The process of digital transformation of manufacturing companies will be based on the full use of technologies of Industry 4.0. The use of these technologies helps to improve the competitiveness of these companies, which from a socio-economic point of view are so important in Castilla y León.

The provision of digital transformation services is carried out under a one-stop shop scheme. This approach facilitates the provision to SMEs of a comprehensive service that addresses not only their technological needs, but also complementary aspects such as financing, training, etc..

In this sense, the enabling technologies of the digital transformation that have a greater importance in the catalogue of services provided from the DIHBU Industry 4.0, are: Artificial Intelligence, GPS location systems, Sensors, Robotics, Cloud computing, Cybersecurity, Additive Manufacturing, Big Data, the Internet of Things, and man-machine Technologies.

The articulation of DIHBU Industry 4.0 is framed in one of the Emblematic Initiatives referring to Industry 4.0, which are described in the update of the Intelligent Specialization Strategy of the Region of Castilla y León for the period 2018-2020.

The partners of DIHBU Industry 4.0 have a deep knowledge of the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0. Their experience is the Hub's best asset and the guarantee of providing a quality service to companies interested in using services for digital transformation. Digital technologies.

The Digital Innovation Hub, dih4.ai (Gdansk, Poland), is co-created by a consortium of Voicelab.ai and Gdansk University of Technology in collaboration with almost 20 partners.

DIH4.AI, is co-created by a consortium of Voicelab.ai and Gdansk University of Technology in collaboration with almost 20 partners. 
DIH4.AI is one of the leaders of Digital Innovation Hubs in Poland, selected in October 2019 by the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology. VoiceLab.AI specializes in providing artificial intelligence innovations in the area of voice and signal processing technologies. It has world-class proprietary solutions designed for the banking, financial, telecommunications, medical and public sectors, among others. The company has vast experience in tasks related to digital transformation in the national conditions of development and implementation of modern technologies. Gdansk University of Technology is on the other hand an experienced technical university and one of the best research universities in Poland. It successfully implements initiatives related to the development of scientific research , as well as undertakes activities to integrate the Pomeranian environment in the field of AI, conducting intensive training and networking activities. 

The primary purpose of DIH4.AI is to support companies in the development and commercialization of innovative projects in the field of modern technologies through access to knowledge, experience, technology and good practices. Digital Innovation Hub conducts information, training, consulting and implementation activities - in particular in the field of AI, but also robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) or cyber security. (learning factory), thanks to which it is possible to acquire competencies necessary for technology transfer from science to industry.

Services offered: 

trainings and courses: gain knowledge and improve competencies in the use of AI to support digital transformation. Use our e-learning platform: www.edu.dih4.ai
Computing power; intelligent automation of complex business processes requires efficient infrastructure. We provide the computing power you need to digitize your operations.
Labs: Want to do a project related to robotics, automation or 3D printing? Prototype and construct in the state-of-the-art dih4.ai lab workshop
Consulting: We can help if you need support with automating processes in your organization or are looking for advice on how to use AI for data processing.We also offer to perform a technology audit and digital maturity assessment using ADMA methodology
Events: Find yourself at the center of events and meet people who share your enthusiasm. Gain knowledge and valuable contacts. Check where we can meet!

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(DIH-BAITUR) is a non-profit initiative in line with the Smart Specialisation Strategy of the Balearic Islands (RIS3), which is focused on tourism and promotes other strategic sectors, such as agriculture.

Tourism is one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic industries in the world. At the same time, it is also an “anchor” industry for all others in the region.

The Balearic Islands are one of the most important and well-known tourist destinations in the world. The competitiveness of the tourism industry is directly related to the islands’ capacity to innovate and adapt to today’s new technological changes.

Disruptive technologies have a direct impact on tourism, and this impact is much stronger than in any other sector: cloud computing, IoT, BigData, 5G... So, this industry needs a digital and innovative ecosystem that will help to support the emergence of new data and the digital economy.

At the same time, tourism is a sector that is directly linked to all other industries in the region, especially agriculture. So, DIH-BAITUR brings all these sectors and industries together “under one roof,” therefore increasing the region’s level of competitiveness.

DIH-BAITUR aims to support and boost the digital transformation of companies, especially those in the tourism and agricultural sectors. This will help them to successfully face today’s global challenges, especially those related to the new data economy, and help them to become more competitive.

