The rapidly evolving digitalisation of health and wellbeing requires new knowledge and collaboration models to accelerate growth globally. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to increase their business development expertise and capabilities in the field of digital health. Health care providers need to speed up their adoption of digital innovations and assess the impact of digital solutions on healthcare processes. New collaborative action models at the European level will speed up this development and knowledge building. OuluHealth is one of the leading digital health innovation ecosystems in Europe. Members of the OuluHealth ecosystem represent the whole spectrum of health and social care, including specialised medical care, primary health and social care, health and wellbeing industry and commerce, health technology research and education, and citizens. The main stakeholders of OuluHealth are Oulu University Hospital (OYS), University of Oulu, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and BusinessOulu and the Department of Healthcare and Social Welfare of the City of Oulu. The OuluHealth ecosystem also encompasses more than 600 health and life science companies, at least 240 of which are high-tech companies (http://ouluhealth.fi/companies/ ). The ecosystem approach enables the combination of a broad range of expertise, from wireless information technologies and the life sciences to smart information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for delivering advanced, personalised, connected health service solutions. OuluHealth has close and tangible co-operation with SuperIOT, 5G test network Finland and Printocent Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH).  Good example of this co-operation is for instance OYS to be the first hospital to test 5G-technology. The principal idea of OuluHealth is to facilitate open collaboration and to accelerate innovation by bringing together various partners to contribute to the needs of the healthcare sector and business growth in the modern digital era. This collaboration model promotes economic growth, capacity building and research and development and innovation (R&D&I) investments in select focus areas. The recently established DigiHealth Knowledge Hub will connect companies to the latest knowledge, expertise and technology. The Hub is speeding up the adoption of digital innovation and building a joint national network for digital health research and innovation. The DigiHealth Knowledge Hub is integrated nationally and internationally with the health sector’s growth strategy implementation actions, RDI programmes and EU-level thematic platforms. The OuluHealth ecosystem supports companies in developing their ideas into market-ready products and services by providing support in activities such as identifying opportunities for digitalisation, bringing together relevant stakeholders, providing testing and piloting platforms and environments, offering services for growth and internationalisation, and hands-on training. Opportunities for collaborative research and innovation: OuluHealth supports companies, researchers and healthcare professionals to collaborate on research and innovation. The ecosystem model facilitates innovation platforms for multi-stakeholder development projects and startups within digital health. It creates synergies with international research and innovation networks and builds up new partnerships to highlight trends and gaps in policies in the arena of person-centred digital health. Innovative testing and piloting environments: OuluHealth provides a world-class development and testing environment, OuluHealth Labs, for testing innovations throughout the entire service chain: hospitals and health and social centres as well as in patients’ homes. In this way, companies have a unique opportunity to develop their solutions under authentic conditions and receive valuable feedback from healthcare professionals and end-users. Digital integration platform: OuluHealth Labs provides an open sandbox for developers to simulate the integration of digital technologies in hospital environments and simulate the change opportunities embedded in the digital process for health providers.  Business development: OuluHealth offers health and life science companies tailor-made business development support, which includes financing and business modelling, internationalisation, media contacts and invest-In services. The ecosystem helps to find investors and the right partners, increase visibility and reach international markets. Knowledge building and support (DigiHealth Knowledge Hub): OuluHealth offers access to expert services and innovation networks to explore and exploit emerging technologies (AI, deep learning, big data analytics, etc.) in the next-generation digital solutions develops new assessment methods for digital healthcare solutions. OuluHealth shares best practices in the implementation of digital technologies and developing data-intensive service solutions and personalised health and care. OuluHealth is building innovation networking opportunities regionally, nationally and in EU thematic platforms Matchmaking: OuluHealth organises events such as the ecosystem and demo days to support the growth and needs of the market. It understands the needs and challenges of companies, provides information about novel digital solutions for health and social care professionals, and provides new knowledge and research to support digital transformation. Training events: OuluHealth and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Oulu together with the Finnish Medical Association and industry organise education and training events for students, where they can learn to efficiently use new digital systems in their future work as well as test and evaluate health IT solutions. Moreover, by participating, eHealth companies get a chance to obtain first-hand feedback from 5th-level medical students. Innovation networks of OuluHealth The OuluHealth ecosystem has active partnerships with researchers, business networks, and regional, national and international networks and alliances. On the EU level, OuluHealth is a member of the European Connected Health Alliance, EU COST-Action network: European Network for the Joint Evaluation of Connected Health Technologies (ENJECT) and Digital Health Society Task Forces, which are building EU-level strategies and proposing actions (Action plan 2018) in digital health. The City of Oulu has been granted EIP-AHA reference site status. Oulu’s evidence for status as a reference site is largely based on the OuluHealth ecosystem and its OuluHealth Labs operation. OuluHealth is an active member of the Nordic reference site collaboration with EIP-AHA. Furthermore, OuluHealth has applied to host the EU mHealth Hub and the bid has passed the first evaluation stage. By building a network of Nordic collaborators, OuluHealth aims to strengthen cooperation at both the strategic and operational levels. A good example of this is the network of Nordic Test Beds (NoTeB). Long collaboration with Nordic partners generated the Nordic Proof testing collaboration network, which OuluHealth will be a member of beginning in 2019. These active interactions with European innovation networks ensure the formation of strong strategic partnerships, as well as rapid and broad implementation of novel solutions and action models in innovation ecosystems. On the regional level, OuluHealth has strong collaborations with Allied ICT Finland, which brings together several domain-specific DIHs, such as Super IOT, PrintoCent, Arctic Drone Labs and 5G test network Finland as well as services like Analytics+ in Finland. OuluHealth is one of the five innovation ecosystems of the Oulu Innovation Alliance (OIA), which is a regional strategic collaboration model with committed stakeholders. The collaboration model has proven to be an excellent ecosystem model for public-private-people partnership cooperation at the regional, national and international level. OIA’s four other ecosystems are Agile Commercialisation, ICT & Digitalisation, Industry 2026, and Northern City with Attractive Opportunities. More info: www.ouluhealth.fi Digital technologies.

