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System innovation experimentation for Industry 5.0

Paid one European project EUR 3 million to test Industry 5.0 transformation methods in regional industrial ecosystems, re-granting up to EUR 60,000 per third-party activity.

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System innovation experimentation for Industry 5.0 is a European Commission Innovation Action that pays for testing new ways to help European industrial regions adopt Industry 5.0 ideas, such as human-centric technologies and learning-organisation models, rather than paying for the technologies themselves. The single funded consortium receives the full EUR 3 million as a lump sum and can pass on p…

The Commission wanted a project to develop and test Industry 5.0 methods — human-centric technologies, learning-organisation models, new incentive schemes — for regional and local industrial transformation, particularly in European Regional Innovation Valleys. It wanted the work to tackle skills gaps and talent attraction alongside resilience and competitiveness goals.

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Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€3M

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