Starting from a national initiative aiming to support the technology sector through a digitalization package designed mostly for startups, RO Tech Nation Digital Innovation Hub developed into a partnership between eleven organizations with expertise in complementary fields of specialization (Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Digital Skills and Cybersecurity, aiming to implement digital solutions in several domains of activity, such as Smart Cities, Administration digitalization, Industry 4.0, Industries digital transformation, E-health, and Culture). With a non-profit aim, RO Tech Nation DIH is looking forward to providing technological expertise and experimentation facilities at European standards, in order to digitally transform economic agents and public entities belonging to Bucharest-Ilfov region of Romania. 

Complementary, RO Tech Nation DIH intends to mobilize regional actors, aspiring to accomplish the highest and most ambitious level of economic, social and administrative competitiveness. This goal consists of boosting the technology and entrepreneurship ecosystems towards national development, presenting the transformational projects carried out by the representatives of the local technology ecosystem, and least but not last providing know-how for students and future entrepreneurs.

Acting on multiple levels, RO Tech Nation DIH is going to contribute to:

Education and digital transformation through supporting the non-formal digital education and developing young people and future entrepreneurs’ digital skills; increasing the number of business accelerators; and promoting professional reorientation opportunities for IT jobs;
Technology and entrepreneurial ecosystems development through promoting and supporting local projects and technology and entrepreneurial ecosystems; supporting local coworking spaces;
Innovation and technology funding through supporting funding instruments regarding new tech businesses establishment and mentoring programmes for entrepreneurs aiming to receive national or international funding.
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RIOHUB aims at developing a feasibility study for the creation of a hub around 4.0 Industry in La Rioja, to promote the adoption of ICT in traditional and key manufacturing sectors in the Region (Agro-food and foot-wear), by empowering the uptake of I4MS technologies, namely Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT). To this end RIOHUB brings together 5 entities who represent the key actorsfor the Digitalisation and Modernisation of strategic manufacturing sectors in La Rioja Region. Additionally 26 key stakeholders (e.g. main public institutions, clusters and competence centres) have shown their strategic interest in the articulation of this Hub, for the promotion of I4MS technologies in La Rioja Manufacturing Sectors. Digital technologies.

The BioRobotics Institute is one of the core partners of ECHORD++ Consortium. It represents a research park specifically created by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna to better house the research activities and to favour technology transfer. It is equipped with laboratories and research centres for one of ECHORD++’s RIF. It is located at the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera, which also houses an office of the Italian Institute of Technology (MicroBioRobotics Center). Most of the scenarios proposed in ECHORD++’s RIFs will be held in Facilities located in Peccioli area and in the Service Robotics and Green Robotics- Ambient Assisted Living(AAL) Laboratory. The BioRobotics Institute also provides different services such as external facilities as real testing bed enviroment, its own laboratories in the eight research areas, the connection with the joint laboratories all over Italy and the chance to collaborate with SSSA’ Spin Offs. Digital technologies.

Werk150 was founded in 2011 and is the factory of ESB Business School on the campus of Reutlingen University.

The facility is used for application-oriented research and knowledge transfer in training, continuing education, demonstration of solutions in the areas of Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twin. We train future experts in the environment of innovative technologies.

At Werk150, we demonstrate, plan and design:

demonstrators for know-how transfer - making Industry 4.0 potential visible,
the use of cloud-based tools for service-oriented collaborative engineering,
smart automation solutions in logistics,
blockchain solutions in the supply chain,
agile value creation structures and processes,
hybrid work and production systems,
methods and tools for planning and realizing future-proof factories, production systems and warehouses,
solutions for the cost-optimal design of logistics supply at the strategic (location and production strategies), tactical ( adaptability and robustness) and operational (dynamics and flexibility) levels,
solutions with 5G private networks in production and logistics (Werk150 has a full 5G standalone private network).

Werk150 is a research facility of Reutlingen University. The results of applied research are continuously integrated into teaching. As a non-profit institution, it supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the implementation of innovation and research tasks. The ESB Business School factory does not pursue any commercial goals or economic interest. Projects are publicly funded or privately realized on cost basis.

