing the loop’ with  

eco-innovation

Modern industrial management involves monitoring, measur-
ing,  recording,  analysing,  controlling  and  redirecting  energy 
and material flows within systems to ensure productivity and 
sustainability.

“Inspired by the human body, SYMBIOPTIMA’s innovation was 
to view elements of an industrial cluster (such as companies), 
as  functionally  independent  but  simultaneously  intercon-
nected  with  other  elements,  in  a  unitary  system,”  project 
coordinator Mr Andrea Ballarino says, adding that “each ele-
ment pursues objectives for the good of the whole.”

To  operationalise  their  concept,  SYMBIOPTIMA  developed 
an ERMS as the integration point for all the environmental, 
energy and economic factors of each company, functioning 
as Production Units, in the cluster. With all the data aggre-
gated, the platform uses evaluation tools to support decision 
making. For example, demand response software can exploit 
knowledge about energy use scheduling within the cluster, to 
communicate with the energy market and purchase energy 
more  conveniently  and  at  a  lower  cost  for  both  individual 
companies and the cluster as a whole.

SYMBIOPTIMA re-evaluated what constitutes ‘waste’, allowing 
disruptive technologies to then find ways to exploit previously 
discarded materials. A prime example is the development of a 
new chemical treatment technology for recycling and reusing 
PET plastics, called Gr3n, recently the overall winner of the 
EU’s Innovation Radar Award 2018.

The system is modular to facilitate integration and scalability, 
at both the hardware and software levels. Integration at the 
process monitoring level has been developed to complement, 
rather than replace, existing systems. Moreover, the adoption 
of interoperability standards and protocols, capable of build-
ing upon existing systems and features of the Internet, makes 
it easier to upgrade legacy systems. 

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Opportunities for growth 

According to Mr Ballarino, based on Eurostat figures, the chemi-
cal, cement, ceramic, steel, petrochemical, minerals and ores, 
non-ferrous metals, and water industries collectively represent 
more than 450 000 enterprises, over 6.8 million employees and 
more than EUR 1.6 billion in revenue – constituting 20 % of all 
manufacturing  in  Europe.  These 
statistics  highlight  the  potential 
impact  these  industrial  sectors 
have on the overall sustainability 
of the European economy. 

“Sustainable processes cannot be 
achieved through competition but 
rather cooperative management, 
and  integration  of  resources,” 
says Mr Ballarino. “The incentives 
for this vary – from conventional 
business  reasons,  such  as  cost 
reduction or increased revenues, 
to long-term resource security or 
even  regulatory  compliance.  We 
need to tap into these.”

Inspired by the human 
body, SYMBIOPTIMA’s 
innovation was to view 
elements of an industrial 
cluster (such as 
companies), as functionally 
independent but 
simultaneously 
interconnected with other 
elements, in a unitary 
system. Each element 
pursues objectives for the 
good of the whole.

Currently SYMBIOPTIMA is piloting 
the full solution with companies 
from across industry. Some technologies are already market-
ready, such as the ERMS platform, as well as the integrated 
toolset for thermal energy sources and flows management, 
while others are shortly to enter the market.

P R OJ E C T
SYMBIOPTIMA - Human-mimetic approach to 
the integrated monitoring, management and 
optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart 
production units

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
Spirax-Sarco Limited in the United Kingdom

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/680426

P R OJ E C T   W E B S I T E
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CORDIS Results Pack on industrial demonstratorsSecuring Europe’s industrial future through key enabling technologies and dedicated research partnershipsSafer human-robot 
collaboration for 
workplaces of the future 

The next generation of robots could be entering the workplace alongside humans, but 

this first needs some collaborative principles to be established. SYMBIO-TIC has 

developed a system for such a safe, dynamic, intuitive and cost-effective working 

environment.

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Factories of the future will depend on the development of safe, 
cost-effective, hybrid assembly/packaging arrangements based 
on human-robot collaboration. However, the European manufac-
turing industry faces implementation challenges, which could 
be summarised as a lack of: adaptability, flexibility and vertical 
integration.