DIH-BAITUR is co-run by different non-profit and public entities: the cluster of technologies applied to tourism – TURISTEC, leading the creation of DIH-BAITUR together with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Mallorca Chamber of Commerce, the Agricultural Cooperatives on the islands and the Regional Government of the Balearic Islands. New members to join in the short-medium term have already been identified.

The main ambition of the Balearic Islands DIH is to become a reference model, not only for the Balearic Islands in anything related to innovation and digitisation, but also at European level for the tourism sector.

This DIH also intends to create a strong and single digital innovation ecosystem involving not only the tourism sector but all other sectors in the Balearic Islands, concentrating primarily on the agricultural industry. DIH-BAITUR provides services for the development of R+D projects, scaling up of innovative projects and demonstrations, and also serves as a resource for training and accelerating of start-ups with a one-stop-shop approach.

Different services have already been identified, for the technical and economic advisory services such as:

Needs analysis
Market and territory intelligence: Development of tools to offer Market and territory intelligence, open to public and private entities and based on indicators
360 vision of technological assessment
Technological perspective and state of the art assessment
Economic viability analysis
Access to finance and funding: offer information on existing grants, funds and tenders at local, national and international level for all kind of entities
Proof of concept

 

Networking and incubating services such as:

Access to competence centres
Development of the innovation ecosystem: put together the main actors of the innovation ecosystem at regional level and generate synergies at international level
Internationalisation
Incubator/mentoring services: offering the possibility to incubate start-ups and SMEs as well as carry out different mentoring services from the technological and business point of view

Awareness and training activities, such as:

Showroom activities
Dissemination activities
Training and education: offer training and education. Identification of skills and skills needed by companies
The organisation of innovation events
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The Digital Innovation Hub of Confartigianato Ancona Pesaro and Urbino is a no profit organization, coordinated by Confartigiano Imprese, an industrial association, which has been supporting micro and Small-Medium Enterprises from 70 years.

Specifically, the DIH acts an innovation centre for artisans, SMEs and citizens who want to acquire digital competences. The DIH offers to its clients, especially SMEs of different sectors, high level services and updated training to access new technologies.

The main objective of the DIH is building a digital ecosystem linking and managing relationships between enterprises, universities and financial services in order to support businesses, particularly SMEs, towards digital transformation.

Moreover, the DIH owns specific digital and technological tools, such as 3D printers and software. SMEs can exploit this equipment directly through the DIH to develop new process and products. Furthermore, the DIH has a team of experts which can support directly SMEs, levering also on the assistance of other professional of the field. 

In particular, thanks to ICT experts operating inside the DIH, enterprises can access knowledge, experience, competences on technological tools and equipment to transform their idea in prototypes and then products. Businesses can use software, 3D printing, virtual reality exploiting the opportunity of coaching from experienced professionals.

Each client of the DIH is supported in the development of new processes and products, testing first of all their level of digital maturity, ithen defining an accurate plan of actions for developing new process and products. Lastly, based on the emerging needs and knowledge required, the client is connected by the DIH to suitable partners of the ecosystem.

The relation of the collaboration is guided by the Digital Innovation Hub from the beginning, setting meetings and supporting the partners throughout the entire collaboration.

In addition, the DIH offers specific sessions of training involving experts from DIH staff together with external professionals. Training sessions continue involving a high SMEs of different sectors. The courses relate to a wide range of topics from web marketing, cybersecurity and privacy, prototyping and 3D printing and programming. Digital technologies.

The DIH Veneto is managed by Confindustria Veneto SIAV Spa, the service company of Confindustria Veneto.

It operates at a regional level in close connection with the "territorial antennas" set up by the Industrial Associations of the Veneto provinces and the provincial DIHs of Confindustria.

