European Projects
Remanufacturing-X
HORIZON / Project No. 101295053
Ongoing
Title
Accelerating Europe’s Transition to Digital Circular Manufacturing
Research area
HORIZON.2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 – Integrated approaches for remanufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership)
Duration
36 months / start date: 2026-09-01 / ongoing
Description
Remanufacturing-X contributes to the Manufacturing-X vision by transforming remanufacturing into a high-value, data-driven pillar of Europe’s circular economy. It creates a trusted and interoperable ecosystem where AI, digital twins, and data spaces enhance decisionmaking, efficiency, and sustainability across value chains. Through a Digital Product Passport (REM-DPP) and a Remanufacturing Data Space (RDS), the project enables secure and EcoDesign-compliant information flows. AI-based tools support smart disassembly, lifecycle optimisation and quality assurance, augmenting human functions safely and efficiently. Demonstrated in five industrial pilots (textile, food, machinery, maritime and batteries), Remanufacturing-X validates replicable solutions in diverse contexts. A digital marketplace connects suppliers and users of circular services, materials and product parts, supporting dynamic pricing and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) transparency. Digital and inclusive training, along with social innovation, ensure workforce readiness and public trust. Together, these elements make remanufacturing a strategic enabler for a climate-neutral and digitally sovereign European industry. Beyond the project, Remanufacturing-X will sustain its impact through the continued evolution of the platform, enabling ongoing use of the marketplace and tools by industrial stakeholders. Remanufacturing-X will be transformed into an initiative anchored by a dedicated organisation (INTEROP VLab), which will oversee the platform infrastructure, organise events, promote cross-sector dissemination, collaborate with EU and international networks, and work closely with the EC. This entity will also act as a catalyst for innovation, supporting co- development with universities and research centres, promoting standardisation efforts, and increasing the visibility and attractiveness of remanufacturing across Europe’s industrial ecosystem.
MaaSAI
HORIZON / Project No. 101177368
Ongoing
Title
Agile Manufacturing as a Service through AI Autonomous Agents
Research area
HORIZON.2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03 – Manufacturing as a Service: Technologies for customised, flexible, and decentralised production on demand (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)
Duration
36 months / start date: 2024-12-01 / ongoing
Description
The goal of the project is the creation of the MaaSAI System, a comprehensive digital system to automate and facilitate interactions between suppliers of manufacturing systems (Providers) and manufacturing companies (Consumers) in a Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystem, in an agile, efficient and transparent manner. The MaaSAI System aims to revolutionise manufacturing and remanufacturing processes by facilitating access to flexible and decentralised capacities, through the MaaS business model, that extends the principles of the service-oriented economy to the manufacturing industry. The MaaSAI System aims to contribute to the reduction of the heavy investments that manufacturers have traditionally had to make to set up and maintain their operations. With an emphasis on production flexibility, agility and responsiveness, the MaaSAI System enables on-demand sustainable manufacturing, optimising resource utilisation, facilitating the transition towards circular facilities, and promoting better integration of the value chain. The MaaSAI project leverages on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) in autonomous agents to negotiate the use of manufacturing capacities between providers and consumers in a dynamic MaaS ecosystem. The incorporation of secure, and real-time data exchange between participating companies ensures fast response times and improves collaboration. The MaaSAI System represents a paradigm shift that enables manufacturers to access and utilise on-demand production capabilities, further increasing efficiency and lowering barriers to entry for SMEs. The MaaSAI project will deploy 3 main key exploitable results:
1) MaaSAI Cloud MaaS Marketplace;
2) MaaSAI Provider Suite;
3) MaaSAI. The MaaSAI System will be demonstrated in 5 Pilots of European companies from different sectors: metal machining, gears and mechanical power transmission, biomaterials, food processing, and electronics manufacturing.
AGILEHAND
HORIZON / Project No. 101092043
Completed
Title
Smart Grading, Handling and Packaging Solutions for Soft and Deformable Products in Agile and Reconfigurable Lines
Research area
HORIZON.2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-04 – Intelligent work piece handling in a full production line (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)
Duration
36 months / start date: 2023-01-01 / completed
Description
Conveyor systems enable the quick and efficient transportation of equipment and/or materials from one location to another. Today, robots are essential in this field. The European sector’s share reaches 23 %, yet Europe must still compete with China, Japan and Korea. Improved efficiency and new solutions would be an advantage. However, the transportation of deformable objects such as plastic items and food still cannot be handled by robots. The EU-funded AGILEHAND project will develop new technologies that will allow robots to smartly handle and package soft and deformable objects in agile and reconfigurable lines, while intelligence solutions will monitor, control and synchronise production and logistics for improved efficiency. AGILEHAND’s solutions will be demonstrated in four industrial pilots.
