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Where to focus innovation?
advanced materials industry plays a
crucial role in serving society’s need
for clean and sustainable energy and
mobility in Europe, and all over the
world. The impact of the industry on
the broader European economy is
significant and must be sustained.
The advanced materials demand for
clean energy and sustainable mobility
is anticipated to grow continuously –
even at a two-digits rate in specific
applications like batteries – until
2050 and beyond, also satisfying an
increasing request for safer, more
affordable and environmentally
friendly solutions. Industrial
competition is fierce, not only from
established world regions but also
from new, strong challengers. In this
context, there are vast amounts to be
done in the research and innovation
field to provide a differentiating
competitive advantage for the EU in
this market.
High-performance advanced
materials are at the core of the
technological innovations needed
to reach a sustainable and climate-
neutral economy and society.
Such materials are a part of the
solution to our global challenges,
offering better performance in their
use, at lower cost, resource and
energy requirements, and improved
sustainability at the end-of-life of
the products. The development of
these new materials has to manage
the scarcity of resources and be part
Advanced
Materials for
Clean and
Sustainable
Energy and
Mobility
EMIRI key
R&I priorities
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of sustainability along the whole life cycle of the pro-
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which will contribute to Europe‘s and sustainable energy and mobility
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increased sustainability standards. to lead the way for these early-
With the imperative to change our stage technologies and materials to
energy technology mix, to respond industry growth and market.
to the challenge of decarbonisation
and of the security of energy supply, Detailing the Advanced Materials
research and innovation investments challenges to tackle and
to improve the competitiveness, the innovation approaches
performances and environmental recommended, the 2nd edition of
footprint of advanced materials for the EMIRI Technology Roadmap is
clean and sustainable energy and a reference for policy-makers in EU
mobility technologies are more than and its Member States co-designing
ever needed for Europe to compete Horizon Europe, for the industry as
in the global market and support the well as the research world. More than
delivery of a prosperous, modern, 100 experts from EMIRI's community
competitive and climate-neutral contributed to building this new
economy by 2050. version of the EMIRI Technology
Roadmap, which is available for
De-risking and accelerating the download on EMIRI website or
innovation | addressing the right directly at http://bit.ly/2MeeaMa.
priorities All public and private stakeholders
History shows that it takes about in European advanced materials,
10 – 15 years of R&I activities before energy and mobility sectors are
the required advanced materials invited to consider the revised
are developed and are ready for priorities set out in this document in
market uptake. Together, the Industry their future research and innovation
& the European Commission need programmes. l
to partner up to accelerate the
innovation in the field. While the EU
has a strong position in research, a
too-frequent extensive market uptake
is due to long capital-intensive
development times in combination
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commercialization risks. These
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factors make it difficult for new
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