-8 elaborate project proposals have been received in the first round, with a combined budget of EUR 22 million

- These 8 project proposals will receive a recommendation from the APPI Evaluation Committee how to (further) optimize the proposal 

The Action Plan Process Intensification (APPI) aims to accelerate the implementation of process intensification in the Dutch process industry. The plan includes a research program of eleven program lines. The call of the first phase of the Action Plan concerns three program lines, for a total of EUR 13.5 m over a period of five years: Alternative energy-based operations, Transport-limited processes, PI process analysis tools. These program lines are now open for projects that are proposed by consortia of organizations from both industry and knowledge infrastructure. Visit http://dsti.nl/appi (note: omit the "www.").

 In the first round of the Action Plan Process Intensification's call for project proposals, 8 project proposals were received with a combined budget of EUR 22 million – the available total budget is EUR 13,5 million. These proposals will receive a recommendation from the APPI evaluation Committee how to (further) optimize the proposal into a "full proposal" that will be submitted in the second round, with the deadline of December 18, 2009 (17.00 hrs). Project proposals that have not participated in the first round are still welcome in the second round, although they will not benefit from the recommendations of the Evaluation Committee.

The Taskforce APPI offers a "consortia matchmaking service" to organizations that want to join existing project consortia: please express your interest to the Taskforce APPI (via an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and we will inform the existing project consortia of your interest. In the coming weeks will provide you with some more information about the project proposals that are being developed, after consultation with the consortia that are being formed.

The Dutch Separation Technology Institute (DSTI) functions as the legal and administrative entity for the execution of the Action Plan Process Intensification. DSTI's process intensification component was detailed in cooperation with the Energy Transition Platform Chain Efficiency. The program's execution is enabled by a subsidy from the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Innovation Agenda Energy.