Testing, piloting and scaling-up activities

Objectives:

• Improvement of the formula for commercialization.
• Identification of conditions required for legal approval of the sanitizer.
• Development of the initial Product Specification.
• Validation of the improved formula at pilot scale.
• Identification of production requirements for sanitizer production at industrial scale.

Tasks:

Task 1.1 Improvement of the formula

Task 1.2 Study of requirements for legal endorsement of the sanitizer and application for approval

Task 1.3 Development of the initial Product Specification

Task 1.4 Pilot trials

Task 1.5 Scale-up studies

Demonstration activities

Objectives:

• Full description of the sanitizer (concentration, function, how to apply, effectivity…).
• Getting demonstration agreements to validate the sanitizer in potential clients´ facilities.
• Execution of demonstrators to show the sanitizer to potential clients.
• Obtaining feedback for setting up final characteristics of the sanitizer.

Tasks:

Task 2.1 Contact with prospective clients for demonstration activities

Task 2.2 Execution of demonstrators

Task 2.3 Development of the final Product Specification

Industrialization activities

Objectives:

• Implementation of sanitizer production requirements.

Tasks:

Task 3.1 Implementation of sanitizer production requirements

Intellectual Property Assets and Risk Assessments

Objectives:

• Analysis of the state of the art in the disinfectant and preservative field to detect emerging technologies.
• Decision of the strategy to follow to protect the sanitizer.

Tasks:

Task 4.1 Technology Watch, review of legislation and Benchmarking

Task 4.2 Intellectual Property and knowledge protection

Exploitation and Dissemination

Objectives:

• Making our product known through social media, trade fairs, publications, advertisements and visits to potential clients.

Tasks:

Task 5.1 Elaboration of an Exploitation Plan, including Business Plan

Task 5.2 Implementation of the marketing strategy

Task 5.3 Planning of phase 3 for SME Instrument

Project Management

Objectives:

• Ensuring that goals and objectives are clearly defined and visible throughout the project.
• Monitoring progress among planned and actual activities. Anticipate risks and issue corrective actions
• Setting up active administrative and technical management throughout the whole project life-cycle, ensuring timely delivery of all the management and technical reports to the EC.

Tasks:

Task 6.1 Overall management of the project