Polymer industry has changed the world during the 20th century and is nowadays a worldwide multi-billion dollar business. Recent progress in the design of macromolecules allows the blooming of a particular family of polymers called gradient copolymers, whose composition varies along the length of an individual chain. Gradient copolymers show a very high potential both as low-cost replacements for usual copolymers and as new materials. Research on their properties carried out now will have a large impact on the future direction of polymer science and polymer industries. The present consortium joins together 4 academic partners (representing 8 different teams) from France (IMRCP, specialized in macromolecular engineering and polymer self-assemblies characterization), from Belgium (University of Ghent, a first team specialist of ring-opening polymerization and a second one of industrial processes optimization), form Germany (University of Jena, specialized in high throughput synthesis of polymers) and from Spain (IBEC in Barcelona, a laboratory expert in biological applications of polymers). A first submission of this project was made in 2016 and the obtained score was at 93%, just below the success threshold. In this new version, a change of industrial partners was decided and the present consortium will have thus to be completed with 2 new industrial partners. The ANR funding will help to organize several discussions between all partners, identify the new partners, and pay for an external company for the help in writing the proposal.