INNOMEM: a sustainable platform for nano-enabled membranes

Status: Ongoing

INNOMEM aims to develop a sustainable platform (or Open Innovation Test Bed) that stimulates the usage of innovative nano-enabled membranes and derivatives.

By combining services and facilities in a single platform, international businesses (SMEs, to be more specific) can get answers to their questions about this new technology quickly.

A boost for nano-membrane technology

The project merges over 20 of the most prominent departments in the field of membrane technology in Europe – various renowned technology transfer facilitators, investors, funds and coaches.

The INNOMEM project covers various applications for membranes, materials (polymer, ceramics, metal and nanocomposite), surface treatments, membrane morphology and geology.

With the platform, we can demonstrate how innovative nanomembranes can solve industrial problems. We hope the market for these products will grow more quickly because of that.

Clear KPIs to chase

Thanks to the INNOMEM platform, we hope to achieve a number of things:

Making promising and groundbreaking production pilot projects accessible
Advanced characterisation technologies and modelling
Offering non-technical services.
Essentially, we set some KPIs:
Technical:
- 20% improvement in membrane productivity
- Increasing verification speed by 30%
- Reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption rates by over 40%
Non-technical
- 10 showcases
- Over 15 demo cases
- Reaching over 100 SMEs
- Reaching over 300 investors