The European Commission has published the Factories of the Future call for proposals.
The call consists in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. It aims to help EU manufacturing enterprises, in particular SMEs, to keep pace with increased global competition thanks to new technologies enabling the production of greener, more customised and higher quality products.
Topics
With the main topics of NMP (Nanoscience, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New production Technologies) and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) themes, Factories for the future covers 13 topics ranging from improved use of renewable resources to people-centred production sites, human-robot interactive production and highly miniaturised components.
Publication Date: 10 July 2012
Budget: The call has a budget of EUR 230 million.
Deadline: 04 December 2012 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
To see the official call announcement <<here>>
The ICT Work Programme 2013 is available >>here>>
For further information about the call, please visit the
Call Fiche
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