K4I Association Members

Arches

Organisation Type:

Research institute

Sector:

• Health
• Environment

Address:

Via Giuseppe Leuzzi 18
70013 Castellana Grotte BA
Italy

Full Name:

Advanced Research Centre for Health, Environment and Space

Main Activities:

ARCHES aims above all at the creation of knowledge by establishing collaborations with universities and research centres and by promoting the training of young scientists.

It also promotes the recognition of female talent in science and the career of women in scientific research.

Moreover, the centre acts as a flexible and reliable interface between academia and industry to promote the effective transfer of knowledge and technology in Europe.

Bio Base Europe

Organisation Type:

Research institute

Sector:

• Biotechnology
• Education
• Environment
• Engineering
• Technology
• Research
• Science
• Innovation

Address:

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Rodenhuizekaai 1 – Havennummer 4220A B
B – 9042 Ghent
Belgium

Main Activities:

Bio Base Europe is Europe’s first open innovation and education center for the biobased economy. It consists of the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant and the Bio Base Europe Training Center. Flanders and The Netherlands have joined forces to build state-of-the-art research and training facilities to speed up the economic growth, innovation capacity, and sustainable development of our society.

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant in Ghent (Belgium) is a flexible and diversified pilot plant for the development, scale-up and custom manufacturing of biobased processes and products. It speeds up biobased innovations operating at kilogram to multi ton scale and aims at closing the critical gap between scientific feasibility and industrial application of new biotechnological processes. The Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is a one-stop-shop that performs the entire value chain in a single plant, from the biomass green resource up to the final bioproduct. The pilot plant is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to perform biomass pretreatment, biocatalysis, fermentation, green chemistry, product recovery and purification. Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant focuses on conversion of biomass (a.o. agricultural crops and by-products, industrial side streams) into biochemicals, biomaterials, biofuels and other bioproducts.

CEFIC

Organisation Type:

European Trade Association

Sector:

• Chemistry

Address:

Rue Belliard 40
1040 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

European Chemical Industry Council

Main Activities:

Cefic is the forum and the voice of the chemical industry in Europe.

As the voice of the European chemical industry, Cefic is a committed partner to EU policymakers, facilitating dialogue with industry and sharing its broad-based expertise.

Den Haag

Organisation Type:

Public Body

Address:

Postbus 12 600
2500 Den Haag
The Netherlands

Full Name:

City of Hague

Main Activities:

The Hague has many faces: international city of peace and justice, Royal residence, European city and multicultural hub.

EGI.eu

Organisation Type:

Network

Address:

Science Park 140
1098 XG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Full Name:

European Grid Infrastructure

Main Activities:

The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a federation of resource providers set up to deliver sustainable, integrated and secure computing services to European researchers and their international partners. EGI.eu is an organisation established in February 2010 to coordinate and manage the infrastructure (EGI) on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs).

EIT RawMaterials

Organisation Type:

EU

Sector:

• Raw materials
• Minerals
• Metals

Address:

Tauentzienstraße 9-12,
10789 Berlin,
Germany

Full Name:

EIT RawMaterials GmbH

Main Activities:

EIT RawMaterials, initiated and funded by the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), a body of the European Union, is the largest consortium in the raw materials sector worldwide. Its vision is to develop raw materials into a major strength for Europe. Its mission is to enable sustainable competitiveness of the European minerals, metals and materials sector along the value chain by driving innovation, education and entrepreneurship.

1. enable sustainable competitiveness of the European minerals, metals and materials sector along the value chain by driving innovation, education and entrepreneurship.
2. integrating knowledge from industry, higher education and research by engaging stakeholders from the entire raw materials value chain.
3. promote increased resource efficiency and the improvement of processes and products
4. support the introduction of new, innovative technologies and rethink current linear economic models to move towards a circular approach.
5. increase human capital in the raw materials sector and promote entrepreneurial education at all levels.

