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.

PRODUTECH Digital Innovation Hub Platform’s mission is to foster the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, via the gathering of a critical mass of capacities, the networking of stakeholders and the nurturing of the ecosystem, towards the deployment of added value support services that enables, potentiates and furthers industry modernization. The PRODUTECH Digital Innovation Hub Platform has a comprehensive national coverage encompassing the regional dimensions and the relevant stakeholders, and notably comprising Competence Centers and Labs, R&D organizations, Sectoral technology centers, Industry Associations, Production Technology Providers, leading users from the manufacturing industry, SMEs, Start-ups, Education/Training Centers and Incubators/Science parks and civic societies, and the articulation with National and Regional Authorities, Venture Capital organizations and public agencies. PRODUTECH Cluster’s DIH Platform gathers the pertinent regional initiatives (e.g. iMan Norte Hub, Norte region section, coordinated by INESC TEC, UPTEC and PRODUTECH ) and stakeholders in the deployment of a one-stop gateway for the provision of support services towards industry digitizing, via the inter and intra networking of capacities, competencies, intervention capabilities and service offers, linking initiatives and stakeholders and further levering cooperation and outreach at European scale (e.g. networking of pilot initiatives and services under Vanguard Initiative). As a support gateway for industry digitizing it gathers a comprehensive set of services, from visioning, strategy development and roadmaping to the deployment of large scale initiatives in R&D and Innovation, from awareness actions to matchmaking (e.g. for maturity assessment, access to specialist expertise and infrastructures, solution deployment, advanced training, mentoring…), from visibility actions (national and international) to priority definition, exploitation of opportunities (innovation, integrated offers, solutions take-up, deployment and diffusion, cross-fertilization and business) and access to funding and financing. Digital technologies.

I. Ecosystem creation – PrintoCent Industry Cluster with Entrepreneurship initiatives, Startup stimulation (26 startups since 2010), Open Innovation, Smart partnerships, Joint business cases. Status: PrintoCent has wide global reach with its international member companies and partners. In Oulu region more than 300 experts are available in research and in industry. Education, Training and Research initiatives generate the multidisciplinary experts for the needs of ecosystem growth. The funding to start-up companies has exceeded 40 M€ and the turnover of companies in the field is over 25 M€ year 2016. Strong European cooperation in building European digital innovation hub in COLAE and in SMARTEES – projects. II. PrintoCent Pilot Factory building – World class Roll-to-Roll 1) Printed and Flexible Hybrid Electronics Pilot Manufacturing Infrastructure, 2) Point of Care, Rapid and Disposable Diagnostic Test mass manufacturing pilot line. Strong cooperation with key European research centers, industry and pilot line projects such as IN-SCOPE, PI-SCALE. III. Emerging business cases - Companies and research partners have easy access to new business development and pilot manufacturing resources for the introduction of printed intelligence components, systems and products, from pilot production to early market trials. Application focus areas range from rapid disposable diagnostics, smart flexible lighting and wearables to Internet-of-Things with sensors and energy harvesting. Digital technologies.

Politecnico di Milano is one of the most outstanding universities in the world, among the top 20 in all the three areas of specialisation: 17th in Engineering (24th in 2016), 9th in Architecture (15th in 2016) and 5th in Design (10th in 2016), according to QS World University Ranking. Founded in 1863, Polimi is the largest school of Architecture, Design and Engineering in Italy, with 3 main campuses located in Milan, heart of fashion and design industries, and 5 campuses based around the Lombardy region, which is one of the most industrialized areas of Europe.

In the academic year 2016/2017, 20% of the students enrolled in Master of Science Programmes were international students.

Inter and multidisciplinary approaches are fostered throughout the academic path, and represent the methodological approach of the PhD School and the ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica), a school for young talents from all over the world, who develop their skills in a team work context to pursue complex innovation projects.

Teaching is closely related to research, a key commitment that enables to achieve results of high international standards, while creating connections with the business world.

Strategic research is carried out mainly in the fields of energy, transport, planning, management, design, mathematics and natural and applied sciences, ICT, built environment, cultural heritage, with more than 250 laboratories, including a Wind Tunnel (unique in the world for configuration and features), a Crash Test Centre, PoliFAB (the University's infrastructure for micro and nano production) and PoliFactory, a laboratory where new design processes are developed.

Polimi was the first university in Italy for funded projects under the FP7 and also in Horizon 2020 maintains its Italian leadership among other universities (1621 proposals, 207 funded projects for a global amount of more than 94 Million Euros).

 

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Polimi Partner - www.fondazionepolitecnico.it/en) was founded in 2003 through a joint effort between the Politecnico di Milano, major city and regional institutions and important corporations to support the university’s research projects and contribute to innovating and developing the economic, productive and administrative environment. Fondazione Politecnico is committed to building a more effective relationship between the university, industry and public administrations.