The EU-supported SYMBIO-TIC (Symbiotic Human-Robot Collabo-
rative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness) 
project created tools for robot-reluctant industries where current 
tasks and processes are typically considered too complex for 
automation. These included: a collision avoidance system, a 
planning and control tool to monitor and re-plan assembly tasks, 

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intuitive robot control commands and a real-time worker support 
system, tailored to workers’ competence and skill levels, as well 
as changing assembly sequences.

After this, the team will seek out new partners to advance the 
technology to a market-ready state.

A symbiotic multimodal 

solution

When it comes to human-robot collaboration, there is a high 
initial investment, often a programming skills-shortage, inflex-
ibility of pre-programmed robots within dynamic 
environments, and safety concerns. There is also 
no common standard or associated regulations, 
leading to the current safety-driven prohibition, of 
humans working closely with robots in a shared 
environment. 

The SYMBIO-TIC team came up with their modu-
lar  solution  after  analysing  the  human-robot 
collaborative assembly line and identifying the 
critical missing elements. As project coordinator 
Prof.  Lihui  Wang  from  the  KTH  Royal  Institute 
of Technology in Sweden says, “When a worker 
walks onto a robotic assembly line, the first priority is safety. 
The second is treating the robot as a teammate. Finally, at the 
system level, the human-robot interaction must be monitored 
and coordinated.”

This approach 
enables an easy 
entry for industries 
that are reluctant 
to explore human-
robot collaborative 
working.

Smart agents

SYMBIO-TIC supports the increased competitiveness of European 
industries through these enabling technologies. More specifically, 
the integrated system will increase productivity by: shortening 
assembly lines, reducing the idle time of workers/robots and 
introducing rapid robot control by voice, vision and haptics, avoid-

ing the need for programming skills. 

This envisions a future where assembly operators 
will be ‘smart agents’ working with robots in a 
coherent, effective team, naturally communicat-
ing and controlling their robot colleagues through 
speech, sign language and/or touch. 

“We are working towards better environmental 
and social sustainability through energy-efficient 
robotic control and ergonomic work environments. 
The latter improves workers’ lives and encourages 
gender equality, as female workers can also per-
form heavy-duty tasks, with robotic support,” says Prof. Wang. 
”Such smart agents, no matter their gender, height, age and 
physical strength, can do the same job efficiently.” 

SYMBIO-TIC’s  contribution  provides  a  system  that  makes 
legacy industrial robots safe, smart and collaborative. “This 
approach enables an easy entry for industries that are reluc-
tant  to  explore  human-robot  collaborative  working,”  says  
Prof. Wang. 

Part of the system’s strength is the inclusion of ‘function blocks’, 
each containing multiple algorithms associated with data and 
event inputs, which can then be used as inputs for subsequent 
blocks. This gives rigid control codes more flexibility and adapt-
ability, such as being able to modify a robot’s trajectory if a 
human approaches.

The system will also maintain product quality, with humans 
remaining ultimately responsible for inspections and the neces-
sary adjustments.

P R OJ E C T
SYMBIO-TIC - Symbiotic Human-Robot 
Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, 
Innovations and Competitiveness

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden

The team have already recorded active collision avoidance 
for  worker  protection  and  are  currently  developing  a  dem-
onstrator, to be ready by mid-March 2019, which integrates 
all the modules and sub-systems together to showcase the 
full solution. This demonstrator will be located at Volvo Cars 
in  Sweden,  where  it  will  assemble  a  mass  balancing  sys-
tem (MBS) within a car, but outside of the regular production 
environment. 

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/637107

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management platform 
maximises building 
efficiency

Increasing energy efficiency in buildings usually involves taking a performance 

snapshot, identifying causes of inefficiency and implementing a solution. But this 

can miss how buildings function in the real world, a situation TOPAs rectifies with 

continuous monitoring.

Buildings  (including  their  construction)  globally  account  for 
approximately 36 % of total energy consumption, which in turn 
contributes to 40 % of the world’s total CO2 emissions directly 
and indirectly (World Energy Outlook). An obvious response is to 

make buildings more energy efficient, but there is now exten-
sive evidence that buildings do not typically perform as well as 
predicted, despite interventions. 

