The Innovation Centre for Contactless Technologies (CITC EuraRFID) is an IoT Cluster. It is a non-profit organization located in Lille (Northern France). It was created in January 2009 and is supported by the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, the French Government, the Metropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), and the European Union.

The CITC-EuraRFID brings together the contactless technology skills and the existing experimentation platforms in the north of France and the Euro regions (Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Germany...) and is backed by over 250 members and partners. It is a centre for resources, experimentations and technical expertise in terms of identification, traceability, mobility and geolocation, which aims to develop an ecosystem specialized in the Internet of Things.

It supports the appropriation of standardized and innovative solutions regarding contactless technologies (RFID, NFC, Zigbee, 6LowPan, BlueTooth, LPWAN, 5G, etc.) that have been identified among the most important technologies for the 21st century, along with the development of new activities with high potential (Smart Home with a mobile demonstrator, Smart Factory with a Cobotic demonstrator, Smart Grid, Smart Cities, Smart Health, etc.)

CITC-EuraRFID is involved in supporting local (and non-local) SME's in their digital transformation through differents types of action: education and training, diagnostic, technological watch, proofs of concept, ...

CITC-EuraRFID is labeled Centre de Ressources Technologiques (CRT) by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (quality label for technological support to companies)

In order to successfully leverage these innovation technologies and support the innovation within local economy, the CITC works on social acceptance (accessibility, consumer convenience, privacy…), future Internet of Things, health and environmental impact, and harmonization issues.

Since March 2015, CITC is also involved in the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI), mainly in WG2 Innovation ecosystems.

Videos (in French): https://www.youtube.com/user/CITCeurarfid/ Digital technologies.

Cineca is a non-profit Consortium, made up of 67 Universities, 9 Research Institutions and the Italian Ministry for University and Research. The HPC department of CINECA (SCAI) is the largest computing centre in Italy. CINECA offers industries a state-of-the-art HPC-cloud environment, specialized training, access to competences from the excellences constituting the Consortium, and support to access funding for R&D activities.

Competence Centres: 67 Italian public Universities and institutions like CNR (National Research Council) are part of the Consortium. These include excellences in all fields related to Industry4.0, from simulation to Data Analytics. CINECA is also part of international initiatives like the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) or MaX, the European centre of excellence for Material Design and Excellerat, the European centre of excellence for Engineering Applications, where additional competences may be found. 
Activities/Services: Technical support; Infrastructure; Testing; Access to users; Access to finance; Training and education; Innovation coaching; Network development; Ecosystem building and networking; Dissemination and awareness; Market intelligence 
Focus on innovation: TRL 1 - basic principles observed; TRL 2 - technology concept formulated; TRL 3 - experimental proof of concept; TRL 4 - technology validated in lab; TRL 5 - technology validated in relevant environment 
Keywords about technology/knowledge: modelling and simulation; cloud computing; cloud infrastructure; internet of things 
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CETMA is a Research and Technology organization (RTO), a consortium with external non-profit activity based in Brindisi, founded in 1994 by ENEA to promote the development of innovation in Southern Italy. It has 65 researchers, technologists and designers, working in a 3,500 square meters headquarter, equipped with advanced instrumentation and specialized software, offices, training rooms, libraries and multimedia stations and 15 technological laboratories. With two divisions, it carries out applied and industrial research and offers technological consultancy to companies and institutions on innovative technologies and advanced materials. The multidisciplinary nature of CETMA and the integration with the skills of its members have allowed the development of applications in different sectors such as industrial products and components, transportation, mobility, production systems, human health and medical engineering, environment and recycling, cultural heritage, energy, infrastructure and civil engineering applications. In Materials Engineering, the expertises are focused on composite and polymeric materials, involving material design and optimization, simulation of material, components and processes, testing, Structural Health Monitoring, process development, prototyping. Particular competences are related to the numerical modelling of these advanced materials and their manufacturing processes, but also on the material recovery, in terms of innovative recycling and reusing processes and applications of the recovered materials. In the field of Computer Engineering, CETMA's competences concern the development of software for industrial and engineering applications, for Advanced Visual Systems applications using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies, for robotic and automation applications, including medical and rehabilitation applications. In the field of Industrial Design, it has competencies that span all phases of Product Development: from conceptual ideation, to design and prototyping, to manufacturing including ergonomic and market analysis. CETMA is the only center in Southern Italy listed in the web platform launched by DG GROWTH, that maps the centers that offer Enabling Technologies (AT) to SMEs. OUR NUMBERS In-depth skills in Advanced Materials, ICT, XR Technologies and Industrial Design 1.000+ customers (both private and public) 1.350+ total services 120+ services/year 127 independent research projects 20+ independent research projects/year 75% customers from local SMEs 18+ collaboration countries OUR STRENGTHS Application development with the most advanced digital technologies Development of new products with advanced materials and technologies Augmented reality for cultural valorization Consulting and Research on innovative materials and processes Innovative circular economy solutions Digital technologies.

