Flanders Make is the strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry. We are a non profit organisation and have establishments in Lommel and Leuven and work together in a structural way with research departments of the 5 Flemish universities. Our purpose: realising a top-level research network in Flanders that delivers full support to the innovation projects of manufacturing companies. This way, we want to contribute to new products and processes that help to realise the vehicles, machines and factories of the future.

SMEs form an important part of our local industrial ecosystem. We support the digital transformation of this target group by assessing the specific technological challenges and the needs of the companies. We measure the digital maturity and develop tailor made action plans to improve the digital maturity. Together with our eDIH partners we provide training services where needed and engage the SMEs in peer to peer learning as well as networking activities to enhance their digital ecosystem. For specific technological developments we set-up and manage bi-lateral or open innovation projects with the companies. Through our connections with private equity providers (e.g. LRM and PMV) we are also able to give support related to financing of different projects. Digital technologies.

As an independent not-for-profit platform, Flam3D exists for all stakeholders who are active in the domain of 3D-printing. We unite, represent and support companies, research institutions, governments and stakeholders.

Flam3D is looking to strengthen value chains, both inside and outside the organization. We are open for companies and organizations interested in 3D-printing and Additive Manufacturing applications. Digital technologies.

FIWARE ZONE is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge, Business and University of the Regional Government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía) and Telefónica to support and promote intelligent solutions in different sectors of the economy and development such as SmartCities, Industry 4.0. or Smartagrifood.
 

FIWARE Zone is constituted as the Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) of Andalusia to promote the digitization and transformation of companies through technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and artificial intelligence with FIWARE as connector of these. Due to its public-private character, FIWARE Zone is a non-profit initiative.
 

To achieve this, training actions in reference technologies are carried out, companies and entrepreneurs are provided with a development environment as well as testing and access to a data bank and help is given to promote FIWARE technology as a European standard, promoted by the European Commission and aligned with the Andalusia Smart 2020 strategy. FIWARE technology as a modular platform allows us to use different technologies such as Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, etc..
 

FIWARE Zone is based on the European FIWARE standard, promoted within the EU and aligned with the Andalusia Smart 2020 strategy. FIWARE technology as a modular platform allows us to use different technologies such as IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, etc..
 

The Junta de Andalucía and Telefónica lead this initiative, belonging to it all those institutions, companies and individuals interested in knowing and participating in FIWARE Zone through integration programs and collaboration with universities, business clusters, technology parks, entrepreneurs, public administrations, etc..
 

FIWARE Zone, in addition to being a DIH, is also recognized as a FIWARE iHub by the FIWARE Foundation, which guarantees having the experience and resources necessary to develop the activities and services described below. Digital technologies.

FIWARE Space is the innovation center of the Provincial Council of Badajoz to bring the new technologies of IoT and Big Data to citizens.

This center is part of a global project called "Badajoz Es Más", which aims to develop municipalities with a better quality of life through sustainable development. The objective is clear: to turn the province of Badajoz into an Intelligent Territory or a "Smart Province".

FIWARE Space coordinates the activity related to the Provincial Platform for Smart Management of Public Services, which allows the integration of information from different services in one place, to facilitate the analysis and management of services that are the responsibility of the Provincial Council of Badajoz.

FIWARE Space is a non-profit innovation center that aims to make the technological knowledge and tools of the "Badajoz Es Más" project available to different entities, among which are:

- Public administrations
- Municipalities
- Small and medium enterprises
- The teaching and research staff of the university and other educational institutions
- The entrepreneurs
- The citizens

One of the main objectives of this center is to support our small and medium enterprises through the digital transformation of the province. For this, the center makes available to these entities:

- A 2-month mentoring program in which to deepen the underlying concepts of the smart province, to know first-hand the technological work that is being carried out. In these 2 months, it is intended that the company evolve its initial prototype to a solution with the ability to be operational and integrated into the Provincial Platform.

- Specialized consulting and technical support for the integration of solutions in FIWARE. We help the creation and adaptation of data models, knowledge of architecture and the possibilities of integrating into this European standard.

- Help in the certification of solutions in the FIWARE Marketplace portal of the FIWARE Foundation. We advise on how to apply with the solution developed to obtain the different certifications.

- Advice on acceleration programs. After the completion of the mentoring program, we try to find a suitable European acceleration program to take the project to the next level.

