ExpertiseUpdated on 14 January 2026
Looking for a consortium | Industrial Partner
Group Sr. R&D and Innovation Engineer at Limak Cement
Ankara, Türkiye
About
Limak Cement’s R&D journey began in 2010. Since 2022, the Limak Cement R&D Center has been officially recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Technology. Today, the center brings together over 30 researchers from diverse professional backgrounds, with 23% being women, representing more than 10 disciplines and advanced education levels. This diversity fosters strong collaboration and interdisciplinary innovation.
Currently, the center is managing R&D projects and partnering with esteemed universities, industry leaders, and governmental institutions, creating a dynamic ecosystem for sustainable innovation. Research activities focus on six key areas aligned with the company’s sustainability vision and the green transition:
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Industry 5.0 and Digitization – Increasing efficiency by optimizing systems
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Alternative Raw Materials & Fuel – Innovative environmental products and responsible resource use
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Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy – Creating industrial synergies with energy-intensive industries
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CCU/CCUS – Integrating carbon capture, utilization, and storage methods
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Renewable Energy – Following advancements such as clean hydrogen and other new energy technologies
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Industrial Green & Digital Transition – Ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality
These projects span all stages of development, from concept to application, aiming to deliver impactful solutions for the industry’s future.
Contact: moekinci@limakcement.com
Field
- Advanced materials and chemicals
- Raw materials
- Manufacturing
- Process Industries
- Circular technologies
- Net-zerp technologies
- Knowledge valorisation
- Science and technology infrastructures
- Modelling, simulations and digitally aided design
- Arificial Intelligence and Data
- Metrology and characterisation
- Testbeds, pilot lines, demonstrations
- Business models and exploitation strategies
- Project management, communication and dissemination
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Looking for a consortium | Industrial Partner
- Multiple topics
- General cooperation
- Completing the consortia
- Partner seeks Consortium
- Consortium seeks Partners
- Cluster 4 2026 Call - INDUSTRY
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Cluster 4 2026 Call - INDUSTRY two-stage
- General cooperation - beyond 2026 Industry calls
- General cooperation - beyond 2026 Industry calls
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-13: Monitoring of secondary raw materials (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-01: Advanced manufacturing for key products (IA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-04: Optimise the usage of resources in a circular economy (RIA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-24: Cooperation on innovative advanced materials with Japan (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-46: Mapping and service finder for Technology Infrastructures (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-12: Technologies for innovative extraction of critical raw materials (RIA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-11: Innovative technologies and tools for exploration and data modelling of raw materials (RIA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-41: Enhancing industry-academia knowledge exchange in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-05: Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets (RIA)
- CL4-two-stage | DIGITAL-EMERGING-51: AI improved advanced manufacturing and production processes in factories (RIA)
- CL4-two-stage | MAT-PROD-21-two-stage: Development of safe and sustainable alternatives to substances of concern (IA)
- CL4-two-stage | DIGITAL-EMERGING-53-two-stage: Innovative AI methods and technologies for the process industries (RIA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-44: Attracting management talent for capacity building for Technology Infrastructures staff members (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-48: ‘Proof of market’ to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results (IA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-31: Efficient capture / purification / utilisation of CO2 for the production of competitive products (RIA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-45: Pilot access schemes to Technology Infrastructures for European startups, scaleups and innovative SMEs (CSA)
- CL4 | MAT-PROD-23: Accelerating the discovery and development of chemicals and innovative advanced materials through digitalisation and artificial intelligence (IA)
Mehmet Özkan Ekinci
Group Sr. R&D and Innovation Engineer at Limak Cement
Ankara, Türkiye
Expertise
Expertise in Power Electronics
- Arificial Intelligence and Data
- Testbeds, pilot lines, demonstrations
- Modelling, simulations and digitally aided design
Miroslav Vasic
Associate Professor at Centro de Electronica Industrial, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Expertise
Acoustic Intelligence for Industrial Inspections
- Manufacturing
- Process Industries
- Metrology and characterisation
- Arificial Intelligence and Data
- Testbeds, pilot lines, demonstrations
Arjan van Engelen
Sr. Acoustic Consultant at Sorama BV
Eindhoven, Netherlands