Manufuture presents the 6^th Workshop of the MANUFUTURE AET Community, ICT-AGRI 2^nd Call is open: ICT and Automation for a Greener Agriculture.

AET-Workshop will be held in cooperation with CIGR International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineerig.
3^rd CIGR International Conference of Agricultural Engineerin (CIGR-AgEng2012). Valencia, Spain (8-12 July 2012).

For any questions, please feel free to contact Jens Fehrmann (Fehrmann@ast.mw.tu-dresden.de) or Vanessa Tröster (TroesterVanesa@JohnDeere.com)

Further info: Programme

Manufuture presents the 5^th Workshop of the MANUFUTURE AET-Community, Agricultural Engineering Strategies for HORIZON 2020.
The Workshop will be held at the Convention Center, Deutsche Messe AG in Hannover.

In cooperation with:

• 69th International Conference on Agricultural Engineering

• LAND TECHNIK AgEng 2011 Solutions for Intelligent and Sustainable Farming

• Verein Deutscher Ingenieure VDI e.V. VDI Wissensforum GmbH

Registration can be done via e-mail to Jens Fehrmann (fehrmann@ast.mw.tu-dresden.de).

Further info: Programme

”West and East Europe in global High Added Value manufacturing – facts of today and challenges of tomorrow”

The conference will be held on 24th to 25th October 2011 in the city of Wroclaw, the capital of Lower Silesia Region.
In association with the EU Polish Presidency 2011 and supported by European Commission. Under the patronage of Marshall of Lower Silesia.
Please note that reservation period for rooms availability is in hotels running to the end.

Further info: www.manufuture2011.eu, Registration, Programme

MINAM 2.0 presents a Workshop for Micro- and Nanomanufacturing on 25^th October, 10:00 am in Wroclaw, the capital of Lower Silesia Region.
The Workshop takes place in the frame of MANUFUTURE 2011 Conference on October 24-25th.

The major goal of this session is to establish Micro and Nano-manufacturing as an important part of the manufacturing community in Europe. Needs and challenges will be discussed and collected by an open workshop organized by key players in Micro- and Nano-manufacturing and related ETPs of topics near to manufacturing.

The Special Session will start with an introduction to the CSA MINAM 2.0 by organizational members, but also by industrial representatives, presenting the MINAM Roadmap, a new SRA draft and some ideas of common collaboration with a special focus of East – West Cooperation. Based on this a one hour discussion with Industries and ETPs is planned, focusing on the identification of strategies, technical and commercial needs, providing a substantial input to the MINAM roadmapping activities, programmes and calls of the European Research Area.

Participation is free of charge.

Further info: www.manufuture2011.eu, Registration for the conference, Presentation, MINAM Position Paper September 2011

ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking is very pleased to announce the Co-summit on 25 & 26 October 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. The Co-summit 2011will be held at the Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki. The event is hosted by the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking and ITEA 2.


ARTEMIS JU and ITEA 2 are active to help Europe to achieve and maintain European leadership in Embedded Systems, Software-intensive Systems and Services. Both innovation programmes want to address European’s big societal challenges like affordable healthcare and wellbeing, green and safe transportation, reduced consumption of power and materials, reduction of food waste, smart buildings and communities of the future, and an imminent lack of natural resources.

ARTEMIS will showcase the running projects of Call 2008, Call 2009 and Call 2010. Together with the ITEA 2 projects, the exhibition will yield more than 75 innovative R&D projects on both days. A new element this year on the exhibition floor is a joint area around the Co-summit 2011 theme. On top of this keynotes and thematic sessions about the latest trends will take place.

***The registration deadline is 24 SEPTEMBER 2010 and subject to availability***

Further info and registration: www.artemisia-association.org

The summit will be held on 23rd and 24th of May 2011 in Tampere, Finland at Tampere Hall. After the seminar on 25th of May you’ll have a possibility to participate in technical visits and/or take part in a networking and brokerage event and related face-to-face meetings.


This year the Summit is still followed by the International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM 2011 on 25-27 May, www.tut.fi/isam2011). These two events form the Tampere Manufacturing Week 2011 offering during the week in total more than 120 expert presentations in the field of manufacturing.