EMIRI

Organisation Type:

Professional Association

Sector:

• Research
• Energy

Address:

Marais Street 31
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

The Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative

Main Activities:

The Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative (EMIRI) is a European industry driven initiative, bringing together the skills and expertise of both the research community and industry to implement in a more effective way cross cutting collaborative energy materials innovation programmes for a competitive low-carbon energy sector.

Today, EMIRI has more than 50 members across Europe, of which more than twenty are leading industries sharing a similar vision on driving forward research and innovation and building on a strong industrial sector in Europe on advanced materials for low carbon energy and energy efficiency technologies. Therefore EMIRI’s mission is to ensure that such long-term objective is translated into actions through different policies.

EURAMET

Organisation Type:

European intergovernmental network

Sector:

• Technology

Address:

Bundesallee 100
38116 Braunschweig
Germany

Full Name:

The European Association of National Metrology Institutes

Main Activities:

The mission of EURAMET is to develop and disseminate an integrated, cost effective and internationally competitive measurement infrastructure for Europe. Always taking into account the needs of industry, business and governments.

To enhance benefits of metrology to society is one of the highest priorities for EURAMET and its members.

EUREC

Organisation Type:

Network

Sector:

• Education
• Research
• Energy

Address:

Place du Champ de Mars 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

Main Activities:

EUREC, created in 1991, is the leading association of research centres and university departments active in the area of renewable energy. The purpose of the association is to promote and support the development of innovative technologies and human resources to enable a prompt transition to a more sustainable energy system.

EUREC activities are divided into four areas of interest:

• Networking
• Project development
• Policy inputs
• Education and Training: www.master.eurec.be

EUREKA

Organisation Type:

European intergovernmental network

Sector:

• Market-oriented Research
• Technological Development and Innovation

Address:

Avenue de Tervueren 2
1040, Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

EUREKA

Main Activities:

The EUREKA network supports and stimulates industrial research, development and innovation in Europe.

The generation of individual, market-oriented projects represents by far its core activity, but EUREKA also manages the joint (with EU) SME programme ‘Eurostars’ and the long-term, strategically-significant industrial initiatives known as the EUREKA Clusters.

GERG

Organisation Type:

European Trade Association

Sector:

• Energy

Address:

Avenue Palmerston 4
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

European Gas Research Group

Main Activities:

GERG was founded in 1961 to strengthen the Gas Industry within the European Community by promoting effective, gas-related R&D.

Membership reflects natural gas R&D activity across Europe and GERG members are actively conducting natural gas research and technical development within the European Community.

Hanze University

Organisation Type:

University

Sector:

• Science

Address:

Zernikeplein 7
9747 Groningen
Netherlands

Full Name:

Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Main Activities:

Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen (Hanze UAS), is the biggest knowledge institute in the north of the Netherlands. Besides education, the university offers several other products and services: tailor-made education, research, and advice.

IEEE

Organisation Type:

Professional Association

Sector:

• Engineering
• Technology

Address:

3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10016-5997
United States

Full Name:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Main Activities:

IEEE is the world’s largest organization of applied technologists with more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries.

This global reach is built upon a strong foundation at the local level.

You will find IEEE’s community of technologists actively involved in more than 300 local Sections, and pursuing technical knowledge through one or more of our 38 Societies and 7 Technical Councils.

JINR

Organisation Type:

Research institute

Sector:

• Research & technology transfer
• Science
• Innovation

Address:

6 Joliot-Curie St Dubna
Moscow Region
Russia
141980

Full Name:

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Main Activities:

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental scientific research organization established through the Convention signed on 26 March 1956 by eleven founding States and registered with the United Nations on 1 February 1957. It is situated in Dubna not far from Moscow in the Russian Federation.

The Institute was established with the aim of uniting the efforts, scientific and material potentials of its Member States for investigations of the fundamental properties of matter.

Knowco Collabwith

Organisation Type:

SME

Sector:

Innovation & Research Consulting

Address:

Oeverzeggestraat 28,
1087 BV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Full Name:

Knowco Collabwith

Main Activities:

• Facilitate Industry-Academia Collaboration
• Facilitate trainings on Innovation and Collaboration with Emotional Intelligence
• Hosting the Podcast “Business of Collaboration”
• Provide experts and expert reports from academia to C-level, Investors and Governments.
• Consulting services for Innovation, technology transfer and collaboration startup-industry.