- Physical location for the development of integration in FIWARE. We have a physical space in which you can work to integrate the solution into FIWARE, with the tools and support of the technical office.

- Theoretical and practical training workshops. Every Friday of the year we conduct workshops to which people with technical training can go to learn more about how a smart city works.

- Visits to the innovation center. Interested persons or entities can visit the center once a week to see first hand the digital transformation that is taking place in the province.

FIWARE Space also carries out some unique activities throughout the year:

- Hackathons. Workday in which, by teams, a technological problem is solved.

- IoT challenge. Companies are presented to solve a real problem of the province through technology. Once the applications have been submitted, an evaluating court chooses the winner, who will receive an economic endowment to carry out his idea and put it into operation in the province.

- Design Thinking Workshop. Workshop that aims to foster creativity through innovative new methodologies that will allow us to deepen a specific challenge.

In addition to all this, FIWARE Space, in the hands of the Diputación de Badajoz, participates in different local, national and international events in which it provides visibility to the companies of the province so that they can develop their activity in other places and, thus, contribute to the expansion of companies in the region.

Finally, it should be noted that FIWARE Space is considered as a 2-star FIWARE iHub, cataloged by the FIWARE Foundation, thanks to the work and the number of activities carried out to bring new technologies to citizens. Digital technologies.

FIWARE Innova iHub is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT Association that supports the digital transformation process and promotes intelligent solutions in the Smart City and Smart Agri Food sectors, acting as a FIWARE reference Hub in Italy. At the moment, in our country, FIWARE Innova iHub is the first and the only FIWARE iHub, and the only FIWARE Certified Expert. The FIWARE Evangelists that are part of the Association represent the largest number of FIWARE Evangelists in Italy.

FIWARE Innova iHub is a “one star” certified in the global network of FIWARE iHubs powered by the FIWARE Foundation (https://www.fiware.org/community/fiware-ihubs/ ). Recognized as a FIWARE Validator Center, it certifies FIWARE products, and provides purpose-designed consultancy and training on FIWARE. The iHub has also a valuable network of private industries, public government and universities.

Our Association has the challenge to help facilitate the empowerment of cutting-edge technologies, successful entrepreneurial strategy, novel business models and sustainable development of solutions and infrastructures in urban and rural areas for transforming them in “Smart Lands” to create wellbeing for a better quality of life.

The mission of FIWARE Innova iHub is to promote the culture of innovation, making the technological knowledge and tools available to different entities such as:

Municipalities, Public Administrations and Local Governments

Organizations and Institutions

Startups, small and medium Enterprises in the Smart City domain

Universities and other Educational Institutions

Small and medium Farms, Smart Agri Food experts.

Through new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Open Data, Artificial Intelligence, DSS and with FIWARE tech as connector, the Association gives support to design and test technological solutions.

It support its network in implementing dashboards and applications that take advantage of the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support System to facilitate the collection, analysis, elaboration and data visualization to improve the management of services and the prediction of frequent phenomenon.

Our organization promotes the development of pilots and trials between the components of its network (in example promoting hackatons and other fast prototyping events).

The Main activities of the Association can be grouped as follows:

1. Business development

business mentoring

envisioning and strategy development

awareness dissemination

matchmaking

pilot development support

2. Skills and digital culture creation

training and supporting activities for assessing digital readiness

seminars, events

lab and test

webinars on Industry 4.0

3. Tech Innovation activities

access to specialist expertise and infrastructure

innovation scouting

collaborative R&D, prototyping

feasibility studies

digital maturity assessment

4. Design and promote FIWARE solutions

the iHub is a place where it’s possible to learn about FIWARE, from a business and technical perspective
allows to test, pilot, certify FIWARE solutions and services
brings together the local stakeholders, acting as a doorway to the FIWARE local and global ecosystem.
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FCAI is a nation-wide competence center for Artificial Intelligence in Finland, initiated by Aalto University, University of Helsinki, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. It implements Finland's national AI strategy and action plan https://www.tekoalyaika.fi/en/  launched 2017.

Our mission is to create Real AI for Real People in the Real World—a new type of AI, which is able to operate with humans in the complex world—and to renew the Finnish industry with the new AI.

