Future Laboratory for the Diffusion and Application of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering
Materials sciences and engineering (MS&amp;E) are significant innovation drivers within the Central European area and thus crucial for competitiveness and economic growth. The MS&amp;E sector has its particularities like: frequent introduction of new material technologies, existing requirements and specifications frequently do not fit the unique features of advanced material and the sectors complexity requires wider range of high-quality resources and financial means. Joint activities that are answering sector-specific challenges are needed. The project FLAME reacts on these challenges by testing the innovative co-operation modules that facilitate the information flows and interactions among the regions.
The project partnership involves on one hand regions, which are hot spots in the field of materials sciences and innovation as well as regions that suffer from a lack of competitiveness and stagnant economy. However, in all participating regions companies, especially SMEs, are facing the barriers when working together across national borders and also lack market transparency regarding active players in the broad field of materials science.

Within the FLAME project the partners aim at unlock the full potential of all types of enterprises ranging from start-ups, spin-offs and high-growth "gazelles" to traditional enterprises, micro-enterprises and family SMEs and enabling them to bring MS&amp;E knowledge and technologies to the market, to internationalize their value &amp; supply chains and thereby improve their growth potential. By building bridges for MS&amp;E know-how, research results become commercialized and transferred into actions and money and in the long run to an enhanced competitiveness of all involved regions.