Member - Cidaut Foundation

CIDAUT has as main objective to increase the competitiveness and industrial development of companies from the Transport (including Aeronautical and Surface transport) & Energy sectors, strengthening their technological capabilities to develop new products and processes trough R&D. CIDAUT has an extensive experience in project management at Regional, National and European level, as it has participated in more than 300 research projects since 1993. Moreover, it has participated in more than 50 EU project, coordinating 8 of them. Nowadays CIDAUT counts with a staff of more than 200 people with experience in materials, process, measurements and simulation. CIDAUT’s research programs are closely connected with the following technological areas: Safety; Product-Process Improvement; Environmental Issues; Engines and Energy Systems. CIDAUT is a major player among technological centres and maintains a presence in line with its stature in the main Spanish and European technological areas, where it works to promote the productive advances of its clients. CIDAUT is member, and is involved in several activities, of the following European organisations: ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council), ERF (European Road Federation), HFP (The European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform), EBPT (European Biofuel Technology Platform), EuMaT (European Technology Platform for Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies), and RHC.ETP (Renewable Heating and Cooling European Technology Platform). Additionally CIDAUT Foundation is member of ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials, TRB – Transport Research Board, SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers, ASA - Acoustical Society of America, IIAV - International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, ISN - Integrated Safety Network, HUMANIST – Human Centred Design for Information Society Technologies.

CIDAUT gathers a huge range of technical skills and capacities, including: • Materials development and processing • Numerical simulation (including product and process). • Instrumentation and mechatronics, which are suitably applied, in order to develop fully automated manufacturing processes. • Process prototyping and testing • Materials lab: including all cutting edge metallographic analysis tools. • Product testing: here, all kind of mechanical / environmental or combined loads can be applied.