The ambition of AIM-NEXT is to reshape our knowledge and the way of designing the next generation of non-CRM hard materials for extreme applications. It is implemented through a broad programme of experimental, theoretical and modelling research, on the basis of innovative material design, synthesis and sintering, togeher with deeper understanding of material performance and failure.

A research environment is then created where the 10 Doctoral Candidates will work to bridge the remaining knowledge gaps with the new tools, skills and competencies necessary to come from an original material design to its predictable performance in the shortest possible time.