Project description
A human-first approach to advancing industrial practices
In an era dominated by rapid technological advancements, the pursuit of innovation often overlooks the human element. Traditional approaches to industrial development prioritise efficiency and automation, side-lining worker well-being and societal values. This results in disempowered workers, eroding job satisfaction and hindering inclusivity. In this context, the EU-funded SEISMEC project will revolutionise industrial practices by placing humans at the forefront of workplace technological developments. Across 17 pilots spanning 14 countries and 14 industrial ecosystems including platform labour, SEISMEC engages end users and workers in a collaborative process. This ensures increasing alignment with European social and ethical values. Co-development and inclusive practices allow SEISMEC to chart a course towards Industry 5.0 prioritising empowerment factors such as creativity, collaboration, autonomy and safety.
Objective
SEISMEC will demonstrate an empowered, human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies in 17 pilots in 19 companies from 14 countries across 14 industrial ecosystems. It will do so through a two-way engagement in the development of technologies, empowering end-users and workers, and supporting social innovation, in a process labelled the SEISMEC shift. It will contribute to increased inclusiveness, by supporting a human-centred approach to technology development that is aligned with European social and ethical values (including gender and intersectional aspects). The benefits of human centrism will be measured in Creativity, Collaboration, Autonomy, Automation, Productivity, Privacy, Safety and job Satisfaction, the CAPS empowerment factors for human-centrism.
SEIMSECs two-way engagement introduces technical innovations such as explainability, co-development, feedback methods and interfaces to enhance human centrism, but also incorporates plans, needs and innovations from companies and their workers steering them towards an empowered human-centric Industry 5.0 path. The consortium brings together institutions at the forefront of engineering, computer science, networking and exploitation, coordinated by a world-leading social sciences and humanities university, and building up on groundbreaking European projects on industrial innovation. SEISMEC pilots are representative of all sectors and company sizes, and most European countries and worker roles. Every industrial enterprise in Europe will be able to see some aspect of their activity reflected in SEISMECs pilots and will be able to learn from the project’s outputs through an active campaign of cross-sector empowerment practices exchange. With a strong engagement of European, national and local stakeholders, SEISMEC is landmark effort in European industry’s shift to empowerment and human-centrism, one that puts the worker and European Values at the core of its global competitiveness
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
3062 PA Rotterdam
Netherlands
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Participants (29)
2595 DA Den Haag
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10623 Berlin
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T12 YN60 Cork
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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28045 MADRID
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400067 Cluj-Napoca
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413 36 LARISSA
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2000 ANTWERPEN
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01118 VILNIUS
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63040 Clermont Ferrand
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9500 Villach
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92230 Gennevilliers
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02 673 Warszawa
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400158 Cluj-Napoca
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10410 Velika Gorica
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10000 Zagreb
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
58373 DOTNUVA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
21000 Novi Sad
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
13814 Pollone
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6257 Pivka
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
5000 Nova Gorica
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
75002 PARIS
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
6827 AV Arnhem
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13900 Biella
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
35720 IZMIR
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3000 LEUVEN
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4470-177 Maia
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4464-503 Senhora Da Hora
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
2610 Wilrijk
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
21101 NOVI SAD
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