GREENOMED Final ConferenceImproving the Institutional Framework for green manufacturing innovation

Milano, 5 December 2019Lombardy RegionPalazzo Pirelli (floor 26), via F. Filzi 22, Milano, Italy

https://greenomed.interreg-med.eu/

GREENOMED Final Conference

Milano – 5th December 2019

Agenda

Agenda

Greenomed results:achievements in testing Regions

Results and achievements

Food Manufacturing

BioeconomyCircular

EconomyPlastronics

Food Manufacturing - cooperation topics

Regions involved:

• Lombardy• Catalonia• Auvergne Rhone Alpes• Slovenia• Croatia• Hungary• Portugal

Secure and Sustainable Food Manufacturing(new potential Vanguard demo-case)

Advanced and sustainable manufacturing and packaging of food products applying sensors,automation, robotics, big data, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and virtual reality techniques toguarantee the integrity and safety of the food product and of the food chain against involuntary anddeliberate contaminations or accidents.

Food Manufacturing - achievements

Meeting with SRIP Food Slovenia(Ljubliana, July 2018)

JRC event “Central European and Transregional Cooperation in Smart Specialisation on the Modernisation of the Food Industry through Industry 4.0 and Digitization workshop”(Budapest, September 2019)

Strategic working tablewith Lombardy, Catalonia,AURA, Slovenia, Hungary(Milan, November 2019)

Vanguard ESM Final event(Brussels, December 2019)

• 20 intermediaries and stakeholders involved

• A dedicated Working Group created in AFIL Cluster, mobilizing other regional ecosystems

• New demo-case being proposedin the ESM Pilot of the Vanguard Initiative and in the EU S3 Platform coming from Greenomed

JRC event ”Central European Cooperation in Smart Specialisation on the Application of ICT and Advanced Manufacturing Solutions in the Food Supply Chain workshop” (Budapest, April 2018)

Thematic workingtable at 2° Greenomed Conference(Barcelona, April 2019)

Advisory Board Conssensys Project Flanders Food(Bruxelles, September 2019)

Food Manufacturing - engaged stakeholders

Stakeholders

• Tecnoalimenti (Lombardy)• AFIL (Lombardy)• STIIMA-CNR (Lombardy)• EURECAT (Catalonia)• BETA Tech centre (Catalonia)• AGRARIA PLANA DE VIC I SECCIÓ DE CRÈDIT SCCL (Catalonia)• Plastipolis (AURA)• Croatia Food Cluster (Croatia)• Croatian Chamber of Economy-Varaždin County Chamber (Croatia)• ACG Lukaps d.o.o.• PTP (Slovenia)• SRIP Food (Slovenia)• DIH Agro-Food (Slovenia)• Macedonia Industrial Trade Association (RCM)

GREENOMED Regions

• T2i (Veneto)• Campden BRI (Hungary)• Flanders Food (Flanders)• Produtech (Norte)• INESC (Norte)

Other Regions

Plastronics - cooperation topic

Seamless Integration of Electronics and Plastics. Production of high added-value plastics components and products with embedded electronics

Multifunctional Products & Product Customization based upon Polymers and polymer composites(including textile fibers, fabrics, films, matrixes, …) through integration of Electronics by applicationof Advanced manufacturing technologies, Nanomaterials & Surface enhancements. Also taking intoaccount Sustainability and end-of-life of such products

Regions involved:

• Catalonia• Auvergne Rhone Alpes• Lombardy• Saxony • East Netherlands• Upper Austria

• 15 intermediaries and stakeholders involved

• A dedicated Working Group supported by PLASTIPOLIS Cluster, and Working Group in Catalonia coordinated by Eurecat uner Advanced Manufacturing Cluster mobilizing other regional ecosystems

• New demo-case «Polymer-based functional products», an ESM Pilot of the Vanguard Initiative and in the EU S3 Platform coming from Greenomed project

Plastronics - achivements

Vanguard ESM 2019Final event

(Brussels, December 2019)

Smart Plastics Congress ”Congress dedicated to Smart Plastics with different speakers as Eurecat for functional polymers presentation” (Besançon, September 2018)

Testing Seminar with the visit of the Plastronics lab in INSA Lyon University(Lyon, January 2019)

Thematic working tableat 2° Greenomed Conference

+ visit of Eurecat functional polymers lab

(Barcelona, April 2019)

