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Newsletter, Volume 4
Carbon Fibre & Advanced High Performance
Composites (CFPC) Cluster
The last 6 months lot of activities of the CFPC Roadmap Exercise, Brussels 2018
cluster took place, in which MODCOMP
participated. In May 2018, the “CFPC Roadmap In June 2018, the 7th CFPC Cluster Workshop took
exercise” was organised in the European place in Chios, Greece. During the meeting, an
Commission, in Brussels, where core partners overview of what has been achieved till now was
from the cluster met to set the main structure of presented by NTUA. Dr. Elias Koumoulos pre-
the Composites Roadmap. The same month, sented the Roadmap Status and Perspectives.
experts on CFs and composites hold a meeting in
Dresden, which resulted in the establishment of Four invited speakers attended the Workshop:
the Global Scientific Assosiation of Carbon Fibres Dr. Paolo Bondavalli, who presented THALES
(GSAC). achievements in MODCOMP, Sylvia Rueda, who
presented ACCIONA’s achievements and MAS-
GSAC, Dresden 2018 TRO Project and Dr. Fabio Pegorin, who pre-
sented the recent advancements of Ghent Uni-
The 40 scientists from Europe, Asia and USA that versity in composites. Finally, the EuMAT plat-
particiapated are confident that GSAC will give form and its possible linkage with CFPC was pre-
impetus to research and industry. sented by Amaya Igartua.
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