20 Industrial innovation projects seek collaboration with companies
The Moonshot Flanders call for 2025 is gaining momentum. Of 50 early applications, 20 proposals have been chosen by our expert committees to develop a full proposal. The 20 projects will kick into gear with a 1-pager abstract that we can now share. This means we have entered the ‘LOI-phase’ that give companies the opportunity to express their interest in closely following these innovation projects.
The LOI-phase is an integral part of the Moonshot Flanders strategy, which is business-driven at its core. Of the 20 projects, 12 are early innovation projects (ESI), while the other 8 are later stage innovation projects (LSI) that are aimed at higher TRL-levels. This also highlights the growing importance of LSI-projects in the Moonshot Flanders portfolio.
Is your company interested?
Companies can express their interest in one or more of the proposals through a Letter-of-Intent (LOI). Such an LOI allows companies to participate in Moonshot’s industrial Advisory Boards, follow up on projects from a front-row seat, guide research by providing industrial input, discover innovative technologies, and identify business opportunities for the future. Find out more on the website of Moonshot Flanders.
The 20 projects
Early Stage Innovation
Path 1: Biobased Chemistry
- ACTIVATE: new strategies for Continuous waste biomass valorization into functional materials
- BEASTIES: A hybrid Biotechnological-electrochemical technology to produce sustainable aviation fuel from biomass and/or CO2
- BIOVALCOR: Biobased value-added products from an oil biorefinery with maximised carbon valorisation
Path 2: Circularity of Carbon in Materials
- RUB-UP: Advanced Recycling of Waste Tires via Devulcanization and Chemical Valorization for Sustainable Material Recovery
- TRACE: Transforming Recycled plastics into critical Carbon materials and hydrogen
Path 3: Electrification and Radical Process Transformation
- CENTRAL: Coupling Electrochemical Nitration and Reduction for Aniline Synthesis
- HEATCAP: Low-Grade Waste Heat Assisted Carbon Capture
- RESYNCA: Renewable syngas and CO2 to acrylic acid
- SHAPE: Sustainable Hydrogen and grAphite from Pyrolysis of biomEthane
Path 4: Energy Innovation
- HORTA: High-performing Organic Redox flow batteries
- RE-CHARGE: Hybrid Thermal Battery System for Sustainable Steam and Power Management
Later Stage Innovation
Path 1: Biobased Chemistry
- BIORISE: Bioethanol Innovation via an Optimized Reactor for Industrial Scalability and Efficiency
- LIGNOSAF: A continuous reactor for the bulk-scale production of SAF precursors through reductive catalytic fractionation of lignocellulose biomass
Path 2: Circularity of Carbon in Materials
- PURE-SCALE: PolyUrethane REcycling SCALEup
Path 3: Electrification and Radical Process Transformation
- ELECTROFORM: Direct electrochemical conversion of CO2 to formic acid as renewable fuel and C-1 feedstock
- HYDRA: High throughput hydrogen production through dry cathode alkaline electrolysis
- ICO2CH-2: Scale up Integrated CO2 Capture and Hydrogen production
- PROMETHEUS: Powerful Rapid Olefin Manufacturing with Electric Turbocharged High-Efficiency Unit for Steam cracking
Path 4: Energy Innovation
- UPHEAT-B2I: Upheat-INES brought to industry
The 1-pager abstracts can be found in the LOI-templates, here.
What is a Moonshot Flanders?
The daring pursuit of the seemingly impossible. If done, it can truly change the world for the better.
The mission of Moonshot Flanders
One target only: accelerating the transformation of our Flemish industry towards climate neutrality
Why the focus on the Flemish industry?
Flemish industry, as a significant source of carbon emission, will play a major role in reducing its own carbon emissions, and, as our key base industry, will be a solution provider to reduce the emissions in other sectors as well. A double positive effect.
What does Moonshot Flanders do?
Moonshot Flanders invests in strategic breakthough innovation that directly feeds and nurtures the industrial innovation funnel. By doing this, we harvest highly-focused research and turn this into actionable breakthrough innovation helping us reaching the Moon. This makes Moonshot Flanders highly selective by default. We push excellent research to go even further. And to play to our strengths as an industrial region even better.
How does Moonshot Flanders accomplish this?
The Moonshot governance model fosters collaboration between universities, research institutes and industry and is coordinated by Catalisti. With €20M in annual grants for 20 years, it funds industry-driven research to cut industrial CO2 emissions. Projects require strong industrial interest for funding. Companies engage via Advisory Boards, guiding research for industrial relevance, discovering innovations early, and thus shaping a more sustainable Flemish industry.