H2020Staff exchange2016–2018

MAKERS · Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration: 2016-01-01 → 2018-12-31
EU contribution: €1,057,500
Participants: 20
Scheme: MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity

The project’s objectives are to study the opportunities and barriers for the EU to lead a manufacturing renaissance that upgrades existing manufacturing competences and develops new technological capabilities across EU regions to support regional industrial resilience for more distributed and sustainable socio-economic growth and prosperity.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

MAKERS will bring together leaders from business, academia and policy to study issues related to the drivers and dynamics of sustaining the competitiveness of EU manufacturing sectors. The project’s innovative research, training and mobility activities will address key concerns related to the historic opportunity for the EU to lead a manufacturing renaissance that not only upgrades existing manufacturing competences but, more importantly, develops new technological capabilities across EU regions to support regional industrial resilience for more distributed and sustainable socio-economic growth and prosperity. MAKERS will create a multi-stakeholder platform to discuss the current understanding of issues related to manufacturing renaissance, including (1) the role of small, medium and large manufacturing firms and local production systems plugged into local-global value chains; (2) what are the drivers and processes for innovation, technological capabilities and technology transfer from research intuitions to firms; (3) trends in reshoring and nearshoring and the potentials for re-industrialisation and shorter value chains; (4) the impact of the socio-economic-environmental sustainability agenda on EU competitiveness; (5) skills requirements and training; and finally (6) how policy can ensure the competitiveness of EU manufacturing sectors for more distributed and sustainable socio-economic growth and prosperity. MAKERS’ training programme comprises: 1) annual summer schools that will cover the breadth of the issues above and address methodological requirements; 2) work package-specific Business/Academia/Policy (BAP) workshops; 3) dissemination activities within the network in conjunction with mobility, such as presentations at faculty seminar series, and doctoral level guest lectures; 4) dissemination activities at events outside the network, such as presentations at international conferences, policy fora and multi-media engagement.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamUnited Kingdom
BUREAU SATORI SAS · PARISFrance
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
CORNELL UNIVERSITY · IthacaUnited States
FONDAZIONE PER LA RICERCA E L'INNOVAZIONE · FirenzeItaly
GALDON SOFTWARE SA · PULIANAS GRANADASpain
HOCHSCHULE KARLSRUHE · KarlsruheGermany
LUNDS UNIVERSITET · LundSweden
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE · SingaporeSingapore
RIEKE PACKAGING SYSTEMS LIMITED · LEICESTERUnited Kingdom
STEINBEIS TRANSFERZENTREN GMBH AN DER HOCHSCHULE KARLSRUHE · STUTTGARTGermany
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA · OaklandUnited States
UNIONE REGIONALE DELLE CAMERE DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA, ARTIGIANATO E AGRICOLTURA DEL VENETO · Marghera VeneziaItaly
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · GranadaSpain
UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaItaly
UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER · MontpellierFrance
UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL · NeuchatelSwitzerland
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO · San DiegoUnited States
VERKET FOR INNOVATIONSSYSTEM · StockholmSweden

MAKERS · Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity

Results in brief

Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity

Project objective

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