ERA-NET MANUNET II:
2016 Call for Proposals for Europe’s Manufacturing Industry
Main Links:
MANUNET Website
CTI Link to international research projects
Time schedule:
17th March 2016: Deadline for pre-proposals, 17:00 CET
28th June 2016: Deadline for full proposals,
17:00 CET
Mid October 2016: Communication of the evaluation results
Start of projects: Contact national/regional agency
Objectives and Topics:
The strategic objective of the MANUNET call for proposals is to foster the competitiveness of Europe’s Manufacturing Industry by co-funding manufacturing research projects performed by enterprises (preferably SMEs) and their strategic partners.
- Knowledge-based engineering, information and communication technologies for manufacturing (industrial robotics, computer-aided engineering and design, automated manufacturing, product lifetime management, etc.).
- Manufacturing technologies for environmental and energy applications including resource efficiency and recycling
- Adaptive manufacturing technologies including processes for removing, joining, adding, forming, consolidating, assembling
- New materials for manufacturing (alloys, lubricants, coatings, textile fibres, construction, composites, insulation, etc.).
- New manufacturing methods, components and systems (development of demonstrators, devices and equipments, logistic systems, etc.).
- Other technologies/products related to the manufacturing field.
The MANUNET call includes all fields in Manufacturing
The respective regional/national thematic programme focus should be taken into account (
Swiss participants need to follow the standard rules of the innovation funding programme CTI).
Eligibility:
All MANUNET projects should be designed on the following principle:
- Consortia consisting of at least 2 independent SMEs belonging to 2 participating countries, or 2 regions in different countries.
- Large companies, academic research groups, universities or other public organisations may also participate according to their regional/national financing regulations, as long as there are 2 independent SMEs belonging to 2 participating countries, or 2 regions in different countries.
- The composition of the consortium should be efficient in size in order to accomplish the objectives proposed. However, we expect small medium projects with no more than 4 or 5 partners.
Eligibility Swiss participants:
Swiss entities are eligible to participate. Standard criteria of the CTI innovation programme are applicable: Funding levels and rules are the same as in regular national CTI projects.
At the
fullproposal deadline,
a CTI proposal is due to submit to the CTI office
by using the standard CTI application form together with the MANUNET proposal
.
Information provided by Berthold Schmidt, Member CTI Commission - 4.2.2016
J. Söchtig, 8.2.2016
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