A new European Research Area roadmap sets out a route to make manufacturing more human-centric. It will influence future grant programming
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Over the summer holidays, the European Commission released a report on how research and innovation can make manufacturing in Europe more human-centric. Here are the main takeaways:
What is the report? It’s called ERA Industrial Technologies Roadmap on Human-Centric Research and Innovation for the manufacturing sector. It seeks to ensure industrial policy is grounded in the bloc’s values and tells stakeholders how this can be done by focusing on human-centric design.
Human-centric outcomes include measures such as improving workers’ safety and wellbeing, upskilling or learning. The report says there are…
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