The One Sea – Autonomous Maritime Ecosystem is an industrial alliance with the mission to create the world’s first autonomous maritime ecosystem by 2025. The One Sea Ecosystem private side commercial leading and funding partners are ABB, Avikus, Cargotec, DIMECC, Finnpilot, Finntraffic, Haltian, Kongsberg, MTI, Orca AI, Sea Machines Robotics, TietoEVRY, and Wärtsilä. This alliance aims to speed up the utilization of digital technologies for the development of autonomous shipping. The scope is to increase the safety of shipping as well as energy efficiency and greener maritime logistics through automating and digitalizing ship systems and solutions. The ecosystem is an open multi-partner structure connecting all major stakeholders in its activities such as customers, maritime networks nationally and internationally, academia and universities, cities, and regional actors such as incubators, authorities, ministries, funding, agencies, etc. See the One Sea ecosystem setup below! The ecosystem launches new R&D&I projects for the maritime network, innovators, and ICT start-ups and opens the ecosystem activities to a more extensive network. The ecosystem influences the global discussion regarding rules and regulations as well as plans strategic roadmaps and industrial standards. The One Sea helps companies develop their competitiveness regarding autonomous business products and services. The Ecosystem provides support to its members by managing the test area for piloting, testing, and experimenting with new digital innovations. The ecosystem collects and coordinates training and R&D&I initiatives and supports relevant activities to take place. The ecosystem also brands the development work and acts as an active communicator towards national funding agencies as well as strengthens visibility internationally. The One Sea activities have been for example: Mutual strategy work. The roadmaps to autonomous maritime. Affecting IMO and MASS regulations Applying and managing the test area in front of The City of Rauma at the coast of Finland, for testing autonomous and remote operations. Conferences and speeches Providing Techwatch and discussion forums. Digital technologies.

A (near) Zero Energy Building based on state of the art construction materials (insulations, windows, etc.) with smart sensing technologies that provide advanced and innovative technological testbed infrastructure. More specifically, the provided rapid prototyping & novel technologies demonstration infrastructure resemble a real domestic building where occupants can experience actual living scenarios while exploring various innovating smart IoT-based technologies in the fields of energy, health, security, big data, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Consisting a near-Zero Energy building the CERTH/ITI Smart House introduces the first house in Greece that combines enhanced construction materials and intelligent ICT solutions creating a future-proof, sustainable and active testing, validating and evaluating environment.

 

A variety of sensors, actuators and devices is installed and being applied in both R&D and commercial contracts, including but not limited to:

- Energy related IoT equipment (smart meters, dimming and on/off actuators, environmental sensors, occupancy sensors, smart plugs, smart appliances, photovoltaics, batteries/storage systems, etc.) that monitors the consumption, production and the conditions of the entire building while automated algorithms can support automation and/or multi-factor (occupancy, comfort, etc.) efficiency scenarios.

