Entidad concedente: Agencia Estatal de Investigación.

Entidad o línea de financiación: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación / Unión Europea NextGenerationEU / PRTR./ Proyectos de colaboración público-privada 2022.

Convocatoria: Proyecto de investigación correspondiente a la convocatoria del año 2022, de referencia: CPP2022-010052, de ayudas a «Proyectos de colaboración público-privada».

Periodo de ejecución: Noviembre 2023 – Octubre 2026

Presupuesto: 797.488,05 €

Coordinador: Lantania Aguas

Participantes:

- Instituto De Tecnología Química
- Centro Tecnológico Industrial de Castilla – La Mancha (ITECAM)
- Universidad Politécnica De Valencia – UPV
- CSIC
- Ansasol
- Instituto IMDEA Energía

Descripción del proyecto:

El proyecto HYLIOS se centrará en la promoción de nuevas soluciones innovadoras para la generación sostenible y eficiente de hidrógeno verde mediante la división fotocatalítica del agua utilizando aguas residuales depuradas.

Los objetivos del proyecto son desarrollar y optimizar sistemas fotocatalíticos para la producción de hidrógeno verde, integrar estas tecnologías en plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales para generar energía y compuestos químicos de alto valor añadido, y sintetizar nuevos catalizadores que serán validados en novedosos reactores fotocatalíticos. Además, se construirá un piloto de pruebas para evaluar los equipos en un entorno relevante.

Financing by: State Research Agency (AEI). European Projects Management GPE2023 (GPE2023-001335-P), funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033

Call: Preparation and management of European projects and facilitating the attraction of international talent in R&D institutions for the year 2023.

Period of execution: January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025

Total budget: €140,496.00

Reference: GPE2023-001335-P

Description:

The project aims to strengthen ITECAM's European Projects Office to improve and/or boost the presence, participation, and success rate of Spanish entities within the European R&D Framework Programme Horizon Europe. Specifically, the following objectives will be addressed:

a) Increase the participation of all agents in the Spanish system in international projects and programs.

b) Increase the economic return achieved by Spanish entities as a result of greater funding from the European Union for their R&D projects.

c) Promote the leadership of Spanish entities in Horizon Europe projects.

d) Encourage the internationalization of ITECAM's research staff and entities linked to the promotion and/or participation in competitive public-private collaboration programs that aim to boost R&D in various sectors and/or application technologies.

Financing by: The PHOTORED project (PLEC2021-007831) has been funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union "NextGenerationEU"/PRT

Call: Convocatoria de proyectos de I+D+i en líneas estratégicas, en colaboración público-privada 2021

Period of execution: November 2021 – October 2024

Total budget: 982.810,00 €

Coordinator: Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ)

Participants:

- Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ, UPV-CSIC)
- Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)
- Depuración de aguas del Mediterráneo (DAM)

Description:

The PHOTORED project will directly contribute to achieving the EU's 2030 targets under the Next Generation and Green Deal plans. Throughout this project, the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 towards specific biofuels will be addressed in a targeted manner. The development of selective photocatalysts to produce specific chemicals and fuels will contribute to the substitution of chemical pathways currently applied in industry. The efficiency of the photocatalytic reaction together with an optimised synthesis will reduce the production cost of the catalysts and thus the cost of the fuels and chemicals. This process will also use green H2 from H2O electrolysis. 

The objectives to be addressed during the project are as follows:

• Development of innovative membranes for CO2 sequestration. The capture of CO2 is not only relevant for its subsequent valorisation, but also to reduce its concentration in the atmosphere. 
• Demonstration of H2 production from wastewater by photocatalysis with attractive production efficiencies. 
• Construction of a pilot-scale photocatalytic reactor to validate the technology studied

Financing by:  The ENHIGMA project (RTC-2016-5189-3) has been funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the call for proposals Retos-Colaboración 2016.

Call: Call for Public Grants of the State Programme for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society 2016.

Period of execution: 2016 - 2021

Total budget: 577.239,00 €

Coordinator: Adix Ingeniería 

Participants:

- Centro Nacional del Hidrógeno (CNH2)
- Hidrógena Desarrollos Energéticos
- FLUBETECH
- Asociación de la Industria Navarra (AIN)
- Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Description:

The main objective of the project is the development and optimisation of hydrogen production equipment by means of water electrolysis, based on PEM technology, as well as the assembly of a small-scale electrolysis stack. The ENHIGMA project focuses on improving the materials and coatings of the bipolar plates, as well as the design and machining of their flow distribution channels. To carry out this task, it uses tools such as finite element simulation (FEM), capable of predicting the mechanical behaviour of the cell, serving as a support element in the design of the materials.

This project is of great importance since bipolar plates are currently one of the main components of a PEM electrolysis cell, representing 50% of the costs of a stack.

Financing by: The Reciclaver project has been funded by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through Fundación Biodiversidad and co-financed by the European Social Fund.

Call: Grants for job creation through training, counselling and social innovation projects for unemployed people in the financial year 2021.

Period of execution: Abril 2022 – Febrero 2023

Total budget: 96.075,00 €

Coordinator: Fundación ITECAM

Description:

RECICLAVER's activity will be based on carrying out a series of consultancy and social innovation actions with the aim of boosting job creation, improving the competitiveness of companies, as well as promoting social cohesion, also serving as a lever for knowledge transfer to support the transformation towards a circular and sustainable economic model. 

The planned training programme, which is completely free of charge and aimed at unemployed people, will make it possible to take advantage of the job opportunities that arise in this context by improving employability rates, while supporting the digital and green transformation of the region's industries.

