Strategic Multiannual Roadmap
EFFRA has drawn up a reference document which describes the four research priorities it will pursue under the ‘Factories of the Future’ public-private partnership, entitled the "Strategic Multi-annual Roadmap". This summary paper gives a detailed overview of the document and outlines the main goals of each priority area, while explaining the social and economic objectives which will be achieved in pursuit of these aims.
These priorities were defined after careful consultation and thoroughgoing deliberations with hundreds of different stakeholders from across the private sector in Europe who represented the main enabling technology providers of European manufacturing industry, along with academics from research institutes and universities and the users and producers of production technologies.
The process began in October 2008 with an open consultation overseen by EFFRA’s Industrial Research Advisory Group, who ensured that the principles of fairness, openness and transparency were rigorously upheld at all times.
Copies of the "Strategic Multi-Annual Roadmap" and of the "EFFRA Research Priorities - Executive Summary" are available below.
| File | File size |
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 EFFRA Research Priorities - Executive Summary.pdf | 524 Kb |
| Report of the Ad-hoc Advisory Group.pdf | 1599 Kb |