Deadline: 1-Sep-22
Vinnova has announced a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Climate-smart Production in the Swedish Manufacturing Industry within Production2030 to contribute to reduced climate impact through e.g. reduced CO2 emissions, reduced energy use, circular and resource-efficient production or other innovative solutions.
Production2030 finances project that develop and test new technical solutions in the Swedish manufacturing industry.
Produktion2030 wants to increase circularity in manufacturing industry. In this call, project consortia are expected to develop new knowledge and technical solutions through collaboration between industry and research actors. Step 1, feasibility studies, will refine project ideas and create excellent project consortia. Projects from stage 2, Research and Innovation projects, will concretize circularity through demonstrations in real-life environments or test beds.
Challenge Areas
- Resource-efficient Production – Example: Resource-efficient production is a requirement for manufacturing in high-cost countries as Sweden. How can resource consumption and environmental impact from production systems be minimized? How do production systems and employees become competitive, resource efficient, and competent? How can production systems and supply chains become more circular and at the same time competitive, resource-efficient, and resilient to disruptions?
- Flexible Production – Exemple: How are flexible value chains, production systems and manufacturing processes created for rapidly changing customer requirements and increased circularity? How are the requirements for volume and variant flexibility in production and variations in material combinations met? How are manufacturing methods and automation solutions created for rapid transition? How can flexible automation and digitization contribute to circularity through new automation solutions, simulation or integration of systems to decentralize control and monitoring of production processes?
- Virtual Production – Example: How can data and information be quickly transformed into knowledge and decision support in virtual production systems and digital twins/threads of processes, factories and value chains, and utilized for visualization of climate effects, circularity, and resource traceability? How can the digital maturity of companies be increased for digital transformation and concepts such as Industry 4.0 where equipment is often connected to the internet?
- The Human in Production Systems – Example: How can effective collaboration between humans, automation and robots be created? How are workplaces designed for with good ergonomics, safety, productivity and flexibility? How are continuing education and social sustainability integrated into the work? How is the role of humans strengthened through decision support, instructions and advanced production systems? How are people in production systems given access to real-time information through global networks and the opportunity to influence the circularity of the systems?
- Circular Production Systems and Maintenance – Exemple: How can manufacturing support circular economy and circular production? How should products, production systems and business models be designed to enable circularity and remanufacturing? How is digitization and connectivity used to collect large amounts of data for analysis through AI or machine learning? Can new forms of maintenance extend the life, resilience and durability of products and production systems? Can Industry 4.0 technology create services and decision support that reduces industry's climate impact?
- Integrated Product and Production Development – Example: How can parallel product and production development increase circularity and reduce climate impact? How does product development create value, resilience and robustness for all actors in a supply chain? How is the development process streamlined to meet new environmental and market requirements? How can smart product development decisions increase circularity and the reuse of materials in the value chain? How does standardization reduce environmental impact? How does decision support affect the product developer's ability to change the environmental impact of products?
Funding Information
Preliminary studies can apply for a maximum of SEK 800,000 over 6 months.
What can you apply for?
The call is carried out in two stages:
- feasibility studies to develop project idea and project consortium,
- research and innovation projects that create concrete results, which can be tested and demonstrated.
Eligibility Criteria
- Produktion2030’s 16 th call (both feasibility studies in step 1 and full-scale projects in step 2) is intended for project consortia with actors within manufacturing industry, universities, and research institutes with focus on manufacturing. In this call they limit manufacturing to production processes, production systems, and enterprises where end manufacturing results are discrete products or units.
- Call 16 is not intended for project consortia from continuous process industry, energy-producing industry, healthcare, service sectors or similar.
- Project consortia in step 1, feasibility studies, must include at least two actors from the Swedish manufacturing industry and at least two actors from universities or research institutes.
- Project consortia in step 2, research and innovation projects, must include at least three companies from the Swedish manufacturing industry, at least one university and at least one research institute. Funding for Stage 2 can only be applied for by projects approved in step 1, in a separate call in the winter 2022/2023.
- All projects shall contribute to equal social development by ensuring that both women and men take part in funding on an equal footing, have real influence over the project and participate clearly and actively in the project's implementation with substantial effort in a timely manner.
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For more information, visit https://www.vinnova.se/en/calls-for-proposals/the-strategic-innovation-programme-for-production2030/climate-smart-production-in-the-swedish-2022-00881/