It is an important player in the 4.0 regional ecosystem, which includes the 4 Universities of Veneto, the Competence Center Smact, the public Innovation Agencies (T2I, Galileo Visionary District and Veneto Innovazione), the system of regional cluster (Reti Innovative Regionali) the smart factories of “100 luoghi di Industria 4.0”;

Awareness-raising on the opportunities related to the application of 4.0 technologies through the organisation of seminars, workshops and particularly the animation and promotion of the regional network of Industry 4.0 showcase factories

https://100luoghi.industria40veneto.it/

Research and studies in the field of 4.0 aimed at promoting and developing the managerial culture

https://www.siav.net/wp/service-post/dih-ricerche-pubblicazioni/

Training courses, seminars, workshops, and study visits;

https://www.siav.net/wp/service-post/dih-training-formazione/

Digital maturity assessment: support in the use of digital maturity assessment tools, the definition of the roadmap for the digital transformation of business processes and accompaniment in the development of 4.0 projects through the support of highly qualified managers

https://www.siav.net/wp/audit-per-le-imprese-e-consulenze-sul-digitale/

Customized consultancy to companies on specific issues of Industry 4.0 European projects (Force, Adapt, Equal, Leonardo, Erasmus Plus, Cross-border Projects, Horizon, Interreg) with a network of hundreds of partners throughout Europe.
Liaison with major regional clusters. SIAV is part of 12 technology clusters recognised by the Veneto Region.

https://www.siav.net/wp/regional-innovation-cluster/

All the services (except consultancy) are provided free of charge to companies thanks to the SIAV support in accessing regional, national and European funding Digital technologies.

​​​​Digital Innovation Hub at University of Maribor is a regional non-profit network hub of research, industry and business support organizations, utilizing state of the art infrastructure, in order to bring the digital revolution in Slovenia by offering cutting-edge digital technology innovations and services to the manufacturing industry. It also acts as a one-stop shop for East Cohesion Region of Slovenia, directing industry player towards partners who can help them during the digital transformation process.

The mission of DIH UM is to bridge the gap between the digitalization needs in the industries and the viable solutions. DIH UM’s vision is to create a collaborative community focused on digital technologies and new business models that can improve the competitiveness of companies.

DIH UM is oriented towards industrial sectors, which are prioritized in the Slovenia’s Smart Specialisation Strategy (S4). Priority area Healthy working and living environment relates to areas of application where systemic solutions should be developed based on R&D investments and intensive collaboration between stakeholders, especially companies and knowledge institutions. One of the main goals of DIH UM is to use available mechanisms, such as SRIPs, clusters, value chains etc. as a vehicle to identify future challenges and determine appropriate solutions to accelerate innovation and digital transformation. In the case of SMEs - to support them at scale-up activities to develop and implement digital skills. Experiences show that facilitating and enabling SMEs to access research facilities (e.g. HPC) removes various barriers for them (e.g. costs, lack of personnel, learning curve, lean optimization of business model) and greatly improves the likelihood of them becoming world leaders. On the other hand, for DIH UM’s technology and knowledge providers, such partnerships stimulate long-term R&D collaborations and create solid basis for strong and sustainable links between science and industry.

The largest ongoing investment is a 20 million project HPC-RIVR. UM has secured 16 million EU funding (+4 million national funding) to build a supercomputer center in Maribor to boost national high-performance computing capacities for research, innovation and business. The project will ensure integration with existing infrastructures, such as the Slovenian State Cloud. HPC-RIVR is a reference project of the Digital Slovenia 2020 (Information Society Development Strategy to 2020).

The DIH UM is bringing together skilled workforce, researchers, policy, network, knowledge, research findings and the industry. For this reason, various activities aimed at integrating knowledge and R&D with the industry are being implemented in order to initiate concrete projects contributing to new jobs and new products with high added value. Because of the vast implementation scope and focused scientific excellence - DIH UM partners immerse in many local, regional and global value chains, e.g. varying from global automotive value chains to regional health-care value chains and local agrofood value chain.

The services that Digital Innovation Hub is offering to regional business are divided in three main pillars:

Produce and share knowledge:

Skills and education (DIH UM organizes workshops, courses in the field of digitalization and also provides instant access to its available and extensive R&D infrastructure for educational purpose)
Financing innovation (DIH UM provides expert help to companies on identification of funding opportunities, consultancy for the application for local and EU grants, consultancy for the application for private investments).
Business support and consultancy (DIH UM offers expert assistance in assessment of business ideas; feasibility studies and offers assistance in preparing business plans. Furthermore, we offer advice on technology transfer, intellectual property protection and other related issues)
Search for international partners (DIH UM provides support to organizations seeking to sell or install new technologies for partners in international research, technology and innovation projects)

Co-develop, test, and launch new products and services

Strategic research and development projects and contract research (DIH UM foster the establishment of successful partnerships for the joint implementation of R&D projects)
Experimentation / Prototyping (DIH UM provides technical support on company’s scale-up and also provides instant access to its available and extensive R&D infrastructure)
Testing phase (DIH UM provides product demonstration for companies)

