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2014 was the first year under the new European framework program Horizon
2020 (H2020) of the seven-year period 2014-2020. It proved to be another
intense year, because of both the submitted proposals, and our positioning
in major initiatives of H2020 influencing the topics and contributing to future
programs.
Thus, from a strategic point of view, IK4-IDEKO played a significant role in the
most relevant forums related to “advanced manufacturing”, such as the PPP
Factories of the Future (FoF) coordinated by the EFFRA association, the European
technological platform MANUFUTURE, its national counterpart MANUKET, the
future KIC in advanced manufacturing (planned for 2016) or forums related with
smart specialisation strategy (RIS3). The fact that advanced manufacturing is a
so-called KET (Key Enabling Technologies) and that it has become one of the
pillars of the Basque smart specialisation strategy (RIS3) boosts the advantageous
position of IK4-IDEKO because of our specialisation in manufacturing technologies.
In parallel, we have maintained contact with all institutional agents active in
European research: on a regional level (Basque government, SPRI (Basque
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"The 2014 has accelerated the definition and
implementation up of a diversification strategy for
International activity of IK4-IDEKO"