Objective
Additive manufacturing (AM) has been highlighted as a key technology with potential for creating sustainable high value European based employment, addressing societal issues and supporting environmental sustainability. It has the potential to revolutionize the way in which products are manufactured and delivered to the customer. Moreover, AM is already having a high economic impact on several sectors and indeed on wider society. Therefore, it challenges the community to reinvent the business models and explore the implications of AM adoption. All those are heavyweight reasons for Europe to make specific efforts to define a plan of action in the field.
In this framework, AM-Motion CSA has the ambition to develop a strategy and set up the pillars for its efficient implementation that, ultimately, will contribute to reinforcing the European AM ecosystem. The project will accelerate market uptake of AM technologies across Europe by connecting and upscaling existing initiatives and efforts around defined value chains, improving the conditions for large-scale, cross-regional demonstration and market deployment, and by involving a large number of key stakeholders, particularly from industry, as experts. AM-Motion will identify gaps at technical and non-technical levels for business development and propose specific actions and including a timeline to overcome them. More importantly, it will propose and validate models for business collaboration and unlock AM based business and jobs for Europe.
To involve high number of key actors, the project has already achieved the support of several companies, research and education establishments, standardisation bodies, European Technology Platforms, international AM related entities, Regions and Innovation clusters. 52 support letters were received and are included.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/mechanical engineering/manufacturing engineering/additive manufacturing
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/ecology/ecosystems
- /social sciences/economics and business/business and management/business model
- /social sciences/economics and business/business and management/employment
- /social sciences/economics and business/business and management/commerce
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-FOF-2016
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Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
33203 Gijon
Spain
Participants (12)
2595 DA Den Haag
CB21 6AL Cambridge
75015 Paris 15
1000 Bruxelles
1000 Brussel
5651 GW Eindhoven
28906 Getafe
1050 Bruxelles
16129 Genova
80333 Munchen
1050 Bruxelles
3001 Heverlee
