HARMONI
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Description and objectives
The HARMONI project aims to bring together all relevant actors in the process industry to jointly propose solutions to overcome regulatory barriers and standardization needs that hinder the transfer of innovative solutions to the market.
The implementation of these solutions in the market is necessary to move towards a sustainable and competitive process industry at European level.
This project aims to develop and apply a methodology that achieves an effective collaboration of the eight industrial sectors involved in the SPIRE PPP (Chemical, Steel, Ceramics, Cement, Minerals, Metals, Water and Engineering) for the elaboration of solutions and recommendations to the common challenges of the process industry due to non-technological barriers such as regulatory measures and lack of European standards among others.
Value proposition
- To identify and evaluate those policies, programs and legislation at EU level that are an obstacle to the commercial acceptance of innovative processes carried out in the European process industry, both due to lack of regulation and over-regulation in some sectors.
- Identify the standardization needs of the European process industry to facilitate the adoption of innovative processes, methodologies and technologies and improve the transfer of solutions.
- Prioritize the identified regulatory barriers and standardization needs based on their relevance to global competitiveness, environmental impact and employment growth for all process industry sectors involved in the project.
- Provide recommendations to European regulatory authorities on potential changes to current EU regulations and European standardization bodies regarding the most pressing barriers to innovation in the process industry.
- Describe the participation of the process industry in EU legislative procedures and propose suggestions to optimize its role in the development of European standards that facilitate rather than hinder innovation.
Project partners
HARMONI consortium includes 3 SPIRE sectorial associations (chemicals, cement and equipment), A.SPIRE 2 RTDs coming from two SPIRE sectors (steel, ceramic), 1 National Standardization body (DIN) and an experienced RTO to coordinate them (CIRCE). In addition, an Advisory Board will involve the other 5 SPIRE sectorial associations and CEN/CENELE