Partners

Established in 1816, and part of the French « Grandes Ecoles » system, the Ecole des Mines (EMSE) ensures 3 key missions: education, research and dedication to economic development. Education is based on a well-balanced blend of scientific core subjects, engineering techniques and economic and human sciences taught by professors closely related to the economic world. The graduates from EMSE have been at the forefront of technological progress in the whole industry, in France and abroad.  EMSE has opened its horizons to international partnerships with 35 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Today, EMSE has more than 80 academic partners worldwide, 19 double-diploma agreements as part as its Executive Engineering degree program, and research partnerships with the world’s top universities.

Through several national and international projects and via FAYOL Research Institute (Center for Industrial Engineering and Environmental Sciences) EMSE is currently developing a strong research expertise on Factory of the Future, and brings to the FoF Designer project an internationally recognized expertise on Product-Service-Systems (PSS) on its scientific, industrial and educational dimensions. FAYOL Institute develops integrated methodologies, modelling environment and decision-making supports transition towards PSS and industrial digitization.

The International Center for Resources and Innovation for Sustainable Development, an association constituted in accordance with the French law of 1901, was created in 2005 and is recognized as being of general interest. It aims to engage economic stakeholders, local authorities and business networks in the appropriation and implementation of collective processes of change for sustainable development, such as: circular economy, functional economy, industrial and territorial ecology.

Following a first collective action on the functional economy started in 2009, CIRIDD decided to create a club in order to keep the momentum going. The club was officially launched by CIRIDD on September 27, 2011 under the name Club d’acteurs pour une économie de Fonctionnalité (CLEF club). The club’s field of action is PPS and functional economy, both in its theorical domain and its operational implications with companies and local authorities.

CIRIDD is currently leading the CLEF Club within its initial regional scope: the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It aims to coordinate and implement collective work with its members to promote companies’ transition towards this model and enhance regional deployment of the functional economy. The CLEF Club therefore aims to bring together all entities with an interest in deploying the functional economy in the region and to support companies which engage in collective or individual initiatives. The club’s aim is to develop tools and methods for heightening awareness, training and diagnosis, and assisting companies in their transition to a functional economy.

The University of Bergamo (UNIBG) is a powerful and significant presence in the Northern Lombardy, the richest region of Italy. UNIBG is one the youngest universities in Italy, officially founded in 1968 thanks to the support of several funding associations and agencies coming from the business world. UNIBG strengths are the wide range of courses offered, the excellent use of the numerous laboratories available to students, the ambitious research centers, and the fact that the University operates in one of the most dynamic areas of Italy, from both a cultural and an economic viewpoint. The Engineering Campus has more than 10 000 square meters of laboratories, most of them financially supported by industries and firms of Northern Italy. More than 100 professors, researchers and PhD candidates, working in different fields of industrial engineering, compose the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering. The research group directly involved in the project operates within the researches and technology transfer projects in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Service Chain Management and Industrial Asset Management.

Bialystok University of Technology (BUT) established in 1949 as a Private Evening Engineering College and acquired its university status in 1974. At present there are nearly 12 000 students studying at BUUT in its 7 faculties. We cooperate with 37 academic centers across the world within the framework of bilateral scientific agreements. BUT staff have been taking part in both national and international scientific research and didactic programs, including Erasmus+ program.

Considering the number of students, the Faculty of Engineering Management (FEM) is currently the second largest faculty at Bialystok University of Technology with over 1 600 students. So far, more than 15 000 graduates have completed studies at the FEM. BUT-FEM is participating within the computer labs with a relevant software for process modelling and simulation. The team is skilled in process analysis and designing. Moreover, BUT-FEM conducts students’ competence certification program in the field of process management.

Our current international research projects focus on strengthening smart specialization by fostering transnational cooperation. Furthermore, actually conducted projects aim at transforming university entrepeneurship education, company training and business practice and developing the original educational offer. BUT-FEM is developing its educational offer in the area of process engineering concurrently with the Factory of Good Engineer lab in the scope of Integrated University Program financed by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

IDPC is a NGO association established in 2005. With more than 11 years of existence, the association implemented 45 projects co-financed by the European Union funds and another funds sources, aimed at socio-economic development, entrepreneurship, vocational training and cross-border cooperation projects.

IDPC is coordinator of Metal Processing Cluster (MPC) with over 70 companies from metal branch in the fields of services, production and trade, but also universities, business support organizations and self-government authorities mainly from the north-east Poland. There are national and global leaders with great innovative potential for development. The companies associated within the cluster give over 7 500 jobs for employees with different levels of specialization. Companies have high export potential, near 40% of their revenues are from foreign sale.

The cluster was awarded status of “Key National Cluster” (one out of seven in Poland) by the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Poland in 2015. The activities of metalworking cluster are directed on supporting the innovation process in production and promotion of goods, internationalization and determining the future direction of teaching the metalworking industry staff.

Specialization of the cluster: manufacturing, machinery and agricultural equipment, food industry, production for the medical, orthopaedics sector, manufacturing of sailing gear for the yacht industry.

SOCOLNET is an international technical and scientific association, not for profit, that aims ar promoting and stimulating scientific research, education, technological development, scientific and technical interactions, among researchers in the area of Collaborative Networks, including virtual organizations, virtual enterprises, virtual communities, virtual laboratories, and related areas.

In order to pursue its objectives, the society may carry out all the activites that it deems necessary or appropriate and in particular, may:

• Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among its members, and between them and the rest of the scientific community in order to increase the knowledge of the area,
• Promote activities such as seminars, courses, colloquia, conferences, workshops …
• Promote and sponsor the edition of publications relevant for the objectives of the association,
• Propose education curricula on collaborative networks,
• Promote studies and research actions on collaborative networks,
• Collaborate with other organizations.

SOCOLNET is registered as a technical-scientific association in Portugal and currently it has 346 members in 49 countries. Annually, it organizes conferences such as PRO-VE (Virtual Enterprises/Collaborative Enterprise Networks) and DocEIS (Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systemps).