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Results 2019-2 BRIDGES Call

The FNR is pleased to communicate that 9 of 16 eligible projects have been retained for funding in the 2019-2 BRIDGES Call, representing an FNR commitment of 2.97 MEUR.

The BRIDGES programme (formerly CORE-PPP) provides financial support for industry partnerships between public research institutions in Luxembourg and national or international companies. The next Call deadline is in April 2020.

Go to BRIDGES programme page

Funded projects

Domain Materials, Physics & Engineering: 7 projects 

Principal investigator

Alexandre Bertrand

Project title

Heat2Power

Host institution

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Industry partner

ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange S.A. (AMBD)

FNR committed

€278,114.71

Principal investigator

Gilles Frache

Project title

SKin Inflammation imaging by MAss Spectrometry (SKIMAS)

Host institution

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Industry partner

Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique

FNR committed

€400,000

Principal investigator

Jörg Baller

Project title

Extrusion Flow simulation Tire production Reduced order modeling (EMDD)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg

Industry partner

Goodyear S.A.

FNR committed

€391,531.90

Principal investigator

Bianca Rita Pistillo

Project title

High Efficient Water Splitting over Fe:NaTaO3 Photocatalysts (HEPHOTO)

Host institution

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Industry partner

3D-Oxydes

FNR committed

€399,993.26

Principal investigator

Holger Voos

Project title

Development Tool for Autonomous Constellation and Formation Control of Microsatellites (AuFoSat)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg (SnT)

Industry partner

LuxSpace Sarl

FNR committed

€399,427.09

Principal investigator

Eleni Koronaki

Project title

Addressing challenges in industrial Chemical Vapour Deposition Processes with a hybrid data-driven and equation-based computational framework (HybridSimCVD)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg

Industry partner

CERATIZIT

FNR committed

188,647.50

Principal investigator

Lars Beex

Project title

Towards efficient simulations of aggregates of slender bodies (ROPETEST)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg

Industry partner

KISWIRE

FNR committed

€293,982.38

Information and Communication Technologies: 1 project

Principal investigator

Raphael Frank

Project title

Connected Dynamic Insurance (CDI)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg (SnT)

Industry partner

Foyer Assurances SA

FNR committed

€224,354.58

Principal investigator

Francesco Viti

Project title

MaaS4All

Host institution

University of Luxembourg

Industry partner

Automobile Club Luxembourg (ACL)

FNR committed

€211,414

Life Sciences, Biology & Medicine: 1 project

Principal investigator

Jens Schwamborn

Project title

Microgravity as a Testbed for Advanced Research in Parkinson Disease Modeling (spacePD)

Host institution

University of Luxembourg (LCSB)

Industry partner

Blue Horizon SARL

FNR committed

€395,781.66

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