MOSAIC INNOVA, a Coordination and Support Action funded by HORIZON Europe, will run for 12 months. Its mission is to strengthen Europe’s innovation ecosystem around deep tech and critical technologies, while fostering sustainability, circularity, and industrial resilience across Europe. Main objectives of MOSAIC INNOVA are to
• Reduce fragmentation between regional and national innovation ecosystems.
• Foster cooperation between regions with different levels of innovation performance.
• Promote the exchange of best practices and knowledge transfer.
• Engage companies, clusters, research centres, and public administrations through communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities.
The project includes a European consortium committed to sustainable innovation: ISMC the Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster, the International Center for Advanced Materials and Raw Materials of Castilla y León ICAMCyL Foundation, the Bulgarian Industrial Cluster Srednogorie, and Germany´s Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V.
Aim of MOSAIC INNOVA: Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups focused on critical and deep technologies are crucial to enhancing value chains in digital innovation and clean technologies. The project will support them in transitioning to Industry 5.0 and foster an innovation ecosystem. The project will establish an excellence hub for deep-tech innovation, promoting knowledge exchange and technology transfer among partners. It involves local, regional, and national stakeholders to improve coordination and create better synergies between EU funds that promote resilient innovation and a circular economy. The project will summarise ecosystem actions and guide future developments, including stakeholder mapping, selecting four deep-tech companies, and analysing EIC Accelerator-certified entities applying for the Plug-in scheme.
GKZ is responsible for the following tasks: identifying, integrating, and supporting the most promising deep-tech enterprises within the MOSAIC project. Its role begins with establishing selection criteria and coordinating the process to identify companies with strong innovation potential, market readiness, and strategic value for the ecosystem. Once the most suitable enterprises are chosen, GKZ oversees their integration into the MOSAIC network, ensuring smooth collaboration and continuous evaluation to strengthen their innovation capacity. In addition, GKZ provides tailored support regarding funding and investment opportunities, helping these companies access suitable financial instruments for their business development. Through these combined efforts, GKZ acts as a central facilitator, ensuring the selected enterprises are effectively connected, supported, and empowered to contribute to the broader goals of the MOSAIC ecosystem.
An fünf Tagen tauchten die Projektpartner der TU Bergakademie Freiberg und des GKZ Freiberg tief in die überbetriebliche Lehrunterweisung (ÜLU) an der Handwerkskammer Dresden ein. Sie besuchten verschiedene Kurse in den Gewerken Raumausstatter, Tischler, Zahntechniker
und SHK-Anlagenmechaniker. Jeder ÜLU-Kurs folgt einem spezifischen fachpraktischen Ausbildungsplan, welcher vom Heinrich-Piest-Institut (https://hpi-hannover.de) für jedes Gewerk verbindlich festgelegt ist. Die jeweilige Ausgestaltung und Planung der wochenweisen Unterweisung lässt individuellen Spielraum für das Ausbildungspersonal zu. Im Unterschied zum berufsschulischen oder universitären Kontext liegen die Stunden- und Tagesplanungen nicht unbedingt schriftlich-strukturiert vor. Sie werden jetzt im Rahmen des Projektes anhand der realen Umsetzungen erarbeitet – sozusagen „aus den Köpfen der Ausbilder auf’s Papier gebracht“.
Während der Hospitationen wurden bereits verschiedene Interviews mit dem Ausbildungspersonal, aber auch den Auszubildenden geführt. Diese helfen, die Abläufe besser zu verstehen, Gemeinsamkeiten, wie z. B. die notwendigen, wiederkehrenden Belehrungen, aufzudecken und vorausgesetztes Wissen einzugrenzen.
Bild: GKZ Freiberg