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Welcome to this special edition of the Manufacturing Partnership Community Newsletter! 2024 has already been...
21.08.2024
News
In a decisive vote of confidence, Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as the...
22.07.2024
Joined by more than 100 European associations, EFFRA is urging the EU Institutions to significantly...
04.07.2024
SIGN THE PETITION The Manufacturing Research and Innovation Petition urges policymakers to give more political...
02.07.2024
EFFRA is structuring its work on high-priority research and innovation topics in Working Groups (WGs)....
27.06.2024
What does the future hold for Europe’s manufacturing industry landscape? We invite you to register...
06.06.2024
Events
What does the future hold for Europe’s manufacturing industry landscape? We invite you to save...
29.05.2024
We are excited to announce the launch of the Projects Magazine! Produced in partnership with...
23.05.2024
Join the Pulsante team for two-day summit designed to showcase the latest advancements and applications...
We are excited to announce that the EFFRA booth will be at IndTech 2024 in...
21.05.2024
Building on the resounding success of the first edition, EFFRA organised The Manufacturing Partnership Day in...
15.05.2024
Securing the wood supply chain within 5G-TIMBER! 5G-TIMBER, a project coordinated by TALTECH, aims to...
05.03.2024
At the heart of a value-driven quest for a sustainable, human-centric and resilient economy, is...
(Originally on ScienceBusiness) Robots are using technologies developed by the H2020 MERGING project to automate...
21.12.2023
(Originally published in ScienceBusiness) More than 400 stakeholders attended the first edition of the European Factories...
The presentations and recording of the most recent EFFRA webinar, Bridging the gap: Widening countries...
14.12.2023
On the 12th of December, EFFRA is hosting a webinar with the objective of discussing...
21.11.2023
On the 26th of September, EFFRA organised the first edition of The Manufacturing Partnership Day...
EFFRA has launched a public consultation on the priorities for the MiE Work Programme 2025-27...
07.10.2023
03.10.2023
On the 7th of December, EFFRA, together with the European Commission, hosted a webinar on dataspaces...
On the 27th of June, EFFRA organised a member exclusive Brokerage and Pitching online session covering...
29.06.2023
The Made in Europe partnership is now operating in full swing. Two waves of projects...
11.05.2023
Sharework and SHERLOCK are two projects funded through Factories of the Future, EFFRA’s partnership with...
23.03.2023
The 8th of March, International Women’s Day, is a celebration counting more than 100 years. In...
17.03.2023
On the 8th of February, Trinity will host their final event in Brussels’ BluePoint, with...
08.02.2023
On the 6th December 2022, the European Commission officially adopted the main Horizon Europe Work...
23.12.2022
07.12.2022
As the ConnectedFactories project has come to an end in November 2022, we are pleased...
24.11.2022
On the 23rd of November, EFFRA had the pleasure of organising and hosting the final...
23.11.2022
EFFRA, Manufuture and the European Commission are launching the first Industry 5.0 Award dedicated to EU-funded projects whose...
01.10.2022
Shaping the Future of Europe – People. Technology. Innovation The European Manufacturing Conference is co-organised by the...
27.09.2022
REGISTER HERE 25 May 2022 – 9 am until 12 pm The manufacturing industry was...
25.05.2022
Agenda – Presentations and recordings We invite you to register and save the date on the 24th...
24.05.2022
The webinar co-organised by EFFRA and SPRI Group (the Basque Business Development Agency) on the 23rd of March brought together...
23.03.2022
Recordings & Presentations The recordings and the presentations of the ConnectedFactories CyberSecurity for Digital Manufacturing Pathway webinar are now...
12.02.2022
Presentations Recordings ConnectedFactories has organised on the 18th of February 2022, an online event named use cases and demonstrators...
02.02.2022
START the SURVEY We are kindly ask you to fill in this questionnaire to share your thoughts...
16.12.2021
December in the Slovenian Digital Center – Technology for people will be marked by Industry 4.0 and...
03.12.2021
During the info-days from the 29th of November until the 1st of December, from 9:00 until...
29.11.2021
EFFRA have organised two Made in Europe Stakeholders Meetings. The first was held on the 26th of November...
26.11.2021
EFFRA & the Vanguard Initiative signed a Cooperation Agreement on the 25th of November, during the Vanguard Initiative Annual...
25.11.2021
23.11.2021
The MTC’s Digitalising Manufacturing Conference is back for 2021. Taking place across three days during the Digital...
09.11.2021
EFFRA & EIT Manufacturing have signed the Cooperation Agreement on the 27th of October! The distinct and...
03.11.2021
The registration for the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2021 is now open. Please find...
Deadline for submissions: 29th October 2021 at 17:00 CEST (Brussels time) The first Deployment Voucher open...
30.09.2021
European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) and EIT Manufacturing are working together for the future of...
28.09.2021
On the 28th of September, the DENiM team will lead a virtual cross-project collaboration involving four H2020...
