StandardAIse, HARMONICA, and EMPowerMet reinforce EWF’s contribution to industrial innovation, skills development and standardisation across Europe.

EWF continues to expand its involvement in European research and innovation through three new Horizon Europe projects that have recently started: StandardAIse, HARMONICA and EMPowerMet.

These projects add new areas of expertise and cooperation to EWF’s extensive portfolio, while reinforcing its role in connecting technological development with the skills, standards, knowledge and stakeholder networks required to support industrial uptake.

Following their recent Kick-off Meetings, the three international consortia have now begun working on different but complementary challenges shaping the future of European industry.

StandardAIse, coordinated by EWF, will strengthen the connection between research, innovation and standardisation. The project will develop an AI-powered and human-validated Standardisation Landscape Hub, designed to make standards-related information more accessible and useful for researchers, innovators, SMEs and other stakeholders.

HARMONICA will explore how human-centred technologies can support safer and more effective working environments in advanced recycling manufacturing. By combining technological innovation with workers’ knowledge, skills and experience, the project aims to contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable industrial transformation. EWF will support the project’s communication, dissemination and standardisation activities.

EMPowerMet will work towards a more circular and energy-efficient titanium value chain in Europe. The project will develop new approaches to transforming titanium waste and end-of-life components into materials for demanding industrial applications, reducing dependence on primary resources. EWF will lead communication, dissemination and exploitation activities, while also contributing to the project’s skills and standardisation strategies.

Together, these initiatives extend EWF’s work across human-centred manufacturing, circular industrial processes, artificial intelligence, skills development and standardisation. They also reflect the increasing need for research projects to consider not only how technologies are developed, but also how they can be understood, implemented and adopted by industry.

For the projects, EWF brings experience in European cooperation, stakeholder engagement, communication, training, qualifications and standardisation. For EWF and its network, participation in these consortia creates new opportunities to engage with emerging technologies, industrial challenges and international partners.

By joining HARMONICA and EMPowerMet as a project partner and coordinating StandardAIse, EWF continues to broaden its contribution to European research and innovation and to strengthen the links between project results and real industrial needs.