Participants shared testimonials of the co-creation workshops “Novel Enabling Technologies for a Sustainable Future” which took place in June 2024
Alessandra Pennuto, SmartFab (Italy)
“Different knowledge & backgrounds pledged to a common purpose of enhancing the adoption of enabling technological solutions”
Rich Walker, Shadow Robot Company (England)
“Macro problems need micro solutions that scale rapidly”
Luigi Briguglio, CyberEthics Lab. (Italy)
“The four step methodology is a very best practise that should be adopted, since the beginning of the project (i.e. understanding, team building, real needs and problem focus)”
Martin Cimiterra, Université Côte d’Azur (France)
“It is important to share knowledge from different perspectives. Every expertise can be useful to develop and create new ideas”
Ruth Gow Mclenachan, Healthy cities (Spain)
“One of the key takeaways from the workshop was being able to work with experts from different sectors to uncover a diversity of possible use-cases for the emerging technologies, considering their potential for social and environmental impact, beyond economic impact”
Federico Francia, BeEngineered srl (Italy)
“As a company director and as a decision maker, I discovered ONCE again the beauty and the importance of sharing ideas for growing together”
A series of Technology Clustering Workshops focusing on the six areas of the Industry 5.0 were organised between November 2023 and March 2024, bringing together experts from across Europe.
Claudia Vivalda, Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Energia (Italy)
“Sometimes there are new technologies that are not known and it’s a question of informing, but also educating people about them before they are in some way biased by opposers. So, it is of primary importance trying to involve people since the beginning to let them know the insights of the new technologies and avoid that the various and sometimes contradicting information they receive push them to believe in the ones that seem closer to their thinking.”
Henrikki Salo-Pöntinen, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
“If we have technology that nobody can use or nobody wants to use, then we have just technology that is not good enough for being on the market.”
Scenario workshops organised in May and June 2023 gathered experts from different backgrounds coming from all over Europe.
Agusti Solanas, Professor, University Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
“I started with the FORGING Artificial Intelligence workshop and then continued with the Cybersecurity one, which was so interesting…. Participating in those workshops allowed me to interact with other experts in the field, with different views and perspectives, contributing to the overall understanding of the challenges….FORGING is putting together people with multiple backgrounds in the same room to discuss exciting technologies that will shape our future“
Peter Chow, Fujitsu Research Fellow, Innovation for UK public sector (UK)
“I think it is the people that make the difference, and this is very innovative in the EU and the FORGING project that we have this workshop bringing both the academic and industry experts to look into the future. I think that’s very important”
Isabella Tovena, Director Europe and International, Alpha Rlh (France)
“FORGING has a very challenging goal trying to find out the future of these emerging enabling technologies…. I think we should more reflecting in terms of systems and systematic approach to tackle all these challenges we have to face of course climate change but inclusivity as well, the demographic problem of ageing people all these subjects are the core of our reflection and innovation“
Santiago De Diego, Cybersecurity Researcher (Spain)
“I had the opportunity of coming here to share my vision about how cybersecurity is going to evolve during the next years and how the future looks – looking at it from a cybersecurity perspective. What issues we are facing in cybersecurity and how we can deal with them… One of the strong points of the project I think is that it has been able to gather experts from different areas so we get a perspective and we can share our ideas in fields for example I am not aware of“
Cristina Latsou, Lecturer in Smart Manufacturing at Cranfield University (UK)
“One key technological framework emphasised in FORGING is real-time-based digital twins and simulation. Digital twins bring relevant issues to the discussion by enabling enhanced productivity and efficiency through real-time monitoring and optimisation of complex systems/processes…By integrating digital twin technologies into the FORGING project, innovative solutions can be developed to address Industry 5.0 challenges. Digital twins offer intelligent and data-driven decision-making, improved productivity, enhanced collaboration, and sustainability. This aligns with the objectives of FORGING and the transformative vision of Industry 5.0, paving the way for a sustainable and technology-driven future”