The Wokring Group 1 held its first best practice sharing meeting of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe on 22 January 2018.
The second meeting of the Working Group 1 will focus on improving access to finance for SMEs and DIHs, and will take place on the 21st of February 2018 in Brussels.
A recorded version of the event is available here.
Bringing Digital Innovation Hubs together
This is the first meeting of a series of the Digital Innovation Hubs Working Group meetings to take place until the next high-level governance meeting with Commissioner Gabriel in summer 2018.
The aim of the meeting is to bring together Digital Innovation Hubs representatives who are part of the European Catalogue of DIHs and other interested parties to discuss how to motivate SMEs to engage with hubs and how hubs can create demand for the services of the SMEs.
Sharing of best practices
During the day we gave the opportunity to all Digital Innovation Hubs that have a best practice on how they engage SMEs to test out digital innovations to improve their production processes, products or business models to give a short presentation about it.
Please find the agenda of the event with all presentations as follows:
Agenda
09.15-10.00: Welcome coffee and registration
10.00-10.30: Setting the scene: the Digital Innovation Hubs initiative – objectives & expectations
Max Lemke & Anne-Marie Sassen, European Commission (20′ and 10′ Q&A) – presentation
10.30-10.45: The H2020 open calls mechanism & engaging SMEs in European DIHs
Mayte Carracedo, H2020 Coordination and Support Action I4MS-Go under the Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs initiative (I4MS) – presentation
Rainer Günzler, H2020 Coordination and Support Action Smart4Europe under the Smart Anything Everywhere initiative (SAE) (10′ and 5′ Q&A) – presentation
10.45-12.00: Session 1 – Reaching out to the SMEs
(individual presentations of 5′ and 25′ discussion)
innomine (Cloudifacturing project) (HU), Gábor Vicze
The digitalisation challenges the manufacturing SMEs face and how to motivate them towards embracing digital transformation. – presentation
BioSense DIH (RS), Grigoris Chatzikostas
The Lean Multi-Actor approach, a demand-driven methodology to digitalisation. – presentation
IAM 3D HUB (ES), Aintzane Arbide & WATIFY (BE) Gabriela Cinkova
Raising awareness to the SMEs and a region’s industrial community though technical innovation days, events and other dissemination activities (techflashes, social media, tradeshows). – presentation
Lithuanian DIH on Robotics (LT), Sander van der Molen
Technology demonstration events for the SMEs and raising awareness on digitalisation opportunities. – presentation
KDH (Kompetenzzentrum Digitales Handwerk) (DE), Alexander Barthel & VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH (DE), Anette Braun
The “SME 4.0-Centres of Excellence” and ways to engage the manufacturing SMEs in digital transformation. – presentation1 & presentation2
VDTC Saxony-Anhalt DIH (DE), Christian Blobner
Digitalisation coaches and Industry 4.0 check-up. – presentation
CEA Léti-Health DIH (FR), Patrick Boisseau
The Showroom, a catalyst for business innovation. – presentation
Cap Digital (FR), Manuella Portier
The Poc & Go testing program and other best practices that support the SMEs with their digital transformation (business support, coaching etc.) – presentation
Digital Innovation Hub Dortmund (DE), Thorsten Huelsmann
Supporting start-ins and providing dedicated co-working places for the SMEs to test digital innovations and improve their production processes – presentation
EIB – Bjorn-Soren Gigler & Alberto Casorati
Addressing the knowledge and funding gaps – presentation
12.00-13.00: Networking lunch
13.00-14.15: Session 2 – Towards a digital ecosystem and partnering approach
(individual presentations of 5′ and 25′ discussion)
Cantieri 4.0, the Industry 4.0 platform of Tuscany region (IT), Francesca D’Angelo & PRODUTECH DIH (PT), Pedro Rocha
A regional ecosystem approach towards engaging all actors in the digital transformation process and best practices. – presentation1 & presentation2
i2CAT (ES), Silvia Castellvi
Best practices and challenges on managing the regional digital ecosystem and engaging the SMEs in digital transformation. – presentation
EDITA DIH (HR), Emil Ilija Perić
DIH network management and ways to determine the maturity level of a region’s economy. – presentation
PhotonDelta DIH (NL), Anna Nikiel
Building trusted networks between research and industry. – presentation
Fieldlabs (NL), Hans Praat
Region of Smart Factories. – presentation
Basque DIH (ES), Cristina Oyon
The role of a Steering group as a public private collaboration space, in a region’s digital transformation. – presentation
Eurecat (ES), Julia Palma & DIGITECH SI-EAST (SI), Brane Semolič
The PIME entry point for the Catalan SMEs on supporting the innovation processes to increase SMEs competitiveness (technological prospecting, SME management training courses etc.), and access to finance for SMEs in Slovenia. – presentation1 & presentation2
Smart Systems Hub Dresden (DE), Frank Bösenberg
The TRAILS strategy: networking the technology value chain and addressing the business needs of the SMEs within a region and beyond. – presentation
14.15-14.45: Coffee break
14.45-16.45: Session 3 – Break out in smaller groups to discuss topics of common interest
During the day all participants will be able to fill in post-its with themes they would like to discuss further with the other participants. In this session we will break out in smaller groups that discuss these topics. The objective will be that the participants learn from each other and everyone can go home with one or two ideas on how to improve the “demand” side for the services of their digital innovation hub.
16.45-17.00: Reporting back from the break-out groups of Session 3 & Closing