metabuilding METABUILDING
60 Innovation Vouchers
SME vouchers for technological, legal, financial, and business expert support.
GROW
60 Collaborative Projects
Funding the develop of new technologies in response to specific cross-sectoral challenges.
HARVEST
40 Collaborative Projects
Supporting SME's to use existing technologies from another METABUILDING industrial sector and/or countries in a collaborative project.
In total over 140 SME's funded by METABUILDING
METABUILDING will distribute €300K in SEED Innovation Vouchers and €2.4 million in grants for collaborative co-creation and insourcing projects (GROW and HARVEST).
METABUILDING Provides Innovation Support to SME’s from 5 Industrial Sectors
Construction
Nature-Based Solutions
Circularity & Recycling
Digital Industry
Additive Manufacturing
METABUILDING aims to increase SME productivity and competitiveness through enhancing collaboration between SME’s across EU countries and regions. Small-Medium Enterprise’s (SME’s) are in the centre of the METABUILDING innovation ecosystem. METABUILDING will distribute €2.7 million to SME’s through the SEED, GROW and HARVET Open Calls. Funding will be available for projects which join the Construction Industry with any of the following 4 innovative and emerging industrial sectors; Additive Manufacturing, Recycling & Circularity, Digital Industry and Nature-Based Solutions.
METABUILDING follows a multi-level strategy to:
- Help SME’s build the foundations for a strong innovation strategy (SEED)
- Create collaboration across industrial sectors and country borders to develop new technologies in response to specific cross-sectoral challenges (GROW).
- Encourage the use of existing technologies from an industrial sector in another METABUILDING industrial sector in order to respond to specific cross-sectoral challenges (HARVEST)