i4Q
H2020 / Project No. 958205
Completed
Title
Industrial Data Services for Quality Control in Smart Manufacturing
Research area
Duration
41 months / start date: 2021-01-01 / completed
Description
The amount of industrial data coming from smart small-size and cost-effective interconnected factory devices is huge. The challenge now is how to guarantee data reliability with functions grouped into five basic capabilities around the data cycle: sensing, communication, computing infrastructure, storage, and analysis and optimisation. The EU-funded i4Q project will develop a Reliable Industrial Data Services (RIDS) solution based on the Internet of things (IoT). This is a complete suite based on 22 i4Q solutions that can manage a large amount of industrial data. For instance, the i4Q RIDS will include simulation and optimisation tools for manufacturing line-continuous process qualification, quality diagnosis, reconfiguration and certification for ensuring high manufacturing efficiency, leading to an integrated approach to zero-defect manufacturing.
SMART4HEALTH
H2020 / Project No. 826117
Completed
Title
Citizen-centred EU-EHR exchange for personalised health
Research area
H2020-EU.3.1. – SOCIETAL CHALLENGES – Health, demographic change and well-being
SC1-DTH-08-2018 – Prototyping a European interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange
Duration
50 months / start date: 2019-01-01 / completed
Description
It is important for all EU citizens to be able to access their own health data easily and securely within each EU Member State. With this in mind, the EU-funded Smart4Health project will develop a prototype application that allows users to collect, manage, share and donate their health-related data throughout the EU. Bringing together 18 partners from medical, social and technical sciences and industry, the project will pave the way for the full deployment of citizen-centred solutions and services in a digital single market for well-being and healthcare. The platform under development will ultimately advance citizen health and digital innovation by providing easy-to-use and constantly accessible health data. It will facilitate feedback and interaction between patients and healthcare providers and support disease prevention and citizen empowerment.
DIH4CPS
H2020 / Project No. 872548
Completed
Research area
H2020-EU.2.1.1. – INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP – Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Duration
36 months / start date: 2020-01-01 / completed
Description
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is an ecosystem still under development and characterised by the rise of advanced technologies such as IoT and AI that are collectively called cyber-physical systems (CPSs). CPSs include smart grid, autonomous vehicle systems, medical monitoring and automatic pilot avionics, and are based on the development of a network of digital innovation hubs (DIHs). The EU envisages attaining a leading global role in 4IR. The EU-funded DIH4CPS project intends to create an interdisciplinary network of DIHs and solution providers that focus on CPSs and embedded systems, interweaving understanding and technologies from diverse territories, and to connect it with European experts. The project will support European SMEs to overcome obstacles posed by innovative technology.
CPMSinCPPS
H2020 / Project No. 680633
Completed
Title
Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems
Research area
FoF-09-2015 – ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS)
Duration
36 months / start date: 2015-11-01 / completed
Description
BEinCPPS Innovation Action aims to integrate and experiment a CPS-oriented Future Internet-based machine-factory-cloud service platform firstly intensively in five selected Smart Specialization Strategy Vanguard regions (Lombardia in Italy, Euskadi in Spain, Baden Wuertemberg in Germany, Norte in Portugal, Rhone Alpes in France), afterwards extensively in all European regions, by involving local competence centers and manufacturing SMEs. The final aim of this Innovation Action is to dramatically improve the adoption of CPPSs all over Europe by means of the creation, nurturing and flourishing of CPS-driven regional innovation ecosystems, made of competence centers, manufacturing enterprises and IT SMEs.
The BE in CPPS project stems upon three distinct pillars:
• A FI-based three-layered (machine-factory-cloud) open source platforms federation, integrated from state-of-the-art R&I advances in the fields of Internet of Things, Future Internet and CPS / Smart Systems and able to bi-directionally interoperate data pertaining to the machine, the factory and the cloud levels.
• A pan-European SME-oriented experimentation ecosystem. In a first phase of the project, the five Champions will provide requirements to the platforms integrators. In a second phase, an Open Call for IT SMEs developers (applications experiments) will award 10 third parties. In a final third phase, the extended platform will be instantiated and deployed in additional 10 third parties equipment experiment SMEs.
• A well-founded method and toolbox for Innovation management, where an existing TRL-based methodology for KETs technology transfer will be enriched by a CPPS certification, education and training programme for young talents and experienced blue collar workers and by a well-founded three-fold (objectives-variables-indicators) method for results assessment and evaluation.
PSYMBIOSYS
H2020 / Project No. 636804
Completed
Title
Product-Service sYMBIOtic SYStems
Research area
H2020-FoF5-2014 Innovative product-service design using manufacturing
intelligence
Duration
36 months / start date: 2015-02-01 / completed
Description
The PSYMBIOSYS concept is based on a holistic and unifying collaboration concept (the symbiosis) implemented through a five-pointed star symbolizing the following 5 main dichotomies we have identified in product-service design.
