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European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing (EFPF) provides cascade funding

Published on | 5 years ago

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The EC funded H2020 project “European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing (EFPF)”, has allocated 2.5 Million Euros to provide Financial Support to third parties to undertake up to 20 sub-projects.

They are inviting manufacturing companies, digital solution providers, software developers and researchers to apply for sub-projects related to the development, prototyping, integration and validation of innovative solutions using the EFPF platform and federated services.

 TYPES OF SUB-PROJECTS:  

 1. Development of new applications

Sub-projects that develop new tools or solutions, either using EFPF's own Software Development Kit (SDK) or by combining/extending the functionalities of existing EFPF solutions.

Single applicants only.

Funding amount ≤ 150.000 €.

Experiment duration: 9 or 12 months.

2. Testing/Validation of EFPF solutions

Single applicants and/or small consortia of a maximum of two partners (e.g. a manufacturing/supply chain company and a technology provider).

Funding amount ≤ 100.000 €.

Experiment duration: 6 or 9 months.

3. Extending the EFPF federation with new platforms and services

Single applicants only.

Funding amount ≤ 150.000 €.

Experiment duration: 9 or 12 months.

 

ADDRESSED TO:

  • EU SMEs (including micro-SMEs)
  • EU technology provider and/or software developer (including start-ups)
  • EU manufacturing and logistics companies (any size)
  • EU Entrepreneurs, sole-traders and start-up developers
  • EU Research Institutes and Universities

Your legal business must be based in a European Union Member State, Associated Country or the UK and be eligible for Horizon 2020 programme.

 DEADLINE TO APPLY: 19th February 2021

 FURTHER DETAILS: https://www.efpf.org/funding-call 

When applying, please inform NCP advisor Magali.parent@vlaio.be

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