{"id":8525,"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/smarty-project-launched-to-help-european-smes-embrace-the-industry-4-0-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:51:03","slug":"smarty-project-launched-to-help-european-smes-embrace-the-industry-4-0-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/smarty-project-launched-to-help-european-smes-embrace-the-industry-4-0-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"SMARTY project launched to help European SMEs embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The i2CAT Foundation participates in this interregional cooperation project, which kicked off last month in Prato (Italy) and will continue for four years. SMARTY aims at establishing a common basis for policy learning among its members in order to deal with the main challenges hampering the diffusion of Industry 4.0 solutions and their enabling potential into the European SME ecosystem.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven European regions have joined forces to face a common challenge:<strong> supporting Small and Medium Sized Enterprises<\/strong> (SMEs) in their awareness and adoption of <strong>Industry 4.0 solutions<\/strong> through <strong>regional policies and programs related to Structural Funds<\/strong>. The fourteen partners of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i2cat.net\/projects\/smarty\/\"><strong>SMARTY<\/strong><\/a> aim to trigger a policy change that will uphold Industry 4.0 as the new paradigm to drive industrial development in the coming years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6105 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SMARTY_roadmap-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together with the consortium members, <strong>i2CAT\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.i2cat.net\/innovation-business-development\/industry-4-0\/\"><strong>Industry 4.0 Innovation Business Unit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will implement interregional learning activities to identify, analyse and share solutions which have already been tested in one of the participating regions and that can help in the innovation processes of other partners\u2019 regional industrial systems. These exchanges of experience will take place at the <strong>Interregional Thematic Seminars<\/strong> and <strong>Interregional Policy Brokerage<\/strong> workshops organized by the project on a semester basis, which will cover key topics such as <strong>Production Performance Monitoring Systems (PPMS)<\/strong>, <strong>Predictive modeling and maintenance<\/strong>, <strong>Virtual Reality and Simulation Technologies<\/strong>, and <strong>Smart logistics and network management<\/strong>. The learning potential e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mbedded in these interregional exchanges will result in the uptake of new good practices and projects by the partners, thus enabling the delivery of innovation within regional supply chains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>European cooperation to promote innovation<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThe fourth industrial revolution is of course not just a matter of technology, it is also a matter of cooperation between European regions. The uptake of advanced manufacturing solutions is still a challenge to SMEs: only one in five manufacturing companies have already used advanced manufacturing solutions. We need to build the capacity of the public administrations around Europe to help SMEs to embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution,\u201d<\/em> says <strong>Besnik Mehmeti<\/strong>, project coordinator for SMARTY.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SMARTY is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the umbrella of the European Union programme<strong> Interreg Europe<\/strong> with around 1.99 M EUR ERDF (2.42 M EUR Total Budget). The consortium came together in Prato in October for the project\u2019s<strong> kick-off meeting<\/strong>, where the first actions were discussed, as well as the overall work plan, exchange of experience activities and communication activities. The next step will be the <strong>first Interregional Thematic Seminar<\/strong>, which will be held in Brussels, Belgium, in February 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The i2CAT Foundation participates in this interregional cooperation project, which kicked off last month in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SMARTY project launched to help European SMEs embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution - i2CAT Research Centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/smarty-project-launched-to-help-european-smes-embrace-the-industry-4-0-revolution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ca_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SMARTY project launched to help European SMEs embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution - 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