The Fez Smart Factory Competitions, launched as a part of the FSF Ecosystem and led by EuroMed College of Fes (UEMF), Morocco, is a contest for corporations to turn into a part of an all-in-one help zone for modern actions, aimed toward creating a aggressive business by enhancing its productiveness and different KPIs or creating new factories for modern merchandise, via the implementation of the ideas and strategies of business 4.0.
Fez Good Factories Competitions is open to the next 4 classes of corporations utilizing or creating modern Trade 4.0 options and applied sciences:
- Startups
- Engineering Firms
- Analysis & Improvement Entities
- Industrial Models or Firms (SMEs & Massive)
Private Invitation to Apply from Tijani Bounahmidi, Coordinator of the Fez Good Manufacturing unit Ecosystem
Are you able to present the broader context for launching the Fez Good Manufacturing unit Competitions?
The Fez Good Manufacturing unit Competitions is a part of the actions of the Fez Good Manufacturing unit, which was chosen to profit from the help of the Sustainable Industrial Zones Fund (FONZID), following a aggressive name for tasks launched collectively by the Millennium Problem Account-Morocco Company (MCA-Morocco) and the Moroccan Ministry of Trade and Commerce (MIC).
FONZID is a part of the “Industrial Land” exercise below the “Compact II” cooperation program, financed by the Millennium Problem Company (MCC) and whose implementation has been entrusted to the MCA-Morocco Company.
The FONZID, arrange collectively with the MIC and endowed with an envelope of 30 million {dollars}, goals to strengthen the mannequin of sustainable industrial zones and to contribute to enhancing the productiveness and environmental and social efficiency of corporations in industrial areas.
FONZID will increase the availability of business land that meets the wants of traders by way of location, high quality of infrastructure, help providers, and aggressive costs. It can thus contribute to elevated personal funding and job creation.
The Fez Good Manufacturing unit venture is the results of a partnership between the EuroMed College of Fes, as chief, the Council of the Fez-Meknes area, the Ministry of Trade and Commerce, the Fez-Meknes Department of the Common Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), the corporate Alten Supply Heart-Morocco, in addition to the ADD ( Digital Improvement Company).
For candidates, are you able to elaborate on the analysis and choice course of?
We’ve got a restricted variety of locations for every of the 4 classes of beneficiaries: startups, engineering corporations, R&D entities, and industrialists. These locations will probably be allotted to the most effective candidates on this competitors who’re working both on the event of latest good factories (startups and industrialists) or on supporting this improvement (engineering corporations and R&D entities). To do that, the choice committee depends on an administrative file and a technical file which rely upon every class of candidates and whose contents are described within the Phrases and Situations of every class.
The analysis of candidates is completed in two levels: pre-selection and choice. The pre-selection is predicated on the satisfaction of the authorized situations and people associated to the character of the proposed actions, and the choice is made on the idea of a scoring grid of the standard of the technical file. Candidates who’ve obtained greater than 70 out of 100 will probably be ranked in accordance with their rating and will probably be admitted for domiciliation within the FSF Ecosystem in accordance with the variety of locations accessible. A ready checklist will probably be established to interchange withdrawals.
What can corporations anticipate after they get chosen to hitch the FSF Ecosystem?
The chosen corporations will probably be domiciled within the FSF ecosystem benefiting from the benefits specified within the corresponding Phrases and Situations (link).
General, startups will probably be supported to develop and implement their good manufacturing facility on an illustration scale; the industrialists of the Enterprise Heart will probably be helped to arrange their funding venture for the creation of good factories in Morocco; engineering corporations and R&D entities will profit from the proximity of potential prospects on the lookout for modern good options.
All corporations will profit from a working surroundings providing innovation administration and industrial improvement providers, in addition to high quality workspaces and diversified social providers.
Are you able to present a private message for all corporations seeking to apply?
For modern corporations passionate in regards to the seek for a major financial, social, and environmental impression, the Fez Good Manufacturing unit Ecosystem is the perfect innovation ecosystem designed to satisfy the aims of sustainable improvement by implementing business 4.0 applied sciences.
We encourage corporations to use for this worldwide competitors which is able to assist create a world pool of innovation, working to attain this frequent goal of sustainable improvement for the great of humanity and planet earth.
Why apply for Fez Good Manufacturing unit Competitions?
Morocco is shortly changing into a prime hub for Trade 4.0 corporations and options. Professional-business insurance policies, a dynamic and aggressive enterprise surroundings, and a robust concentrate on sustainability set up the area as a novel, built-in ecosystem for industrial innovation at scale. Profitable functions will obtain the next advantages:
Advantages for All Firms and Startups
- Entry to a 20m2 workplace outfitted with workplace furnishings, convention rooms, and an exhibition corridor that may host as much as 300 folks
- One-stop-shop providers
- Social providers: catering and cafeteria; medical, well being and security providers, and crèche providers
- Assist providers for industrial property, enterprise planning, and industrial improvement
- Achieve entry to consultants, donors, traders, producers, and so on. based mostly in Morocco
- Providers of the fast prototyping heart shared with the UEMF
Particular Advantages for R&D Entities, Engineering & Industrial Firms
- Providers of the Pilot Mannequin Manufacturing unit 4.0
- Facilitation of entry to different technological or different providers which will be supplied by the assorted parts of the UEMF
Further Particular Advantages for R&D Entities
- Assist providers for the administration of providers supplied as a part of the transformation of current industrial items, or for the advantage of Enterprise Heart corporations, startups, and venture leaders domiciled at FSF
- Assist establish the transformation wants of current industries with help from the CGEM (Common Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises)
Speedy Prototyping Platform at UEMF
Good Manufacturing Platform at UEMF
Digital & AI Platform at UEMF
Biotechnology platform at UEMF
Is Your Firm Eligible to Apply?
The eligibility of the candidate’s functions will probably be assessed by the analysis committee based mostly on the next, which should be met concurrently:
- For Startups: The commercial sector focused by the venture, should be among the many sectors coated by the FSF ecosystem. Undertaking actions to happen throughout the acceleration section will need to have a Know-how Readiness Stage (TRL)-3 or larger.
- For R&D Entities: The R&D service topic of the submission should relate to one of many industrial sectors coated by the FSF Ecosystem.
- For Engineering Firms: The engineering service topic of the tender should be a part of the engineering providers coated by the FSF Ecosystem. Engineering service actions should additionally goal Trade 4.0 use circumstances associated to the economic sectors coated by the FSF Ecosystem.
- For Industrial Models or Firms (SMEs & Massive): The venture of the economic firm should relate to one of many industrial sectors coated by the FSF Ecosystem.
Verify the web site to seek out details about the goal industrial sectors and applied sciences in addition to the related phrases and situations paperwork.
Able to take step one? Click here to apply for the Fez Smart Factory Competitions! Hurry, functions shut on sixteenth April 2023!
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