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One of the weaknesses of energy efficiency initiatives relates 
to the energy audit process which is typically performed for a 
fixed duration, at a specific point in time. 

across three sites, located in three different cities (Cork, Dublin 
and Paris) were integrated using the tools. 

The EU-supported TOPAs (Tools for cOntinuous building Perfor-
mance Auditing) project adopted the principle of continuous per-
formance auditing, which offers a more detailed overview of build-
ing performance, taking into account how buildings are actually 
used and their climatic state. This provides a holistic audit which 
reduces the gap between predicted versus actual energy use. 

TOPAs developed an Internet of Things (IoT)-driven platform to 
support facilities managers, building owners and energy service 
companies (ESCOs) in making informed decisions about building 
operations. 

Reducing the performance gap

Gaps typically exist between estimates of building energy effi-
ciency and actual efficiency – which can reach tens of percent-
age points – because occupants might start using the building 
in unpredicted ways. It may also be due to fluctuations, such as 
the activities, open hours or number of occupants in a building, 
or because the underlying estimation models were inaccurate.

Traditionally, energy auditing is done 
annually  and  measured  against 
key  performance  indicators  (KPIs). 
This  often  misses  opportunities  to 
implement energy saving initiatives. 
The  TOPAs  continuous  monitoring 
approach  aligns  KPIs  with  actual 
data, supporting the introduction of 
energy management standards such 
as ISO 50001.

The TOPAs platform 
can be viewed as a 
fitness tracker for 
buildings, providing 
continuous visibility of 
how energy-related 
interventions impact 
management, cost, air 
quality and comfort for 
occupants.

“The TOPAs platform can be viewed 
as a fitness tracker for buildings, pro-
viding  continuous  visibility  of  how 
energy-related interventions impact 
management, cost, air quality and comfort for occupants,” says 
Mr Boris Kantsepolsky.

The platform comes as two main components. TOPAs Core ena-
bles users to easily and quickly extract, process and analyse 
large amounts of data from buildings blocks. TOPAs Add-on 
services provide decision support tools, including a range of 
energy prediction models, building usage models, fault detec-
tion and diagnosis, air quality monitoring and predictive models 
to enable buildings to self-manage energy efficient operations.

In excess of 177 000 000 messages generated by over 3 500 
data points were processed within the platform. “The solution’s 
energy prediction models (electrical and thermal) reduced the 
gap between predicted and actual energy usage in the range of 
11-27 % and contributed to energy savings of 12-37 % across 
all sites,” adds Mr Kantsepolsky.

Significant environmental 

and social benefits

By improving energy efficiency and reducing energy consump-
tion, the TOPAs solution minimises environmental impacts, while 
increasing the productivity and health of building occupants. 
Additionally, contributing to energy sector innovation strengthens 
European competitiveness and creates jobs.

“Reducing  costs  and  enhancing  sustainability  encourages 
businesses to invest in positive social change, making people’s 
lives better. The ability to deploy the TOPAs solution across very 
different, demanding and complex environments demonstrates its 
real world benefit and replication potential,” says Mr Kantsepolsky.

Some of the tools developed within TOPAs have already been 
introduced into the marketplace such as the CEA (spinoff business) 
created from a LINC software platform (a coordination middle-
ware) which optimises industrial production systems. In terms of 
IoT technology, Fraunhofer developed an IoT-ready Energy Predic-
tion Model called IoMod™, while IBM launched IoT building insights 
for facilities management. Additionally, Azimuth/Hager integrated 
TOPAs’ results into their air quality solutions for smart homes.

P R OJ E C T
TOPAs - Tools for cOntinuous building 
Performance Auditing  

C O O R D I N AT E D   B Y
Motorola Solutions Israel Ltd in Israel

F U N D E D   U N D E R
H2020-LEIT-ADVMANU

C O R D I S   FA C T S H E E T
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/676760

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