Nourishing the digital innovation ecosystem

Community building (DIH will strengthen its community with time through different formal networks, such as EEN, KTT, DTC, DEMOLA, VZHODNA.SI, etc.)
Strategy development (DIH UM will assist local, regional and national government in content preparation of strategies and policies in the field of digitalization; furthermore it will assist companies in development and implementation of digitalization strategies)

The coordinator of the DIH:UM is University of Maribor (UM) - the second largest university in Slovenia and the largest knowledge provider in East Slovenia cohesion region with approximately 13,000 students and 17 faculties offering a full specter of natural and social study programmes. UM is very entrepreneurially oriented and thus has strong partnerships established with businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations and other institutions in order to initiate concrete projects contributing to new jobs and new products with high added value; to address key societal issues; and to promote sustainable development and contribute to the public good. Digital technologies.

“DIH Udine” is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of “DIH Udine” is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

DIH deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industrie 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

In particular the main activities are:

Awareness Dissemination (Meeting, Workshop, etc.)

Supporting activities to industrial companies for Industry 4.0-based project implementation

Support access to tax breaks provided by Piano Industria 4.0

Supporting activities for assessing digital readiness

Supporting activities to facilitate manufacturing companies access toinnovation regional ecosystem

Design and delivery of training initiatives

Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories

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DIH TERA (Digital innovation hub TERA) is a consortium that functions as a one-stop-shop and provides companies with the possibility of enhancing their competitiveness concerning their business/production processes, products or services by using digital technologies. DIH TERA is based on technological infrastructure (Competence Centre – CC) and provides access to the latest knowledge, expertise and technologies for providing support to companies in the implementation of pilot projects, testing and experimenting with digital innovations. The hub provides business and financial support for introducing innovations, if necessary, through the value chain, and acts as the first regional contact point that strengthens the innovation ecosystem. The DIH TERA consortium consists of organisations based in East Croatia, among which there are constituents of the two East Croatian universities and development agencies from all five of the region’s counties, as well as business support institutions and renowned Croatian SMEs with extensive knowledge and experience in the IT sector and digitalisation processes. The coordinator is an SME with a not-for-profit clause, established by the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County and the City of Osijek. All the partners undertake not to make profit from the activities implemented within the DIH, in compliance with the not-for-profit clause. DIH TERA operates not only on regional but on the national and international levels as well. It cooperates with international consortia and initiatives, bringing companies closer to service providers from other regions. The members of the DIH TERA consortium participate in numerous international projects, programmes and networks, such as D-Rural, Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), Horizon2020, KAM (Key Account Management), Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE), KETGATE, KET4CP, MobiliseSME, Time Machine, EIT Food, Erasmus+, Interreg, Danube Transfer Centres (DTC), Open Innovation System of the Adriatic-Ionian Region network, ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), Crowdhelix. Key services: Test Before Invest: the services encompass digital maturity evaluation, demonstrational activities, evaluation and simulation for digital transformation, support for integration and adaptation of different technologies, testing and experimentation with digital technologies, technology transfer, development of mobile and web applications. Skills and Training: workshops, seminars, in-house education and training. Access to Finance: the services encompass connecting companies within the EEN network, creating and publishing clients’ profiles in the EEN database, advisory services regarding business internationalisation on the EU market, a consultancy in defining project proposals for financing, directing entrepreneurs to cascade financing of R&D activities and prototype financing, connecting entrepreneurs with international networks of R&D institutions. The process: An analysis of justification and needs is performed on the expression of the client's interest and the need for entrepreneurial support. To this end, an evaluation and support team shall be set up, involving relevant experts from the consortium's partner institutions. The experts are tasked with preparing a work plan (consultancy support, education, prototyping, testing, preparing project proposals for other sources of funding and other activities according to the profile and needs of the project). In the initial phase, the work of DIH TERA focuses on activities that can significantly improve business through digitalisation, such as building sustainable food supply chains through the digital transformation of agriculture, which includes the use of artificial intelligence in quality control systems, the use of blockchain technologies un certification and labelling of food products, the use of GIS/GPS technologies in precision agriculture development, use of additive production to shorten the time required for product and packaging design, personalised nutrition and functional food production, as well as other unspecified activities. Based on the connections with other international consortia and initiatives, the range of technical competencies and services is significantly expanded. Digital technologies.

