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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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What we dodo

at SoTecIn Factory

Formulate value chain – based missions per each target region as the basis of the industry challenges to be solved with social innovation.
Build regional Mission Councils as ‘guardians’ of Missions and its Challenges governing selected social innovations.
Identify real-life, mission-based challenges of industrial actors via Open Call for Challenge Owners.
Provide financial & capacity-building support for pre-market demonstration of social innovation ideas via 2 Open Calls.

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

Inesctec
F6S
bwcon
Impact Hub
Metabolic
CNR
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