SHOP4CF offers funding, expert support, and training for innovative manufacturing projects. Apply until 03. August

SHOP4CF (Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories) is a project that aims to create a unique infrastructure for the convenient deployment of human-centric industrial applications. It's funded by the EU within the eighth framework program Horizon 2020 and includes 20 partners that develop a comprehensive software platform with a wide range of components. The platform covers a broad spectrum of industrial requirements, especially in the context of modern, flexible, and data-rich manufacturing.

With the work on the platform well underway, SHOP4CF is now looking for tandems of system integrators and manufacturing companies (at least one of which has to be an SME) to run pilots by combining modular SHOP4CF components. The time frame of the pilots is eight months, thus it has to be possible to complete the integration within this period. The successful applicants will receive €100,000 in equity-free funding to integrate pre-existing components developed by the SHOP4CF consortium as well as new ones, developed by the applicants themselves.

In addition to the funding, SHOP4CF will assign two experts from the consortium to each winning project. Those will check in with the project teams regularly, provide support and advice on the implementation of the modules, and continuously evaluate the results. The winning teams will also be able to participate in training sessions focused on technological and business aspects of innovation, as well as get tailored mentoring on SME finances and budgeting.

Do you have a project that fits the description? Apply at shop4cf.eu/ to receive €100,000 in equity-free funding together with support from a group of researchers and practitioners with unparalleled experience in manufacturing. Applications are open until August 3, 2021.

Do you have questions? Send us a message to info@opencalls.shop4cf.eu

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SHOP4CF (Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories)

This Saturday the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, one of Germany’s most important newspapers, published a half-page article about ECHORD and ECHORD++. The article features the projects ECHORD and ECHORD++ with all their instruments, some success stories and also shows that EU-Commissoner Oettinger holds the ECHORD scheme in high esteem. We were very proud to read that the Commissioner not only mentioned our success in bringing technology from lab to market, but also stressed ECHORD’s importance for the EU’s research funding in general.

Translated into English his quote says:

“The ECHORD project, funded by the European Commission, enabled bringing robotics technology from the lab to the market in more than 50 cases. With the project we also successfully tested the funding of sub-projects via open calls,” says Günther Oettinger, EU-Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. This approach facilitated a non-bureaucratic access to EU-funding, which benefits many small and medium-sized enterprises. “Hence, this so-called cascading funding also plays an important role in our framework programme Horizon 2020,” Oettinger continues.

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EU-Commissioner Oettinger: ECHORD scheme facilitates access to EU-funding for SMEs