Plastronics seminar, presentation of regional stakeholders project(Lyon, September 2019)

DIH Strategy “Registration of Smart Plastics Hub into the European DIH S3 platform”

(December 2018)

Polymer-based functional productsESM Demo-case(Barcelona, November 2019)

Plastronics – engaged stakeholders

University: Politecnico di Milano

Cluster: AFIL

Lombardy

Research Center: EURECAT – ICN2 - IQS

Catalonia

University: Université de Lyon

Cluster: Plastipolis

Auvergne Rhone Alpes

• Polish Cluster of Composites Technology Malopolska

• Smart Plastic Upper Austria

• Saxion Lectorate Nano materials• T-Uni Navarra

Other Regions

Circular Economy - cooperation topics

• Lombardy• Auvergne Rhone Alpes• Slovenia• Croatia• Marche

De- and Remanufacturing(Vanguard ESM demo-case coordinated by Lombardy)

Set of technologies, tools and knowledge-based methods to recover, re-use and upgrade functions andmaterials from industrial waste and post-consumer high-tech products, under a new producer-centricCircular Economy perspective.

• Composites re-use and recycling• Recycling of Textiles• Circular Economy in construction

EU – Towards a circular economy, a zero waste programme for Europe, COM (2014) 398 final

Regions involved:

COOPERATION TOPICS EMERGED IN GREENOMED REGIONS

• 20 intermediaries and stakeholders involved

• Marche, Slovenia and Croatia startedinvolvement in the De-and RemanufacturingVanguard Pilot and S3 Platform

• Inter-regional cooperation between AFIL andACMM: synergies have been developed with the AFIL’s working group focused on “De and re-manufacturing” topic.

• ETA Blades, one of the coordinators company of ACMM’s working group, visited the Lombardy living lab which is dealing with the same topic. ETA Blades also sent composite materials to be analyzed from the Living Lab;

• Stakeholders from Lombardy and AURA hadapproved an H2020 project

Circular Economy - achievements

Regional event Slovenia with Vanguard coordinators(Ljubliana, July 2018)

Thematic workingtable at 2° Greenomed

Conference(Barcelona, April 2019)

European Industry days 2019 : «Closing the the Loop: PromotingCircular Economy in Marche Region»(Ancona, March 2019)

Slovenia stakeholders’ meeting(Ljubljana, October 2019)

Vanguard ESM 2019 Final event(Bruxelles, December 2019)

Marche Region stakeholders’ meeting and Living Lab Open Day

(Ancona, May 2019)

Living Lab Open Day(Varaždin, April 2019)

1° Congrès Européen de l’éco-Plasturgie(Lyon, July 2018)

Vanguard ESM2018 final event (Brussels, December 2018)

• Identification of funding for Pilot Plants: AFIL, ACMM, Plastipolis, PTP and a Catalan Cluster applied to the Call Innosup 01- Call for Cluster facilitating new industrial value chains.

Companies: SOEX, TECOS, Kolektor, Gorenje Group, Hidria, Tehnoplast, L-TEK, Iskra Mehanizmi

Research centre: Institute Jozef Stefan, IOS-Institute for environmental protection and sensoring

Cluster: SRIP Circular Economy, SRIP TOP (Factories of the Future)

Slovenia

Companies: Corset, Linset, ETA Blades, Delta, I-Mesh, Joytek,Polo Materiali Compositi, Bora, Alto Valore, HSD

Research centre: Meccano

University: Università Politecnica delle Marche

Marche

Companies: CSC, ECODOM, Feragame, GFM, Italtel, Mobiix, ORI Martin, Pirelli Tyre, Rivierasca, Relight, Tenova, TTS, Vibram, X-Next,

Research centre: STIIMA-CNR

University: Politecnico di Milano

Lombardy

Cluster: AFIL

Circular Economy – engaged stakeholders

Bio-economy

Exploitation of agro-based residuals(new demo-case in Vanguard Bioeconomy Pilot)

• Exploitation of agro-energy industries’ residuals and by-products to produce feed and food ingredients through microalgae cultivation

• Algae treatment of biogas digestate• Exploitation of wineries’ biomass residuals to energy production• Exploitation of ginning and spinning mills’ solid waste to energy production

Bio-economy - cooperation topics

• Lombardy• Central Macedonia• Slovenia

Regions involved:

• 18 intermediaries and stakeholders involved

• 3 regional working groups activated

• Connections established with LGCA (Lombardy Green ChemistryAssociation)

• Synergies identified on the topic of «Microalgae Production»

• Central Macedonia is discussing itsinvolvement in the Bio-economy Vanguard Pilot

Bio-economy - achievements

1° Living Lab Event in the Region of Central Macedonia

(Thessaloniki, May 2019)

Vanguard ESM 2018 final event(Bruxelles, December 2018)

Central Macedoniastakeholders’ meeting with coordinator of Vangard Bio-economy Pilot(Thessaloniki, October 2019)

Vanguard ESM 2019 Final event(Bruxelles, December 2019)

1st Greenomed Conference(Thessaloniki, March 2018)

1st Greenomed Stakeholders meeting in the Region of Central Macedonia (Thessaloniki, February 2018)

Thematic workingtable at 2° Greenomed

Conference(Barcelona, April 2019)

Working Session with the regional working groups of the Region of Central Macedonia(Thessaloniki, May 2019)

Bio-economy - engaged stakeholders

▪ I-BEC ▪ Ag-Cluster ▪ SEVE▪ EIT Climate KIC Greece Hub▪ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki▪ Bio-based Energy Technologies IKE ▪ Tsantalis Evangelos S.A. ▪ Domain Tarala I.K.E ▪ Domain Porto Carras▪ Mil Oil Hellas S.A. ▪ HORIZON DIATROFIKI MONOPROSOPIKI IKE ▪ Social Cooperative Enterprise Sinoche▪ Armonia Cert MONOPROSOPIKI IKE▪ Spirulina Nigrita S.A.▪ Bio-energy S.A.▪ Energy technologies O.E ▪ IMATHIA COTTON GINNING MILLS S.A ▪ KAPPA SIGMA S.A ▪ KARAGIORGOS BROS S.A

Central Macedonia

▪ Lombardy Green Chemistry Association

Lombardy

▪ ASTER

Emilia Romagna

▪ Campa Iberia S.A.U.▪ Purpose driven Net

Catalonia

Agenda

Challengesexperienced by testing Regions

Experienced challenges /1

• Difficulty to identify strategic topics

• Too many actors/strategic priorities in the Region

• S3 strategy not mature yet

• Long process which depends on commitment and stakehodelrs’ participation

• Difficulty to engage companies (both in advanced and emerging Regions)

• Unclear long-term benefit vs request of time

• Lack of institutional “push”

• Too many fragmented initiatives

• Lack of strategic thinking of the ecosystems

• Not enough structured innovation governance system (Clusters)

• Manufacturing community still existing

• Difficult to identify and engage “pioneers”

• Low TRL level of existing facilities in the Regions

• To test, demonstrate and consolidate living labs

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• Differences among Clusters

• Industrial/sectorial vs regional/policy clusters

• Size and organizational structure

• Other intermediaries

• Difficulty to engage stakeholders in international cooperation

• Even if costs are covered

• Benefits of travelling abroad should be clear

• Strong credible organizations should invite to inter-regional cooperation

• Difficulty in matching complementarities

• Need for very well prepared Clusters and intermediaries

• Long process

• Lack of common inter-regional strategic approach at political level

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• Difficulty to prove short- and long-term results

• This strategic process is too long for companies (especially SMEs)

• We can only mention some intermediate success

• Need to have soon even small first success cases of cooperation (demonstrators, pilot plants, …)

• Discontinuity: now we finish the project…

Agenda

Greenomed recommendationsfor

Institutional support from Regions

Recommendations /1

Strategic level

1. Consider Greenomed emerging topics while shaping the Work Programmes

2. Actions form Regional Authorities to commit stakeholders and coordinate their participation to strategic initiatives (i.e. Vanguard, S3 Initiative, …)

3. Institutional promotions of actions to increase cultural level of companies(through Clusters and intermediaries)

4. Start an inter-regional European strategic roadmapping approachper value chains

5. Promote coordinated follow-up actions aggregating multipleregional projects/initiatives for capitalization

Recommendations /2

Operative level

6. Funds to «start building» and prove first results to motivate stakeholder in a clear inter-regional cooperation framework

7. Easily accessible instruments for inter-regional cooperation of companies coordinated by Clusters (funds for business missions, matchmaking events, meetings, …) - in a clear inter-regional cooperation framework

8. Support Clusters to consolidate organization and operate internationally

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