Novitech

Organisation Type:

SME

Sector:

• Information Technology
• Business Consulting

Address:

Moyzesova 58
04001 Kosice
Slovakia

Full Name:

New Information Technologies

Main Activities:

A leading IT and bvusiness process consulting company operating in Central Europe and for EU Commission services.

It is a provider of innovation management training based on the Innovation Zone (C) concept of Delphi Institute, Boston.

Photonics21

Organisation Type:

Network

Sector:

• Photonics

Address:

c/o VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH
VDI-Platz
1 40468 Duesseldorf
Germany

Full Name:

Photonics21

Main Activities:

Photonics21 is the European Technology Platform (ETP) for photonics, a technology encompassing all of the products and processes around the emission, manipulation and detection of light. Photonics is integral to a wide range of industries that include the medical, healthcare, transport, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors.

“Photonics21” was set up in December 2005 to bring the community of photonics researchers and industries together. The European Commission defined photonics as one of six European Key Enabling Technologies (KET’s) in September 2009. Shortly after, the European Research & Innovation Program “Horizon 2020” invited Photonics21 to become a “Public Private Partnership” (PPP). The “Photonics 21 Association”, a legal entity under Belgium law, became the private contract partner in November 2013 in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) in conjunction with the EU Commission.

Today Photonics21 represents more than 3000 personal members from across Europe and abroad. Our members are experts in the photonics industry, research organisations and universities who actively engage with us to develop a joint photonics strategy for future research and innovation in Europe.

With the global photonics market growing from €350 Billion in 2011 to €447 Billion in 2015, Photonics remains a strong industry. The European photonics industry, estimated to be worth €70 billion, has considerable global leadership positions and employs over 300,000 people directly.

With positive growth forecast, current industry trends like digitalisation, resource efficiency, individual and zero failure production will drive the photonics industry further.

Rimac Automobili Ltd.

Organisation Type:

Private Company

Sector:

• Automotive

Address:

Ljubljanska 7
10431 Sveta Nedelja
Zagreb County, Croatia

Full Name:

Rimac Automobili Ltd.

Main Activities:

The main business is development and production of the world’s highest performance electric sports cars and key components for vehicle electrification such as batteries and powertrains.

Rimac Automobili was founded with the vision to create the sportscar of the 21st century. Soon it was clear that we first had to invent various technologies to make this possible and that those technologies could do much more. Today, we are unleashing the full potential of Nikola Tesla’s invention, the alternating current electric motor, in many ways and industries.

SPIRE

Organisation Type:

Network

Sector:

• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Energy

Address:

Avenue E. van Nieuwenhuyse, 4 box 1
B-1160 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

The Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency

Main Activities:

A.SPIRE aisbl is an international non-profit association formed to represent the private sector as a partner in the Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency (SPIRE) Public-Private Partnership (PPP) launched as part of the Horizon2020 framework programme.

Organisation Type:

Research institute

Sector:

• R&D Management

Address:

Main Office
Ul. Adolfa Pawińskiego 5a
02-106 Warszawa
Polska / Poland

European Office
Avenue Emile Max 160
B-1030 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

Technology Partners Foundation

Main Activities:

The Technology Partners Foundation is a scientific research and implementation organisation specialised in research and development and innovation management and the performance of large-scale interdisciplinary national and international research projects.

It is an Advanced Technology Centre, a status awarded by the Minister of Science in 2004.

Organisation Type:

University

Sector:

• Education

Address:

Postbus 5
2600 AA Delft
The Netherlands

Full Name:

Delft University of Technology

Main Activities:

TU Delft collaborates with a large number of other educational and research institutes within the Netherlands and abroad and has a reputation for high-quality teaching and research. TU Delft has extensive contacts with governments, trade organisations, consultancies, the industry and small and medium-sized companies.