The National Center for Irrigation Technology (CENTER), created in 1985, is the technological instrument of the Directorate-General for Rural Development to address the challenges associated with irrigation and integrated water resource management.

Among its many activities are: 1)To foster and promote water efficiency and sustainable management in irrigation areas; 2) To become a center of applied research, development, testing, standardization and innovation in cutting-edge technologies for irrigation. 3) To foster and conduct international cooperation for development in irrigation and rural development.

TRAGSA Group as public company supports the Ministry and CENTER in Digital Hubs activities with own R&D resources & projects (http://www.tragsa.es): 

The companies that are collaborating and working in the CENTER are:

Batchline: http://www.batchline.es/
Ingenieria y Control Remoto SA: http://www.icr-sa.com/
REGABER: http://regaber.com/
Isastur :https://www.isastur.com/es/home
Serina: https://www.serina.es/

Also, the involved Irrigation Communities  are:

Valle-Inferior: http://valleinferior.es/

Genil-Cabra:http://www.crgenilcabra.es/ Digital technologies.

Non-profit organization chaired by François BONNEAU, also president of the Center-Val de Loire region, DEV'UP federates all the regional economic actors, from the region to the groups of cities, from the CESER to the consular chambers, from the public services to the organizations competitiveness clusters of the research network. An unprecedented collective commitment to employment and support for businesses and territories in the region.

A real entry point in the Center-Val de Loire region, the agency supports any business or economic project leader (innovation, implementation, investment, recovery, search for partners, export ...) via its 6 local agencies, its technical, operational and advisory network. Its teams provide tailor-made services for:

• Animation of the territory and management of networks of regional economic actors

• attractiveness of the territory

• International development in particular through European programs

• Support for innovative companies

• Animation of the regional digital ecosystem "French Tech Loire Valley"

• Coordination of the Regional Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3)

DEV'UP and its partners (mentioned below) grouped in consortium, are able to support regional SMEs in their digital transformation in different ways with tailored made services:

Awareness creation:
Through the actions in favor of entrepreneurship, the members of the consortium make future entrepreneurs aware of the specific issues of digital transformation. At events such as Startups Week Ends or Hackathon type programs as well as pitch competitions, project holders are fully informed.
In partnership with the employment houses in the so-called "sensitive" districts of the cities, awareness-raising actions to create businesses in the digital domain are also organized.

Ecosystem building, scouting, brockerage, networking:
On April 3rd, the French government awarded the national French Tech label to the entire regional territory. The application for the French Tech label has been coordinated by DEV'UP. This label marks the recognition that there is a network in the region enabling digital companies to develop.
Based on the good practices identified in the Interreg Europe ESSPO project, a customer journey targeting the digital needs of SMEs will be implemented from 2019 onwards.

Visioning and strategy development for businesses:
In addition, DEV'UP manage the network of economic developers of the Center Val de Loire which has more than 380 members visiting companies and who address digital issues whenever necessary.
As indicated in the various examples, it is common for companies to need strategic advice for their digital arbitrage.

Collaborative researchs:
INSA and university laboratories are encouraged to participate in collaborative projects with regional companies through actions implemented by the competitiveness clusters or collaborative research programs funded by the Region.

Validation and prototyping concept & Testing and validation:
The network of FabLabs distributed throughout the Center Val de Loire region and the Industry Lab based in orleans are platforms that allow project owners or companies to validate and prototype digital solutions that are recommended by the consortium members.

Digital maturity assessment:
Businesses in the region can benefit from free digital diagnosis to identify their needs for digital transformation and develop an action plan to achieve this.
The GIP RECIA has organized training courses for economic developers to be trained in the realization of these diagnoses.

Incubator / acceleration support:
Several structured programs are being developed by DEV'UP, Orleans Loire Valley Technopole and BIC ThePlacebyCCI to help incubate and accelerate projects related to digital technology and implement tailor-made support.
For fast-growing SMEs, a regional accelerator was set up by Bpifrance and the regional council to enable them to become large companies.

