Amulet, the EU-funded project supporting European SMEs, presents its final results
Over 100 participants attended AMULETS’s final event held on 16-17 October 2024, during the 13th International Trade Fair for Composite Materials KOMPOZYT-EXPO in Krakow, Poland.
We started on 16 October 2024 with the presentation “Overview of AMULET project and results” focused on AMULET’s achievements generated by the project. Then we organised two very enriching round table discussions. The session concluded with a presentation “Unlocking Potential: Advanced Lightweight Materials Challenges and Innovations in Key Industrial Sectors” highlighting the challenges of lightweight materials for the building, aerospace & aeronautics, energy, and automotive sectors.
Pitching Competition
On 17 October 2024, we organized a Pitching Session for winners of the 1st and 2nd AMULET open calls. Each Beneficiary had 10 minutes for a presentation and Q&A session. Representatives of the 15 winning consortia who came to the fair gave their presentations. They also had an opportunity to showcase their prototype or demonstrator at AMULET’s booth.
In addition to the budget already distributed through the three stages of the AMULET demonstration programme, the AMULET consortium decided to award an extra 16 800€ to the SMEs participating in stages 2 and 3 of the two open calls. These 16 800€ have been divided into 3 prizes: 8000€, 5400€ and 3400€.
To celebrate and promote the key role of SMEs, the AMULET project organised a contest in which the three best projects from the AMULET challenge competition were selected among the 15 funded projects.
The culmination of our final event was the Award Ceremony for the best projects in the AMULET programme! The winners received the AMULET Awards and associated financial prizes.
Background information
AMULET project, funded under the HORIZON 2020 INNOSUP programme, supported and co-financed projects that aim to exploit the innovation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises through a cross-sectoral and funded knowledge exchange. The project is a cross-regional partnership across ten EU countries that involves seven clusters, four RTOs and two SMEs.
The project
Overall, the AMULET project was not only about providing European SMEs with financial support to work on the prototyping, and demonstration of cutting-edge technological solutions but also helping them to further develop their solutions contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions and improving resource efficiency in the EU by boosting the role of SMEs, in which their innovations are expected to be facilitated & supported by clusters.
AMULET provided educational support in technical-related knowledge (e.g. webinars) and business topics (e.g. B2B coaching) as well as an Ambassador Network offering business opportunities. The educational materials are collected in the repository and are available on the ELCA platform here.
The educational programs and coaching activities in AMULET are supported by the ELCA platform, an online innovation platform that works as a match-making environment, targeting exclusively clusters, companies and research centres working on lightweight-related activities.
Further information is available in the AMULET’s newsletter.