Deadline: 1st of October 5 pm CET, 2021 The Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform (ZDMP) project team invites you...
21.09.2021
The two organisations will sign a formal collaboration agreement on the 27th of October at...
It is a Digital tech talk, under the premise of setting the right direction to achieving manufacturing...
28.07.2021
We invite you to register for the Digital Tech Talk: Predictive Maintenance for Optimized Manufacturing Solutions...
06.07.2021
NEW Submission Deadline: October 25, 2021 (14:00, CEST) i4Trust is looking for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises...
30.06.2021
The European Commission is organising a 10 days event (from the 28th of June until the 9th of July) regarding the...
29.06.2021
Today, 23rd of June 2021, EFFRA has officially signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the...
23.06.2021
Next June 23rd at 10:30 CET, the MANU-SQUARE consortium is organizing the MANU-SQUARE Project Final event, which...
QU4LITY project aims to reach the Zero Defects Manufacturing (ZDM) stage through an orchestrated open...
01.06.2021
The Secure Collaborative Intelligent Industrial Assets (SeCoIIA) project organises a full-day online workshop on the 26th of...
26.05.2021
SHOP4CF OFFERS €600,000 FOR INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING PROJECTS SHOP4CF (Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories) is...
18.05.2021
The ConnectedFactories2 event Digitalisation of manufacturing: pathways, key enablers and skills aimed in particular at the...
28.04.2021
The ConnectedFactories2 event Digitalisation of manufacturing: pathways, key enablers and skills aimed in particular at the following:...
22.04.2021
On Tuesday, the 13th of April 11:20 am CEST, there will be a workshop co-organised by...
14.04.2021
The Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform (ZDMP) project team invites you to apply for your share of a €3.2million...
22.03.2021
DG Connect is organising on the 16th of March 2021, from 9:30 to 11:30 CET the “Data Spaces...
16.03.2021
We are currently looking for a R&D Manager. Overall tasks of the EFFRA R&D Manager Contributing...
10.03.2021
The Future of manufacturing is Made in Europe European manufacturing is world-leading and the backbone...
Presentations and Recordings The Cybersecurity workshop took place on the 20 January 2020 and has been organised in association with ConnectedFactories 2....
20.01.2021
iPRODUCE 26 November 2020 09:30 – 13:00 CET Register here iPRODUCE is organising on the 26th...
26.11.2020
ForeSee cluster is organising the last webinar of the ForeSee Cluster Webinar Series _Predictive Maintenance:...
The webinar will take place on 23 November 2020 from 15.00 to 17.00, organised by the European Commission....
23.11.2020
The EFPF (European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing) project in conjunction with the European Commission launched...
18.11.2020
The H2020 project SeCoIIA aims at securing the digital transition of the manufacturing industry towards...
05.11.2020
Registrations will open on 10th February 2020 Pre-conference, Workshops and Excursions | 26 October 2020 Conference and Brokerage...
26.10.2020
On 20 October, EFFRA, in association with the ConnectedFactories CSA, organised “the standards for digital...
21.10.2020
The webinar on Standards for digital manufacturing has been organised in association with the ConnectedFactories Coordination and Support Action...
20.10.2020
STREAM-0D is a project that received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 under the public-private...
02.10.2020
Tuesday, July 28th 2020, 09:30am – 13:30pm Human-robot collaboration has been recently introduced in industrial...
28.07.2020
Currently, EFFRA carries out a consultation consisting of two main tracks. One track aims at...
19.06.2020
The Digitalisation and digital platforms webinar which took place on 11th March, was a success. We had...
14.05.2020
Digitalisation and digital platform live webinar 11 March 2020 at 09:15 This webinar focused on...
11.03.2020
The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the global membership-funded alliance helping to accelerate the...
25.11.2019
Join the online info session on 18 November to learn everything about the ICT-38-2020 call...
18.11.2019
On the 8th of November in Brussels will take place the Cities of the Future...
08.11.2019
ACE Factories White Paper With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution called Industry 4.0,...
07.11.2019
On Thursday 24 of October 2019, the Manufuture ZDM Sub Platform is hosting the Zero defect manufacturing...
24.10.2019
On October 22nd, Sirris is organizing in Ghent a seminar on “Qualitative product data acquisition...
22.10.2019
The MANUFUTURE 2019 Conference on Sustainable Smart Manufacturing will be held on October 1st in...
01.10.2019
The World Manufacturing Forum (WMF) is an annual international conference which seeks to raise awareness and seek...
27.09.2019
On September 24, 25 & 26, the European Research and Innovation Days will take place in Brussels....
26.09.2019
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 will take place on 19-20 September 2019...
20.09.2019
The Factories of the Future 2020 calls, the last calls under Horizon 2020, are now...
04.09.2019
A workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing, jointly organised by the European Commission, EFFRA, the Big...