To achieve these goals, Fondazione Politecnico develops:

innovation projects not only for large companies, but for numerous small to medium sized enterprises that characterise the Italian economy;

European projects that, by leveraging the Politecnico’s renowned capabilities, extend the network of both university and industrial collaborations outside our borders.

These efforts are complemented by a number of training programmes aimed at upgrading professional skills, to keep workers up-to-date with the rapidly evolving labour market, and of digital and online collaboration initiatives.

Aware of the importance of contributing to economic and social growth, Fondazione Politecnico develops social responsibility projects in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, involving teachers and students in the drive for civil and communal change. In a global context, Fondazione Politecnico has been active in co-operation projects with both countries in need and nations experiencing exponential growth.

 

In 2013 Fondazione Politecnico transformed the Acceleratore di Impresa, Politecnico’s business incubator unit, into a modern structure designed to support the best national and international innovative startups, entrepreneurial empowerment and co-working projects: PoliHub (http://www.polihub.it/), which operates selecting innovative business ideas, forming teams, defining business model and market viability, research, financing and scale-up support. Mentors are managers, entrepreneurs and investors from various innovation sectors providing Acceleration/Startup/Business-Incubation. PoliHub delivers the basic services of an operative DIH: technology transfer, training, incubation and awareness construction capitalizing on the university competences and university consortia (Cefriel, MIP and Poliedra).

PoliHub has been recently awarded third place incubator from the UBI Global ranking (http://ubi-global.com/rankings/) among the top university incubators. Digital technologies.

EMC2 is a French competitiveness cluster created in 2005 in the framework of a national initiative for industry competitiveness, operating in the Pays de la Loire and Brittany regions on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.

The association gathers all the actors of innovation around key markets and technologies to foster the emergence of collaborative projects of R&D. The aim is to reinforce the innovation territorial ecosystem by structuring 4 sectors – aeronautics, naval, ground transportation and energy – in a common and transversal approach: the advanced manufacturing technologies. The vision of the cluster is to promote business development through collaborative innovation, building an innovation path mixing skills, markets and technologies to make innovation R&D projects emerge. EMC2 activities are enhanced by the IRT Jules Verne (Research and Technological Center) created 3 years ago at the initiative of the cluster.

EMC2 leads a network of 380 members composed of SMEs, Large Entreprises (LEs) such as Airbus, STX Europe, Naval Group, Solvay, Dassault… as well as the Research & Technical Organisations of our territory (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes,...). At the end of 2016, the global budget of R&D reached 1.395 bn € for 230 projects launched, including 523M€ of public funds. Digital technologies.

PLASTIPOLIS has been officially appointed in 2005, as France’s competitiveness cluster for the plastics and composites industry sector. Plastipolis has now more than 400 active members (industrial firms, R&D centers, universities, training centers, institutions) including a large number of small and medium size companies. The main missions of Plastipolis are:

The stimulation of innovation within the plastics and composites industry with connecting technologies and business applications,
The support of small and medium companies to develop and implement new developments,
The improvement of the cooperations between industry and academic entities.

Plastipolis has built its innovation strategy across different strategic technology domains that have been defined in connection with trends and challenges of the major business markets: construction, transportation, medical, packaging, energy and environment, sport and consumer goods. Based on continuous technology and market analysis, Plastipolis and its members are sharing a technology roadmap aiming to drive the innovation efforts toward the most relevant and promising challenges. This roadmap that is now under implementation is organized on 4 main strategic areas: Advanced materials, High added value manufacturing processes, Smart plastics and Green materials and eco-design.

From 2013, Plastipolis has been awarded the Gold label, the highest European award in cluster performance evaluation.

https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/cluster-organisations/plastipolis Digital technologies.

Plan4all is a digital innovation hub (DIH) for cooperation and experimentation. The key focus is on geospatial or location based open data and their utilisation in different domains including spatial/urban planning, rural development, transport, environment, tourism and precision/autonomous farming. 

The key features of the Plan4all DIH include:

Experimentation space on cloud including storage space
Service of cloud operator and possibility to install additional tools
Tools for development of new applications
Open data
Knowledge transfer

The Plan4all DIH is coordinated by the Plan4all association, a non-profit organisation sustaining and further enhancing results of multiple research and innovation projects. Plan4all aggregates large open datasets related to planning activities in different specialisms and makes sure that open data are easily accessible for reuse, data are maintained and their quality is improved.

The Plan4all association is an umbrella organisation of 60 partners from 22 countries including public bodies, universities, research organisations and business partners. Digital technologies.