Guidebook for the constitution of new Competence Centres

This document provides a guidebook for the constitution of the new robotics Competence Centres elaborated in the HORSE project.
A Competence Centre is a facility or an entity that provides leadership, evangelization, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area. Competence Centres are instruments promoted by the I4MS1 program to support the European leadership in manufacturing through the adoption of ICT technologies. HORSE project supported the creation and development of four Competence Centres dedicated to robotics in France (Paris-Saclay), Germany (Munich), the Netherlands (Delft) and Slovenia (Celje). The Competence Centres provide robotics equipment and services to facilitate the appropriation of robotics by manufacturing industries. All Competence Centres offer places to assess and enhance the capacities of the OSGi-based HORSE framework developed during the project.