Project Objectives

The project is supported by the Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways of between University of Southampton (UK) and PyroGenesis SA (Greece)

The general objectives of the project are to:

• Draw together industrial and academic researchers with diverse multi-disciplinary skills and expertise (material engineering, mathematics, process and thermal engineering) and with common interests to solve practical challenges using the state-of-the-art simulation techniques;

• Bring together the fragmented EU programs participated by the SME with the added support from the academia to ensure a better delivery of the outcomes;

• Create a platform for research training and knowledge transfer activities, both within and outside the consortium, crossing inter-sector boundaries; this is essential to promote the use of modern simulation methods, to ensure that there is a sufficient number of people trained to meet the challenges ahead, and to ensure the competitiveness of EU industry;

• Execute an innovative research program that allows a detailed comparison of different approaches on their merits, that encourages cross-fertilisation of the ideas behind the various approaches and that will benefit the migration of academically mature prediction methods towards real-life engineering validations through a close cooperation with industrial partner;

• Provide researchers with an intensive training-through-research program as well as a complementary skillstraining to improve their skills and career perspectives.

 

Project Plan