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SoTecIn Factory is a collaborative environment aimed at improving the resilience and sustainability of European industry by supporting a community of mission-oriented social innovators and connecting them to technology providers and industrial companies.
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at SoTecIn Factory
Formulate value chain – based missions per each targeted region as the basis of the industry challenges to be solved with the social innovation solutions.
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Identify critical sustainability problems and real-life, mission-based challenges of industrial actors via Open Call for Challenge Owners
Become a Challenge Owner (closed Open Call)
Build regional Mission Councils as ‘guardians’ of Missions and its Challenges governing selected social innovations.
Check out the Mission Councils
Provide financial support & capacity-building, as well as pre-market demonstration support for social innovation ideas via 2 Open Calls
Become a Social Innovator
Key Product ValueValue ChainsChains
The SoTecIn Factory focuses on improving the circularity of four out of seven key product value chains, as defined by the EU Circular Economy Action Plan, by implementing higher value circular economy strategies, i.e. Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture
Packaging
Plastics
Textiles
Food, water and nutrients
SoTecIn Factory
in numbers
7
Regional Hubs
40+
Industrial companies
50
Social innovations
30
Pre-market demonstrations
SoTecIn Factory partners