Our task as an applied research institution is to bring new developments and innovations from science into application and thus to sustainably support small and medium-sized enterprises in their innovation potential. Through research projects, such as the 5G4KMU project funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg, Werk150 supports companies in their digital transformation.

Werk150's activities to support local SMEs include:

Objective advice as independent scientists, as well as low-risk and low-threshold access to new technologies and infrastructures.
Development of new products and applications using Werk150's state-of-the-art infrastructure under real test conditions.
Research and realization of new business models through feasibility studies and workshops.
Prototypical implementation and testing of project ideas with the support of highly qualified personnel.
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The LIEU network brings together the Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTOs) of Belgian French-speaking Universities and Higher Education Institutions. The mission of the KTOs is to stimulate and facilitate cooperation between scientific communities and companies in terms of collaborative research, services and knowledge transfer. The LIEU network aims to create a forum where businesses and researchers can enter a dialogue to build trusting relationships. The advisors of the LIEU network act as go-betweens for businesses and researchers, analyzing the business’ needs in order to direct them to the best available solution, and facilitate their cooperation with appropriate academic researchers. The main services provided to companies are divided in three categories: • INFORM: provide to company a concise and consolidated information on the available scientific skills, services and facilities, • COOPERATE: provide to company a tailored support to find a research partner and to establish a business/research partnership, • NETWORK: organize business/research events to stimulate new contacts and give an opportunity to learn about technological and societal advances. The LIEU network forms a unique ecosystem that successfully promotes interactions between various research and innovation professionals. Therefore, LIEU maintains close relationships with all the members of the Walloon Digital Innovation Hub (DIH Digital Wallonia.be), especially the RTOs, the incubator/accelerator, the industry and cluster organizations, the economic development agencies and the regional government. Digital technologies.

Research Center for Informatics (RCI) Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) operates under the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and focuses on the following topics: artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition, robotics and autonomous systems, parallel computing for large data analysis, theoretical computer science, bioinformatics, medical information processing, graphics, visualization and HCI, and embedded security. RCI excellence is based on the existing impact in the research and application areas.

This research output stands on top of high quantity of research results published at international conferences and workshop, where the researchers will collect feedback from the community and will spread reputation of RCI. RCI members have founded Open Informatics, a unique in the Czech Republic, research oriented computer science undergraduate and master degree at CTU that features fields of study such as: Software, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Games, Embedded Systems, Computer Grpahics, Software Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security, Bioinformatics, Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction.

RCI is involved in international collaborations with leading research centers in respective areas. Just examples of our key partners are the following: ETH Zurich, Switzerland, University of Oulu, Finland, University of Surrey, UK, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK (MCR) and North Carolina University at Chapel Hill (NCU), TECHNION I.I.T., Israel, Oxford University, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Center for Intelligent Systems and Applications, AIAI, Stanford University and more others, see our web pages for more details.

RCI enables valuable cross sector collaborations that better facilitates transition of research excellence across different partners from research and application areas. Currently existing core of industrial partners are for example: Valeo, Adobe, IBM, CISCO, Microsoft Research, OPTIMITIVE S.L.U. and Foxcon. RCI has also established the Industrial Advisory Board. Besides direct industrial contracts, RCI members demonstrated capability to engage in technology transfer by means of building startup companies, so common at leading computer science departments at e.g. Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley or MIT. Throughout their career there have been established numerous successful startup companies that are either co-owned by the university or the university licensed the required IP to the startups. CISCO Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has successfully acquired one of the CTU startup companies, Cognitive Security in 2013. As common in California, the founding professor rejoined the university soon after the transaction. Other example is Company EyeDea s.r.o, where the CTU has 10% share. Digital technologies.

