{"id":679456,"date":"2026-01-07T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:50:10","slug":"made-smarter-adoption-programme-to-support-easts-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679456\/","title":{"rendered":"Made Smarter Adoption programme to support East&#8217;s manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Made Smarter Adoption (MSA) scheme will deliver funding, impartial advice, a roadmap from digital specialists, and leadership and management development programmes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norfolk County Council will also deliver and process 48 match-funded grants of up to \u00a320,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A successful pilot has seen the council lead a \u00a31.2m programme in 2025\/26, supporting more than 88 SMEs in the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Funding for a \u00a32.4m programme for 2026\/27, with the potential to increase in future years, has now been confirmed, subject to government funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Jamie Thums, chairman of Made Smarter Adoption East of England, said: \u201cOn behalf of the East of England Team, I am absolutely delighted with this award to further fund Made Smarter Adoption.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a result, we can extend the support for manufacturing SMEs across the region who seek to embrace digital technologies and create performance gains \u2013 essential to improving overall productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Made Smarter Adoption (MSA) scheme will deliver funding, impartial advice, a roadmap from digital specialists, and leadership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-679456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115852727480148747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}