EIT Manufacturing’s Teaching Factories Competition
Termin:
31.05.2025
Fördergeber:
EU- HORIZONT EUROPA
The Teaching Factories Competition (TFC) is a collaborative initiative bringing together corporates and academia across Europe through challenging projects. EIT Manufacturing invites companies to propose relevant industrial challenges and higher education students and researchers to form solving teams (4-6 members) to ideate solutions.
By fostering academia-industry partnerships, the TFC aims to stimulate the development of dynamic solutions to industrial challenges.
The key topics and related subtopics of the Teaching Factories Competition 2024 are the following:
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Green & Sustainable Manufacturing
• Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
To be eligible, the applicants have to meet the following conditions:
For Companies:
1. Must be a public or private enterprise—small, medium, or large—including social enterprises, associated with the manufacturing sector. Companies must be recognized as legal entities under national, EU, or international law, with the ability to exercise rights and obligations in their name.
2. Established in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries
For Solver Teams:
1. Must be independent or mixed teams officially enrolled as Bachelor, Master or PhD students and/or researchers, at the end of the application phase, in a Higher Education Institution in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries
2. Participants who graduate, and/or unenroll, during the competition phase are expected to stay in the competition until the end of it;
3. Must be researchers and/or students from their 2nd year of studies in a bachelor’s degree or enrolled in a Master or PhD in the disciplines associated to the fields of informatics, engineering, business, natural and technological sciences;
4. Solver Teams must consist of 4 to 6 members, from at least 2 different disciplines.
Interested applicants can have more information and submit a proposal through the following website: https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/calls/teaching-factories-competition-2025-call-overview/
Email address for questions and helpdesk: support@eitmanufacturing.eu
Further information:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/8624?order=DESC&pageNumber=1&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate&isExactMatch=true&status=31094502&frameworkProgramme=43108390
By fostering academia-industry partnerships, the TFC aims to stimulate the development of dynamic solutions to industrial challenges.
The key topics and related subtopics of the Teaching Factories Competition 2024 are the following:
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Green & Sustainable Manufacturing
• Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
To be eligible, the applicants have to meet the following conditions:
For Companies:
1. Must be a public or private enterprise—small, medium, or large—including social enterprises, associated with the manufacturing sector. Companies must be recognized as legal entities under national, EU, or international law, with the ability to exercise rights and obligations in their name.
2. Established in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries
For Solver Teams:
1. Must be independent or mixed teams officially enrolled as Bachelor, Master or PhD students and/or researchers, at the end of the application phase, in a Higher Education Institution in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries
2. Participants who graduate, and/or unenroll, during the competition phase are expected to stay in the competition until the end of it;
3. Must be researchers and/or students from their 2nd year of studies in a bachelor’s degree or enrolled in a Master or PhD in the disciplines associated to the fields of informatics, engineering, business, natural and technological sciences;
4. Solver Teams must consist of 4 to 6 members, from at least 2 different disciplines.
Interested applicants can have more information and submit a proposal through the following website: https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/calls/teaching-factories-competition-2025-call-overview/
Email address for questions and helpdesk: support@eitmanufacturing.eu
Further information:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/8624?order=DESC&pageNumber=1&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate&isExactMatch=true&status=31094502&frameworkProgramme=43108390