Date: Decemebr 10th 2020 start 14.00

Venue: webmeeting TEAMs

AGENDA

14:00  Welcome and AM-Platform update  - Martin Schaefer (AM Platform Chair)

14.05 Horizon Europe what to expect? -Jurgen Tiedje (European Commission)

14.35 Update on the Made In Europe Partnership- Željko Pazin (EFFRA)

15.00-16.00h Breakout sessions on AM key topics (tbc)

-          AM National and Regional initiatives and activities

 -          AM Qualifications and work force development

 -          AM implementation and Industrialization

 -          New Materials and improved Processes development in AM

If you are  interesting to join, please let send and email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the following data:

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DO  YOU WANT TO PRESENT SOMETHING?  If so, in which session?  Please send a possible title and an paragraph summarising the topic of your presentation.

The European project SAM (Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing) project, aims to deliver together with all partners and stakeholders a shared vision and collaborative skill solutions capable to foster and support the growth, innovation and competitiveness in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) sector. AM gap drivers have been identified. They will support the developed strategy for the sector and it’s implementing activities foreseen in the AM Skills Strategy Roadmap 2021 – Overview on challenges and action document (find it below)achieving the following expected results:

1) Reduce the skills gaps and ensure alignment between the training offers and the industry needs

2) Increase the number of AM Qualified personnel, being by re-skilling, up-skilling of by training the “new” workforce

3) Facilitate the access of professionals, students and industry to AM training

 4) Wider pool of qualified personnel that can “move” between different countries and industrial sectors

 5) Improved foresight of skills needs for the AM Sector

 6) Increase the number of people/students trained in AM in the short and long term across Europe

7) Greater access to funding to support AM-related skills development and sustainment

If you want to be involved in the strategy development we will appreciate you sign the letter. Template can be found below. Once signed please return it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The added value for the AM Platform members in supporting the European AM Strategy is :

-Possibility to be directly involved and influence the definition of the Sector Skills Strategy in AM; 

- Benefit form Qualified Personnel according to the requirements of the AM industry and the needs of your company/organisation

-Possibility to ensure that AM skilling and training continues to be a priority to the EC, with expected impact at European and  National Levels

Skills Strategy Roadmap

letter template

One of the biggest challenges within the European Built Environment Sector is to foster innovation, especially at the SME level, which account for more than 80% of the output of the Construction Sector, worldwide.

In general, Construction companies’ investment in R&D is extremely low. Moreover, this albeit extremely important industrial sector (9% of EU GDP with 18 million direct jobs) has one of the lowest levels of digitization, having a negative impact on its productivity. METABUILDING starts from the assumption that the Open Innovation paradigm can help the sector by boosting collaborative, cross-sectoral actions for the benefit of all, within an enlarged, cross-border European Built Environment innovation ecosystem. So, this three-year project will involve five European industrial sectors (Construction, Digital Industrial, Additive Manufacturing, Nature-Based Solutions and Circularity & Recycling industries) searching for synergies. 

METABUILDING will contribute to structure this enlarged EU Built Environment Innovation Ecosystem, taking concrete actions to drive the emergence of national  “metaclusters” as the new paradigm of networked regional and national clusters, collaborating to achieve critical mass and share knowledge and resources, enabling SMEs to internationalise their activities and reach European markets. These actions will be developed in 6 EU countries (Austria, Italy, France, Hungary, Portugal, Spain), involving around at least 90 European clusters hosting more than 6.000 SMEs as the main target group of the METABUILDING Innovation Action.

The METABUILDING project will implement Cascade Funding mechanisms to bring financial support to SMEs to EU regions.METABUILDING will also feature an Open Innovation Digital Platform available to all stakeholders of the enlarged Built Environment sector in Europe that will host innovation-related information and a digital marketplace, allowing partner matchmaking for international collaboration and support collaborative projects. This digital platform will be closely related to the ECTP (European Construction Technology Platform, partner in this project) and is expected to remain and grow to cover all EU countries and other construction-related industrial sectors, during and after the project span.

METABUILDING Goals

-It will provide direct innovation support to SMEs by implementing Cascade Funding mechanisms channeled through three types of calls for proposals (SEED, GROW and HARVEST).

-To foster cross-sectoral and cross-border collaboration between SMEs and other players of the enlarged Built Environment Sector, enhancing competitiveness of SMEs and preparing them for international business collaboration.

Through the metaclustering actions, the project will help construction-related clusters in the 6 target countries to achieve together critical mass and share resources and experience, needed to upscale their business scope to Europe.

METABUILDING Platform will put at the reach of SMEs the insourcing of innovative previously developed technology solutions from other industrial sectors and from past EU funded R&D projects.

More info: www.metabuilding-project.eu