Deadline: 10-Nov-22
The EIT Manufacturing has announced the 2nd call for proposals for Innovation, Education and Business Creation.
The annual EIT Manufacturing Call for Proposals is a vehicle to allocate funding for projects in line with the strategic objectives and focus areas of EIT Manufacturing. Its aim is to accelerate turning scientific advances into marketable innovations in manufacturing to help prepare the industry for a green, digital and competitive future that is socially and environmentally sustainable.
This call requests proposals for activities in the Areas of:
- Innovation
- Education
- Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS)
All proposals should align with EIT Manufacturing’s overall vision, mission, and set of KPIs.
Focus Areas
- EIT Manufacturing is looking for projects and organisations ready to transform the European manufacturing and meet the global demands of present and future generations by achieving:
- Flexible Production Systems for Competitive Manufacturing. Emerging technologies enable almost limitless product design and production flexibility, allowing full customisation.
- Low Environmental Footprint Systems & Circular Economy for Green Manufacturing. Using new technologies to minimise use of resources, energy, and material in production systems to enable new circular business models.
- Digital & Collaborative Solutions for Innovative Manufacturing Ecosystems. Collaboration and business on digital platforms and value networks enable companies to create new and highly efficient value chains.
- Human-machine co-working for socially sustainable manufacturing. Smart use of automation and robots enables great workplaces, flexible production, and sustainable human work.
Strategic Objectives
- Five strategic objectives (SOs), as set out in the Strategic Agenda 2021-2027, which steer their activities and ambitions, and will help respond to major challenges shared by the manufacturing industry and society as a whole.
- Competitive Manufacturing Skills and Social Sustainability.
- Powerful Manufacturing Innovation Ecosystems.
- Globally competitive and resilient manufacturing.
- Environmentally sustainable manufacturing.
- Manufacturing fit for the Digital Age.
Thematic Areas
- In the context of this call – and selected activities will be part of the Business Plan 2023-2025 –they are looking for:
- Proposals for innovation activities in the areas of:
- Automation for human-centred factories
- Smart technologies for circular and green manufacturing
- Innovative solutions addressing industrial challenges caused by global crises
- Proposals for education activities in the areas of:
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Skills for Manufacturing (skill-driven learning): Complete digital learning program to support learners to develop the competencies for transforming innovations into products and services in the manufacturing sector
- Circular Manufacturing (skill-driven learning): Didactic game for creating awareness and develop basic skills in Circular Economy and sustainability in manufacturing shopfloor workers.
- Skills for EIT Manufacturing thematics (skill-driven learning): Upskilling and reskilling of current workforce in the manufacturing sector by supporting leaners in the development of the needed technical skills.
- Summer School for EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes and Doctoral School annual programme 2023 (pioneering learning journeys): innovative added value modules for EIT Labelled programs.
- Proposals for Business Creation are meant to pilot the establishment of a manufacturing startup pre-acceleration programme through the coordination of five pre-selected virtual incubation activities toward building the strongest Virtual Industry 4.0 Incubator.
- Proposals for innovation activities in the areas of:
Funding Information
- The total maximum EIT funding per year for all entities participating in the 2023 Calls is € 1,500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants from Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Horizon Europe Associate Countries are welcome to submit proposals and eligible for funding.
- As a minimum eligibility requirement, all proposals must be composed of at least 3 entities from 2 different countries from the EU or Horizon Europe Associate Countries. An entity not coming from the EU, or the Third countries associated is nevertheless allowed to participate but it should ensure its financial support from the applicable national or other funding sources.
- Please consider that:
- For applicants based in the United Kingdom their participation follows the conditions described here
- For applicants established in Switzerland their participation is not currently covered by an EU agreement and, as a matter of consequences, applicants established in Switzerland are not eligible for EU funding.
- All EIT Manufacturing partners are eligible to apply for funding, nevertheless, an entity does not need to be an EIT Manufacturing Partner to apply for funding. Access to Agora, their online community platform, is provided to entities to help build up proposal consortia.
- The call for proposals can lay down additional partnership conditions.
- At most, the following number of LTPs of a Member may receive funding per year through the 2023 Calls:
- Members being large enterprises, research institutes and universities: 5
- Members being mid-sized companies: 2
For more information, visit https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/news-events/calls/now-open-2nd-call-for-proposals-2023/