1. Metallurgy Europe EUREKA Cluster
Prof. David Jarvis, Cluster Chairman
Prof. Hans Fecht, Cluster Office Director
European Parliament
Brussels, 15th June 2016

2. There is an infinity of combinations of these different chemical elements.
We have only scratched the surface when it comes to making, manufacturing and utilising new materials in industrial applications.
New materials and manufacturing will revive the competitiveness of our European economies.

3. Metallurgy Europe – EUREKA Cluster
7 Cluster Objectives:
to lay the technical foundation for the discovery, design, development and deployment of the next generation of metallic materials (alloys, semiconductors, superconductors, intermetallics, compounds and composites etc.)
to develop novel manufacturing routes for producing breakthrough industrial components for the following sectors: clean energy, renewables, aerospace, transport, security, computing and biomedical
to integrate academic research, industrial manufacturing and end-user engineering across Europe, thus catalysing a major community effort in metallurgy
to establish new high-tech factories and pilot-scale demonstration plants
to generate 1000 patents and IP declarations
to develop the necessary talent pipeline (PhDs, post-docs, company technicians, apprentices)
and to create 100,000+ jobs within a decade

4. Metallurgy Europe – EUREKA Cluster
Resource Efficient Europe & Re-Industrialisation:
to conserve natural resources and raw materials,
to support the shift towards a low-carbon economy,
to increase the use of renewable energy sources,
to modernise our transport sector,
to promote energy efficiency,
- to reindustrialise our European industries.
Metallurgy Europe will provide enabling, cross-cutting technologies to fulfill all of these top-level European objectives.
Re-industrialisation of Europe is not possible without materials innovation.

5. Metallurgy Europe – EUREKA Cluster
Programme Features:
7 years’ duration ( )
1 billion euros total budget needed (summation of all national funding + industry)
supported by the CTOs and Directors of 300 European companies and labs, representing >10% of the European economy
bottom-up definition of technical priorities, as defined by industry
17 EUREKA Member States morally and financially support, so far: AT, BE, CH, CY, CZ, ES, FI, HU, IE, IS, NO, PL, PT, SE, SI, TK, ZA
several countries may support using SME scheme: UK, FR, DE

6. Metallurgy Europe – EUREKA Cluster
Programme Features:
AISBL legal association incorporated in Belgium
Cluster Office and secretariat is located in Ulm, Germany
Industrial Board in place with 20 leading companies
technical work-plan defined for the full duration, regularly updated
first call announcement for projects was released in 2015
17 proposal outlines were received at stage-1 (worth 200M€, with 300+ partners)
12 projects passed the evaluation (score>75%) and have been invited to stage-2
annual summit, took place on 28th April 2016 in Stockholm
topics for Call-02 have been defined for eventual release in 2016

7. Metallurgy Europe – EUREKA Cluster
R&D Topics:
Light alloys and metal-matrix composites
High-temperature extreme alloys and composites
New and improved steels
Advanced superconductors
Heat-scavenging thermoelectric alloys
Biocompatible metallurgy
Metal-based 3D micro-parts & embedded sensors
Automated additive manufacturing
Combinatorial alloy development
Coatings & surface protection
Powder metallurgy techniques
Predictive modelling and advanced characterisation
Recycling, refinement, re-use and waste elimination
Practically, all topics can deliver low-carbon technologies

8. 7-year Technical Roadmap

9. Metallurgy Europe is the only mechanism to achieve this leadership.
Europe and partners must urgently take global leadership in metallurgy.
Metallurgy Europe is the only mechanism to achieve this leadership.