The 5 main dichotomies or tussles[1] which are currently preventing service innovation to be pervasively adopted by all EU manufacturing industries, SMEs included:
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- Products and Service
- Design and Manufacturing
- Knowledge and Sentiment
- Service-Oriented and Event-Driven architectures
- Business and Innovation
C2NET
H2020 / Project No. 636909
Completed
Title
Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks
Research area
H2020-FoF-1-2014
Process Optimisation of Manufacturing Assets
Duration
36 months / start date: 01/01/2015 / completed
Description
The goal of C2NET Project is the creation of cloud-enabled tools for supporting the SMEs supply network optimization of manufacturing and logistic assets based on collaborative demand, production and delivery plans. C2NET Project will provide a scalable real-time architecture, platform and software to allow the supply network partners:
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- To create cloud-enabled tools
- To support the SMEs supply network optimization of manufacturing and logistic assets based on
collaborative demand, production and delivery plans.
FITMAN
FI-PPP Project Phase 2 / Integrated Project No. 604674
Completed
Title
Future Internet Technologies for Manufacturing
Research area
Future Internet
Public-Private Partnership
call FP7-2012-ICT-FI
obj:FI.ICT-2011.1.8: Use Case scenarios and early trials
Duration
24 months / start date: 2013-04-01 / completed
Description
FITMAN aims to provide industry-led use case trials in the domain of smart, digital and virtual factories of the future. The trials will test and assess the suitability, openness and flexibility of FI-WARE’s Generic Enablers while contributing to the sustainability of EU manufacturing industries.
The mission of the FITMAN (Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing industries) project is to provide the FI PPP Core Platform with 10 industry-led use case trials in the domains of Smart, Digital and Virtual Factories of the Future.FITMAN Trials (4 conducted by Large Enterprises, 6 by SMEs) will test and assess the suitability, openness and flexibility of FI-WARE Generic Enablers while contributing to the STEEP (social-technological-economical-environmental-political) sustainability of EU Manufacturing Industries.
The use case trials belong to several manufacturing sectors such as automotive, aeronautics, white goods, furniture, textile/clothing, LED lighting, plastic, construction, and manufacturing assets management.
TELL ME
FP7 – 318329 / Integrated Project
Completed
Title
Technology Enhanced Learning Living Lab for Manufacturing Environments
Research area
FP7
ICT-2011.8.1 Technology-Enhanced Learning
Duration
36 months / start date: 2012-11-01 / completed
Description
The TELL-ME project aims to develop and experiment in authentic contexts (SME- driven human-centric and service-oriented manufacturing workplaces) an innovative cross-enterprise methodology and IT platforms for continuous education & training in heterogeneous business ecosystems – blending Precision Teaching (PT) – Lifelong Learning and Living Lab (LL) – with participative co-creation aspects that can fulfill more business needs than traditional training.
MSEE
FP7-ICT / Project No. 284860
Completed
Title
Manufacturing Service Ecosystem
Research area
FoF-ICT-2011.7.3 – Virtual Factories and enterprises
Duration
36 months / start date: 2011-10-01 / completed
Description
CHT
European Social Fund project – POSDRU/81/3.2/S/53084
Completed
Title
ComHigh Tech
Increasing the competitiveness of enterprises by improving and specializing human resources in the field of new technologies, in a knowledge based society and for a durable development
Research area
Sectorial Operational Programme for the Development of Human
Duration
36 months / start date: 2010-07-01 / completed
Description
Development of a system to support the enterprise adaptability towards the new requirements of the knowledge based economy in Romania.
The main objective of the project is to support the enterprise adaptability in Romania by developing training centers where executive managers, engineers and researchers will acquire the skills in IT and Automation knowledge management in enterprise and investment management, for increasing the competitiveness of enterprises by developing adaptability of human resources.
UNITE
FP7-248583 / Coordination and Support Action
Completed
Title
UpgradiNg ICT excellence by strengthening cooperation between research Teams in an enlarged Europe
Research area
ICT-2009.9.4
Strengthening cooperation in ICT R&D in an enlarged Europe
Duration
36 months / start date: 2010-02-01 / completed
Description
UNITE promotes secondment of research teams working in the area of the future Internet, as an enabler to achieve sustainable knowledge sharing within the enlarged Europe.
Objectives:
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- Financed secondment and connection of researchers from one to 12 months, following an already pre-identified offer/demand matrix of organizations based on expertise (targeted mobility);
- Organization of targeted workshops and two doctoral symposiums, across an enlarged Europe to build-up synergies and support networking and collaborations;
Sharing of public knowledge generated by other EU funded research projects; - Creation an “Eastern Europe” INTEROP-Vlab Pole to achieve long-term cooperation with the organizations from that region.