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General Information

EIT Manufacturing is an Innovation Community within the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) – that connects the leading manufacturing actors in Europe. Fueled by a strong interdisciplinary and trusted community, EIT Manufacturing will add unique value to European products, processes, services – and inspire the creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing.

EIT Manufacturing’s approach is designed to immediately and forcefully address specific economic and societal challenges, leveraging opportunities to maximise the impact for a successful European manufacturing.

EIT Manufacturing’s vision is that the global manufacturing innovation is led by Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s  mission is to bring manufacturing actors of Europe together in innovation ecosystems that add unique value to European products, processes, services – and inspire creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing.

To tackle main challenges of European manufacturing, EIT Manufacturing has defined six strategic objectives:

  1. Excellent manufacturing skills and talents: adding value through an upskilled workforce and engaged students.
  2. Efficient manufacturing innovation ecosystems: adding value through creating ecosystems for innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation focused on innovation hotspots.
  3. Full digitalisation of manufacturing: adding value through digital solutions and platforms that connect value networks globally.
  4. Customer-driven manufacturing: adding value through agile and flexible manufacturing that meets global personalised demand.
  5. Socially sustainable manufacturing: adding value through safe, healthy, ethical and socially sustainable production and products.
  6. Environmentally sustainable manufacturing: adding value by making industry greener and cleaner.

EIT Manufacturing Programmes

EIT Manufacturing is currently experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, which brings us new challenges and opportunities. EIT Manufacturing’s aim is not only to adapt to this global revolution, but to lead it. To do so, it will deliver nine powerful programmes that cover the Knowledge Triangle — Education, Innovation and Business Creation — for Added-Value Manufacturing:

• Education: “Empower”, “Connect” and “Engage” talents and workforce
• Innovation: “Launch”, “Develop” and “Grow” innovations
• Business Creation: “Create”, “Accelerate” and “Transform” businesses

EIT Manufacturing Flagships

EIT Manufacturing defined four Flagships as prime demonstrations of the community’s ability to solve complex challenges, while delivering high societal and industrial impact. EIT Manufacturing’s flagships are:

  1. Flexible Production Systems for Competitive Manufacturing: Emerging technologies enable almost limitless flexibility in product design and production, allowing full customer customisation.
  2. Low Environmental Footprint Systems & Circular Economy for Green Manufacturing: Using new technology to minimise use of resources, energy, and material in production systems enables new circular business models
  3. Digital & Collaborative Solutions for Innovative Manufacturing Ecosystems: Collaboration and business on digital platforms and value networks enables companies to create new and highly efficient value-chains.
  4. Human-machine Co-working for Socially Sustainable Manufacturing: Smart use of automation and robots enables great workplaces, flexible production, and sustainable human work.

EIT Manufacturing Partners

EIT Manufacturing brings together more than 60 European leading partners from business, education and research. The diverse and multidisciplinary nature of the partnership provides the excellence and complementarity required to successfully address the current and emerging challenges of European manufacturing.

  • Industry partners have an extensive footprint, covering multiple sectors including automotive, aerospace, process industry, machinery and equipment, electronics, ICT, medical technologies and consumer goods.
  • Academic partners include globally recognised universities for academic and innovation performance. They provide the educational capacity, curricula and top-level academics required to reach EIT Manufacturing’s educational goals.
  • Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) contribute with their broad competences and specialised expertise in major manufacturing enabling technologies. They bring a high-end innovation eco-system and technological assets, such as innovation labs, test beds, fablabs and maker spaces to be used in innovation processes.

For more information, please visit https://eitmanufacturing.eu/.

 

Other Informations

Please visit the web page of EIT Manufacturing for more information.

[1] https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-manufacturing