Aim
The 2nd Workshop “MATCH Sector Technical Groups” which took place on June 6/7, 2017 in Leuven, Belgium has as its aim to discuss the needs from industry, ETPs and scientific organisations to create Sector Technical Groups on a sustainable way.
Objectives
The objectives of the meeting were to discuss fields in materials science and engineering which are common and those which are specific for the five industry sectors defined in the Delivery report D2.1 and to make recommendations for the future of the Sector Technical Groups. For these objectives the presentations given at the 1st Workshop “MATCH Sector Technical Groups” on February 15, 2017 in Leuven, Belgium and the reports of MATCH which were published for the MATCH partners within the timeframe of March to May 2017 and summarized for the workshop were taken into account and new information and knowledge from additional experts, which went to Leuven for the first time as well. Finally it was considered to make recommendations for the main topics which should be taken into account for further Framework Research and Development Programmes under the European Commission but also for national organisations and to show how the Sector Technical Groups can work.
