Koordinator
Laufzeit
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Projektvolumen
3 Million Euros
Projektpartner
ResC4EU – Resilient Supply Chains for Europe
ResC4EU is a collaboration project and initiative funded by the European Union with 3 million Euros. It aims to support EU businesses, particularly Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in becoming more resilient and sustainable and be able to quickly adapt to supply chain disruptions such as experienced during COVID-19 crisis, geopolitical tensions or disasters (e.g. Suez Channel closure, floodings, strikes) by adopting advanced technologies.
ResC4EU will provide an open space for collaboration facilitated by Industry clusters, develop and provide models and tools that can assist SMEs in detecting and anticipating disruptions in their supply chains, and offering SMEs tailored support and training programs as part of the ResC4EU Net-Zero Industry Academies. Further, manufacturing SMEs in need of implementing advanced technologies will be bring together with tech-savvy SMEs providing innovative solutions.
Project objectives – what we want to achieve
- Developing and offering tools that can be used by manufacturing SMEs for identification and mitigation of supply chain risk and disruptions.
- Offering an open space for training of manufacturing SMEs and networking with tech-savvy SMEs.
- Accelerating Advanced Technologies in manufacturing SMEs.
- Demonstrating the benefits of supply chain resilience while also deriving improvements in sustainability (i.e. GHGs emission reduction, energy savings, resource savings).
- Increasing public understanding on resilient supply chains and advanced technologies as solutions for making EU businesses more resilient and sustainable.
Project Consortium
ResC4EU is led by a consortium of 10 robust partners from 7 European countries. It includes 6 of Europe’s foremost industry associations and clusters, representing over 1000 SMEs across 14 European industrial sectors and spanning 5 European countries. Additionally, the consortium features 2 SMEs specializing in inter-cluster and innovation management, as well as B2B platform development Two research organizations specializing in logistics, supply chain risk modelling, and product life-cycle assessment complete the consortium. The ResC4EU project is coordinated by Composites United.