The Summit will bring together front line industrial manufacturers, researchers and other stake holders to share experiences and ideas about different aspects of manufacturing and to discuss the key enablers to improved global competitivity and business profitability in manufacturing industry.

This year, the theme of the summit is «Lean and Sustainable».

Lean manufacturing aims at cutting costs by making the business more efficient and responsive to market needs, and can result also in green benefits by elimination of non-value activities. ‘Lean and Sustainable’ combines Lean and Green practices which is becoming one of the foremost strategies to achieve leading edge productivity while minimizing at the same time the environmental impacts.

Further info: www.tamperemanufacturingsummit.fi, Summit programme, Introduction of the speakers

A delegation of European Concept representatives met Herbert Van Bose in Brussels to present him the platform “European Concept”.

On 17-18th June 2010 a meeting of European Concept was carried out in Aachen.

After such meeting a delegation of European Concept representatives met Herbert Van Bose in Brussels to present him the platform and the results of the meeting.
In this occasion Herbert Van Bose underlined the importance of maintaining a link between European Concept and Manufuture, keeping European Concept a sub-platform of Manufuture.

Further info: www.europeanconcept.eu, Meeting details

A major conference in the area of Industrial Technologies will be organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Belgian EU Presidency.

The focus will be on nanotechnologies and nanosciences, materials and production technologies, which are the key areas of the FP7 NMP Theme.

The Industrial Technologies Conference will be opened by Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, the new Director General of DG Research.

It will address:

• The need for innovation within European industry and major obstacles hindering innovation;
• Future perspectives for industry with newly developed manufacturing technologies, materials and nanotechnologies;
• The social, environmental sustainability and competitiveness perspectives of the European manufacturing industry.

Please check further details on www.industrial-technologies2010.eu

Meet4Cleantech in Geneva to develop your business, boost your innovation and initiate European R&D projects.

• Information and networking sessions for Swiss and international business, innovation and research.
• First hand information on the next EU FP7/PPP calls for funded R&D projects.
• Pre-arranged face2face meetings to initiate business agreements, technology cooperation and European R&D projects.

Please check further details and register on www.meet4cleantech.eu

Working Group on Agricultural Engineering Technology
Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the EU, Rue Belliard 60-62, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

For many reasons, the AET community has to make clear that agricultural technology is production technology. Manufacturing takes place on the fields, in greenhouses or in livestock units.
The challenge is to explain that agricultural manufacturing has to take place in a highly automated industrial-like way and that this is the pre-condition for highest efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production contributing to the development social base conditions in rural areas and thus giving a highly beneficial impact for the European society in total.
This is a fundamental change of paradigms which we have to mediate outside our agricultural engineering community.

Further info: Agenda, Flyer, Registration form

Conference “The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability”, organized by the European Commission, and the Regional Government of Valencia, under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.

As part of the European Economic Recovery Plan three Public Private Partnerships, Factories of the Future (FoF), Energy-efficient buildings (EeB) and European Green Cars Initiative (GC), have been set up. At the conference a new Public Private Partnership on Future Internet (FI) will be launched. .
As a major Spanish EU Presidency event, the conference will bring together high-level stakeholders from the different PPPs and will give an overview of the latest developments of each PPP and will look forward to their future.
The Conference will be the core of the “FP7: European Innovation and RTD Transforming sectors’ week”.
Please check further details and register on www.r2sconference.eu

Tampere, Finland
www.tamperemanufacturingsummit.fi

Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Implementation of a sustainable European manufacturing industry

The Manufuture 2009 conference theme is “Implementation of a sustainable manufacturing industry”. How can sustainability be implemented in the day-to-day business agenda? How do leading companies work with sustainability? Focused industrial visits at Swedish companies that have implemented different aspects of sustainability in their operations are a natural part of the program.
Further info: http://www.manufuture2009.eu

Saint Etienne, France.

Following the two days conference a brokerage event will be held within the Conference Centre.
This event will be opened to all attendees of the Manufuture Conference as well as to the public. This event will be the opportunity to meet potential partners and draw up consortia for European projects. Direct contacts give the possibility to evaluate knowledge and skills for project draw up. An appointment diary will be organized among partners before this event.

Saint Etienne, France.

This event, under the French European Union Presidency, will focus on: “European regions and SMEs for implementing manufacturing strategic priorities”.