Description: At the end of the project, a balanced network of EDIH will cover all regions in Europe, addressing the needs of the public and private sectors, including all economic sectors, offering a wide range of specialised digital transformation services.
Basic Information
Reference Number: IN-2023-15456
Project Type: DIGITAL-CSA DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA: DIGITAL Action Grant Budget-Based [DIGITAL-AG]
Details
Location: –
Work programme part: Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs
Dates
Publication: 21.11.23
Closing Date: 20.05.24
Contact Information
Description
ExpectedOutcome:
Outcomes and deliverables
At the end of the project, a balanced network of EDIH will cover all regions in Europe, addressing the needs of the public and private sectors, including all economic sectors, offering a wide range of specialised digital transformation services.
The following indicators will be used to evaluate the performance of the hub; proposals should define their targets related to each of them:
- Number of businesses and public sector entities, which have used the European Digital Innovation Hubs’ services, by user category (businesses of different sizes, public sector entities, etc.), sector, location and type of support received. Where relevant, this will include a description of which Digital Europe Programme capacities have been used.
- For access to finance: amount of additional investments successfully triggered (e.g. through venture capital, bank loan, etc.).
- Number of collaborations foreseen with other EDIHs and stakeholders outside the region at EU level, and description of jointly shared infrastructures / joint investments with other EDIH.
A set of additional impact indicators will be collected and analysed with the support of the Digital Transformation Accelerator:
- Increase in digital maturity of organizations that have used the services of the EDIH network. Digital maturity will be defined on the basis of a questionnaire developed by the Joint Research Centre assessing the categories digital strategy and readiness, intelligence and automation, data and connectedness, green and human-centric digitalisation. The green digitalisation category will focus on the use of digital technologies to improve environmental sustainability and the inclusion of circularity in value chains.
- Market maturity and market creation potential of innovations, as defined in the JRC’s Innovation Radar methodology.
Cross-border trans-national hubs are possible; in this case, each Member State involved will provide the co-financing for participants legally established in their country. Grants will make use of multi-annual instalments.
Only entities that are designated by their Member State or Associated countries may apply to this call. As a proof of their designation they need to attach the letter of designation they received to their proposal.Objective:
Set-up the Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) from all designated candidate entities resulting from the Expression of Interest. Upgrade these entities to provide the complete set of services of an EDIH, including the necessary infrastructure, in a specific geographical area, covering the needs of the local SMEs, small mid-caps and/or public sector organisations with respect to their digital transformation. Network these EDIHs with each other and with other projects selected in Digital Europe Programme developing capacities in High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Advanced Digital Skills and accelerating the best use of these technologies.
