This Program, called “Materials with advanced functionalities for the new technological transformation”, aims to consolidate R+D+I activity in the area of Advanced Materials, supporting scientific leadership in strategic lines and enhancing collaboration between the participating Autonomous Communities through a research director program, the generation and attraction of talent and the reinforcement of existing scientific infrastructures, as well as promoting synergies between research centers, technology centers and companies to accelerate innovation and technological development and contribute to job creation. In particular, the parties express their willingness to identify, as appropriate, as areas of future collaboration for the development of the program, the following lines of action (LA):
- LA-1: Promote a multidisciplinary research on graphene and other two-dimensional materials that covers from the new physics that arises in the 2D limit to the chemical design and production, in a controlled and scalable way, of new materials and 2D hetero structures with a view to their applications.
- LA-2: Develop and integrate key innovative materials and processes in the energy transition towards a green and resilient economy, promoting technologies of interest to the industrial sector in which a high level of development has been achieved, or is intended to be achieved, and opening new processes for the capture and valorisation of CO2.
- LA-3: Design materials with advanced functionalities - in particular, materials that respond to external stimuli - and serve as a basis for developing applications that meet social needs in the areas of Information and Communication Technologies, Health, Mobility, and Habitat and Environment.
- LA-4: To enhance collaboration and synergies between the different actors involved in R&D&I in Advanced Materials through joint actions that give visibility to this scientific-technological community, train new generations of scientists, encourage research and innovation in this strategic area, and disseminate knowledge and transfer it to the productive sector.
The program was initially launched with the Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Comunitat Valenciana, Aragon, Community of Madrid and Castilla y León, through the signing of a framework agreement with the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Subsequently, following the Agreement of the Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy Council of 22 June 2022, the Autonomous Community of Castilla la Mancha has been incorporated.
