At the end of September, the INEDIT team closed the first project work package, that lays the foundation for all the future activities of the project. The performed work started with the definition of the Do-It-Together approach, the identification of the INEDIT primary stakeholders and their needs, till the creation of the INEDIT specification map. […]

In the past months, the global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed the reality in which we live, and the way people and organizations relate. Forced isolation and social distancing have underlined the importance of a strong and synergistic relational network, raising many question marks on how to approach the new future reality. Organizations today are faced with old and […]

Almost one year has passed since the beginning of the INEDIT project, and our consortium is proposing a new approach to furniture design and furniture manufacturing. Despite the CoViD period, we have been able to identify the stakeholders involved in the process and enumerate their needs and expectations based on INEDIT concepts. We have produced a substantial state of the art regarding Do It Yourself trends, Open Innovation, social product development and social manufacturing, to elaborate a holistic model […]

On the INEDIT project, Uninova is responsible for one case study: “Smartification of Furniture”, meaning the integration of technology hardware in the furniture pieces, either via add-on to existing furniture or within the design and manufacturing processes. The goal of this smartification is to empower the DIT community, to easily integrate intelligent features in their […]

CRIT is a key partner in the Interreg Central Europe SYNERGY Project. Recently a very interesting pilot action has been launched! Find below all the details: DESIGN AND PROTOTYPE MODEL Topic: HOUSE OF THE FUTURE Call for development of a house ornament, object or piece of furniture with possibility of integration of advanced technologies (sensors, […]

Hanze University of Applied Sciences is a proud member of the INEDIT project. We are contributing to a number of different Work Packages by bringing in our vast  experience in open innovation in regional ecosystems. The insights from INEDIT will also be used in our so called Innovation Work Places where students, scholars, enterprises, governments […]

Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum is an active partner of the Interreg Central Europe Project SYNERGY which has successfully launched the Synergic Crowd Innovation Platform (SCIP). This pilot action connects companies with a project idea that requires technical solutions with suitable problem solvers from the online crowd who present matching technical solutions from the key project areas of Additive […]

For over 80 years, Veragouth and Xilema have been offering to their customers wood of superior quality, products designed and manufactured to guarantee well-being and uniqueness within the living experience. There is no question that building in wood is the key to a sustainable future. Equally so, building in wood expresses the perfect synthesis of […]

The Université de Lorraine team members are the guest editors for the new special issue of the Journal of Innovation Economics & Management (JIE&M), in collaboration with the Michigan Technological University and Delft University of Technology. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to the conceptualization of the new “Do-It-Together” approach and to […]

Working together is the key to achieve the design of sustainable furniture. To create an incentive for all stakeholders of the DIT (Do-It-Together) process to collaborate, we need a business model! It takes the diverse contributions of heterogeneous and multidisciplinary stakeholders to create the basis for real innovation in the development of sustainable products. There […]