D7.10 Exploitation and Dissemination Report – Abstract

This deliverable reports on the dissemination activities and outlines the explotaitition plan and partners’ explotaition agreement.

The present deliverable presents an overview of the current identified results from the partners and setting-up the basis in terms of potential scale-up, exploitation and commercialisation strategies. It paves the way towards assuring that the impact the project is set out to have after the end of the funding period is achieved. It discusses the project partners’ commitment to and responsibilities in the exploitation activities to be carried out. Moreover, the plan outlines potential barriers and external threats and proposes ways in which these will be overcome.

In terms of exploitation, the definitive list of exploitable results from the project is presented, as also the IP claims from each partners involving their foreseen exploitation routes. Over this information, a deeper characterization of the key results has been developed next to partners related to market trends, market barriers and customer needs for each of the key results.

In regards to dissemination this document present the outcomes of FormPlanet dissemination activities and the impact achieved, including the dissemination and visibility of project results through scientific publications, the participation in exhibitions and conferences to demonstrate the novel characterisation and modelling methodologies to industrial stakeholders, as well as engaging companies to participate in the Open Call, the organisation of multilingual regional workshops to showcase case studies, direct dissemination to companies in the sheet metal forming industry, and other strategies such as standardisation activities, establishing relationships with technology platforms and associations and liaising with other OITBs.