Access your funding and investor readiness services
DEV'UP has set up a specific program for regional SMEs wishing to raise funds called "Scale up - access to finance". The agency also organizes  information seminars and B to B appointments with VCs.

Mentoring:
The French Tech Loire Valley Board is made up of 9 digital entrepreneurs who can mentor companies in the digital community. Other mentoring opportunities are proposed during events.

Education and skills
The two Universities of Orleans and Tours and the INSA Center Val de Loire offer a complete set of high-Education courses. Several other organizations labeled "Grande Ecole du Numérique", including CEFIM and Wild Code School, have developed operational and varied training to meet the needs of regional businesses in the digital filed.

The core consortium of DIH Centre Val de Loire, coordinated by DEV'UP (https://www.devup-centrevaldeloire.fr/dih), is composed of the following actors:

 

RECIA : https://www.recia.fr/

Université d’Orléans: https://www.univ-orleans.fr/

Université de Tours: https://www.univ-tours.fr/site-de-l-universite/accueil--598731.kjsp

INSA Centre Val de Loire: http://www.insa-centrevaldeloire.fr/fr/

BRGM : https://www.brgm.fr/

Cosmetic Valley : https://www.cosmetic-valley.com/

S²E² : http://www.s2e2.fr/

Elastopole : https://www.elastopole.com/

DREAM : http://www.poledream.org/

Vegepolys : https://www.vegepolys.eu/

CETIM Centre Val de Loire : https://www.cetimcentrevaldeloire.fr

CRESSIT Industrie : http://www.cresitt.com/

Orleans Val de Loire Technopole : http://www.tech-orleans.fr/

ThePlacebyCCI : http://www.theplacebycci28.fr/

Wild Code School https://wildcodeschool.fr/

CEFIM : https://www.cefim.eu/

Regional Chamber of Commerce : http://centre.cci.fr/

CIMI : http://www.cimi.fr/ Digital technologies.

The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) is the only research center in Northern Greece and one of the largest in the country. It is listed among the TOP-20 E.U. research institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. CERTH’s successful history is characterized by strong and long term collaborations with more than 1.200 acknowledged partners from the private and the public sector in Greece and abroad. Partners include multinational industries, large companies and SMEs, local authorities, academic institutions, research centers, etc.

Today CERTH is organized under the following five institutes:

Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), Sustainable & Clean Energy, Environmental Technologies, Chemical & Biochemical Processes, Advanced Functional Materials
Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Informatics, Telematics and Telecommunication Technologies
Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Land, Sea and Air Transportation as well as Sustainable Mobility services
Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Agri-biotechnology, Health Translational Research, Informatics for big bio-data
Institute of Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Agrotechnology, Mechatronics, Biomedicine and Kinesiology

CERTH operates as Digital Innovation Hub. Combining its unique research facilities and high qualified technical and scientific personnel, CERTH transforms scientific knowledge into innovative technological applications. Among others, CERTH develops advanced material technologies; automation and control systems for industrial processes; technologies for clean production processes; biotech applications; big data analytics tools; intelligent transportation and mobility services; technologies dedicated to the bio-production systems domain. In addition, CERTH disposes state of the art research infrastructure and testbeds such as nZEB smart house for exploring smart IoT-based technologies in the fields of energy, health, security, big data, robotics and AI; unique pilot plans for exploring new chemical processes and energy carriers potential enhancement; VR units and simulators for rapid prototyping of intelligent and secure transportation services; analytical equipment and computation power for big data analysis across all domains in Life Sciences. Collaboration with CERTH accelerates thus the adaptation of the business sector and especially SMEs, to the new digital industrial era and the markets of the future.

CERTH’s interest in providing end-to-end technological solutions and services is further proven by the founding of numerus spin-offs (15 up to date) that deliver innovative production technologies materializing the 4th Industrial revolution. Digital technologies.

