Cap Digital (https://www.capdigital.com/en/) is the French business cluster for digital and ecological transformation in the Paris Region, the first digital innovation ecosystem and the largest cluster in Europe. Based in Paris and created in 2006 as a non-profit organisation, Cap Digital counts more than 1000 members; mostly SMEs but also large companies, academics and policy makers. Since 2014, we have been certified as "Cluster of Excellence" by the European Commission (Gold Label).  

It focuses on the following markets and technologies:

e-education, training & HR
eHealth & well-being
Media, entertainment, cultural and creative industries
Smart City and sustainable development transition 
Industry & services
Technologies, data, AI

More information on our markets can be found here: https://www.capdigital.com/en/who-we-are/our-ecosystem/ 

Cap Digital provides its members with intelligence (through market & technology watch and forecast, publications, studies), training, helping with recruitment, matchmaking/networking, funding solutions, project reviews, business development and internationalization services.

Cap Digital supports R&D & innovation by providing personalized support to its members, an expert assessment for the candidate’s applications for proposals, a quality certification of R&D projects with the Cap Digital label, awareness campaigns on regional, national & European calls for proposals, networking, emersion of collaborative projects, promotion & follow-up on our member’s projects and working groups.

More information on our services can be found here: https://www.capdigital.com/en/who-we-are/our-mission/ 

The cluster has been involved in 22 European projects since 2006 and is currently running 9 of them (https://www.capdigital.com/en/who-we-are/our-eu-projects/). It is also a member of powerful European networks such as the NEM initiative (European Technology platform dedicated to digital content), EBN (European Business Network) and two KICs: EIT Digital and EIT Health.

Every year in June, Cap Digital organizes FUTUR.E.S (https://blog.futuresfestivals.com/english/), the European largest free digital Festival showcasing the latest French and international digital innovations to both the professionals and the general public. Each edition of this three-day event attracts more than 12 000 attendees from over 25 countries around an exhibition area, workshops and keynote conferences in French and English languages.

In 2016, Cap Digital created EdFab (http://edfab.fr/), a 350m2 facility in the North of Paris dedicated to promoting innovation in the field of education, training and jobs transformation. EdFab is about facilitating an ecosystem where people can become better informed, join a network and meet, learn and try out the latest innovations. It provides the following services: innovative training, EdTech benchmarking, training programs, a FabLab factory, coaching, support, etc.

For more information on all our DIH activities and services related to the digital transformation of our community, please visit our new updated website (both in French and in English): http://www.capdigital.com/  Digital technologies.

CIDIHub aims at becoming the cornerstone of Cloud Computing, HPC Simulation, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems in the Canary Islands by connecting technology providers with entrepreneurs, SMEs and mid-caps; strengthening their competitiveness and opening up new business areas in the context of digitalization and Industry 4.0 (Digital manufacturing).

In general terms, CIDIHub has the ambition to provide Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems’ competences together with a Cloud Computing infrastructure and the associated expertise based on existing technology and standards that allow software vendors to offer their regional customers (being it SME or bigger companies) new cloud services along and across the engineering and manufacturing chain - even vendor independent. CIDIHub provides a ‘single point of access’ to computational (simulation) and data management services on high-performance clusters (HPCs). For that purpose, the CIDIHub relies on a main regional Competence Center (ITER) from the very beginning, addressing needs in the CAD/CAM, CAE, Systems or PLM communities, for whom technological services are executed on the existing infrastructure.

In addition to AI, Cloud and HPC technologies, other technologies CIDIHub will be managing are Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Art & Design, Modeling and Simulation, and of course Digital Manufacturing. On top of that, Future Internet technologies will be an asset together with FIWARE as a curated framework of open source platform components to accelerate the development of smart solutions.

Through the development of activities and the provision of services in the form of technological and consultancy support, training, research and testing, entrepreneurship assistance, etc., CIDIHub is focused mainly on some concrete sectors:

Digital Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
ICT and Audio-visual + Creative Industries (including digital art and design)
Tourism
Blue Economy

In this context, the Hub offers a portfolio of services mainly consisting of the provision of simulation and computing power and digitisation assistance; shared research and fostering of public co-funded and collaborative RDI; contract research, testing and validation; training and education; community building and dissemination activities; and supporting new businesses and startups.