- Health related IoT equipment (blood pressure, glucose, oxygen levels, panic buttons, motion sensors, etc.) that monitors a variety of physiological attributes, and enabling the extraction of valuable data (such as behavioural patterns and physiological parameters) through intelligent processing towards preventing or timely reacting to situations that could otherwise lead to harmful or even fatal outcomes.

- Virtual and Augmented Reality platforms and sensor-based games that offer unique experience to different categories of users.

- Custom-made Robotics incorporating assistive living solutions that aid vulnerable categories of users (elderly, people with disabilities) towards facilitating their everyday life and commercial robots (ABB YuMi, COMAU educational robot - e.DO) to support the delivery of innovative applications (i.e. bi-manual assembly of small parts, educational robotics, minimal invasive surgery). Digital technologies.

Novel-T is building an environment in which entrepreneurs seize new opportunities to stay or become frontrunner in their league. By connecting and activating talent, knowledge, capital, research & testfacilities, opportunities will lead to new innovative business.

We support companies in their innovation process and startups in realising their goals in cooperation with the University of Twente, University of Applied Science Saxion and each other. 

We offer startups and innovative entrepreneurs access to a dynamic ecosystem. We screen research and connect knowledge to business. 

Our Novel-T’s innovation brokers can help local SME's to take the next step. Novel-T’s innovation brokers support entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector with their innovation process. Think of e.g. formulation the right question or business case, creating matches with valuable connections such as fellow entrepreneurs, the UT and Saxion and/or the government and searching for solutions to support your innovation process and overcome hurdles. 

Novel-T started the Cybersecurity Center for the Manufactering Industry and is partner in Boost, the Smart Industry-network of East Netherlands. 

Novel-T is a not-for-profit cooperation of the knowledge-institutes (University of Twente- Saxion University of Applied Sciences) and regional government (province of Overijssel, region of Twente and City of Enschede). Their aim is to joinly stimulate the regional economy by supporting new and growing innovative entrepreneurs.   

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North- East Romania Digital Innovation Hub - ˝Digital Innovation Zone˝  is a not-for-profit initiative, a bottom-up initiative based on the commitment of North-East RDA, 6 Universities, 3 clusters (biotechnology, imagistic medicine and ICT), 3 chambers of commerce, as well as 6 privat companies experienced in scaling innovation & digital solutions in the region of North-East Romania. After its creation, the DIH started a pilot for a small group of enterprises that with the support of Forth Innovation method and coachers from the founders defined each 3-4 business cases based on which the company will be serviced.

North- East Romania Digital Innovation Hub - ˝Digital Innovation Zone˝ is a integrated platform for regional companies to support their digital (r)evolution, covering end-to-end digital innovation process. It provides digital services to private sector companies, in particular, but also to public sector, able to offer the best expertise and skills in technologies needed for digital transformation, all within the framework of European DIHs, perfectly aligned with the Digital Romania Manifesto, launched in November 2016.

The DIH addresses regional digitisation issues by providing SMEs one-stop-shop for tailor made digitalization services in their regional proximity. The coordinators offer at their best the suitable capacity and competences to provide digitalisation services to the regional ecosystem which do not have a clear perception of digitalisation benefits. Our region is a catching-up region but one of the most ambitious in tranforming regional challenges into opportunities by using professional attitude and strong cooperation with local stakeholders and the international partners, especially in the area of innovation and entrepreneruial ecosystem development. The proof is in the 20 years of experience of the North-East Development Agency.

Our main focus is on digital solutions enhanced with Artificial Intelligence and data driven solution for local SMEs from all the priority sectors from tha Smart Specialisation Strategy but not limited to.

In addition, our purpose is to support digitisation through collaborations with different sectors of activity through clusters and not only and to establish a culture of co-creation of technological joint solutions and products through a trans-sectoral collaboration, in every field from education and creative industries to health or agriculture. Also, our current activities are focused in strengthening the innovation ecosystem and creating and implementing regional strategies based on smart city solutions in order to promote smart specialisation.

Another objective is to identify collaborative projects for digitalisation of all the relevant stakeholders: companies, clusters, research institutes and software companies, public authorities, Universities.in order to stimulate technological innovative capabilities and to create multiple solution for multiple sectorial needs so that the companies can become more COMPETITIVE, INNOVATIVE, DIGITAL and AGILE.

