SCALE UP 2022, hosted by ICT Cluster in Sofia on June 7-9, brought together technology suppliers, manufacturing companies, clusters and organizations funding innovative technologies coming from all over Europe. The event was co-organised by I4MS – ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs project, so cascade funding mechanism as well as ongoing and upcoming Open Calls were presented.
KITT4SME Type-B Open Call was presented by Davorka Moslavac Forjan, DIH coordinator at ICENT. She explained how KITT4SME project supports European SMEs and mid-caps by offering them grants for AI solutions’ deployment within their production systems.
Together with Marcela Alzin from Change2Twin project, Irina Frigioiu from FundingBox, Paula Cervera from Better Factory and Marta Portalés Oliva from Mobile World Capital Barcelona Davorka also participated in I4MS internal meeting. There the main challenges of growing companies were discussed as well as next steps in I4MS project.