To achieve net zero CO2 emissions, the use of "Carbon Dioxide Removal" (CDR) methods, i.e. the active and permanent removal of CO2 from the earth's atmosphere, is unavoidable. In order to achieve its ambitious climate goals, the EU is specifying a far-reaching expansion of CDR capacities in the industrial “Carbon Management Strategy”. Direct Air Capture (DAC) represents a promising technological approach because these processes require significantly less space compared to biomass-based processes and can generally be set up regardless of location. Further advantages are that most known processes take place at very moderate temperatures and operating pressures and are therefore easy and inexpensive to set up or operate. A major disadvantage of DAC technology is the energy required to capture and concentrate CO2 from ambient air. It is therefore absolutely necessary to minimize the energy requirements of DAC through innovative technological solutions and intelligent integration measures. The aDvAnCe project addresses these points of criticism. Thanks to the innovative technology concept of the DAC process developed at the TU Wien, an extremely energy-efficient DAC process can be realized. In addition to the high energy efficiency, the process requires around 80% low-temperature heat (75 - 90 °C) and only around 20% electrical power. In order to avoid the above-mentioned disadvantages of existing processes, the process developed in Austria is based on the local separation of adsorption and regeneration. The adsorbent circulates between the two process steps. This completely eliminates the energy-intensive heating of unnecessary inert mass. As part of the aDvAnCe project, the function of the innovative DAC technology, including an optimized regeneration process arrangement, will be shown for the first time. In addition, the process, which has already been intensively investigated on a laboratory scale (between TRL3 and TRL4) under indoor conditions (~20 °C, relative humidity ~35%), is to be operated with outside air for the first time under relevant process conditions over an entire calendar year (especially < 0°C and > 30°C, relative humidity >60%). Through extensive sampling and use of the existing laboratory infrastructure at TU Wien, critical process data such as CO2 product quality, process emissions or adsorbent life-time, as well as their dependence on the prevailing and set operating conditions, are to be collected. The main challenge in the current project is therefore to ensure plant operation over an entire calendar year under outside air conditions, although proof of functionality for the new regeneration process and other subcomponents has not yet been conducted. Technoeconomics and life cycle analysis are also carried out for simulated up-scaling.