Digital Innovation Zone brings together top digital innovation experts as One-Stop-Shop to help SMEs grasp the digital opportunities providing access to latest knowledge, expertise and technology, business and financing support to implement these innovations. A whole ecosystem as One-Stop-Shop, a regional multi-partner cooperation that brings together the capabilities and creates the linkages with the service providers, olicy makers, funding sources and global network, DIH Network, EEN network and others.

Some of the servicesDigital Innovation Zone provides are:

- specialised Diagnose and Analysis services

- Innovation Tracks Solution Oriented Process
- Acces to funding

- Support for the creation and implementation of infrastructure projects;

- Knowledge and know-how transfer;

- Networking activities, workshops for digitization in collaboration with others sectors;

- Digital Skills Trainings;

- Define fields of action and to advise policy makers;

- Development of regional strategies for digitization together with relevant stakeholders;

- Exchange experiences, best practices, data and studies;

- Business links, business networking;

- Internationalization services by the Enterprise European Network.

 

 

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Node is the system company and Digital Innovation Hub of Confcooperative, the main organization who represents, assists, protects the cooperative movement and the Italian social enterprises. Node deals with providing digital services such as software, hardware and cloud solutions, and also carries out specific consulting services for innovation and digital transition. We have a no profit aim, our mission is to make the digital trasformation easy for the cooperatives . As Digital Innovation Hub Node, support and accompanies organitzation through three fundamental activities:  1. Digital assessment activities, aimed at verifying the level of digital maturity of organizations and suggesting the most suitable innovation path. 2. Definition of the roadmap that will mark the digital transformation path of business processes. 3. Digital education activities to enrich the 4.0 baggage of organizations. Node in its platform offer for free to the cooperatives many opportunities like:  1. Digital Maturity assessment test;  2. Access to European, national and territorial calls,  3. Educational activities like: webinars, training course and workshop.    Digital technologies.

With 380 members, NextMove is a non-profit Mobility and Automotive R&D competitiveness cluster (association, law of 1901) based in Paris, France, which since 2006 has been mobilizing its energies at the service of its members to meet the objectives assigned by the State to competitiveness clusters: to foster the development of collaborative projects between members, to contribute to development in the regions of companies, in particular SMES, and to promote innovation in the sector. Our objective: Build the “Mobility Valley”, a European and International reference of innovative and responsible mobility for the future. NextMove support its members in their process, toward disruptive digitalization, human machine interfaces, context embedding vehicle technologies, factories of the future etc. NextMove is a non-for-profit organisation, providing free of charge tailored support to SMEs. We are backed by the State, the Regions and contributions from our members. NextMove strategic goals:

Stimulate and expend our ecosystem (for all the mobility value chain)
Generate innovation projects (5G, digital services, HMI, etc.)
Boost company’s growth (dedicated services for SMEs like business development, digitalisation, funding)
Deploy sustainably in Europe and abroad (more than 20 international partners)
Provide solutions for territorial development (smart specialisation, new mobility services etc.)
Support industrial excellence and innovation (factories of the future, digitalisation of processes)
Enlighten skills evolution through innovation (anticipate the skills needs of tomorrow)

Those strategic goals are translated into services we provide to our members, especially SMEs:

Partners identification
R&D projects support and expertise
Networking activities and links to the ecosystem
Business support (Mov’eo Business Accelerator, IMPACT Connected Car acceleration program, Collaborative business within SME thematic groups, etc.)

All the services we provide to SMEs are detailed on our website : https://pole-moveo.org/en/services-booster-croissance/sme-smi-startups/

 

 

NextMove sectoral and industrial focus:

Sectoral Industries : Automotive ; Transportation and Logistics
Technology fields : clean mobility (energy management, materials, manufacturing, system, electromobility, energy storage), smart mobility (intelligent mobility solution, automated and connected mobility, digitalization, HMI, road user safety, 5G…)
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EKT/NHRF (National Documentation Centre) is a national infrastructure which collects, organises and preserves Greek scientific, research and cultural output (content and data) making it available for dissemination nationally and internationally. EKT provides wide-ranging information on the various research and innovation sectors, supports participation in national and European programmes, promotes innovative entrepreneurship and the exploitation of research findings, provides Technology Transfer services and produces statistics & indicators for research, development and innovation in Greece.

The National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) is located at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) and operates under the supervision of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Religion.

