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ESM-Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing A joint Research and Development package under the Vanguard Initiative umbrella Giacomo Copani 1 AFIL - Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association

Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association ▰ Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing , one of the Specialisation Areas identified by Lombardy Region in its S3 Strategy ▰ Created in 2014 and formally recognized by Lombardy Regional Government ▰ 150 members (more than 70% companies) • To represent Regional Manufacturing ▰ Mission • To collect and provide R&I priorities to policy makers • To support policy makers in R&I governance • To increase regional manufacturing competitiveness leveraging on S3 ▰ Appointed by Regional Government to technically coordinate the regional participation to Vanguard Advanced Manufacturing activities 2

AFIL in Vanguard ESM Demo-cases • De- and Remanufacturing Pilot ESM – Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing • Digital & Virtual Factory (Pilot co-coordinator and co-coordinator of 4 demo-cases) • Advanced sustainable surface Pilot 3DPrinting & Coating technologies (co-coordinator of 1 demo-case) • Energy and environmental efficient processes • Adaptive and intelligent manufacturing 4 Regional stable working groups in the Region • 5 demo-cases mobilising more than 300 stakeholders in 20 • EU Regions More than 10M€ funding raised for complementary activities • through H2020 and Interreg � � More than 50 private co-funding letters of intents • One demo-case already discussing with EIB • supported by EU ESM in the S3 Industrial Modernisation Platform • 5 EU Pilot-related events organised in 2017 • 3 …. •

Benefits of Vanguard ▰ Cultural growth Increase innovation ▰ Exchange of best practices capability of companies ▰ Internationalisation (SMEs) and Clusters ▰ Access to EU innovative supply chains Overcome regional ▰ Align goals of regional stakeholders internal fragmentation ▰ Increase internal cooperation leveraging on S3 ▰ Create critical mass Increase industry ▰ Make companies aware of policy making participation to policy processes ▰ Create a governance to participate to making processes Regional and EU policy making 4

Barriers and difficulties Differences among EU Regions: • Different type of Clusters and intermediaries in Europe • Different regional maturity and industrial background • Lack of knowledge and common mapping of potential partners • Lack of common innovation governance and method • Different time horizons and synchronisation of technical and political level • Funding of strategic interregional cooperation within Vanguard • Fragmented and non-aligned schemes • Difficult combination of EU, Regional and National funding • Lack of funding continuity • • Struggle to keep companies committed In the long run 5 • Troubles for Clusters to sustain interregional cooperation

What we need ▰ Structured inclusive cooperation methods facilitated by Clusters ▰ Transparency, communication and awa reness of political processes and framework ▰ Higher alignment between political and technical stakeholders ▰ Ability to address a portfolio of short, medium and long-term opportunities ▰ Alignment and improvement of funding schemes for innovation infrastructure entailing set-up, operations and uptake phases in an interconnected logic 6

Thanks for attention giacomo.copani@afil.it