FAQ Membership benefits

Find out about the benefits of a MADE membership.

MADE production check

Manufacturing companies that are members of MADE can request a production check. Your local MADE specialist will pay a visit to review your challenges as a manufacturing company and talk to you about your development potential.  

The outcome is often good advice, contacts established with potential partners, referrals to options within MADE, such as specific innovation projects, as well as other relevant offers from the Danish Business Hubs.  

How it works

A production check takes around 2 hours.

It starts with a meeting, after which our MADE specialist examines your production process from A to Z and then draws up a preliminary road map. Back at the MADE office, the specialist continues working to find contacts and start-up projects or similar initiatives. 

Request a production check – contact your local MADE specialist

Ida Kragh-Vodstrup

Innovation Manager

Mobile: +45 2142 5152
Email: ikraghvodstrup@made.dk

Henning Ole Hedeland 

Senior consulant, Regional hub: Aalborg Ø

Mobile: +45 2112 0242
Email: hohedeland@made.dk

Helmut Schwartz

Senior consulant, Regional hub: Kolding

Mobile: +45 4226 0359
Email: hscwartz@made.dk

Preben Dahl Johansen

Senior consulant, Regional hub: Skjern

Mobile: +45 2130 5009
Email: pjohansen@made.dk

Opportunities to apply for MADE projects

MADE offers a range of projects targeted at companies looking to optimise their production process or find new solutions to manufacturing issues.

As a member company, you are welcome to join small- and large-scale MADE projects, whether they last just a couple of months or, as is the case with our research projects, extend over several years.

Find out more about our project opportunities.

How it works

MADE projects are offered on an ongoing basis, and you can find open calls listed on MADE’s website or sign up for MADE’s newsletter, where they are regularly announced.  

As a member company, you are welcome to contact MADE for assistance with applying for one of these calls.  

A MADE staff member can help with advice, mentoring, proofing and feedback in connection with applications for MADE projects. 

Contact person

Sandrina Lohse-Larsen

Senior consultant


Mobile:+45 3055 1472
Email: slohselarsen@made.dk

Get help to apply for MADE projects

Get help to make a successful application for a MADE project.

MADE offers a range of projects targeted at companies looking to optimise their production process or find new solutions to manufacturing issues.

As a member company, you are welcome to join small- and large-scale MADE projects, whether they last just a couple of months or, as is the case with our research projects, extend over several years.

Find out more about our project opportunities.

How it works

MADE projects are offered on an ongoing basis, and you can find open calls listed on MADE’s website or sign up for MADE’s newsletter, where they are regularly announced.  

As a member company, you are welcome to contact MADE for assistance with applying for one of these calls.  

A MADE staff member can help with advice, mentoring, proofing and feedback in connection with applications for MADE projects. 

Contact person

Sandrina Lohse-Larsen

Senior consulant


Mobile:+45 3055 1472
Email: slohselarsen@made.dk

Use MADE Challenge to resolve an issue

Draw on Manufacturing Denmark to propose a solution to a challenge in your company – a challenge you share with your industry peers. MADE identifies potential solutions and offers financial support to test a given solution in a MADE demonstration project. 

See an example of a challenge here. 

How it works

Contact MADE if you think you’re facing a challenge that other companies in your industry are also up against.  

If the challenge is selected as a MADE Challenge, MADE looks into whether another company already has a finished solution to the issue, or whether Manufacturing Denmark players can develop one. In the latter case, we draft a description of the challenge together with your company and invite everyone to suggest solutions. The solutions submitted are then assessed, and together, we choose the best-suited solution proposal, which is then named winner of the MADE Challenge. 

Your company and the Challenge winner will be assigned a MADE demonstration project. This means you will receive specialist assistance and access to test facilities so you can trial the solution and, if all goes well, end up with a Proof of Concept.  

Contact person

Nigel Edmondson

CEO

Mobile: +45 21434678
Email: nedmondson@made.dk

Participate in MADE’s applications for big national and international projects

All MADE members are offered a meeting to discuss opportunities for involvement in EU projects or to be matched with knowledge-provider organisations, particularly in the EU – but potentially also in countries such as Canada, the USA, Korea and Japan. 

Additionally, MADE members can also be included in one of MADE’s applications to major national funding programmes for manufacturing research. Research projects often require companies to provide co-financing and typically last a couple of years. 

How it works

We invite you to a discussion meeting to explore and define your company’s aims and interests.  

Afterwards, MADE suggests relevant partners and assists with establishing contact to them. You may also receive suggestions for relevant EU calls and help establishing contact with potential partners.  

Contact persons

Would you like to find out more about our international opportunities?  Contact Merete Nørby.

Merete Nørby

International senior consulant, ph.d.

Mobile: +45 2112 3991
Email: mnorby@made.dk

Would you like to find out more about being a partner in our research activities? Contact Nigel Edmondson.

Nigel Edmondson

CEO

Mobile: +45 21434678
Email: nedmondson@made.dk

Have a researcher assigned to explore potentials/solutions

As a member, you can join MADE research, where we focus on specific production challenges selected on the basis of manufacturing companies’ specific interests and needs. As part of these research activities, your organisation or company will join a network that has existed since 2014. Many of its members have been with us from day 1, and the network of deeply trusted members share insights, know-how and advice regardless of organisational type, industry and scale.  

Specifically, you will submit a challenge and help fund a researcher who works to find a solution. During the process, you will share expertise with other companies and researchers working on similar issues. 