FCAI is a coordinated effort aiming at researching and developing

AI solutions that bring AI systems closer to human cognition; we do not attempt to clone human cognition but provide ambitious and realistic technical solutions
AI solutions that can be used by people, as companions and assistants, and guided by the people; in other words, AI that is understandable, trustworthy, and applied ethically, and AI that with its new capabilities can understand and interact with humans
AI solutions that work with scarce data, in the real world, where large labeled training data sets are rare and current AI solutions would not perform efficiently

The FCAI is aligned with the regional (Helsinki-Uusimaa Region) and the national (Finnish) strategies for digitizing the industry. In the region, FCAI can support industry renewal by utilizing the opportunities provided by digitalization and ICT as well as big data. FCAI enables developing value chains and business operation in order to renew the companies.

Research and Innovation Strategy for Helsinki-Uusimaa Region

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/20182/231925/FI_Helsinki_U…

In national level the FCAI contributes to solve societal challenges such as demographic change, health and well-being, food production, autonomous systems applications and security by connecting the Finnish AI research excellence with industrial actors and other stakeholders.

Finnish strategy for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.tekoalyaika.fi/en/ 

FCAI supports SME’s in their digital transformation by generating scale-up solutions and concepts that are ready for commercialization and market entry. These ethical and effective AI solutions creates a basis for new AI start-ups in Finland. The FCAI innovation services promote also the commercialization of research, including technology transfer, licensing, and creation of spinouts.

 

PROJECTS:

DATABIO (H2020-ICT - 15-2016)

TRANSFORMING TRANSPORT (H2020-ICT-15-2016)

Big Medilytics (H2020-ICT-15-2016)

I4MS, ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs

SAE, Smart Anything Everywhere

L4MS - Logistics for Manufacturing SMEs

PLATFORMS and NETWORKS of DIH related to the FCAI.

EFFRA, European Factories of the Future Research Association

Big Data Value Association

AIOTI, Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation

One Sea - Autonomous Maritime Ecosystem
Smart Manufacturing

 

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  Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN)  is a non-profit industrial alliance improving the global competitiveness of Finnish industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation.​ FAMN is business-driven open innovation ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies in the way towards a new era of networked, data driven systems.​​ In co-operation with Technology Industries of Finland. The Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN) is a company-led open ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies aiming to improve the global competitiveness of industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation. In FAMN, the member companies are at the drivers seat and work together to set focus areas. All partners have a management board seat and can propose and and participate in co-creation initiatives such as RD&I projects, infra initiatives, training etc. FAMN also collaborates closely with research institutions on project basis. The ecosystem launches new R&D&I projects for the industry network, innovators, and ICT start-ups and opens the ecosystem activities to larger network. The ecosystem has influence on the global discussion regarding rules and regulations as well as plans strategic roadmaps and industrial standards.  FAMN helps companies to develop their competitiveness with regards to data sharing, platforms, digital twins as well as to autonomous business products and services. The Ecosystem provides support to their customers with experimenting new digital innovations. The ecosystem collects and coordinates training and R&D&I initiatives and supports relevant activities to take place. The ecosystem also brands the development work and acts as active communicator towards national funding agencies as well as strengthens visibility internationally. The ecosystem helps also SMEs with matchmaking, giving opportunity to participate in programs and other activities (e.g.  Data accelerator for SMEs, Demobooster, FIIF, Machine Learning Academy, Demola etc.) The FAMN activities have been for example; Mutual strategy work, launch of two competence development academies (Machine learning and New Business models academies), data accelerator for SMEs, roadmap work, conference and speeches, projects and workshops in the field of industrial data sharing and sustanaible manufacturing.       Digital technologies.

Faubourg Numérique is a non-profit organization created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Faubourg Numérique acts as Living & Learning Lab to foster open innovation in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning. Faubourg Numérique leads the local Saint-Quentin French Tech startup network and is initiator of the Open & Agile Smart Cities french network (OASC France). Faubourg Numérique (IoT Booster) is also recognized as Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) by the FIWARE foundation (managing FIWARE IoT open source technology). Digital technologies.

ZSA DIH helps farmers, agronomists, companies, research and development institutions and other organizations in Latvia to create added value by using digital technologies, better business and production processes in agriculture sector. The main strategic objectives are to initiate and develop cooperation between the public sector, business and science in the field of digital innovation, using the most modern means of communication and technology. ZSA DIH provides non-profit services for digitization of agricultural enterprises in Latvia, and it solves digital business challenges for ecosystem participants. 

