Teaching Factories Competition 2023: DEEP TECH

Teaching Factories Competition (TFC) on Deep Tech is an initiative of advanced training dedicated to university & VET (Vocational Education & Training) students promoted by EIT Manufacturing.

The Teaching Factory Competition is managed by EIT Manufacturing’s Education Pillar. The TFC promotes the use of the Teaching Factories educational methodology (a collaboration between industry & academia through challenges) and the benefits of academia-business partnerships to reach an authentic innovation in Manufacturing.

The main topic of the Teaching Factory Competition 2023 is Deep Tech. Manufacturing companies are invited to frame their business challenges on Deep Tech.

The initiative aims at:

–  allowing companies to learn about and experience the benefits of using advanced knowledge and methods taught in the Universities to improve their processes/products, as well as addressing business challenges through the application of the Teaching Factories paradigm and framework.

–  allowing university and VET students to test their competencies by applying them to real industrial problems and challenges, improving preparation for their future work (Challenge-Based Learning-CBL).

– offering teachers and industrial mentors an opportunity to support the students in generating solutions in a collaborative environment facilitated by the Teaching Factories methodology.

This collaboration framework allows participating companies to benefit from solutions and ideas to provide advanced and emerging technology solutions responding to their challenges.

To be eligible for applying, applicants:

– must be a public or private, small, medium, or large enterprises (including social enterprises) in the manufacturing sector. Applicants must be a registered “legal entity”: any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality, and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.

– must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

– the EU Outermost regions linked to the Member States of the European Union.

– the countries associated with Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries.

All EIT Manufacturing partners are eligible to apply for financial prizes, nevertheless, an entity does not need to be an EIT Manufacturing partner to apply for the competition.