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Celtic-Plus Chairman Jacques Magen on the importance of data collection, data security, data processing, enhanced Human Machine Interfaces and the advantages of standardisation for SMEs. 1-Vertical sector specific needs Each vertical sector has specific manufacturing processes and therefore needs...

In EUREKA’s high level group meeting in March 2018, a total of 29 EUREKA network and Penta, Itea 3 and Celtic-plus cluster projects were endorsed for funding. With total project costs of € 148 M, these projects will drive technological innovation in a wide range of areas, from 5G and IoT...

PENTA Director Peter Connock on how Europe can regain leadership in the fabrication of the increasingly customised products demanded by today’s markets. The past decades have seen a trend of de-industrialisation of Europe, with the move to Asia of mass production of standardised components and...

ITEA Chairwoman Zeynep Sarilar on the integration of high-tech concepts, customer/human-centric design, security, servitisation and the importance of open source. What is happening now in manufacturing is not improvement but revolution. Manufacturing needs to be smart to survive… that’s a no-...

Eurostars-2 participating countries and the European Commission will invest an estimated total of € 73 .2 M* in the co-funded (public and private) transnational innovation projects involving 25 different countries. With 414 applications received, the overall success rate for projects in this...

Eduardo Beltrán de Nanclares, Chairman of the new EUREKA Cluster SMART on Advanced Manufacturing, about flexible automation, virtual factories, zero defects manufacturing, eco-sustainable factories and servitisation. With its approximately 20 industrial sectors, manufacturing forms the backbone of...

The TAFTIE Conference 'National agencies at the break of a new model for innovation support in the EU' – took place in Lisbon at the Representation of the EC in Portugal on 25 January 2018. The event's main focus was on finding better ways of providing support to innovative companies, during the...

Can a state-owned bank be THE motor for the private economy? French businesses would say yes to this question. EUREKA national project coordinator Patrick Cornet on the Bpifrance success story and its French Tech and French Fab initiatives. Bpifrance was created in December 2012 by bringing...

From disgruntled student to an Education Technology pioneer, Vesa Perälä tells us how he came to found Claned ; a digital learning environment looking to overhaul the very fundamentals of how we learn. “People learn in different ways, at different speeds and are motivated by different things. But...

The event, organised by TUBITAK – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, will provide Turkish entities with information about the SMART Cluster on Advanced Manufacturing and its first call for projects, with the purpose of facilitating Turkish organisations to lead and/or...