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DIMECC: Application-driven digitalised materials development renewing Finnish Industry
Two large industry-driven DIMECC innovation programmes led by Spinverse have successfully boosted both science and competitivity of the manufacturing industry in Finland through application-driven digitalised material R&D&I.
€6 billion
new business generated
300+
publications
38
doctoral theses
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DIMECC innovation programmes
DIMECC BSA (Breakthrough Steels and Applications) and DIMECC HYBRIDS (Hybrid Materials) programs running in parallel realised together unique industry-driven public-private partnership (PPP) co-operation involving 68 companies, tens of research groups and 38 interlinked Doctoral projects of the DIMECC Breakthrough Materials Doctoral School built within the programs. Tackling critical industrial research questions through modern material science and modelling based on concrete application needs this intensive joint work has produced a bunch of tremendous novel material solutions and created new multidisciplinary competence for the needs of industries such as metals, mechanical engineering, transportation, cleantech, energy and construction.
The two now ended 3.5 years DIMECC programmes have created significant longer-term impact. The intensive co-operation has led to great amount of results in multiple fields including e.g. +300 scientific publications, + 60 Theses, +10 patents achieved together and development of a variety of specific novel material solutions meeting the stringent needs in demanding applications in industries such as metals, mechanical engineering, cleantech, energy, process and transportation. These together with the multidisciplinary competences and knowledge platform created are important assets for the renewal of the Finnish manufacturing industry.
According to programme manager Markku Heino from Spinverse, especially the results of digital material development offer significant benefits and new opportunities for the industry.
”Digitalised materials development has shown the possibility to cut the product development time even to a half and improve the predictability and reliability of materials and components in challenging environments. We have implemented the concept in practice to serve real problem solving in our industry-driven projects. As a result, a new multi-disciplinary knowledge platform and a set of novel, competitive, sustainable and energy efficiency material solutions have been developed to boost Finnish export industry,” says DIMECC BSA & HYBRIDS programme manager Markku Heino from Spinverse.
More than 60 companies from various value chains and fields have been involved in this highly cross-technological co-creation activity. The research expertise has been provided by top Finnish research groups and selected high level international partners. A special element has been the industry-driven DIMECC Breakthrough Materials Doctoral School, built within the programs and set to develop and implement digital material research concept and related competence for the industry. The 38 doctoral students have worked with each other, the top-notch senior Finnish and international scientists and key industry experts - hands-on solving the complex research challenges intensively together.
CEO of DIMECC Harri Kulmala emphasises the importance of companies in joint research. “If we want to raise the level of science in Finland, companies are needed to be involved which might be surprising for someone. However, according to international analysis, the amount of citations of scientific articles are more than double when authors from both companies and academia are present. Often citations act as an assessment for the level of the publication. Field-Weighted Citation Index is in highly developed countries 2,5 times higher for articles co-authored with industry people compared to publications made by an academic researcher alone. Therefore, the DIMECC innovation ecosystem through which the companies and academic researchers are brought to co-operate for research, development and innovations, is proven to raise the level of science,” comments Harri Kulmala.
DIMECC BSA & HYBRIDS innovation programmes run by the professional Spinverse programme management have shown great results with high impact both in science and industry. Well defined need-based research problems, systematically built common research agenda and involving relevant committed partners with right roles and expertise are key success factors for such multi-party programmes.
More information about the results of the programmes:
DIMECC BSA
DIMECC HYBRIDS
DIMECC Breakthrough Materials Doctoral School
About the project
The LIFE Lit4Nature aims to establish a stronger, evidence-based system for biodiversity conservation and restoration across Lithuania. Major focus will be placed on strengthening the national biodiversity monitoring system, improving data collection and integration and on introducing innovative monitoring approaches to support evidence-based conservation and restoration decisions.
Impact of the project:
The project aims to boost stronger biodiversity and ecosystem recovery across Lithuania through nationwide conservation and restoration. Further, it wants to achieve better national coordination for efficient and well targeted conservation measures and their funding.
Funding instrument LIFE Programme
Spinverse’s role
Spinverse experts supported the coordinator throughout the two-stage LIFE Strategic Nature Project application process from concept note development to submitting the final proposal.
The support included workshops that brought together the proposal team to sharpen the project concept and focus the application on the most relevant and critical aspects of Lithuania's
Prioritised Action Framework for Natura 2000 and the forthcoming National Restoration Plan.
Spinverse’s strategic guidance, hands-on support and thorough quality reviews helped us focus on the critical aspects, strengthen the proposal logic and present its impacts convincingly. Their LIFE expertise gave our team confidence and contributed significantly to the proposal’s high quality and successful funding outcome.”
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