Financing by:  The MU-COAST project has been funded by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through Fundación Biodiversidad and co-financed by the European Social Fund. (CPP2021-008718)

Call: Call for applications for public-private partnership projects 2021.

Period of execution: Octubre de 2022 – Septiembre 2025

Total budget: 1.065.881,85 €

Coordinator: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV)

Participants:

- Laboratorio Andaluz de Ensayos de Construcción (LAENSA)
-Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Description:

The MU-COAST project presents a new concept of urban furniture based on the development of a self-compacting concrete dosage that allows high mechanical strength to be achieved without the need for reinforcement, equivalent to ultra-high strength concrete, but at a lower economic and environmental cost, since it will use fibres from tyre recycling. In addition, another of the project's objectives is to provide these materials with a high resistance to chloride attack and a shiny, aesthetic surface finish, free of cracks, thanks to the use of additive manufacturing techniques.

Entity and financial line: Centre for Technological and Industrial Development. Project of Investigation and Development.

From refinery all installations linked to the precise operations are followed by a preventive maintenance due to the aggressive environment in which conduction (marine means) stays can produce damages in lines and elements of transference that can provoke spills which are visually perceptible if characteristics of products, operative conditions and caudal escapes allow it.

The control of those spills passes inexorably through its prevention, not only through an appropriated maintenance of involved installations but also through the elements that allow detect immediately spills in order to act efficiently in their containment and reparation.

Together with CEPSA and MAGTEL OPERATIONS, Itecam participates in NETCON project for the development of fibre optic devices susceptible to be connected as an extensive network able to respond with faster alerts, discriminative in products or types of products and the specific location of the spilled zone.

Furthermore this project carries on a proper development of a communicative optic network able to connect and manage an ensemble of multisensorial transductors that operate with different kinds of technology. Intelligence in network should supply different levels of alerts in relation to the detection of transductors and to the response facing diverse products and types of products.

The essential part of Itecam shares in NETCON are based on the design of the protective structure of encapsulates that will assist to a certain grade of permeability, not inertia following marine waves and levels. It is also based on the structural resources enough to prevent potential impacts. This structure will be fixed to vertical cloths of trousers situated in a sufficient level to cover all dynamic range foreseeable. The design of this protective structure is leaded by CEPSA in cooperation with Technical College in Madrid, UCA and ITECAM.

Financing by: The project Oficina Acelera Pyme Rural Cuenca (2022/C029/00186117) has been funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Next Generation Funds of the European Union.

Call: Call for 2021 grants for the creation of the network of Acelera Pyme Offices for rural environments.

Period of execution: September 2022 – August 2024

Total budget:  512.392,50 €

Coordinator: Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Description:

The main objective of the Acelera Pyme Rural Office in Cuenca is to promote the digital transformation of the entire province of Cuenca. To this end, it will implement all kinds of support measures for SMEs, companies and entrepreneurs in the area.

These activities can be both individual, such as individual advice, diagnoses of digital transformation in companies, visits to digital transformation demonstrator spaces, and collective activities (days, workshops, masterclasses, webinars, etc.) with the participation of experts in all types of digital transformation topics to support companies in their digitisation processes towards a more competitive and efficient industry.

Financing by: The project Oficina Acelera Pyme Rural Ciudad Real (2022/C029/0019072) has been financed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Next Generation Funds of the European Union.

Call: Call for 2021 grants for the creation of the network of Acelera Pyme Offices for rural environments.

Period of execution: September 2022 – August 2024

Total budget: 512.381,00 €

Coordinator: Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Description:

The objective of the Acelera Pyme Rural Ciudad Real Office is to promote digital transformation and facilitate the adoption of technologies by companies, SMEs and freelancers, which will be the main target audience of the proposed communication plan.  
To this end, a series of actions will be carried out to support companies, from individual advice and diagnoses of digital transformation to collective activities such as webinars, conferences or masterclasses related to digital transformation.

Financing by: The Oficina Acelera Pyme project (2020/0920/00091631) has been funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through European Regional Development Funds (ERDF).

Call: Call for 2020 grants for the creation of the network of Red.es Acelera Pyme offices.

Period of execution: Mayo 2021 – Abril 2023

Total budget:  311.979,25 €

Coordinator: Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Description:

The aim of this office will be to promote the digital transformation of SMEs, micro-SMEs, self-employed and entrepreneurs in their digitisation processes. This is a comprehensive proposal for the entire Digital Transformation process, not only because of Itecam's mastery of the topics and technology, but also because of its focus on SMEs and support after the completion of the project activities (R&D&I consultancy to attract funding, relations with technology suppliers and R&D&I centres, etc.).

To support this transformation among companies in Castilla - La Mancha, webinars and dissemination conferences will be held, where digitalisation concepts, as well as technologies and digital enablers will be addressed. On the other hand, permanent technology demonstration spaces will be created in the Technology Centre, as well as a travelling showroom, which will be equipped with ICT equipment and technologies that promote digitisation through participatory awareness-raising activities

Entity and financial line: Centre for Technological and Industrial Development. Project of Investigation and Development.

Through this project, created in cooperation with Bodywork and Alite Tanks S.L. it has been worked about investigation and development of a prototype for a contention system oriented to transportable RSU and with capacity to manipulate charge so that it allows automatic charge and discharge through hydraulic, electric or pneumatic activation guaranteeing complete water tightness during the whole process of manipulation of residues.

Entity and financial line: Centre for Technological and Industrial Development. Project of Investigation and Development.

Complete development of a digital tachograph with an interface that allows interaction of users rapidly and easily, avoiding distractions in driving.