Digitalized Industry – a workshop in two parts focusing on Opportunities in Horizon Europe and Insights into industrial challenges

Date and time: 9 November 2021, 09:00 – 16:00 CET
Title: Digitalized Industry – a workshop in two parts focusing on Opportunities in Horizon Europe and Insights into industrial challenges
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR via Zoom

Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/65513354462
Meeting ID: 655 1335 4462

The workshop is particularly directed towards new and young faculty, but also open to all interested.

Please register for the workshop here: https://www.kth.se/form/61277e4f8a8fe60011fecbed

Digitalized Industry – a workshop in two parts focusing on Opportunities in Horizon Europe and Insights into industrial challenges

You are cordially invited to join this workshop in two parts. The preliminary aim is a physical meeting at the Digital Futures hub, with a fallback as a hybrid/online meeting. The physical venue takes 30 people. Lunch will be served for those registered for the physical meeting.

In the first workshop part, the focus is on opportunities in Horizon Europe, the continuation of the H2020 EU program, which recently started. The program is very large with many different parts. Here we focus on dissemination and discussing concrete calls and opportunities in the area most relevant for Digitalized industry. Another focus will be on best practices and how KTH Royal Institute of Technology can support proposal efforts. Bring your questions and ideas!

In the second part, a couple of industrial organizations will be sharing insights from their industrial roadmaps. We will also come back to the Horizon Europe and partnership program opportunities, and open up for a discussion regarding the industrial needs and project proposal opportunities.

Preliminary agenda (part 1)

09:00  Short introduction by Martin Törngren

09:05  Overview and opportunities: Horizon Europe, Cluster 4 (Digital, industry, and space) and related partnership programs (Lars Gustafsson, Vinnova).  Including Q&A.

09:50  Panel debate – Key takeaways and experiences from European research projects: Panel discussion with representatives from industry and KTH (Mikael Östling – KTH, Magnus Isaksson – RTE, large companies – currently tentatively with ABB and Ericsson)

The topic is intended to inspire and provide experiences regarding what to think about when initiating (going for) an EU research project and how to implement it. Strengthening Swedish participation and collaboration in the context of EU research is also another important concern.  Including Q&A.

10:40  Coffee break

10:55  How KTH can support proposers (Anna Raask, KTH Research support office).  Including Q&A.

11:20  Workshop wrap up, concluding discussion

Lunch 12.00 – 13.00

Preliminary agenda (part 2)

13:15  Introduction – industrial needs and challenges in the area of Industrial digitalization

13:20  Insights from industry and sharing (of parts of) industrial roadmaps – industry presentations (preliminary list of companies: ABB, Atlas Copco and Ericsson.  Including Q&A.

15:00  Complementary insights from various research agendas and roadmaps (KTH, Monica Bellgran and Martin Törngren). Including Q&A.

15:30  Workshop wrap up, concluding discussion

16:00  End of day