The overall goal of the HyperOLED project is to develop materials and matching device architectures for high-performance, hyperfluorescence organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for use in display applications and solid state lighting. The innovative OLEDs will be realised by combining thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecular hosts with novel shielded fluorescence emitters, targeting saturated blue emission of very high efficiency, especially at high-brightness levels. Further efficiency gains will be achieved through molecular alignment to enhance light outcoupling from the hyperfluorescence OLEDs. Using shielded emitters will enable simpler device structures to be used, keeping drive voltages low to be compatible with low voltage CMOS back plane electronics. This will enable demonstration of the concept’s feasibility for high-brightness, full-colour OLED microdisplays as one application example. To develop the hyperfluorescence OLEDs, the following scientific and technical objectives will be targeted: • Objective 1: Develop shielded emitters • Objective 2: Develop TADF hosts • Objective 3: Photo-physically characterise the shielded emitters and TADF hosts • Objective 4: Anisotropic molecular orientation for enhanced performance • Objective 5: Design and test prototype hyperfluorescence OLEDs • Objective 6: Fabricate and evaluate demonstration hyperfluorescence microdisplays To show the project’s overall goal has been achieved, multiple blue and white stack unit prototypes (2 x 2 mm² on 30x30mm glass substrates with ITO) will be integrated into a high-brightness microdisplay demonstrator (based on MICROOLED’s 0.38’’ WVGA CMOS backplane) and tested that demonstrate significant improvements in functionality, performance, manufacturability and reliability.

In the vaccine industry, downstream processing is of extreme importance. Prophylactic vaccines aim at protecting healthy people, so any contaminant has to be discarded with the most drastic measures. Such « negative » approach comes at the expense of the recovery of product : yields are poor, thereby inducing a high product cost. Processes are also complex, since they rely on multiple eliminations rather than on recovery of the unique product of interest. Technically, this is mostly due to the lack of specific capture systems that would allow direct, « positive » separation of the vaccine from its environment.Vaccines know no borders. For developing countries, the pressure on costs is even more acute, and local production is a way to try to reach the 1$ per dose target. In this context, water sustainability is a major issue, as it is a most sensitive ingredient in bioproduction. DiViNe will tackle theses cost and environmental issues with technological answers. The partners will combine two major Nano/biotechnology innovations to develop an integrated purification platform amenable to the different natures of vaccines : glycoconjugates, protein antigens and enveloped viruses. They will implement Nanofitins (novel affinity capture ligands) and Aquaporin-based membranes (energy-saving nano-biomimetics used in the cleantech industry), for a « positive » purification approach. High yields are expected (data from antibody purification with Nanofitins), at affordable cost of goods and with a sustainable approach of water recycling. Novartis Vaccines brings to the Consortium a broad range of targets, and identical strategies can be applied for biopharmaceuticals in general. The development custom affinity capture processes as a sustainable platform is therefore economically relevant, in a very large market. Beyond the technical partnership, the project is a first run for the partners to structure the platform as a commercial offer for downstream processing of biologics.

"As part of the ""Young Europeans* Move"" project, vocational schools from Liepaja/Latvia, Plock/Poland, Brescia/Italy and Darmstadt/Germany have joined forces with the industrial and training company Merck KGaA and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Darmstadt Rhein-Main, to create a sustainable European vocational training network by using different forms of learning cooperation, offering learning stays for trainees abroad for IT, electrical, mechatronics, metalworking, gastronomy and automotive occupations in the context of an EU town twinning. Our project thus began with the increasing internationalisation of companies and the necessary increase in the mobility of young people in initial vocational training. The project was embedded in an EU partner city network that dealt more or less ""ineffectively"" with the topic of ""youth unemployment and lack of skilled workers"". Under the guidance of the Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck-Schule Darmstadt, the EU partner cities, Merck and IHK Darmstadt have recognized that ""learning location cooperation"" with its effects and opportunities for discussion is a key effective and strategic measure to increase the employment of young people in Europe. For this reason, efforts have been made through the EU town twinning network to attract vocational schools to participate in the project.Learning location cooperation is defined as cooperation between vocational schools and training companies/institutions or cooperating companies or practical institutions (e.g. workshops in schools). It not only refers to the dual system, but also describes all forms of vocational training, including full-school forms, in which cooperation takes place between different learning locations in order to optimise vocational training. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the company Merck KG a.A. took a representative view of the companies, while the schools, from their point of view, designed the topic according to concrete goals. Both economic and industrial partner institutions also supported the placement of places for learning stays and the dissemination of the project results through media publications, web presence and within their institutions.The project transported the idea of European unity into vocational training through the cooperation of the various European partners. It was illustrated by many examples and made tangible by the project results, how the educational mission of the vocational school - to enable trainees to fulfil their tasks in their profession and to help shape the world of work, society and Europe in social and ecological responsibility - can be implemented in the European context. The exchange of good practice in cooperation between learning venues provided support in this respect. Basic structures for the readiness and openness for these goals were at the centre of our partnership's work mandate. In detail, the following aspects of learning location cooperation were achieved:1) Organisation, tasks and management of a vocational training network with 40 companies from four countries (IT, DE, PL. LV),2) Planning, implementation and evaluation of 32 occupation-related, cooperative training projects (web-based learning, e-learning, digitisation 4.0) in the form of learning stays,3) Planning, implementation and post-processing of 25 operational investigations for the generation and evaluation of a guideline for operational investigations and4) Implementation of 8 transnational project meetings for the coordination/collaboration of the participants and cooperation with companies for the generation of vocational learning stays.The following results were achieved:Outcome 1) A transnational network of 40 VET institutions was established. The majority of these offer learning stays. Particular mention should be made of the newly established cooperation between vocational schools, companies and municipal institutions as well as between the Darmstadt Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Brescia Chamber of Industry and Commerce.Outcome 2) Concepts of web-based learning and digitisation were exchanged with cooperative training projects.Outcome 3) A guideline for the preparation, implementation and follow-up of company investigations was drawn up, tested, evaluated, distributed and made available for download.Outcome 4) A tailor-made vocational and intercultural motivation training for learning stays abroad was developed, tested and evaluated through 32 learning stays. The concept is available for download together with films.Outcome 5) The project was widely published through various dissemination media (e.g. TV, international press, websites, print media). The results are available for download on the EU websites and on the project website (www.erasmusplus-project.eu)."