Activites to be performed.
WP1 – EU sustainable manufacturing Roadmap
This WP aims to ensure sustainability awareness and industry engagement. It has got two-fold objectives: 1) Communication activities related to Sustainability awareness between manufacturing SMEs and ecosystem stakeholders such as Cluster organization. It includes networking with other relevant EU and local initiatives and existing platforms and clusters. 2) Industry engagement into the sustainability transformation pathway and greenSME community.
WP2 – greenSME manufacturing community
It sets-up the manufacturing community for knowledge sharing among SMEs, large enterprises, research centers, AT technology providers and other stakeholders around three-pillar sustainability (economic, social, environmental).
It includes sustainability awareness and implementation strategies best practices and engagement material such as catalogues, trainings information, new technologies, best practices and funding opportunities. Technology providers and social innovation enablers will receive training in sustainability.
WP3 – Sustainability assessments and ASAP definition
The WP collects all the activities required to lead SMEs into their sustainability transformation pathway, a set of sustainability assessment services. Its starting point is the SustaINdustry assessment tool, which will be enhanced with various methods to support SMEs to make informed decisions about AT, social innovation, and new business models. In addition, it includes sustainability advisors service to support SMEs. The advisor will lead the matchmaking services facilitating SMEs to develop the assessment and have access to the suitable expertise in the AT for sustainable manufacturing field.
WP4 – Open calls for at and social innovation implementation according to the budget distribution
It collects the activities related to launch, manage, and support the open calls in technical, legal, and financial aspects and provide SMEs with all the supporting measures designed along the project for social innovation and AT uptake for three- pillar sustainability. The overall objectives of the WP are:
• Open Calls Infrastructure preparation and launch
• Evaluation and selection of the SMES applications, SMEs & Services providers, Agreement’s management.
• Support and monitoring of the implementation services, including flow of payments.
• Methodologies to monitor the quality and the impact of the services provided to the SMEs.
WP5 – Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation
The communication and dissemination plan to share project outputs to targeted groups. The exploitation will analyze project outputs. Regarding the greenSME HUB, it will include governance issues and a business plan for its sustainability over time.
WP6 - Management deals with the effective planning, managing, and controlling of the project activities, including the risks and the quality of the project results management, ensuring a good cooperation among partners, and reporting the project activities to EC.
