Entities eligible to participate: Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from nonassociated third countries or international organisations is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
Consortium composition: Only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes at least 3 legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least 1 independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
- at least 2 other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
Additional consortia specific conditions apply and are explained in Section 3.3 of the Call Guideline.
Call thematic topic descriptions:
- Topic 1: Optimising production processes and increasing resources efficiency through digital solutions
The development and commercialisation of real-time digital twins and solutions based on artificial intelligence that allow the monitoring of manufacturing processes and help configure changes in production lines in real-time.
The development and commercialisation of solutions with the objective of improving energy and resource efficiency.
- Topic 2: Socially sustainable and human-centric manufacturing
The proposals should support workers by improving productivity, safety, decision-making, and control through human-machine collaboration and advanced technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality and more.
- Topic 3: Environmentally sustainable manufacturing through circular business models and new technologies
The development and commercialisation of new and scalable technologies to improve the efficiency of production processes by reducing resources consumption and increasing the use of recycled materials, both for new production and remanufacturing, including also advanced materials and clean production technologies.
The development and commercialisation of new and scalable circular business models, taking into consideration the entire life cycle of the products.
Please refer to the Call Guideline for General&Specific Conditions, Proposal preparation and submission, Proposal evaluation and selection process.
Available funding: 7.5 M€ |
Up to 900k€ funding per project |
TRL 8 and proof of sale to be achieved by the end of the project |
Reviewed FS mechanism |
Reviewed Business Owner Deck |
The deadline for the submission of the proposals is: 20th November 2023 at 23:59 CEST.
Please also visit the EIT Manufacturing website for further details.