Successful CLAMTEX Virtual Marketplace will organize its last webinar on funding opportunities
More than 175 participants have
already registered to the CLAMTEX Virtual Marketplace: Towards industry 4.0
in the textile industry which started on January 20th and
will last until February 24th with a total of 6 webinars and 6
matchmaking sessions.
The event is organized by the European Cluster Strategic Partnership for Excellence, CLAMTEX - Cluster management towards excellence in Advanced Manufacturing and
Textile Industry. , led by the cluster on advanced textile materials in
Catalonia, AEI TÈXTILS.
Over the past weeks, CLAMTEX has
organized already 5 webinars dedicated to the digitalization of the textile
sector.
The first webinar held on January 20th
focused on inspirational stories to embrace the digitalization of the sector.
The next 4 webinars were organized in specific challenges including “Digital
solutions for integrated industrial management applied in the textile industry”
(Jan 27th), “Automation and sensitization solutions for
performance improvement” (Feb 3rd), followed by “Robots in
industry” (Feb 10th) and “The potential of virtual reality in
industry” (Feb 17th). During the technical webinars, 21 organizations
have presented their cases, including 5 success stories, 9 textile progress and
future challenges and 7 advanced manufacturing solutions over the last 4 weeks.
On Wednesday February 24th,
the program reaches its end with the last webinar about different funding
opportunities for SMEs in the textile and advanced manufacturing fields.
The webinar will include a first
block presenting the general programs for SMEs from the European Commission
including the new framework program Horizon Europe, the EIC Accelerator program
and two programs supporting SME scale-up: InvestEU and Single Market Programme.
The second block will focus on
specific European funding programs for textile and advanced manufacturing
companies including the EIT Manufacturing, and the cascade funding programs of GALACTICA and ELIIT.
In case you missed it, you can watch
the previous webinars:
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Day 2: Digital solutions for integrated industrial management applied in
the textile industry
-
Day 3: Automation and sensitization solutions
for performance improvement
-
Day 5: The potential of virtual reality in
industry
You can still register for the last webinar: https://clamtex-virtual-marketplace.b2match.io/
The CLAMTEX Virtual
Marketplace is part of the ClusterXchange program implemented by CLAMTEX with EU-TEXTILE2030 EEIG as host to foster cross-regional collaboration among
cluster members.
CLAMTEX is one out of 13 funded Strategic
Partnerships for Excellence consortiums at European level. It is
composed by five clusters, AEI TÈXTILS in Catalonia, ATEVAL in
Valencia, PRODUTECH and
the Textile
Cluster both in Portugal and EMC2 in
France.
The project, co-funded under the COSME program from the European Union,
aims to strengthen cluster management excellence to boost the specialized
technical textile innovation eco-system by promoting the cross-sectoral and
cross-regional collaboration to facilitate the uptake of digitalization within
and beyond the partnership.
CLAMTEX is also implementing the ClusterXchange pilot scheme to
facilitate SME international experiences across Europe for generating business
and innovation opportunities.