30. 5. 2023

The NCC-Polymers Centre’s Board accepted five new projects in the second call

On 30 May 2023, the Centre’s Board voted for five additional sub-projects in the second internal call of the NCC. In total, 73,062 thousand CZK will be distributed in the 2nd call for projects supporting technologies for the 21st century.

The largest project, Nanofibre and Polymeric Materials with Antimicrobial Protection was submitted by NANOPROGRESS – a leader in nanotechnology in the Czech Republic – together with eight other co-investigators. Dr. Tomáš Šopík from Tomas Bata University in Zlín, together with SYNPO and Ethanol Energy, has been awarded a grant for a project on the use of 2nd generation biopolymer raw material sources focused on the circular economy. Other approved projects concern biopolymers in agriculture, improving the biodegradability of plastics based on natural polymers and the recovery of polymers through fractionation.

These and other topics are the main focus of the National Competence Centre – Polymer Materials and Technologies for the 21st Century (NCC), which is tasked with promoting the integration of scientific research results into the field. The members of the NCC are universities and industrial companies in the field of environmental and polymer technologies, as well as professional clusters, which have the task of linking the private and research sectors. The result will be, for example, patents, semi-operation models or utility models/technologies that bring end-users closer to 21st-century technologies.

Please visit www.cps.utb.cz to discover more.

The sub-projects within the second call were approved by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic as the granting authority on 11 August 2023.

The eligible costs can therefore start to be used from the date of approval by the Centre’s Board, i.e. from 30 May 2023.