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Partnership website: https://cetpartnership.eu/
The CETPartnership is a co-funded partnership, bringing together private and public stakeholders in the research and innovation ecosystems. CET Partnership aims to create and foster transnational innovation ecosystems and overcome a fragmented research and innovation landscape.
The common vision of the CETPartnership is already manifested in its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) that has been co-created in a broad engagement process during 2020. This articulates the common goal of:
These goals are set in the framework of the EU Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan.
Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) is an active member in this co-funded partnership. The funding commitment by VLAIO (excluding the top-up by the European Commission) amounts to €1.000.000. A maximum of three projects is anticipated to be funded. The involvement of at least one private company (SME or large enterprise) based in Flanders is mandatory. A project can be awarded a maximum of €500.000 in funding.
Funding rates vary, from 35-60% for development projects to 60-70% for research projects.
Parties interested to participate in the CET Partnership calls in Flanders are highly recommended to get in touch with the VLAIO contact point, i.e. Frank Verschraegen, to avoid ineligible projects and consortia.
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
