Arts et Métiers a founding member ofthe EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) Manufacturing, created by the European Union to strengthen the innovation capacity of the manufacturing industry.
Combining training, research, and innovation to improve the competitiveness of European manufacturing is the goal ofEIT Manufacturing, which currently brings together 50 industrial and academic partners. This number is expected to reach around 100 by 2022.
Building a community of innovation
This EIT aims to build an innovation community, bringing together companies, research institutes, and universities.
Members of EIT Manufacturing include companies such as Volvo, Siemens, Whirlpool, ESI Group, FIVES, Philips, and Kuka, and institutions such as Tecnalia, CEA, CT-IPC, Grenoble INP, Centrale Nantes, and the technical universities of Darmstadt, Vienna, and Chalmers, most of which are already partnersArts et Métiers.
Arts et Métiers three projects
Created at the end of 2018, the EIT launched its first calls for projects last year focusing on three main areas: training, business creation, and innovation.
Three Arts et Métiers projects Arts et Métiers selected, including one (Deep Inc) coordinated by the institution:
- Deep-Inc aims to create an innovative ecosystem bringing together research laboratories, incubators, and investment funds to support business creation, accelerate entrepreneurial projects, and more broadly promote innovation for industry.
This project will focus specifically on the field of advanced manufacturing.
- M-Nest, which is part of the training program, will support the development and implementation of a new approach to learning. The aim is to offer digital training modules on the industry of the future.
- Doctoral School aims to create a doctoral program that will offer EIT certification, guaranteeing that it takes into account the challenges facing the industry of the future (circular economy, digitalization, robotization and additive manufacturing, manufacturing and industrialization).
The program will build on existing programs at partner universities to train leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector.
Coordinated by EIT Manufacturing, this program brings togetherArts et Métiers, Grenoble INP, Tartu University, Slovak University, Czech Tech, and U Porto (FEUP).
Promoting the circular industry
EIT Manufacturing has set itself several major goals for 2030, including:
- Train 50,000 people on the challenges facing the manufacturing industry (environmental issues, digitalization, international competition, etc.);
- Create 1,000 start-ups and ensure they achieve a growth rate of 20%;
- Ensure that 60% of companies adopt production methods that are part of circular industry systems;
- Launch 360 manufacturing-related products and services...
Four key technological pillars have been prioritized: collaborative robotics; digitization of production platforms; additive manufacturing for production agility; and zero-defect production integrated into the circular economy.
