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AGORA, the pan-European innovation network

Connect with top experts and join industry events

AGORA is your dedicated, secure platform as a manufacturing stakeholder to connect with like-minded, relevant people across Europe.

  • Find experts and organisations to connect with quickly and autonomously based on your sectoral, technological and other manufacturing interests and expertise using AGORA’s matchmaking capabilities
  • Exchange ideas, participate in events and collaborate with peers on issues that matter for industry, from the energy crisis to regional innovations and from sustainable value chains to technology commercialisation in thematic communities for insights and inspiration
  • Stay on top of EIT Manufacturing activities and find potential project partners for Calls for Proposals

Join AGORA, where we cherish a community united by a passion for embracing disruptive ideas and pioneering solutions, an openness to diverse perspectives and opinions, and the drive to create a positive impact, while providing a secure and GDPR-compliant space for information sharing.

So far, the community has:

  • Gathered at more than 70 industry-related events on AGORA, from net zero transformation and go-to-market webinars to Ukraine start-up pitches and informational events
  • Shared and accessed industry use cases, insights and inspiration in various thematic communities, including the regular Industry & Tech Watch Digests, on topics ranging from industrial metaverse to skills and the circular economy
  • Identified four thematics for the EIT Manufacturing call for proposals as part of the Shapeit consultation process that saw 1,000+ messages shared on trending industry topics and 16 collaboration groups created with members from 30 different organisations

And many more exciting things to come!

Be part of the growing community of manufacturing innovators in Europe!

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Innovation 2022 Activities

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35 emerging technologies that are shaping the future of manufacturing

Get inspired about the latest emerging technologies!

Let’s Navigate Tomorrow’s Tech Landscape

Explore Tech Radar

Tech Radar by EIT Manufacturing

The Tech Radar, developed by EIT Manufacturing, is a new digital tool designed to help you easily identify emerging innovation hotspots and map out the latest technologies in manufacturing. The Tech Radar is continuously updated to bring you an overview of high-TRL technologies that have the greatest potential to transform and revolutionize manufacturing processes.

With the Tech Radar, you can stay updated on emerging manufacturing trends, explore EIT Manufacturing projects and supported companies, and identify potential business opportunities through provided use cases. It’s a comprehensive tool that helps you understand the skills needed to innovate in line with technological trends.

 

 

Who benefits from the Tech Radar?

Numerous users reap the advantages offered by the Tech Radar, including:

  • Manufacturing companies seeking to streamline production processes for cost-effective and efficient operations.
  • Product developers aiming to align product development with market demands, ensuring optimal market fit and pricing.
  • Universities and RTOs striving to bridge the gap between academia and the market, fostering a dynamic exchange of knowledge and innovation.

How and what you can use it for?

This new digital tool helps you map out and foster connections that can be relevant to the European manufacturing sector. How?

  • providing an overview of ongoing EIT Manufacturing activities and technologies
  • enabling the matchmaking process with potential project partner’s consortia.
  • easily find EIT Manufacturing partners who have been active in developing a specific technology and consider them as potential partners to form consortia for the open Calls.

Let’s Navigate Tomorrow’s Tech Landscape

Discover insights on emerging technologies in manufacturing, and relevant products and reskilling/upskilling resources funded by EIT Manufacturing

Curious to know more?

Would you like to go deeper?

Check out also a dedicated Industry & Tech Watch Sphere on AGORA, the place to find inspiring insights about the manufacturing industry and the latest technology trends.

Let´s connect

Contact our headquarters or our regional offices

EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris-Saclay and has six regional offices across Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s offices are strategically situated to link regions that have high levels of manufacturing activity and advanced technology.

Team & Contact

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Innovation team and contacts

Get in touch with us if you have an idea that would help advance Europe’s manufacturing. You can send us an e-mail below or join AGORA, our social network, to network with us.

Contact us

Xavier Baillard Innovation DirectorXavier Baillard Innovation Director

Xavier Baillard

Director Inno2Market
Nina NäsmanNina Näsman

Nina Näsman

Senior Manager, Community & Platforms

Melinda Osias

Innovation Community & Platform Officer

Each Co-Location Centre (CLC) has its own Innovation Manager, with the responsibility to coordinate regional innovation activities:

Gerhard Russ

Innovation Manager, East Region

Edoardo Rota

Innovation Program Manager
Let´s connect

Contact our headquarters or our regional offices

EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris-Saclay and has six regional offices across Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s offices are strategically situated to link regions that have high levels of manufacturing activity and advanced technology.

