Sotecin Factory

sotecin factory is a horizon europe project aimed at improving resilience and sustainability of the european industry by supporting a community of mission-oriented social innovators and connecting them to technology providers and industrial companies. the project supports systemic transformation towards restructuring 7 key industrial value chains (electronics and ict; batteries and vehicles; packaging; plastics; textiles; construction and buildings; food water and nutrients) to be low-carbon and circular, by implementing higher value circular economy strategies, i.e. reuse, repair, refurbish and remanufacture. specifically, the sotecin factory will support 40 mission-oriented social entrepreneurs with services regarding governance (through the creation of stewardship councils for each innovation), business model, capacity-building, fund-raising and exploitation, and 30 mission-oriented pre-market demonstration projects. this project has received funding from the european union’s hor