Last update date 12 November 2021
In GOSTOP, a total of 13 companies and 6 research organisations which had compatible research and development programmes in the Factories of the Future concept joined forces to push forward its development. Taking into account the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Slovenia prepared by SVRK and the priorities of the Factories of the Future roadmap under Horizon 2020 prepared by EFFRA, four areas were identified in which decisive breakthroughs could be achieved in Slovenia in the near future: control technologies, tooling, robotics, and photonics. This means that in GOSTOP we combined the majority of the horizontal fields pinpointed by the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Slovenia documents for the Factories of the Future area. In all these fields, the most promising research topics of interest to Slovene industry were determined and, where the knowledge required in the Slovene research organisations existed, synergies were identified between them. Several value chains in the programme were combined, within the scope of which new products will be developed in the near future.