Objectives
The FOCUS project will build upon this carefully created fundament, and there has been taken together a community of five existing FoF clusters which will work toward the following four objectives.
The two first objectives cover the current (“As-is”) situation for the clusters:
• Provide pro-active support to the projects in the participating clusters to disseminate the project’s tangible outcomes to raise the awareness and thus increasing on a short term the industrial exploitation and take-up.
• Elaborate on the common ground of the clusters to establish a European state-of-the-art and world-wide technology watch to inform the European manufacturing industry constantly while also formulating (with support from cluster specific top-ranked experts) the future FoF priorities based upon jointly identified business trends and market prospects.
The two last objectives cover the future (“To-be”) situation for the clusters:
• Deliver a proven model and associated methodology for effective cluster creation, execution and monitoring based upon the experience of the five participating clusters in FOCUS. This methodology will considerably ease the process of creating cluster thus maximizing the possibilities of increasing the impact of ‘exploiting’ cross-project synergies
• Deliver a model and associated methodology to ensure industrial exploitation and industrial take-up for future projects
The Focus Project is based on five existing FoF projcets clusters form ongoing or ended FoF projects.
The five cluster’s will report the achievement done so far and are the basic input for all the activities to the project.
The final outcome of Focus will be:
• FOCUS model for clustering and industrial exploitation known at relevant stakeholders
• Methodology for clustering
• Methodology for industrial exploitation & take-up
• Lesson learnt from the existing clusters
FOCUS Web page:
http://www.focusonfof.eu/(opens in new window)
