Apply for Industry 5.0 Award 2023

Deadline: 1-Sep-23

Entries are now open for the Industry 5.0 Award 2023 to recognize EU-funded projects that make an outstanding contribution to building a more human-centric, sustainable and resilient European industry.

Industry 5.0 provides a vision of the future of European industry, which aims to achieve societal goals beyond jobs and growth, to become a resilient provider of prosperity, by making production respect the boundaries of the planet and placing the wellbeing of the industry worker at the centre of the production process.

This could be by means of developing innovative technologies, industrial or supply chain processes, new business models, or by advancing the understanding of human-centricity, sustainability and resilience in industry.

The concept of the award is prepared in collaboration with European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA), industrial platform MANUFUTURE, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EIT Manufacturing (European Institute of Innovation and Technology).

Projects should be able to present a convincing and inspiring solution, addressing Industry 5.0’s three main pillars: human-centricity, sustainability and resilience. Projects should clearly be applicable in industry. Ideally, they would cover multiple industrial sectors and geographically dispersed industrial actors. Projects involving deep-tech start-ups are particularly encouraged to participate. Projects should have an effective approach to a wide dissemination of results and reach out to a large base of industrial and other relevant stakeholders. The project’s results should be replicable and the ease of uptake of the presented solution should be addressed.

Projects could improve resilience in industry by developing digital techniques for flexible and adaptable production methods (including digital twins, haptic technologies, reconfigurable collaborative robotics, additive manufacturing, etc.). They could do so by digitalising the industrial ecosystem (including data exchange with customers and/or suppliers) or allowing for remote operation; by improving the flexibility and robustness of supply chains, or by increasing organisational resilience by improving industrial knowledge, risk or crisis management.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible, projects:

must have obtained funding by Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe framework programmes or the EIT (European Institute on Innovation & Technology) or have obtained a Seal of Excellence from Horizon Europe (in which case the certificate should be attached to the application form).
the official start date must not be before 1 September 2018.
must explicitly address the application of their results in the industrial sector.