Learn more about MADE’s latest research platform, MADE FAST (Flexible, Agile, Sustainable Manufacturing Enabled by Talent). 

How it works

Member companies can join existing research projects or be involved in creating new ones, which typically last between one and three years.  

Involvement may take the form of having a PhD or postdoc graduate assigned to your company, and the two-fold objective is to generate new know-how and resolve your specific challenges. 

As part of the research network, you will also enjoy the benefits of others’ results and research, as well as have a group to exchange ideas with. Opportunities to do this include events where MADE researchers from a range of companies and industries get together, as well as meetings and workshops for the research network. 

Contact person

Contact us for more information about our current and upcoming research projects and the opportunities for being involved.

Christine Aaberg Lauridsen

Project consulant

Mobile: +45 42 218206
Email: clauridsen@made.dk

Work with manufacturing companies to generate new knowledge and test methods

As members, knowledge-provider organisations and educational institutions can join MADE research, where we focus on specific manufacturing areas selected on the basis of manufacturing companies’ specific interests and needs. As part of MADE research, you become part of a network of deeply trusted members who share insights, know-how and experience regardless of organisational type, industry and scale.  

Specifically, you can help manufacturing companies with applied research, either through PhD or postdoc projects, or by being assigned to a project hosted by another knowledge-provider organisation where your organisation assists a researcher to investigate a particular aspect of the project.  

How it works

Knowledge-provider organisations and educational institutions can join existing research projects or be involved in creating new ones, which typically last two years.  

Involvement may take the form of having a PhD or postdoc graduate assigned to a manufacturing company, where the two-fold objective is to practise applied research and resolve specific challenges. 

As part of the research network, you will also enjoy the benefits of others’ results and research, as well as have a group to exchange ideas with. Opportunities to do this include events where MADE researchers from a range of companies and industries get together, as well as meetings and workshops for the research network. 

Contact person

Contact us for more information about our current and upcoming research projects and the opportunities for being involved.

Christine Aaberg Lauridsen

Project consulant

Mobile: +45 42 218206
Email: clauridsen@made.dk

Free participation in MADE events

MADE members have free access to MADE events.  

Since 2014, MADE has gathered the Danish advanced manufacturing ecosystem to share knowledge and inspiration at a host of multifaceted events ranging from visits to local SMEs to conferences attracting over 200 attendees. 

At open labs, on field trips and on company visits, members can see, touch and discuss the potentials and challenges posed by the latest manufacturing technologies. MADE’s innovation conferences and Virtual Deep Dives – where we delve into specific problems, including materials-related issues – also provide plenty of scope for learning about new technologies and trends as well as inspiration for partnerships and solutions. 

See MADE’s upcoming events.

Participate in special MADE events

MADE occasionally organises special members-only events. These sometimes include professional presentations, and opportunities for networking are typically given high priority.  

Increased visibility to potential customers and partners

As a member of MADE, you not only join a large national manufacturing community – you also gain greater visibility there. MADE members are listed with their name and link on MADE’s website, and a description of new members is sent to all existing members when they join.  

As a MADE member, you will have ample opportunity at MADE events to showcase your technologies or talk about innovation in your company. 

Contact person

Contact us if you’d like to hear more about speaking opportunities at MADE events.

Ida Kragh-Vodstrup

Innovation Manager

Mobile: +45 2142 5152
Email: ikraghvodstrup@made.dk

Matchmaking

Are you wondering who can help you with a manufacturing challenge? MADE has contacts throughout Manufacturing Denmark and can help you find specialists and advisory or collaborative partners who may have precisely the know-how, experience or technology you need. 

How it works

Tell us what you need help with, either by phone on +45 2112 3930 or by booking a meeting, and we will find the right person at our secretariat to help you with next steps.  

This person will then contact you for more details about what you’re looking for and help you as best possible onwards through our extensive national and international network of companies and organisations. 

We may also reach out to you if others are seeking business partners since, as a member, you are part of the MADE network. 

Contact us:

Start or join a local network

Draw on MADE for help to bring together similar companies in a local network facilitated by MADE. Members can start a network, join an existing one or be called on if other companies want to open up a dialogue with a specific manufacturing or materials focus that is relevant for you. 

Here are some of the subjects past networks have focused on: ‘Machining’ – including new materials, alloys and documentation requirements; ‘Takeback systems’ – including business cases and documentation; and ‘Industrial sensors’ – including implementation of sensor systems and quality control. 

Read an article about the results achieved by a network in the machining industry (in Danish).

How it works

By contacting or being contacted by MADE, members can start and join networks with a specific production or materials focus.  

Networks typically meet three or four times a year. Meetings are planned on an ad-hoc basis. Networks include between three and eight companies, and MADE handles facilitation.  

Contact person

Ida Kragh-Vodstrup

Innovation Manager

Mobile: +45 2142 5152
Email: ikraghvodstrup@made.dk

Get help from a student

As a member, you can have students from MADE’s network help with resolving a specific production issue at your company.  

How it works

Contact MADE if you have a specific production issue that you think can be resolved in a student project from a manufacturing college. MADE’s experts can also help identify suitable student projects in connection with a production check at your company.  

MADE mediates contact with the relevant college, university or other educational institution, which will then put you in touch with the right student. These projects generally run for a couple of months and must be adapted to the student’s study programme.  

Contact person

Henning Ole Hedeland 

Senior consulant, Regional hub: Aalborg Ø

Mobile: +45 2112 0242
Email: hohedeland@made.dk