The e-infrastructure that EKT/NHRF develops, serves a national role, it provides advanced electronic services in organizations, public & private bodies and SMEs related to research & innovation and culture, fosters open access to knowledge and ensures access to users regardless of time and location (see the section of the catalogue related to “services”).

Founded in 1980, the organization serves the country’s research, education, business communities and the wider public, enabling access to knowledge and facilitating research and innovation (R&I) and the Knowledge Triangle Integration. The organization plays an active role in the national innovation ecosystem and has provided specialized services (International Partnerships, Innovation Management, Technology Transfer, Business Coaching, "Data Opening" and other) to the business community, through the Enterprise Europe Network- Hellas (Coordinator for 2008-2010 & 2013-2014 & 2017-2018) and the Hellenic Innovation Relay Centre (Coordinator for 1993-2008). The organization is a strong supporter of open access as a means for social and economic development and is at the forefront of national and international open access initiatives that support the development and implementation of relevant policies for scientific and cultural data, including repositories, peer-reviewed electronic journals and CRIS. The organization also provides the official RDI indicators to Eurostat and publishes reports on R&D performance in Greece thus guiding industrialisation policies in Greece. EKT/NHRF combines the institutional role of gathering-organizing-providing access to the research output of the country and business expertise. It brings together Research, Innovation and Business. Based on highly qualified staff and cutting-edge technology.

EKT/NHRF invistigates new ways that SMEs & the public can benefit from gaining access to the vast amount of the cultural and scientific data, content and media that it manages, like the generation of new algorithms for data verification, methodologies for testing data veracity and secondary content generation, cross sectorial data integration and other.

EKT/NHRF can be the link between SMEs, the ecosystem and the  research infrastracture that is part of, which is the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF). NHRF consists of 3 additional institutes: the Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry (TPCI/NHRF) | the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology (IBMCB/NHRF) | and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR/NHRF).

EKT/NHRF empowers access to, and the growth of, knowledge through open content and facilities, digital resources, software, collaboration tools and related user-oriented services for Research, Technology & Innovation. Furthermore EKT/NHRF is the NCP for 11 thematic areas (including ICT and Research Infrastructures) in H2020 (also, a partner in most NCP networks, e.g. Ideal-ist& RICH) and the EIT Health HUB Coordinator for Greece. EKT also participates in various EU and national funded projects. Digital technologies.

POLO is an ecosystem of promotion of the sector of digital content, led and supported by Promalaga, that manages the facilities and laboratories, located in the Tabacalera of Malaga, where Promalaga support companies and startups of the sector of digital contents, oriented to boost the talent, through training and education, entrepreneurship, growth, scaling up and internationalization of the Digital Content industry. MISSION Promote the hypersector of digital content in Spanish society through innovative and vertebrating initiatives in a global environment of collaboration with public and private partners. SCOPE To be a national and international reference, in the hyper-sector of digital contents for the improvement of employability, the quality of living for the society and the competitiveness of companies. SERVICES POLO provides Innovation, Business Development and digital training services as one-stop-shop, helping startups and companies to become more competitive, improving their products and services through digitalization. It has laboratories of Virtual Reality and Augmented, Motion Capture, Video Recording, Photography, Sound Recording, Graphic Design and 3D Printing to facilitate access to cutting-edge technologies to the company, reducing entry barriers for the adoption of these Innovations. Digital technologies.

NASK is National Research Institute supervised by the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs. The key activities of the institute are related to research and development especially in the area of cybersecurity, biometrics, ICT, ICS, IoT, AI, Big Data technologies, social networks as well to awareness rising and delivering innovative solutions to the government.

Ensuring the security of cyberspace on the national level is one of the main activities of NASK.  Cybersecurity Center and CERT Polska operating within the structure of NASK are tasked with responding to cyber security threats and incidents in the countrywide networks as well as reporting illegal and harmfull content on the internet especially for youngsters (Dyzurnet.pl). Functioning in the field of ICT and network security for 25 years working jointly with academia, we have vast experience and highly qualified R&D staff as well as access to the state of the art of telecommunication technologies. We introduced the Internet to Poland back in 1991 and now we are a driven force of digital revolution.

We create and actively participate in the work on standarization and certification of ICT security and on development of biometric technologies.

