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SPIRE PPP Sustainable Process Industries

through Resource & Energy

Efficiency

Loredana Ghinea

Executive Director A.SPIRE

SPIRE PPP

• Officially launched on 17 December 2013 in the framework of

HORIZON 2020

• First-ever 7-year innovation Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with

Europe’s process industry

Horizon 2020

Excellent

Science

Future Emerging

Technologies

Societal

Challenges

Energy

Climate Change - Waste

Bioeconomy

Industrial

Leadership

Advanced Materials & Nano

Advanced Processes

Biotechnology

Horizon 2020 & PPPs

Why PPPs?

To solve problems together with industry

To strengthen European industrial leadership

To facilitate prioritization of R&I in line with the

Europe2020 objectives and industry needs

To leverage research and innovation elements

To strongly commit industry to joint objectives

PPPs Characteristics

a public procurement arrangement (business relationship) between the public

sector and business where risks, rewards and responsibilities are shared

the contractual arrangement specifies an indicative 7 years EU funding

budget is only committed on an annual basis through Horizon 2020 calls in

bi-annual Work Programmes

Work Programmes are prepared on the basis of an industry-developed

multi-annual roadmap

Industry had a leading role in defining research & innovation priorities in

this roadmap (allowing long-term investment plans)

the calls are open to all and come with high leverage factors

(not legally binding)

More emphasis on relevance of industry and impact towards sustainability

Focused on enabling industrial technologies – European competitiveness

What is the same as in normal Horizon 2020:

The financial rules are those of Horizon 2020

Final responsibility for the Work Programme stays with the European

Commission and is subject to Comitology

Implementation remains with the European Commission:

selection of proposals, negotiation, review of progress and payments

What is different from normal Horizon 2020:

Long-term commitment by European Commission to support the field

Long-term commitment by industry to invest, with a need to demonstrate

its fulfilment (monitoring & KPIs)

Roadmap-based strategy. Close interaction in the Partnership Board to

prepare the content of the calls.

PPPs Advantages

Single set of simpler and more coherent participation rules

New balance between trust and control

Moving from several funding rates or different beneficiaries and

activities to just two

RIA (Research & Innovation Action): EU contribution up to 100% of the

total eligible costs

IA (Innovation Action): EU contribution up to 70% of the total eligible costs

(exception: non-profit legal entities who get 100%)

Replacing the four methods to calculate overhead or «indirect costs»

with a single flat rate (25%)

Successful applicants to get working more quickly: time-to-grant of

8 months; exceptions for the ERC and in duly justified cases

No negotiation of the grant agreement in future, what is submitted

will be evaluated.

Horizon 2020 Rules

PPP Governance

Partnership

Board

European

Commission

Private

Partner

Association

• Develop work

programme

• Publish open calls

• Discuss priorities

& call topics

• Assess progress

• Discuss priorities

• Propose call topics

• Form consortia

• Apply to calls

advice

feedback

feedback

proposal

EU process industries sit at the core of most industrial value

chains and are highly dependent on resources

(energy, materials and water)

Eight EU industrial sectors are covered:

They represent together 6.8 million jobs in 450,000 enterprises

and turnover of over €1,600 billion/year

They are struggling with competitiveness at global level and striving

for long-term sustainability. High risks and long-term investments.

There is a need for co-operation along the value chains.

Why SPIRE?

WHY WILL WE SUCCEED?

THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH…

From raw resources to the end user industries =

the value chain

From research to demonstrations and market =

the innovation chain

From the big to small and medium enterprises =

the industrial chain

… to outpace the other regions

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1. Feed: Increased energy and resource efficiency through optimal valorisation and

smarter use and management of existing, alternative and renewable feedstock.

2. Process: Solutions for more efficient processing and energy systems for the process

industry, including industrial symbiosis.

3. Applications: New processes to produce materials for market applications that boost

energy and resource efficiency up and down the value chain.

4. Waste2Resource: Avoidance, valorisation and re-use of waste streams within and

across sectors, including recycling of post-consumer waste streams and new

business models for eco-innovation.

5. Horizontal: underpinning the accelerated deployment of the R&D&I opportunities

identified within SPIRE through sustainability evaluation tools and skills and

education programmes as well as enhancing the sharing of knowledge, best

practices and cross-sectorial technology transfer.

6. Outreach: Reach out to the process industry, policy makers and citizens to support

the realisation of impact through awareness, stimulating societal responsible

behaviour.

Research & Innovation Strategy

Expected 7-year EC budget: ~ 1 bill. €

Feed/raw materials

Process

Application/materials

Waste

Energy, control, environment

The industrial

palace

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• SPIRE-2: Adaptable industrial processes allowing the use of renewables as flexible feedstock for chemical and energy applications

• TRL 5-7, IA 70%

• SPIRE-1: Integrated Process Control • TRL 3-5, RIA 100%

SPIRE-3: Improved downstream processing of mixtures in process industries • TRL 5-7, IA 70%

• SPIRE-4: Methodologies, tools and indicators for cross-sectorial sustainability assessment of energy and resource efficient solutions in the

process industry

• CSA 100%

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SPIRE 2014 awarded projects

(starting January 2015)

SPIRE 1 RECOBA

ProPAT

DISIRE

CONSENS

iCspec

SPIRE 2 SteamBIO

MethCO2

MOBILE FLIP

EE18 TASIO

SPIRE 3 PRODIAS

SPIRE 4 STYLE

SAMT

MEASURE

WASTE1 RESYNTEX

FISSAC

CABRISS

RESLAG

BAMB

Type participant

Nr of

participants

in the

Proposals

Nr of

participants in

the funded

Projects

Participants

success

rate%

Public Bodies 8 2 25.00

Research organisations

146

24

16.44

Higher or secondary education

185 30 16.22

Private for profit

428 75 17.52

Others 9 0 0.00

Total 776 131 16.88

SPIRE 2014 awarded projects

(some statistics)

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• SPIRE-5: New adaptable catalytic reactor methodologies for Process Intensification

• TRL 3-5, RIA 100%

• SPIRE-6: Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in the process industries

• TRL 4-6, RIA 100% (SMEs encouraged)

• SPIRE-7: Recovery technologies for metals and other minerals

• TRL 5-7, IA 70% (SMEs encouraged)

• SPIRE-8: Solids handling for intensified process technology

• TRL 5-7, IA 70%

A.SPIRE organisational structure

Open calls

Roadmap

Work programme

MEMBERSHIP OVERVIEW

Membership type Number of members

Associate member 8

Associations 13

Industry member

(intermediate) 1

Industry member (large) 31

Industry member (medium) 4

Industry member (small) 11

Research member (large) 35

Research member (small) 27

Total 130

Sector Number of companies & associations

cement 4

ceramics 4

chemicals 27

engineering 7

minerals 2

non-ferrous metals 6

steel 7

water 2

Other 1

Total 60

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

A.SPIRE membership by countries

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

A.SPIRE membership by countries

No-one can do it alone

-> build synergies:

• across industries

• across public/private

• across borders

• across technologies

New thinking, new doing

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