Events

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Events

Read more about our Innovation-related events and webinars. We organise regular “Tuesdays for Future” webinars and other events, both physical and digital.

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Testimonials

Read about some of our case studies

EIT Manufacturing Innovation projects seek to bring new technologies to the market and develop new value chains. The projects maximise impact through rapid identification and early stimulation of innovation hotspots, which are defined as situations where enabling technologies can solve complex manufacturing problems, add substantial value and significantly contribute to industry transformation.

Learn more about some of the innovations EIT Manufacturing has supported and meet some of the people behind the projects below.

Adaxis (formerly SoftDREAM)

Meet Emil Johansson, CEO, Adaxis (project SoftDream):

Adaxis (formerly SoftDREAM)  is developing software with the aim of making robotic additive manufacturing easy and accessible.

The software integrates tools for simulation, tool path planning, real-time monitoring and traceability. So far, the software has been used to print demonstrators in automotive (polymer) and aerospace (metal). The results from the project will lead to improved agility and responsiveness by reducing lead times in production, prototyping and tool manufacturing, particularly in the European automotive, aerospace, construction and manufacturing industries.

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Emil Johansson, CEO Adaxis

Emil Johansson is part of a group of researchers who met at EIT Manufacturing’s first MatchMaking event in 2019. The group began an international research project on how to turn industrial robots into 3D printers, and in 2021 they founded their startup, Adaxis.

I didn’t know the other people in the SoftDREAM team before the MatchMaking event – we met in San Sebastian. In all, we are three research partners in the project, including people from RISE in Sweden, Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany and ESTIA Institute of Technology, a French engineering and research school. The companies involved are Volkswagen, as well as a Swedish SME called Spectrum Technologies.”

Read more on the ADAXIS website

Watch a video with Emil here

InnoVentilator

Responding to the  COVID-19 crisis, InnoVentilator is a solution that aims to optimise health systems, and specifically ventilators. The proposed solution is purely pneumatic, i.e. air-powered, simple and safe to operate, and simple to manufacture. It also has the potential to be licensed Europe-wide to manufacturers.

Watch a video about the project here

Read more about the project here

Let´s connect

Contact our headquarters or our regional offices

EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris-Saclay and has six regional offices across Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s offices are strategically situated to link regions that have high levels of manufacturing activity and advanced technology.

Activities

Innovation activities

On a yearly basis, EIT Manufacturing supports more than 30 innovations that are in the early stages of development.  Read more about them below.

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Do you have an innovation that could grow into a business idea?

If yes, you can participate in our annual call. Watch for information about our call process and MatchMaking Events in our news and events pages.

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Join our innovation events!

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Let´s connect

Contact our headquarters or our regional offices

EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris-Saclay and has six regional offices across Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s offices are strategically situated to link regions that have high levels of manufacturing activity and advanced technology.

Opportunities

EIT Manufacturing’s Innovation initiatives promote new products, services, processes and integrated solutions that respond to existing and anticipated future manufacturing challenges.

Do you want to network with your peers and learn about new trends? Do you want to have your say in the selection of focus areas? Then our social network and open innovation platform, AGORA, is right for you.

Our aim is to ensure adoption of innovations, with manufacturers as end-users, and to improve market reach and robust scale-up.

In order to achieve our aim, we work on connecting people and ideas, exploring challenges and solutions, and executing selected projects.

Specific Innovation activities:

  • Build an ecosystem, facilitate networking, diffuse technology intelligence and identify future trends e.g. through the Enabling Technologies and Customer Radar, a powerful digital tool for technology foresight and business intelligence that provides solid information to launch innovation hotspots).
  • Select and prioritise innovation hotspots, broker subjects and support launch of projects e.g. through AGORA, our social network and open innovation platform, which ensures all sides of the knowledge triangle are considered.
  • Accelerate potential technologies and business models towards a higher level of readiness. We co-fund innovation projects with the aim of reaching the market. Important markers are marketed innovations, startup creation and industrialisation.
  • Drive the transformation of the existing manufacturing ecosystem in Europe by fostering adoption of new technologies and business models.

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Let´s connect

Contact our headquarters or our regional offices

EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris-Saclay and has six regional offices across Europe.

EIT Manufacturing’s offices are strategically situated to link regions that have high levels of manufacturing activity and advanced technology.