The 12 INNOCAT partners from 8 countries aspire to build up communities in RIS-eligible countries, namely ecosystems of innovation, to stimulate the emergence of start-ups and foster further business development, based on the commercialisation potential of this technology. The benefits of this approach will be effectively demonstrated in the 7 participating RIS countries, by retrofitting heavy duty vehicles owned or operated by territorial public authorities.
Many of these vehicles are aged, with very high CO2 emissions; consequently, the project key-beneficiaries will harvest both economic and environmental benefits.
INNOCAT actively pursues the contribution of public authorities and policy-makers, businesses and business enablers (active in areas such as automotive maintenance, waste management and secondary raw resources), as well as academic, training, research, and innovation-oriented organisations, to:
Optimise, exchange and diffuse innovation and best practices on substituting PGMs in catalytic converters.
Develop roadmaps to build-up CRMs communities in RIS countries, setting these regions at the forefront of technological change and providing a boost to the whole economy and labour market.
Build the capacities and offer match-making services to key-beneficiaries in RIS countries, to develop their businesses and profit from such innovation ecosystems.
