Germany’s Third Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the HLPF 2025

Research, innovation and digitalisation Mat2Twin materials research programme for economic and social transformation

The new grant programme “Material innovations for transforming economy and society” (Mat2Twin) aims to research novel materials that act as drivers of green and digital transformation in industry and society.

Mat2Twin also facilitates sustainable closed-loop management of high-value resources by means of an entirely digitalised characterisation of materials throughout their life cycle, embracing material design, the processing of materials and the product to the end of its useful life or its recycling. The specialised programme seeks particularly to digitalise materials research and generate materials data ecosystems along the entire value chain that allow more resource-efficient use of resources and better recycling.

As at: 17.06.2025