Opportunity for European manufacturing Start-ups and SMEs to skyrocket their advanced digital and eco-responsible technologies to

• support the industry in the uptake of advanced digital and eco-responsible technologies (AI, Data and Robotics)
• support workers in their daily activities and improve their working conditions (safety, health and well-being) leading to a productivity increase
• adopt a worker-centric approach by conisdering worker well-being and health at work (MSD and stress), design thinking methodology of production machine, worker acceptance and ethics.

EARASHI, Embodied AI/Robotics Applications for a Safe-Human oriented Industry, proposes a last open call to select 5 projects, distributing 1 M€ among them. Besides funding, the selected projects will benefit from EARASHI programme:

• Integration of a technical block from their choice (among EARASHI portolio) and associated expertise
• Coaching services such as Business, human-centred design, eco-design, etc.

The open call is designed to grant Start-ups/SMEs-led consortia of 1-2 partners and cascade funding of up to 200 000 € (per project) for 15-18 months project. The granted projects are expected to have market potential and reach commercialization as project's outcomes.

The companies wishing to apply to EARASHI open call should select one of the building blocks identified by EARASHI partners and develop a related technologies solutions that address one of the 6 challenges defined by EARASHI industrial advisory board.