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Ikerlan-IK4 among the research bodies with the biggest participation in the CENIT programme
The total budget for which significant business consortia have subcontracted IKERLAN-IK4 comes to 8.2 million euros for the period 2005-2009, which is 3.2% of the total budget for research bodies. The 31 projects approved in the two calls for projects in the CENIT programme account for investment totalling 835.4 million euros, of which 254.8 will be used by research bodies.
IKERLAN-IK4 will be collaborating with companies like CAF, Cegasa, Copreci, Ecotècnia, Fagor Arrasate, Fagor Automation, Fagor Electrodomésticos, Onapres, Tifell, Ulma, Unión Fenosa, etc. on projects dealing with knowledge development in different fields of application. These include the railways, wind power, machine tools, bio-fuels, safety, fuel cells, electricity distribution and greenhouses.
One of the projects which the Technological Research Centre will work on is the AVI-2015, which aims to develop a new model of high speed train. Another of the subsidised initiatives is PILBE, dealing with obtaining and using bio-diesel as a renewable energy.
The Basque Technological Research Centre will also be participating in WindLider 2015, the aim of which is to develop the first simulation model of a big wind-powered generator and its environment, and in eEe, a project dealing with advanced technologies in ecology and information and communication technologies for machine tools.
Advanced systems to control access to public places will be the subject of a fifth research project, together with an initiative to develop fuel cells. The active management of the demand for electricity and the design of advanced greenhouses complete IKERLAN-IK4’s participation in the CENIT programme.
CENIT is an acronym of Consorcios Estratégicos Nacionales en Investigación Técnica (National Strategic Consortia in Technical Research). The programme covers the funding of big integrated industrial research projects of a strategic nature. These are large-scale, long-term, technical-scientific initiatives, aimed at planned research in technological areas with a future and a potential international dimension.
The aim is to generate new knowledge which may be of use in creating new products, processes or services, or for the integration of technologies of strategic interest to contribute, in any case, to a better technological position for Spain’s industrial fabric.
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