GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The project will develop and demonstrate the concept of human-centricity in a real-life, operational industrial environment in at least ten pilots. A pilot may consist of an individual company, but may also span multiple companies that interact across (possibly transnational) value chains or in a local innovation ecosystem. The set of pilots, as a whole, will cover a variety of industrial sectors and company sizes, including SMEs and start-ups and/or scale-ups, and will be situated in at least 13 different EU Member States or countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme.

The pilots may address particular themes such as the ones listed hereunder in a non-prescriptive and non-exhaustive manner:

• the development of and experimentation with models and technologies to stimulate individual and collective creativity of workers and future workforce,
• the participation of workers (as end-users) in the design of purposeful technology application in the work process,
• the application of technology to enhance the inclusivity of the work environment, the ways in which unskilled or low-skilled labour participate in a human-centric production process and the role of technology therein,
• how technological, process and organisational innovation can offer jobs that remain rewarding for the individual worker along the life cycle,
• the development of and experimentation with the use of advanced technologies (such as robotics) in learning environments to increase the skill level of the current and future workforce,
• the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of the organisation of work and its effects.