EFFRA & the Vanguard Initiative signed a Cooperation Agreement on the 25th of November, during the Vanguard Initiative Annual Political Meeting 2021. 

Eddy Van Hijum, Chair of the Vanguard Initiative, and Željko Pazin, Executive Director of the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA)  by signing the cooperation agreement have officialised the already ongoing collaboration. The strategic cooperation will be focused on 4 key areas: 

• Identification of possible synergies and complementarities between funding sources
• Implementation of jointly agreed activities
•  Regular exchanges of information and experiences
• Dissemination and awareness-raising activities

As a next step, VI and EFFRA will set up in the next weeks a joint task force in charge of the definition, development, and assessment of an annual action plan that would implement the cooperation agreement.