Organisation Type:

University of Technology

Sector:

• Research, Education

Address:

PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Full Name:

Eindhoven University of Technology

Main Activities:

Organisation Type:

Platform

Sector:

• Science

Address:

Mauritskade 63
1092 AD Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Full Name:

The United Academics Foundation

Main Activities:

– Did you know that a large part of publicly funded research is trapped behind a paywall?

– That the cost to read a scientific journal can reach up to €20,000 a year?

– And that most research data financed with government money isn’t publicly available at all?

In short, we don’t have full access to knowledge we already pay for. If access is available, we are often required to pay again.

The mission of the United Academics Foundation (UAF) is to connect science and society: creating a world where scientific research results are accessible for all, so that knowledge can easily spread and be built upon.

Supporting Open Access

In the current scientific publishing system, the gatekeepers limit access to research by charging high membership fees to individuals, companies, research centers and libraries. Furthermore, authors lose copyrights, re-use of articles is restricted and the publication process is inexorably slow. Fortunately, times are changing. Open Access publishing is supported and even demanded by more and more academics. Several legislators worldwide have already committed to implementing an Open Access-only policy. The question is no longer ‘if’ we should have Open Access. The question is about ‘how’ we should develop it and promote it further.

Sector:

• Research, Education

Address:

Pleinlaan 9,
1050 Brussels, 3rd floor
Belgium

Full Name:

VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab

Main Activities:

The Artificial Intelligence Lab, founded in 1983 by Prof. Dr. Luc Steels, is the first AI lab on the European mainland. It is headed by Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé and Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick. During its history of more than three decades, the VUB AI Lab has been following two main routes towards the understanding of intelligence: both the symbolic route (classical AI) as the dynamics route (complex systems science).

The AI lab has applied artificial intelligence techniques including machine learning in a wide range of settings in the past, from robotics (MIRAD – Vlaio SBO), Industry 4.0 (“OperatorInfo”) to epidemics (“Learning optimal preventive strategies to mitigate epidemics of latent infectious diseases” (FWO), in which individual based models are combined with multi-armed bandit problems to come with an ideal disease mitigation strategy.

Organisation Type:

European Technology Platform

Sector:

• Waterborne
• Maritime transport
• Inland waterway transport
• Shipbuilding and maritime equipment manufacturing
• Ports and logistics

Address:

Rue de la Loi 67
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

Waterborne Technology Platform

Main Activities:

WATERBORNE has been set up as an industry-oriented Technology Platform to establish a continuous dialogue between all waterborne stakeholders, such as classification societies, shipbuilders, shipowners, maritime equipment manufacturers, infrastructure and service providers, universities or research institutes, and with the EU Institutions, including Member States.

Organisation Type:

Platform

Sector:

• Research
• Innovation
• Water

Address:

80 Boulevard A. Reyerslaan
1030 Brussels
Belgium

Full Name:

Water Europe (WE)

Main Activities:

Water Europe (WE) was initiated by the European Commission (EC) in 2004 as the European Technology Platform (ETP) for water with the name WssTP. This ETP status was renewed by the EC in 2013 in line with its ETP2020 strategy. In 2007, WE was transformed into a member-based multistakeholder platform under Belgian law. Since then, the membership and activities of the organisation have continuously grown and evolved in line with its ambition to represent the whole value-chain of water and achieve a European Water-Smart Society.

Water Europe envisions a Water-Smart Society in which the true value of water is recognised and realised, and all available water sources are managed in such a way that water scarcity and pollution of water are avoided. Water and resource loops are largely closed to foster a circular economy and optimal resource efficiency, while the water system is resilient against the impact of climate change events.

WE has developed 4 innovation areas that are quintessential for the transition to a Water-Smart Society: The Multiple Waters, the Digital Water, the Value in Water, and an underpinning Hybrid Grey-Green Infrastructure, which are further explained in our Water Vision.

Achieving the Water-Smart Society requires leadership, strategic action, and persistence. WE will drive the transition to a Water-Smart Society with the support of nine Vision Leadership Teams each representing a key dimension of Water Europe’s Water Vision.