Project description
Supporting the EU manufacturing ecosystem through a joint supra-regional strategy for Photonics
The European manufacturing sector has been a steadfast contributor to economic growth. Nevertheless, the absence of coordinated interregional support in deeptech, particularly focused on Photonics, poses a challenge. A crucial gap exists in fostering collaboration for deeptech innovation. In this context, the EU-funded Deepsupport project aims to establish an interregional network that seamlessly integrates the strengths of government bodies, research institutions, industry players, and makers. The goal is to develop a joint supra-regional strategy, incorporating best practices to leverage the potential of deeptech, particularly Photonics, in enhancing European missions and bolstering company competitiveness.
Objective
In recent years the manufacturing sector has been one of the stable pillars of European economic growth and therefore prosperity. Photonics, as one of the advanced technologies for industry identified by the European Union, is a relevant deep technology that plays a key role in supporting and innovating the manufacturing ecosystem. On the European landscape several initiatives exist that facilitate cooperation on Photonics, ranging from the public private partnership Photonics21, to European wide clusters like EPIC association and the Digital innovation hub Photonhub Europe. However, they focus mainly on support for individual organisations and while there is also the S3 platform partnership on Photonics, there is no support available to coordinate interregional cooperation in deeptech with the focus on Photonics for manufacturing.
Goal of the project is the establishment of an interregional deeptech innovation support network for manufacturing with the focus on Photonics. Output will be a joint supra-regional strategy with best-practice measures for the use of Deeptech/Photonics to support European missions and company competitiveness. This strategy will be co-developed by relevant regional stakeholders from the government body, research, industry and makers communities and include tangible steps to use the complementarities and cooperation potential of the regions to ensure cross-fertilisation.
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
8010 Graz
Austria