RegMed XB to become the fifth demo case of the Smart Health PilotRegMed XB “Towards industrial-scale organoid-based tissue manufacturing”Regenerative Medicine (RG) is a new field in medicine that focuses on the repair and restoration of tissue/organ function, with the potential of full functional re…
The energy transition and a rapid shift towards a more distributed renewable energy production system call for urgent actions. Ukraine’s war and the related international crises caused a tremendous impact on the European energy supply chain and it makes more evident the weaknesses of our energy syst…
During the 2021 ESM Plenary event, Slovenia presented the “Circular Economy in Textile Sector” use-case within the “De- and Remanufacturing for Circular Economy” demo-case. Starting from this input, on the 18 of March has been organized an event extended to all Vanguard regions to express the intere…
On November 9th, ART-ER (the business development agency of Emilia Romagna) in collaboration with ADMA Pilot and MISTRAL MED project, organised the webinar “Offshore Renewable Energy: emerging opportunities for the offshore industry”.The webinar was divided into two sessions. The first one had the m…
Where to look when organisations cannot find the expertise they need to complete a 3D printing project within their existing network?‘3DP PAN EU Gateway’is there to guide them to the right partner.So called “3D printing Facility Centers” give access to their equipment and services to help organisati…
On the 9th of December the final event of the Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing Pilot take place, co-coordinated by Giacomo Copani (AFIL, Lombardy), Patrick Vuillermoz (Polymeris, Auvergne Rhone-Alpes) and Joan Guash (Eurecat, Catalonia).After a preliminary introduction of the Pilot, each demo…
The democase Nanowires for Energy and ICT applications is focused on establishing regional partnerships to strengthen the European semiconductor system. In Skåne, several organisations already contributed to the semiconductor value chain. Thus, there is a great possibility to further develop, in col…
Over the last years and months, the 3DP Pilot was able to design various SMEs-led ‘application-specific projects’ generated by active demo-cases. For some of these company led use cases, the Pilot was able to describe the activities and associated costs for each project in detail. For some projects,…
Following the decision to anchor the analysis of the regional funding and financing (F&F) opportunities to the concrete needs of the Vanguard Initiative’s Pilots, a process was launched to collect relevant information from three selected Pilots (3DP, ESM and Bio-economy).A first level of analysis wa…
Within the Nano Pilot, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, in close cooperation with Region Skåne and Lund University, have established and started operations of the ProNano pilot line. On the campus of Lund University, ProNano is Swedens first test and demonstration environment for the industriali…
On 24 June, the Vanguard Initiative organised the High-Level Directors’ Meeting 2020. During the meeting, the Directors welcomed the Vanguard Initiative’s newest member, Friuli Venezia Giulia, bringing the total membership to 37 regions. The Directors also engaged with speakers from the European Com…