02.07.2019
This year’s Factories of the Future Community Days will take place on 22 & 23 May...
22.05.2019
You are invited to share your experiences and corresponding cases of artificial intelligence in manufacturing....
20.05.2019
The FoF-2016-11 projects COMPOSITION, DIGICOR, NIMBLE, vf-OS and EFFRA (in association with the ConnectedFactories project)...
15.05.2019
All information, including the application manual and presentations introducing the call, is available at www.interreg-central.eu/apply. There...
19.04.2019
The EFRA annual General Assembly will take place in Brussels on 19 March. This year’s...
19.03.2019
As part of the EU Industry Days 2019, on 6 February, EFFRA and Produktion 2030 will...
06.02.2019
This year’s ICT conference will feature three ConnectedFactories cluster networking sessions and two sessions dedicated...
09.11.2018
The 2018 edition of the biennial Industrail Technologies conference will take place from 29 to...
29.10.2018
The fundamental importance of cybersecurity challenges in manufacturing environments were the subject of the first...
22.10.2018
Technology Transfer in Nanotechnology is a joint workshop of the JRC and Ital’s National Research...
18.10.2018
EFFRA, ECSO and the European Commission’s DG Connect will co-host a workshop centred on cybersecurity...
17.10.2018
15 & 16 October 2018: Workshop on Advanced & Interoperable Digital Business-to-Business Platforms for Smart...
15.10.2018
The World Manufacturing Forum has published its first report presenting its recommendations for the future...
28.09.2018
The World Manufacturing Forum (WMF) is an annual international conference which seeks to raise awareness...
27.09.2018
On 26 September, the ConnectedFactories project will host a second scenario building workshop in Cernobbio,...
04.07.2018
This year’s Factories of the Future Community Day will take place on 27 June at...
27.06.2018
Hosted by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research & Innovation, this conference will focus...
26.06.2018
On 20 June the MEMAN project will host a workshop to investigate which barriers (financial,...
20.06.2018
The 24th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference will take place from 17th to 20th June...
17.06.2018
For EFFRA the Horizon Europe proposal, published today by the European Commission, represents both ambition...
07.06.2018
In preparation for Horizon Europe (the official name for FP9), EFFRA has launched an online...
28.05.2018
EFFRA and the Big Data Value Association have today agreed to closer cooperation by signing...
27.03.2018
The Stakeholder Forum aims to bring together all the different actors involved in the digital...
Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications 2018 (IESA 2018) will focus on current research, industry...
22.03.2018
EFFRA, in cooperation with ERTRAC and EGVIA, co-hosted a project results-centred workshop for the automotive...
01.03.2018
EFFRA & ERTRAC/EGVIA will co-host a results workshop – Factories of the Future for the...
28.02.2018
In his speech at the EU Industry Day, Commissioner Carlos Moedas (Commissioner for Research, Science...
23.02.2018
Industry 4.0 success stories from the Factories of the Future partnership were on show in...
22.02.2018
EFFRA and 23 leading European industrial research and innovation stakeholder organisations have today published a second...
21.02.2018
This workshop will serve as a forum where industry stakeholders and research experts will share...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is organising an information day for the...
18.02.2018
On 5 and 6 February, EFFRA hosted a dissemination event on digital platforms in manufacturing...
05.02.2018
A report containing the findings of the Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories workshop...
07.11.2017
The Factories of the Future 2018 call for proposals is now open. Project proposals are...
31.10.2017
The Factories of the Future partnership received a positive review within the broader EU mid-term...
12.10.2017
The European Commission has published draft Factories of the Future call topics for 2018, 2019...
06.10.2017
The annul Public-Private Partnerships Impact Workshop report has been published online. This year’s Impact Workshop...
25.08.2017
The outcome of the recent Horizon 2020 mid-term evaluation has been very positive for the...
31.05.2017
EFFRA is pleased to announce that it has deployed a new Innovation Portal online. This...
29.05.2017
On 17 May representatives of Factories of the Future projects and projects from the SPIRE...
17.05.2017
Over 160 representatives of industry, research and academia assembled for the first Factories of the...
16.05.2017
The European Commission’s stakeholder consultation on Horizon 2020, part of the ongoing mid-term assessment of...
27.04.2017
Following on from the success of its first conference, EFFRA has been shortlisted for the...
08.12.2016
On 22 & 23 November EFFRA (supported through the FoF-Impact coordination action) and Aerospace Valley...
23.11.2016
The inaugural Factories of the Future Conference, which took place on 15 and 16 September,...
16.09.2016
EFFRA is pleased to announce that Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and...
20.07.2016
Registration is open for the 2016 Factories of the Future partnership (PPP) Info Day which...
11.07.2016
EFFRA is pleased to announce that registration for the Factories of the Future Conference 2016:...
31.05.2016
The ‘Factories of the Future’ public-private partnership (PPP) has today (19 April) been endorsed at...
19.04.2016
