Call description
SMART Call for Projects aims at helping EUREKA manufacturing enterprises to adapt to global competitive pressures by developing the necessary enabling technologies to support advanced manufacturing across a broad range of sectors.
Is your company looking for collaborating with international partners, in the implementation of new manufacturing processes, advanced production equipment or gaining skills in how to manufacture the products of the future? Then SMART EUREKA Cluster Call may be the perfect tool for you.
SMART is the EUREKA Cluster promoting collaborative, international & close-to-market R&D&I projects in the area of advanced manufacturing, a key booster for the competitiveness of the industries, the social sustainability and to address the needs of citizens and the environment. SMART promotes the creation of challenging projects, where large industries, SMEs, academia and research organizations could collaborate as an ecosystem with well defined market orientation.
This first SMART cluster call will be launched on 11th December 2017 followed by a Brokerage Event where proposal promoters and potential partners will be able to interact, exchange and network in an open and creative environment.
SMART Call will follow a 2-stages procedure, having each of them the following characteristics:
Approved FPPs will receive the SMART Label.
Eligibility criteria
Project consortia need to have at least two different partners from two different countries supporting SMART Cluster Call, of which one must be a EUREKA Member Country and another one either a EUREKA Member Country or a EUREKA Associated Country. Those EUREKA Member and Associated Countries supporting SMART Cluster Call appear listed in the SMART Cluster web page.
Evaluation criteria
SMART Project Outlines and Full Project Proposals will be evaluated and selected according to the following criteria:
SMART projects must clearly show technical innovation and application excellence regarding future and new products/processes, manufacturing related services or advanced production equipment. The Call for projects addresses the manufacturing technologies broadly, from the process till the equipment, the digitalisation or the environmental friendly manufacturing, as the 6 SMART research and innovation domains show it:
Funding details
Funding is granted via EUREKA Countries' national programmes. With the assistance of SMART Public Authorities Board, Project Proposers are informed about the funding possibilities from the beginning of submission process.
In order to prepare a successful proposal, you need to be aware that there may be significant differences in funding procedures. You must therefore make sure that your project proposal fits within national public authorities' priorities and funding rules before you submit it to SMART.
In the SMART web you can find contact details for various National Funding Agencies, which support the funding of SMART projects.
For countries not represented in the PAB, you should contact the appropriate EUREKA National Project Coordinator.
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