is an Extended Partnership funded by MUR (MUR - Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca).
About us
MICS – Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile is an Extended Partnership between Universities, Research Centers and Enterprises financed by MUR – Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca thanks to funds made available by the European Union under the NextGenerationEU (PNRR) program.
MICS connects businesses and research, public and private sectors, creating a unique unity of puropose. Today three key sectors of the Italian industrial scenario are involved, namely Fashion, Furniture and Factory Automation.
By dividing the research into eight thematic areas (called Spokes), MICS is at the forefront in tackling the challenges to Italy’s design, production and consumption models, as well as to end-of-life materials, products, production technologies and processes needed to move towards greener and more circular pathways and patterns.
MADE Compentence Center Industry 4.0 | Via Durando, 10 20156 – Milano (Italia)
I partner si incontreranno di persona per la prima volta per definire lo scenario di futuri progetti innovativi e collaborazioni esclusive. Un evento di presentazione delle idee di business e match-making per i partner, per coinvolgerli in prima persona e garantire loro la possibilità di trovare il progetto giusto su cui collaborare.
Sectors
SPOKES
RESEARCH PROJECTS
We’ll design a factory in space that will need to be fully closed loop, based on Additive Manufacturing practices in order to produce any objects that may be needed, with no additional material supply from the Earth. This means that the materials used to produce a product are then re-atomized and fully re-used with no scraps, no waste possible. Circularity brought to the very extreme!
Products will be designed to have minimum footprint and optimized lifetime performances, minimum energetic impact, smart functions and morphing capabilities by leveraging digital technologies. Furthermore, the use of local or recycled materials, zero-waste Additive Manufacturing practices and on-demand policies during production will show the effectiveness of resilient and circular factories and value chains.
New solutions for urban mining combined with virtual design and the zero-waste Additive Manufacturing production techniques for customized jewellery will be explored. Products will be designed directly by the users and in the metaverse to avoid the need for sampling, then they will be assembled by an augmented craftsman with help from a collaborative robot, in a lean and low-impact production environment without the need for warehousing.
Materials bio-printing will pave the way to a new dimension of sustainable luxury, where organic, but artificially created material is considered as reference example. Products will be designed directly by the users and in the metaverse to avoid the need for sampling, then they will be assembled by an augmented craftsman in a lean and low-impact production environment with help from a collaborative robot.
Counterfeiting will be addressed through a number of different and integrated technologies such as tracking by using specific materials, digital technologies such as blockchain to track the supply chain, alongside Additive Manufacturing practices used to design and produce unique products containing special RFId and tags to trace the origin of the item.
Structure
MICS consists of 25 partners, including 12 public sector partners and 13 industrial partners.
It brings together Italy’s best research centers and key industrial leaders from three sectors that make and will make sustainability their banner.
All partners aim to collaborate in different circularity-oriented projects under the governance of a Spoke.