The DIH TECHNICOM is a Regional Industrial DIH established as a specific (nonprofit) workplace of the University Science Park TECHNICOM (USP), which is a university-wide organizational nonprofit unit of the Technical University of Košice (TUKE).  The USP is an Innovation and Technology transfer HUB at TUKE orienting on areas within the scope of research and educational competencies of TUKE. In line with this focus, the USP represented TUKE in the H2020 MIDIH project (Manufacturing Industry Digital Innovation Hubs / 2017-2020). In accordance with the mission, results, and products of the MIDIH project, the Regional Industrial DIH began to actively operate and gradually develop in the UVP environment (from 01.2018), and it was officially open as the DIH TECHNICOM  (DIH) at 25. August 2020.

   The declared background and organizational position of the DIH enable it to make full use of the innovative potential of the USP ecosystem and adequate access to the R&D ecosystem of the university. The DIH, in line with its orientation and USP mission, provides a "one-stop-shop” and "one-stop-shop marketplace" services aimed at:

- Raising awareness of the importance of the development and implementation of relevant concepts of the I4.0 strategy.

 - Accelerating efficient implementation of digital transformation at the application of smart innovation in the relevant industrial production areas. 

In this sense, DIH services support a collaborative approach as: 

-Transfer and application results of R&D  in practice;

-Ensuring access to technology, business, and knowledge support for research, development, and innovation industrial projects, and activities of its clients. 

   Relevant ICT, training, and “smart” business services aimed at supporting the development of SMEs are very successful and have a strong link to the "Start-up" and "Spin-off" projects under the "TUKE Business Acceleration Program" provided by USP since 2014. All activities support national, European, and international cooperation aimed at developing solutions for the state-of-the-art concepts of "smart" I4.0 strategies, to which accessible assets and platforms of the MIDIH ecosystem makes a significant contribution.

  The DIH has active collaboration with the Prototyping and Innovation Centre (PaIC), which is a partner workshop of USP, allocated at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty.  PaIC ensuring the active performance of the Robotic DIH (http://roboticshub.sk/en/) guarantee by the TUKE, whose development is supporting by the H2020-RIMA project “Robotics for Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance”.  Similarly, the corresponding local AI Department at the TUKE in the H2020-AI4EU project “A European AI on Demand Platform and Ecosystem” With the support of the project, the “Slovak AI meetup” platform was created.  The close cooperation between the presented three innovation institutes significantly supports the European dimension, multidisciplinary, and holistic approach of DIH activities at the TUKE environment. Digital technologies.

DIH Tartu operates under the University of Tartu, Estonia in collaboration between the Institute of Computer Science and the Institute of Technology. DIH Tartu aims to become a recognised innovation and knowledge transfer hub for digitalisation of industries in the areas where scientific research and R&D contribution is needed. The key objectives are to develop: 

constant dialogue between the industries and university to raise the awareness of advantages of digitalisation and identify R&D needs relevant to local industries; 
R&D capacity and knowledge transfer capability through different collaboration formats and support services in the areas of interest of local, regional and global industries;
personal careers of students into highly skilled professional digital careers at the industry. 

DIH Tartu is the centre of digital excellence with strong and versatile network of partners from public, private and third sector, each with its clear focus and capability to contribute to the DIH’s value proposition to companies seeking for support in digitalising their businesses. DIH Tartu provides services for companies to enable and support digital innovation in the areas of:

Data Science (Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence), 
Software Engineering & Information Systems, 
Business Process Management, 
Cyber Security, 
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing & IoT,
Collaborative robotics and flexible manufacturing,
Cyber-physical systems,
Virtual and augmented reality system.

The services include consultations, mentoring, trainings, workshops, prototyping, joint R&D projects, technology and process audits, access to labs, infrastructure and high performance computing power, access to international research and collaboration networks, etc. DIH Tartu also contributes to skills development of future digitalisation specialists and entrepreneurs by offering:

pre-incubator programmes for students to encourage digital entrepreneurship; 
support for researchers to create spin-offs for innovation, knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry;
project based internships and digital product innovation experiments, industrial master and doctoral programmes to co-educate future specialists  (in collaboration with specific industry partners).
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