The whole CIDIHub structure and operations are organized to be conducted around an alliance of seven main partners embracing the more representative domains within the regional ecosystem, that is:

Private Sector – technology and manufacturing consultant (AVANTALIA).
Manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps Associations - (FEMETE and FEMEPA).
Research Centre – Cloud Computing and HPC provider (ITER).
Public Institutions – (Canary Islands Government, Tenerife and Gran Canaria Island Councils).
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To maintain a competitive edge, companies require innovative ideas, new and improved products or services as well as the right market approach. As a company-oriented university of applied sciences, CAMPUS 02 provides comprehensive services for the industry. Therefore, CAMPUS 02’s research mission is to actively support Styrian companies – from the idea to the market. Digital technologies.

Campania DIH is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities. The aim of Campania DIH 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 manufacturing transformation towards Industry 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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PISMO is the first non-profit digital innovation hub located in Sisak Moslavina county with the aim of stronger and successful shift from traditional industries to modern ones. It provides services to companies eager to adopt digital technologies in dominantly traditional industry region. The aim is to create a strong partnership based on trust with a main goal of creating new jobs and strengthen the economy of SMC and Croatia. The core business of PISMO as a DIH is a smart skills build-up – enhancement of existing and creation of new labour force for smart specialization. PISMO will also be partly focused on providing services for metal processing sector. It is expected that Croatian (and SMC) industry of manufacturing of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, will improve its position and competitiveness on the international market.

PISMO is intended to be a center of a gaming industry in Croatia, connecting gaming development companies with start-ups and individuals. As PISMO is fully equipped for gaming development, it will enable for young people to develop their ideas, to create new games and even to promote it on a global market. It will also enable existing SMEs to scale up their business and to shift towards digital era.

PISMO DIH is consisted of two buildings (located in town Novska) with 20 offices, big coworking and multimedia area, education areas, music and video studios, motion capture studio and all necessary equipment for gaming development industry. Financial support system is designed as well, and it will offer potential start-ups a great opportunity to start theid businesses and to develop ney ideas.

The above mentioned is achieved mainly through educations, mentoring and networking.

Educations are held regularly and they aim to help individuals and existing companies to acquire skillset necessary to withstand challenges of digital era. Educations include digital skills for game development and business skills necessary to survive contemporary market challenges. They are completely free of charge.

Mentoring process is carried out by our experts and by people from partner organisations and it provides a valuable source of practical knowledge and experience. Mentors follow client’s first steps towards digitalisation or developing their ideas and lead them throughout entire process.

Networking is enabled through meetings and workshops that are being held with a purpose to connect education participants and existing SMEs with gaming industry and their representatives. In that context expert conferences on digitalization, gaming, marketing and sales opportunities are held.

There are also some other services that supplement our main services to clients: Incubator services which include rent of offices, coworking area and equipment specialized for gaming and other digitally based ideas. Equipment include music and video studio, VR, motion capture studio, photogrammetry studio, 3D printer etc.

Access to local, regional, national and EU funding – PISMO DIH experts offer consulting services to clients by offering them solutions for financing of their ideas. PISMO DIH team has a long-time experience in attracting finances for entrepreneurs. Digital technologies.

Bron Innovation is a one-stop non-profit innovation hub with a clear vision to develop digital innovation, business and competence for our member organization, and provide digital competence in our region. It is a quadruple helix collaboration network for ICT and Digitalization; private companies, national agencies, regional authorities and municipalities as well as NGOs. Our members and their services are worldwide, however the office for Bron is based in the county of Västernorrland, Sweden. Our focus areas are Industrial Digitalization, Govtech, IoT, 5G and Digital information management services, in which we are running several types of projects and activities. In these areas we are open for international collaboration with other clusters around Europe and worldwide.

