The final AMULET event held on October 16-17, 2024, during the 13th International Composite Materials Fair KOMPOZYT-EXPO in Krakow, Poland, brought together more than 100 participants, including AMULET consortium partners, most of the 15 funded collaborative projects, as well as representatives of the European Commission, members of the ELCA European Lightweight Cluster Alliance and Fraunhofer IWU or A2LT - Austrian Advanced Lightweight Technology, to celebrate the results of the project and the three years of collaboration of the cluster that allowed 34 SMEs from 17 EU countries to obtain direct financing to develop. innovative solutions.

AMULET FINAL EVENT

The closing ceremony began on October 16, 2024 with the presentation “AMULET Project Overview and Results” focusing on the AMULET achievements generated by the project. This was followed by two enriching roundtables:

"Supporting SMEs through EU projects and EU cluster actions", moderated by Annabelle Sion, which focused on the involvement of SMEs and support for EU projects.

Among the participants were:

"Advanced materials for lightweight in the future European industrial landscape", moderated by Ricardo del Valle Zermeño, Bax Senior Innovation Manager.

Presentations in the conference area during the final event of AMULET

On October 17, 2024, a Pitching Session was organized for the winners of the 1st and 2nd AMULET open calls. Each beneficiary had 10 minutes for a presentation and question and answer session. The representatives of the 15 winning consortia that came to the fair made their presentations. They also had the opportunity to show their prototype or demonstrator at the AMULET booth.

In addition to the budget already distributed in the three stages of the AMULET demonstration program, the AMULET consortium decided to grant an additional €16,800 to participating SMEs in phases 2 and 3 of the two open calls. This €16,800 has been divided into 3 prizes: €8,000, €5,400 and €3,400.

To celebrate and promote the key role of SMEs, the AMULET project organized a competition in which the three best projects of the AMULET challenge competition were selected from the 15 funded projects.

At the award application stage, consortia were asked to describe three elements:

The pitches were evaluated by experts from ELCA network partners who participated in the final AMULET event in Krakow.

The culmination of the final event was the award ceremony for the best projects of the AMULET program. The winners received the AMULET Awards and associated financial awards.

Winners:

The AMULET Consortium thanked all the attendees for their participation and all the companies and interest groups involved throughout the project. They showed that the work done within the project had a real impact!

AMULET project

The AMULET project, funded under the HORIZON 2020 INNOSUP program, has 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 an interregional partnership of ten EU countries including seven clusters, four RTOs and two SMEs.

The final objective of AMULET has been to contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emissions in the EU by enhancing the role of SMEs and consolidating new light industrial value chains, in addition to identifying current sectoral challenges by type of material advanced

Overall, the AMULET project has not only provided European SMEs with financial support to work on the prototyping and demonstration of cutting-edge technological solutions, but also to help them further develop their solutions by contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to improve the efficiency of resources in the EU by enhancing the role of SMEs, in which it is expected that their innovations will be facilitated and supported by the clusters.

AMULET has offered educational support in technical knowledge (e.g. webinars) and business topics (e.g. B2B coaching) as well as a network of ambassadors offering business opportunities.

AMULET's educational programs and coaching activities are supported by the ELCA platform, an online innovation platform that acts as a matchmaking environment, exclusively aimed at clusters, companies and research centers working on related activities with light materials.