Big News: Cluster4Future ETOS receives further funding

The ETOS Cluster4Future has successfully passed the critical assessment conducted by the BMFTR, a panel of experts, and external reviewers: the progress made over the past three years and the research results to date were well received. As a result, electrifying technical organic syntheses (ETOS) remains an important topic for the future.

During the first funding period, the team of spokespersons, Prof. Siegfried R. Waldvogel (MPI CEC) and Prof. Ulrike Krewer (KIT), succeeded in bringing together 32 partners from research and industry for joint research projects. In addition to the €15 million in project funding from period 1, ETOS played a key role in securing over €220 million for accompanying research. To date, the first phase has to led to eight filed patents, two products/services, over 21 publications, and numerous new methods in electrosynthesis.

The BMFTR has now given the green light for this success story to continue. The second funding phase will begin on April 1, 2026, and will receive an additional €12.1 million in funding over three years. Additional funds will be contributed by industry partners and others, bringing the total project budget to more than €18 million.

We would like to thank all our partners from the research and industrial sectors, the Projektträger Jülich, and the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space for their tremendous dedication, trust, and excellent collaboration. We are very much looking forward to the next funding phase and to continuing our joint work on electrifying technical organic syntheses!

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Since April 1st 2023, the BMFTR future cluster "Electrifying Technical Organic Syntheses" (ETOS) is in the first implementation period. ETOS is the first major technology platform that drives the transfer of electroorganic syntheses from the laboratory to industrial scale and aims to generate innovative solutions for sustainable, robust, future-proof processes and products.

The lower part of the Upper Rhine and the Rhine-Main region is one of the most potent chemical regions in Germany, home to some of the world's leading chemical companies. In ETOS, academic and industry players are working together to build an infrastructure for the large-scale establishment of organic electrosynthesis in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The leading institutions are the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) with Prof. Dr. Siegfried R. Waldvogel as spokesperson and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer as co-spokesperson. The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the TU Darmstadt, the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, as well as non-university research institutions complete the expertise along the research in the field of electrosynthesis.

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