Sponsors

The University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde is a world-leading technological university situated in the heart of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a multi-award-winning institution, and we take pride in being the only university to have won the Times Higher Education University of the Year award twice, in 2012 and 2019. Inspired by our founding principle of being 'a place of useful learning,' we persist in our commitment to research that addresses real-world challenges.

FAST and Nano-Enabled SMART Materials, Structures and Syatems for Energy Harvesting Project is supported by the European Commission under the HORIZON2020 Framework Programme. The project’s overall concept is centred on the scaling up of novel, mass-production nano-manufacturing techniques invented by FAST-SMART partners for synthesis of nano-structured smart materials and component manufacturing for energy harvesting applications to significantly improve the material quality and structural reliability (50%-100% improvement) and reduce overall materials and processing costs (by 30%) through shortening the process chains and improving material processing efficiency, being focused on less and free rare-element dependence materials (such as lead-free piezoelectric and Hf-free half-Heusler thermoelectric materials) as well as on new energy harvester designs considering environmental strategy, thus to bring about positive, environment-related impacts to Europe (greenhouse gas emission down by 50%, waste reduction by 50%), increased EU’s market share worthy hundreds million Euros initially, and to promote wide implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Single Market (DSM) in Europe, due to introduction of the new energy harvesting products, design and manufacturing services created through the FAST-SMART’s partnership.

EDP Sciences was established in 1920 by a prestigious academic community of French learned societies seeking to inspire, innovate and inform others by sharing their knowledge. Members of this community included eminent scientists like Marie Curie, Paul Langevin and Louis de Broglie. Since November 2019, EDP Sciences is owned by Science Press which is itself majority-owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). CAS is a prestigious learned society and the world’s largest research organisation. EDP Sciences has always been, and continues to be, the publishing partner of scientific communities throughout the world.

China Society for Technology of Plasticity

China Society for Technology of Plasticity (CMES) was found in May, 1963 by China Association for Science and Technology and China Society of Mechanical Engineering. CMES focuses on the academic exchanges, development & transformation of plastic processing technology, technical consultation, technical training, editing and reviewing professional technical literature, scientific and technical knowledge dissemination, hournal and book publication, etc.

MarRI-UK is collaborative innovation vehicle for UK industry and academia to jointly tackle innovation and technology challenges. We will focus on research and innovation within mid TRL (3 – 7) levels to address the opportunities between "discovery and research" and "commercialisation" of Maritime Technologies and Systems. MarRI-UK is an open tier-level membership organisation, for UK companies and researchers.