About.
What?
SALIENT stands for “Novel Concepts for Safer, Lighter, Circular and Smarter Vehicle Structure Design for Enhanced Crashworthiness and Higher Compatibility”. The main outcome of the Research & Innovation Action (RIA) was a new Front End Structure (FES) design for vehicles, which is more circular, lightweight, safe and smart than available components on the market today.
Where?
Our project activities took place all across Europe, consortium partners from 7 countries worked together, find out more about who we are in our dedicated section.
When?
Following a Kick-Off in September 2022, the SALIENT Project ran for a total of 3 years and ended in August 2025. During the execution of the Project, different phases of development and testing took place.
Key Information
Start of Project: September 2022
Project Coordinator: CTAG
End of Project: August 2025
Academic Coordinator: University of Northumbria
Project Duration: 36 months (3 years)
Total Grant Amount: €4,000,000
Our Alliances
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ELCA Network
European leadership in the field of lightweight materials and technologies
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ALMA Project
Advanced Light Materials and Processes for the Eco-Design of Electric Vehicles
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AMULET Project
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies United for Lightweight
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FLAMINGo Project
Lightweight Aluminium Metal matrix nano-composites and validation In Green vehicles
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FLEXCRASH Project
Flexible and hybrid manufacturing of green aluminium to produce tailored adaptive crash-tolerant structures
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Fatigue4Light Project
Fatigue modelling and fast testing methodologies to optimize part design and to boost lightweight materials deployment in chassis parts
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REVOLUTION Project
Supporting the Electric Vehicle Revolution through maximising EV Range and End-of-Life Vehicle Recovery through optimisation of recycled plastics and advanced light materials
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GIANCE Project
Graphene Alliance for Sustainable Multifunctional Materials to Tackle Environmental Challenges
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Graphene Flagship
Initiative to advance Europe’s strategic autonomy in technologies that rely on graphene and other 2D materials.
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EUMAT
European Technology Platform for Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies
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Business Upper Austria
The Upper Austrian government’s location agency
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MATERPLAT
Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials Spanish Technological Platform
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DELTA-MPIS
Greek SME providing customised solutions to industry and research communities
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Furhy Project
FUlly Recyclable HYbrid bio-composite for transport applications
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BIOntier Project
Breaking Frontiers in sustainable and circular biocomposites with high performance.
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BATTERY2LIFE Project
BATTERY Management system and System design for stationary energy storage with 2nd LIFE batteries
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BIO-UPTAKE Project
BIOcomposites in smart plastic transformation processes to pave the way for the large-scale UPTAKE of sustainable bio-based products
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HEIDI Project
Holistic and adaptive Interface Design for human-technology Interactions
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Repoxyble Project
Depolymerizable bio-based multifunctional closed loop recyclable epoxy systems for energy-efficient structures.
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ZEvRA Project
Zero Emission electric Vehicles enabled by harmonised circularity