The main ZSA DIH activities are focused on the end user needs. The DIH provides a variety of the non -profIt services:1) Technology services including collaborative R&D, technical support on upscaling, testing and validation, mapping platformand services, experiments, access to DIH network, networking with technology providers and scientists; 2) Business services including access to finance and funding, skills and education, brokerage, access to competence centers; 3) Ecosystem services including a community building (e.g. Living labs, >800 members of Farmers Parliament), visioning & strategy development (CAP in EU, RDP2021 – 2027: introduction of integration of digital innovations and environmental technologies investment), mentoring.

ZSA DIH works to promote the stability of Latvian agriculture on farms, digitization, modernization and successful management and integration of agricultural enterprises into EU policies and platforms. DIH supports the creation of an environment conducive to rural entrepreneurship, the development of a sustainable rural environment and infrastructure, and the availability of quality education, social care and culture in rural areas.

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FAB4 DIH - Confartigianato Salerno is a non-profit networked knowledge system made up of Confartigianato Salerno, SELLALAB https://sellalab.com/, Medaarch S.R.L. https://www.medaarch.com/and Knowledge for Business S.R.L. https://www.kforbusiness.it/, whose mission is to support the creation and promotion of innovation technology transfer for innovative start-ups and micro, small and medium sized enterprises based in Campania, in particular in the agrifood sector.

FAB4 aims at promoting the process of digital transfromation by:

supporting start-ups in open innovation and digital transformation processes;

boosting crafts activities through digital and new technologies;

acting as a regional innovation technology provider;

providing technology infrastructures and know how in order for start-ups and SMEs to reach an optimal technological horizon and a high level of digitization;

assiting start-ups and SMEs in innovative project applications and implementation;

providing access to knowledge and infrastructure for validation and testing of innovations through a strong defined partnership with local research centers and universities;

creating sector projects in order to raise awareness on the needs of specific artisan's categories and respond through innovative solutions.

In order to implement those activities, as a DIH, FAB4 coordinates a network of consultancy, training, research, design companies, professionals and NGOs specialized in the digital fabrication technologies, providing technological innovation in order to create a positive impact on manufacturing, education, work processes and sustainability. In particular, FAB4 DIH Confartigianato Salerno supports and develops, the implementation of different knowledge-transfer activities together with its FAB4 DIH special partners (Medaarch, Knowledge for Business, SELLALAB). Those activities are:

C.A.D - Centro per l'Artigianato Digitale, Incubator and Technological Services for Digital Craftsmanship. CAD is an Innovation Center, a training and technological hub, designed to help craftsmen, start-ups and SMEs to innovate through digital and new technologies. It aims at being a concrete example of how tradition and innovation can not only coexist, but together they would represent the real key to the growth and relaunch of production activities.

Mediterranean FabLab - Digital Design and Manufacturing services, is an equipped laboratory with digital manufacturing machines and technologies for the prototyping of objects, tools and electronics. The Mediterranean FabLab is a meeting place for people of all ages open to research and innovation, it is also a hub of creative processes capable of creating, through participatory innovation, training, research and production scenarios that can meet the needs of the new market and support the revitalization of business. It focuses on architecture projects and smart cities, giving space to ideas and products that use technologies to improve the quality of life.

BIOlogic - Digital Manufacturing in the Biological Sector, supports the development of research and projects for bio-based manufacturing and it is the first bio-fab lab in southern Italy structured as a research and development center, which uses biological fabrication technologies to create biological matrix products to develop new manufacturing processes. BIOlogic has active research lines ranging from the creation of materials with intelligent properties, functional to the development of a green manufacturing, up to the creation of 3D printers for controlled-release multivolumetric capsules, useful for agriculture and food integration.

Working with those innovation partners is essential for the implementation of technology transfer processes to start ups and SMEs and the development of their digital competences and it is functional to the coordination of the activity of the FAB4 DIH. 

In September 2018, FAB4 DIH Confartigianato Salerno signed a Framework Agreement with the University of Salerno in order to define the cooperation between the two parties aimed at supporting innovation and digital transformation processes of SMEs and craft businesses, by:

Developing collaborative research and technology transfer projects;

Design and implement advanced training activities for businesses;

Promoting the use of laboratories, facilities and technological skills available in the University for start ups and SMEs;

Supporting the process of setting up and developing start-ups and academic spin-offs aimed at enhancing research activities.

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