MIC3 Platform
The project will overcome several representational limitations of industry in large-scale computational models and provide a diversified, formalised, fully integrated model ecosystem that brings together all necessary perspectives:
Socioeconomic
to study European industry in terms of global competitiveness, trade, employment, and interdependencies of industrial transformation by sector, based on an open-source, macroeconomic model
Product/end-use
to characterise, among others, key service and product specifications and characteristics, covering energy storage and associated devices, transport services and associated vehicles
Material
to translate the demand for selected end-uses into demand for critical materials provided by industries by building on the ODYM framework and enhancing material stock and flow representation for all EIIs in European countries and globally
Industrial
to study the European industry in a bottom-up approach reaching site-level detail, considering a wide range of strategies, including but not limited to abatement technologies, investment opportunities, process optimisation, and reuse of products
Energy system
to capture the complex links between industrial transformation and the energy transition in the EU and neighbouring countries
Environmental
to quantify environmental implications for climate change, human health, ecosystem quality and biodiversity, resource scarcity, and other lifecycle impacts
These perspectives will be operationalised into modules and integrated into MIC3, via dedicated APIs and compatibility protocols, and checked for consistency and feasibility.