Research areas and competencies of CAMT are within the most recent development, manufacturing and informatics systems trends known not only in Poland. A broad extent of carried out research programmes and implementation projects assures a constant technological improvement and enhances the scientific and research potential of CAMT – over the centre's existence (since 2000) it has grown from 16 to 76 employees (2 full professors, 3 associate professors, 28 assistant professors, 23 postgraduates and 23 scientific-research workers, paid of commissions and projects). This trend is highly conducive to establishing a close cooperation with industry and enables to carry out research projects in national and international associations – several projects within the frame of FP6/FP7/H2020 and commissioned directly from industry, chiefly German, were carried out. Unprecedented so far international contacts, involving staff exchange (dozens of people a year, some of whom come to the Centre from abroad), create additional possibilities of research and staff potential development and contribute to a high recognition of the CAMT Research Team's output. As a result, the Marshall of the Lower-Silesian Voivodeship called into being the Lower Silesian Innovation and Science Park (DPIN), managed by the CAMT workers. The DPIN created Technology Innovation Cluster and coordinates its activities (a project form Regional Operational Programme was acquired), it has also prepared many deals with other European clusters. It goes without saying, that the CAMT's status as the Centre of Excellence has changed the approach to all the important aspects of scientific research, commercialization of its results and technology transfer. During our activity, we gained many research, development and industrial projects, working out top scientific research organization methods. We also cooperate with dozens of research centres all over the world and managed to build one of the most modern laboratories in Europe. Our staff consist of young and resilient people (of all the workers, 5 persons are older than 50 years, another 5 have more than 40 years and the rest have around 30 years or less). It is an important aspect of continuous improvement of our engineering staff, which should have an opportunity to master the most recent technologies applied in advanced sectors of not only domestic but also international industry and take up their own scientific activity. It is an important aspect of continuous improvement of our engineering staff, which should have an opportunity to master the most recent technologies applied in advanced sectors of not only domestic but also international industry and take up their own scientific activity. Areas of INTEREST Laser and Plasma Technologies Mechatronics and Machine Vision Microscopy & Measurement Materials Research Computed Tomography Reverse Engineering Rapid Prototyping Process Monitoring Material Tests Product Development Product Tests and Analyses Precision Processing IT Production Organization CAMT as the Fraunhofer Project Center By virtue of the contract signed on 24th September 2008, our research centre became a part of the international Fraunhofer Research Centre (FRC), established in association with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and with Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (IWS) in particular, in the area of laser and generative technologies. Together with our international partners, we conduct research in the field of development and application of laser, special and hybrid technologies. By joining our partner's experiences in the field of laser applications with our own experience in production management, we work together over the generative manufacturing technologies development. Digital technologies.

Cenaero is an applied research center providing to companies involved in a technology innovation process numerical simulation methods and tools to invent and design more competitive products. Internationally recognized, Cenaero is mainly active in the aerospace (in particular turbomachinery), process engineering, energy and building sectors. Cenaero operates experimental facilities in composite manufacturing and prototyping as well as the Tier-1 Walloon supercomputing infrastructure with 14,000 computing cores. Digital technologies.

The UPC Technology Center (CIT UPC) is a non-profit entity, attached to the UPC but with its own legal personality. It is dedicated to applying university research capabilities to innovation in business. CIT UPC comprises 20 UPC Research Centers. They are located on four UPC campuses in Barcelona, Terrassa and Vilanova i la Geltrú. In 2015, the 20 Centres generated a total income of €12 million, of which 51% was derived from R&D agreements with companies. OBJECTIVES To contribute to the general benefit of society and, in particular, to improve business competitiveness through the transfer and commercialisation of technological knowledge. To promote applied research and foster cooperation and internal coordination among the various CIT UPC research centres, with a view to conducting research and transferring the R&D results to the business world. To meet the technology needs of companies, as well as any other institutions, by providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary technological service, thereby bolstering companies’ efforts to innovate. To promote social recognition of the technology transfer and commercialisation function performed by the research centres – and by the UPC as a whole – with emphasis on technological excellence. Digital technologies.

In the name of the Bavarian government the Center Digitisation.Bavaria perfoms a bundling function for already existing activities in the areas of digitisation and develops them further in a sustainable manner. With its business office in Garching the Center Digitisation.Bavaria acts as a coordinator for numerous actions. They especially include

Thematic platforms: Networking between entrepreneurs and scientists concerning key themes of digitisation
Junior Research Group: Encouragement of scientific junior researchers in the thematic fields relevant for digitisation
Doctoral program: For networking and support of outstanding and promising university graduates in subjects relevant for digitisation
Innovation labs: Bringing together companies and students in order to work at innovative prototypes
Entrepreneurship: Supportive activities for establishing professional and entrepreneurial knowledge
Professorships: Strengthening of the outstanding science and research landscape in Bavaria in future fields of digitisation

Start-up support: The CD.B supports young entrepreneurs and tomorrow’s founders by offering targeted support for entrepreneurship and innovation labs.

Strengthening companies: Thematic platforms network entrepreneurs and scientists concerning key themes of digitisation

Expansion of research and teaching: New professorships and junior research groups make up future-oriented research and teaching regarding themes of digitisation Digital technologies.