31. 1. 2023

The Centre’s Board accepted the first eight projects within the first call

On 31 January 2023, the Centre’s Board voted for the first eight sub-projects within the first internal call of the National Competence Centre – Polymer Materials and Technologies for the 21st Century (NCC). The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic is the granting authority as part of the National Centres of Competence programme.

The largest sub-project – Technology of processing waste sludge from plastics recycling – was submitted by ASIO, spol. s r.o., a company engaged in water treatment and purification, together with its five other co-investigators. The University of Chemistry and Technology was awarded grants for two sub-projects; Palacký University in Olomouc and the Centre for Organic Chemistry and Orlen UniCRE were awarded one grant each. Two other operational projects form an essential part of the NCC. The approved sub-projects concern thermosetting compounds, additive removal, triboelectric sorting, thermochemical processing of plastics and functional polyurethane polymers.

These and other topics are the main focus of NCC-PolyEnvi21, which is tasked with promoting the integration of scientific research results into the practice. 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.

The sub-projects within the first call were approved by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic as the granting authority on 29 March 2023; the SP 006 was approved on 3 April 2023.

All the sub-projects can start using eligible costs from the date of approval by the Centre’s Board, i.e. from 31 January 2023.

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