CHEMACT Project
The Michel-Eugène Chevreul Institute leads the CHEMACT Project (Chemistry and Materials at the Crossroads of Transitions), which has been selected and subsidized as part of the State-Region Plan Contract 2021-2027. This structuring project is centered on the perimeter of the Institute’s laboratories (UCCS, UMET, LASIRe) and in collaboration with the GEMTEX and CéraMaths laboratories. This project mobilizes a significant part of the Chemistry and Materials sector, with over 350 people involved.
The CHEMACT CPER project proposes the development of sustainable solutions for the elaboration and deployment of new high-performance, recyclable materials with targeted functionalities. The project is based on an upstream/downstream continuum of intrinsically interdisciplinary research, with a high potential for innovation in terms of synthesis, advanced characterization, performance enhancement of existing devices, and the development of new production and recovery processes. The proposed solutions will enable us to support current and future transitions in response to the major and complex challenges our society is facing.
The project is divided into 6 axes of work. The first 3 focus on targeted actions, known as “flagship actions”, and address major topics in the “Chemistry-Materials” theme:
- Synthesis, processes and transformations
- Functional materials of the future
- Materials recycling
The 3 other axes are transversal to the first 3 axes and to all the scientific teams involved in the project:
- Multiscale modeling, simulation, predictive approaches
- Equipment and methodological developments in advanced characterization
- Researchers, students, citizens: working together to achieve the global transition
To find out more about the project, its achievements and keep up to date with the latest news, visit the dedicated website:https://chemact.univ-lille.fr
This project is co-funded by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the Lille European Metropolis, the Hauts-de-France Region and the French State.
This project is coordinated by 4 institutions: the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Lille, the École Centrale de Lille and the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France.
Before CHEMACT: ARCHI-CM
The CHEMACT CPER project is a follow-up to the ARCHI-CM CPER 2014-2020 project, which aimed to respond to societal challenges in the fields of bio-economy, energy and advanced materials, and whose scientific specificity laid in combining architectural concepts to create innovative materials and induce original chemical reactivities.