Reimagine Textile is the network of cooperation that connects the main players in the textile industry, inviting them to re-imagine the 21st century. The new materials, production processes and channels, the proliferation of data, devices, sensors and hyperconnectivity are giving rise to a new revolution of the textile. Driven by Eurecat, the TecnoCampus Mataró and the Research and Textile Technology Transfer Centre of Canet de Mar, Reimagine Textile aims to be a key player in this revolution, bringing together textile, technology, innovation, talent, new business models, new skills, design and digitalisation. This is an ecosystem based on an open philosophy: its members cooperate, share, co-work, co-create, co-invest and connect. The 5 main lines of Reimagine Textile are technology, industry, training, entrepreneurship and investment. As a result, it is made up of companies, entrepreneurs, technology centres, Fablabs, schools of design, investors, mentors, incubators, accelerators, consultants and associations. The portfolio of services available to the members of the network include an innovation and advanced prototypes laboratory, technology radar, incubation services, technological and business acceleration, mentoring, financing, consultation and support in the market approach and new business models, as well as networking and outreach activities. Services: - Technology transfer - Innovation lab & further prototypes - Technology radar - Digitalization - Approach to market - Intensive & innovative entrepreneurship - Technology incubation & acceleration - Advanced funding - Mentoring - New & advanced business models - Networking & events - Expertise & innovative talent - Advisement - Dissemination - Complementary competences Digital technologies.

Support Tuscan companies to digitize their business toward Industry 4.0. paradigm. Thanks to the regional competence network, companies can access to high qualified technical know-how and infrastructures: more than 800 highly specialized and skilled persons in Industry 4.0. topics and 250 technology infrastructures for applied research and demonstrators available in Tuscany – among them 100 provide services on Industry 4.0.

Through the on line one-stop-shop Cantieri 4.0, companies can:

- access to all relevant information about Industry 4.0. (events, grants and digital competences available, relevant documents etc.)

- register and participate to all events (workshops, research to business and matching events, etc.)

- assess their level of maturity on I40 (immediatelly through the web platform Cantieri 4.0 or by applying for ad hoc grants for technological audit on I40)

- search, select and keep direct contact with I40 laboratories and technological infrastructures

All the activities carried out by the Tuscan Platform on I40 are available at the web platform:

http://www.cantieri40.it/i40/index.php

The Tuscan Platform I40 is, through Tuscany Region, co-leading partner of the Industry 4.0 and SMEs thematic group within the European Platform for Industrial Modernisation, as well as partner of the Tourism digitisation and safety thematic group. Digital technologies.

RECENDT, the Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH is a non-university based research company in Austria.

Although being an RTO company, RECENDT is (owned by the University, the University of applied science and the Upper Austrian Research) a non-profit organization dedicated to research and to making the research results available for companies of all sizes and from all industrial branches.

As an internationally well recognized Research Center for Materials Characterization and Non-Destructive Testing & Measurement, RECENDT operates very successfully on the Austrian and international market since 2009.       

RECENDT gained internationally acknowledged reputation as partner as well as coordinator in numerous national, EU- and international projects. The company is well established as a popular partner for local SMEs as well as multinational enterprises.

 

Fundamental Research & Industrial Solutions:
Our range of services incorporates the whole R&D process chain and stretches from application-oriented fundamental research to the development of state-of-the-art technology for industrial applications.

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Nonprofit RBI DIH provide by the Center for Informatics and Computing (CIC) a organizational unit of the Ruđer Bošković Institute  in which research projects, development programs and services for scientists are performed in the fields of information technology and computing. involved in H2020 SESAMENET oriented to promoting application of HPC technologies for improving SME-s production processes.

Our Objectives
* Scientific Research: advance the state of the art in eScience and develop new technologies, providing research grants at the national and international level;
Transfer of technology: support scientific community and transfer of technology from scientific realm to the industry and government, while supporting the growth of SMEs and large enterprises in Croatia;
* Consultations and maintain resources: provide know-how and expertise on eScience, maintain HPC, CLOUD, GRID resources and support industry with an access to advanced computing facilities and expertise;
* Education and training: implementation of educational activities in EU educational networks and conferences of local and global scale;
* Innovation and exploitation activities: support innovative and creative activities, transfer of technology and to provide expertise to industry and government to support the economic growth;
* Networking and dissemination: Aiming to create national and EU strategic partnerships with academic and industry. Digital technologies.