Twenty 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. 

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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. 

All LOI-templates

 

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
  • SPM2: Safe Power for Molecules and Metal

 

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

The 1-pager abstracts can be found in the LOI-templates, here.