On the 1st of December of 2017, the European Commission, signed the Grant Agreement for the implementation of the project MANUSQUARE – MANUfacturing ecoSystem of QUAlified Resources Exchange.
Aiming to introduce a paradigm shift to the way supply chains are established, the project will deploy a platform-enabled market place and tools that will bring to life the dynamic matching of the demand and offer of manufacturing capabilities, enabling a fast and efficient creation of local and distributed value networks and the reintroduction in the loop, and therefore monetization, of unused capacity that would remain underutilized otherwise.
The project gathers a consortium of 12 organizations, from 7 countries, and has a duration of 36 months. Coordinated by SUPSI – Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, the project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 761145.