Bron is located at the strategic centre of the region’s development ecosystem. We work in close collaboration with university, R&D centres, science park, business incubators, industries and public sectors. It is regions biggest ICT cluster, certified by European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis, Berlin. At Bron we believe in sustainable networking and we maintain a diverse corporate network with partners and members from all sectors. We are devoted to increase knowledge and understanding of innovation and digitalization among wide range of industries, specially SMEs. We help SMEs in evaluation and profiling of their current organizational and operational status, in order to identify opportunities for development, growth and transformation. Then we offer direct coaching to create strategic plan to reach business transformation goals. We strive to find best digital solution providers who can implement the strategic plan. We assist member organizations to find and attract new employees with right competence. Bron is an agile organization, ready to adapt to new technologies. We are partner in regions first 5G infrastructure, which allows companies to step forward and test next generation technologies.

At Bron we regularly arrange seminars to promote innovative digital technologies. We also arrange workshops focusing on competence development in member organizations. We host northern Sweden’s biggest Hackathon to encourage creative and innovative ideas to solve problems in industry and society in general. One of the most important events for us is a yearly conference on industrial and public sector digitalization, which is successfully maintaining its reputation for over three decades and attracts people from across the nation. Digital technologies.

Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and is the largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. The Robotics Innovation Facility is housed in BRL’s state-of-the-art laboratory, which covers an area of over 3,000 square metres, and is located on UWE’s Frenchay Campus to the north of the city of Bristol. The RIF is equipped with a number of robots, vision systems and other items of automation. BRL also houses laboratories and spaces for work in areas of assisted living, machine vision, human robot interaction, sensor development and sensor applications in surgery, swarm robotics, microbial fuel cells etc. One of the largest European indoor arenas for flying Miniature UAVs is located within BRL. A well-equipped workshop with additive layer manufacturing machines, machine tools and electronic benches etc. provides support for many of the research projects. Three dedicated personnel service the RIF and support its offerings with additional assistance provided by the BRL technical support team and other engineers and scientists employed in the laboratory, and the university at large, as and when required. Bristol Robotics Laboratory is also responsible for the coordination of activities of RIFs in SSSA, Pisa, CEA, Paris and BRL, Bristol. Digital technologies.

A multi-disciplinairy hub for digital innovation

The Brightlands Smart Services Campus (BSSC) is a non-profit institute consisting of researchers and educators, innovative entrepreneurs, students, visionary investors and companies leading the field in smart services. We offer the latest R&D and knowledge infrastructures, on-campus education, science-oriented business support and business development services. At the campus we combine a scientific and business ecosystem with labs that merge innovation and expertise—all in a single strategic location. This is a place where tomorrow’s jobs are created now, talents are developed, pioneers feel at home and companies can grow. All without borders.

The campus is home to innovation labs for data analyses and data visualization. We offer easy access to IT experts, students and trainees, multiple innovation programs and many other opportunities for SMEs explore and implement digital innovations. Digital technologies.

Brightlands Materials Center fuels the polymeric materials field with knowledge, talent and entrepreneurship by bringing universities, students, industry leaders and business professionals all together in shared research programs and the inspiring community of the Brightlands Materials Center.
The themes of our research address major societal challenges such as sustainable energy, mobility, and health & well-being. These research themes can also be related to Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s EU programme for research and innovation, a pivotal part of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and economic growth:
Additive Manufacturing -  Health & Well-being
Lightweight Automotive - Mobility
Sustainable Buildings - Sustainable Energy Digital technologies.

(mission, scope, services provided) BrainsBusiness – ICT North Denmark is a regional industrial cluster intiative that brings together all major forces within the North Denmark ICT environment: Companies and knowledge institutions within ICT (Information and Communications Technology) as well as relevant public organisations and authorities. The long-term goal of BrainsBusiness is to contribute to the North Denmark ICT cluster being recognised as one of the most attractive and competitive ICT clusters in Europe. The mission of the cluster is to strengthen and develop the ICT environment in North Denmark through three overall activities: 1. Strengthen the competitiveness of the North Denmark ICT companies through facilitated networking across sectors, internationalisation, the facilitation of the development of Smart Society solutions, competence development within marketing and service design as well as furthering knowledge sharing by building bridges between university and industry. 2. Ensure recognition through increased visibility to the strengths of the North Denmark ICT cluster – nationally and internationally. 3. Establishing an attractive industrial environment for ICT companies in North Denmark by ensuring access to resources, knowledge and favourable framework conditions. Digital technologies.