This year's partner meeting of the Interreg project AMiCE (Advanced Manufacturing in Central Europe) took place at the Business Innovation Center (BIC) Bratislava. This was the fourth meeting since the start of the project in 2017. The partners presented the current status of the tools developed to support SMEs, research institutes and administration in relation to the topics of additive manufacturing and the circular economy.

The Innovation 4.0 Cooperation Hotspot of the Technical University of Liberec is now online and already holds promising project ideas, of which eleven selected projects will be further developed this year together with experts and SMEs in so-called Innovation Camps.

The concept of the Knowledge Sharepoint was discussed intensively on a prototype at the HSZG and is now in the implementation phase. The result will be a website with extensive information on the core topics of additive manufacturing and the circular economy in Central Europe as well as workshops and round tables in all five partner countries.

During the project meeting, instruments for linking regional players were demonstrated and discussed in depth.

The Knowledge Sharepoint developed together with the five partners from Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Slovakia and Italy will play a key role.

To this end, the AMiCE Info-Market event will be held on 5 June 2019, inviting interested SMEs and research institutions to take part in specialist presentations on the topics of digitalization (Industry 4.0) and additive manufacturing (3D printing) and to engage in interdisciplinary discussions.