Cybersecurity Center and CERT Polska – one of the three CSIRTs on national level is responsible for essential services operators and digital services providers. CERT Polska is active since 1996 in the response teams community, it has become a recognized and experienced entity in the field of computer security and research. Since its launch, the core of the team’s activity has been handling security incidents and cooperation with similar units worldwide. CERT Polska also conducts extensive security-related R&D. Cybersecurity Center runs the ppp network called Partnership for Cybersecurity. Within the network we cooperate with near 50 most important industry entities, (mainly essential services sectors and SMEs), public administration and academia, so that to build the vibrant and secure digital single market in Poland.

As a result of CERT Polska successful activity, NASK has also became a pioneer in Poland introducing awareness raising activities in the field of internet safety for children and youth. Since 2005, NASK has been a leader in operating Polish Safer Internet Centre working jointly with partners and participating in joint European Insafe/INHOPE network.  We also participate in the European-wide projects connected with internet safety like Safer Internet Day or SafeInternet4EU.

As the Polish national registry of internet .pl domains we cooperate within Registry-Registrar-Registrant model with 212 partners (Registrars) from 24 countries and over 2,64mln. registered domains.

Using our unique knowledge and experience in the field of security, reliability and efficiency of the ICT network we deliver training, mentoring, consulting  and access to professional expertise in the field of cybersecurity as well as building and increasing digital technologies awareness.

NASK cooperates closely with Polish academia such as Warsaw University of Technology, Częstochowa University of Technology, Lodz University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Technology as well as Polish Research Institutes: National Institute of Telecommunication and Institute of Innovative Technologies, Military Institute of telecommunications and others. Cooperation is built on concrete projects in areas of cybersecurity, AI, ICS, electronic document processing, biometrics, etc.

NASK has been currently involved in many European and national projects supported by government - in particular 5FR, 6FR, 7FR, Horizon 2020, NATO Panels. NASK has been also actively participating in many Research and Development projects as part of international consortia eg. SISSDEN (Secure Information Sharing Sensor) where NASK operates as leader of the consortia as well as domestic projects co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development  eg. NPC National Cybersecurity Platform - the goal of this project is to develop monitoring, detecting and warning system of for threats and incidents as well as supporting coordination of incident response on a national level, KS03 – national certification system based on Common Criteria, BIOmobi – remote mobile system for biometric authentication exploiting non-specialized mobile devices, OSE - National wide Telco Network for Education that will provide the secure internet network for all schools in Poland. We actively participate in the work on standarization of ICT security and on development of biometric technologies.

As an answer for EU Cybersecurity Act, NASK is also involved in a process of building ecosystem for cybersecurity certification (CertiSecPL initiative) -  which is based among others on mentioned above KSO3 project experience.

NASK carries out strategic projects for Polish public institutions in cooperation with central administration, research institutes and companies. For example we provide support and currently work on many innovative systems for public administration eg. EZD RP- electronic management of documents for government administration, mDokumenty - document verifying system stored on mobile phone.

Among others, the Internet of Things as well as Artificial Intelligence are the emerging issues undertaken by NASK. NASK for last two years conducted the project dedicated to safety and security challenges coming together with IoT technology with a special focus on smart connected toys. NASK Social Research Laboratory applies two simultaneous approaches toward the issue. First, by analyzing AI-related trends in the Polish economy and among business communities secondly, by studying general public’s attitude towards the AI revolution.

One of the top initiatives of NASK as the Centre of Competences in fields of the digital technologies is the SECURE Conference– with the longest tradition in Poland (launched in 1997)  and the broadest approach to the ICT security issues.

In 2016 NASK together with Ministry of Digital Affairs and two other national research institutes: National Institute of Telecommunication and Institute of Innovative Technologies created Scientific and Industrial ICT Center (CNPT). The aim of the CNPT is to coordinate the activities and building cooperation in area of R&D result implementation, development of research infrastructure, implementation of internship programs for employees, as well as joint acquisition and service of domestic and European research projects.

According to the Action Plan of the Ministry of Digitalization for Artificial Intelligence, the group of NASK research institute  has been indicated as the Digital Hub of Innovation for AI in Poland. Together with Ministry for Digital Affairs and daughter companies (eg. NASK4Innovation), we are  facilitating the uptake of  Artificial Intelligence in Poland,, which we believe will be equally revolutionary with the potential to change the world, improve the quality of life and bring economic profits. We intend to create strong synergy between academia, industry and government to build and support open, more competitive and resilient cyberspace to develop and expand Single Digital Market and Digital Europe. Digital technologies.