INTERACT — European Industrial Doctorate on Next Generation for sustaINable auTomotive ElectRical ACtuaTion

Results in brief

European Industrial Doctorate on Next Generation for sustaINable auTomotive ElectRical ACtuaTion

The increasing pressure on the automotive industry for electrification of the vehicles, shorter time-to-market, greater productivity, higher efficiency, and enhanced flexibility asks for a holistic approach to optimizing the entire value chain, to seamlessly integrate and digitalize it and for a new generation of automotive electrical actuation systems, supporting a more efficient and environmentally friendly mobility and enhancing the driving experience, making it safer, more comfortable and sustainable. More and more companies are now focusing on hiring and training talent that is able to keep up with advancements — and drive investment — in tools and technology, thus employees who can adapt to – and evolve with – ever-changing technology. INTERACT brought together 5 beneficiaries (two universities and three industrial actors), by taking advantage of the well-established intersectoral collaboration achievements and of their solid research and training competencies and facilities for developing a challenging research and innovation European Industrial Doctorate consortium under the trend of more electric automotive applications. The quest for high-performance sustainable automotive electric actuators, supported by high-level scientific research and training activities in a joint academia-industry doctoral program brings a new integrative approach of the R&D cycle of electrical actuators for developing sustainable automotive products (PM-less, Soft Magnetic Composite (SMC), high-speed, energy-efficient, low-noise and fault-tolerant). The project was focused on enhancing the creative and innovative potential of 6 young researchers, giving them new career perspectives, and increasing their employability, while the industrial beneficiaries’ portfolio is pushed forward with new technological developments to be integrated into the R&D process so they remain and/or enter as an important player in the automotive industry and the innovation capacity of the academic beneficiaries is strengthen with commercial exploitation of the research.

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Project objective

The trend for more electrified automotive applications (MEAA) asks for a new generation of automotive electrical actuation systems, allowing for a more efficient and environmentally friendly mobility and enhancing the driving experience, making it safer, more comfortable and sustainable. INTERACT’s overall objective is to answer the further enhancement of the next generation high-performance sustainable automotive electric actuators (SAEA) by combining high-level scientific research and training activities in a joint academia-industry doctoral programme, focused on solving critical issues (See Section 1.1.2) of the automotive electrical actuation Research & Development (R&D) cycle. The project is a natural continuation of a fruitful collaboration between the beneficiaries: two universities (UTCN and ULB) and three industrial actors. What started as staff exchange collaboration for technological know-how and transfer of knowledge in the field of electrical machines and drives for automotive applications , is now developed, through INTERACT, into a joint doctoral programme, based on common interests and goals, in the field of R&D of next generation of SAEA. More specifically, INTERACT takes advantage of the well-established intersectoral collaboration achievements and of the solid research and training competences and facilities at the beneficiaries for: (i) giving new career perspectives and increasing the employability of four young researchers, by enhancing their creative and innovative potential; (ii) pushing forward and/or extend the industrial partners portfolio with new technological developments to be integrated into the R&D process so they remain and/or enter as an important player in automotive industry ; (iii) strengthen innovation capacity of UTCN and ULB with commercial exploitation of the research.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA · Cluj-NapocaCoordinatorRomania
BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WÜRZBURG · WürzburgGermany
ICPE SA · BucurestiRomania
SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE NV · LeuvenBelgium
UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium

INTERACT · European Industrial Doctorate on Next Generation for sustaINable auTomotive ElectRical ACtuaTion

Results in brief

European Industrial Doctorate on Next Generation for sustaINable auTomotive ElectRical ACtuaTion

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