METABUILDING LABS

Acronym: METABUILDING LABS

Programme: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme

Contract No.: 953193

Project implementation period of time: 01.01.2021 – 31.01.2026 (61 months)

Total value of the project: EUR 16 366 315.43

Max. EU contribution: EUR 14 944 528.75

ITB’s budget:  EUR 592 625.00

Coordinator on behalf of ITB: prof. ITB Michał Piasecki, PhD, DSc

Metabuilding Labs consortium:

1. NOBATEK INEF 4 (NBK) France, Coordinator

Partners:

2. EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM (ECTP), Belgium

3. EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM (EAA), Belgium

4. EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW (ENOLL), Belgium

5. COMITE EUROPEEN DE COORDINATION DE L'HABITAT SOCIAL AISBL (HE), Belgium

6. HORMIPRESA NEC SL (HP), Spain

7. RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB (RISE), Sweden

8. BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND – PRUEFUNG (BAM), Germany

9. AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (AIT), Austria

10. EMI EPITESUGYI MINOSEGELLENORZO INNOVACIOS NONPROFIT KFT (EMI), Hungary

11. INSTYTUT TECHNIKI BUDOWLANEJ (ITB), Poland

12. UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY (UoG), Ireland

13. STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH (SEZ), Germany

14. BUILDWISE (BW), Belgium

15. ECOWISE EKODENGE LIMITED (ECO), United Kingdom

16. LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST), Luxembourg

17. COVERIS (COV), France

18. TERRELL (TER), France, till 27/10/2021

19. EDILIANS (EDI), France, till 31/12/2023

20. POLY-OUVRAGES (POLY), France, till 04/06/2022

21. MATERALIA (MAT), France, till 22/02/2024

22. ARAMIS (ARA), France, till 04/06/2022

23. BUILT ENVIRONMENT COMMONS (BEC), France

24. SVILUPPO TECNOLOGIE E RICERCA PER L'EDILIZIA SISMICAMENTE SICURA ED ECOSOSTENIBILE SCARL (STRESS), Italy

25. R2M SOLUTION SRL (R2M), Italy

26. FEDERAZIONE DELLE COSTRUZIONI (FEDCO), Italy

27. CASA S.P.A. (CASA), Italy, till 22/02/2024

28. UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI MEDITERRANEA DI REGGIO CALABRIA (UNIRC), Italy

29. ONYX SOLAR ENERGY SL (ONYX), Spain

30. INDRA SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION SL (MIN), Spain

31. FUNDACION CARTIF (CAR), Spain

32. FUNDACION IDONIAL (IDO), Spain

33. FUNDACION TEKNIKER (TEK), Spain

34. VIVIENDAS DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS SA (VIPASA), Spain

35. UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA (UPV), Spain

36. FUNDACION PLATAFORMA TECNOLOGICA ESPANOLA DE LA CONSTRUCCION (PTEC), Spain

37. EKODENGE MUHENDISLIK MIMARLIK DANISMANLIK TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI (EKO), Türkiye

38. TC BASAKSEHIR BELEDIYESI (BLL), Türkiye

39. ARCELORMITTAL INNOVACION INVESTIGACION E INVERSION SL (AMIII), Spain, till 22/02/2024

40. IMPULSE PARTNERS (IMP), France

41. UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (UBx ), France, since 01/04/2022

42. LOGIREP LOGISTIC (GIE LOG), France, since 01/01/2022

43. CANOPEE STRUCTURES (UCA), France, since 01/04/2022

44. THEROOM2030 SL (ROOM), Spain, since 01/07/2023

45. METABUILDING ASBL (MBA), Belgium, since 03/09/2024

46. CONSTRUCTION21 FRANCE (C21), France, since 04/09/2024

47. EDILIANS TECH (EDIL), France, since 01/01/2024

Short description:

METABUILDING LABS is a five-year Horizon 2020 EU-funded Innovation project whose main intention is to contribute to reach the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) goal of “nearly-zero energy, zero emission buildings”.

A large consortium of 40 partners from 13 European countries have joined forces to provide European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the construction sector with easy access to a wide network of high value testing facilities allowing them to develop and test innovative envelope solutions for next generation buildings.

These testing facilities will be provided by:

• Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs)
• Living Labs
• Social Housing buildings

The METABUILDING LABS network of testing facilities will extend across the following countries:

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, ITALY, Luxembourg, Poland, SPAIN, Sweden, Turkey

METABUILDING LABS project reaches out to SMEs and provides them with access to Open Innovation Testbeds (OITB) as part of a wider innovation support ecosystem, which will be of high value and tailored to their needs. Some SMEs, representing the main targeted stakeholder group, form part of the project consortium to collaborate in the specification and development of the OITB and its services, and to “test drive” their innovations. The OITB will help to accelerate SME innovation and allow SMEs to become competitive against big industry players.

In order to engage an ever-growing number of SMEs in innovation on a European scale, an OITB not only needs to create, organise and put to work technical and regulatory testing facilities and services, but should also deploy a sound and effective strategy to bring European SMEs into its ecosystem by means of metaclustering. The main idea behind the metaclustering concept is to maximize the outreach to up to 30.000 SMEs from all European regions through 12 Metaclusters that interconnect 180 existing European Clusters that will reach SMEs through a cascade communication methodology:

Metaclusters > European Clusters > National Platforms > Regional Clusters > SMEs

The METABUILDING LABS project is closely related to the H2020 project METABUILDING (G.A. Nº 873964), (www.metabuilding-project.eu), which started in June 2020. The METABUILDING project has put in place the first layer of this ecosystem by involving 6 target countries (which will now be extended to 13 European countries) and has created an Open Innovation Digital Platform for the innovation ecosystem of the construction sector. This platform will be consolidated and enlarged through METABUILDING LABS.

The metabuilding.com platform will serve as a virtual and ubiquitous Single-Entry Point to innovation support and services to the European construction ecosystem in general, and particularly to the Innovation testbed services, which are being developed within the METABUILDING LABS project.

This represents an ambitious twofold intent, which is strategically underpinned by the European Construction Technology Platform’s (ECTP) roadmap. Moreover, 21 of the ECTP’s members, including the ECTP itself, are partners in the METABUILDING LABS project themselves.

SECTORAL, REPLICATION AND EXPLOITATION OBJECTIVES

• Build up a future-proof, upgradable, competitive, sustainable, and inclusive European Innovation Ecosystem and OITB network.
• Stimulate investments in building-envelope innovations and new technologies by providing testbed evidence on material performance for companies and investors.
• Contribute to enhance the technical and environmental quality of EU building envelope products, through the harmonisation and streamlining of testing requirements.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES

• Unlock the potential of SMEs by getting access to prototyping, testing facilities, certification services and infrastructures to improve the quality of their products/solutions.
• Test user acceptance and environmental requirements of products and solutions in Living Labs.

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The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science under "Premia na Horyzoncie 2" instrument on the basis of contract no 512106 /PnH2/2021