Digital Innovation Hubs in Horizon 2020 21 September 2017, Den Haag Anne-Marie Sassen, Deputy Head of Unit Technologies & Systems for Digitising Industry, DG CONNECT/A2, European Commission #DigitiseEU
Digitising European Industry initiative Broadly disseminate digital innovations for all: Setting up a pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs Strengthen competitiveness by developing partnerships and platforms A framework for the coordination of national and European initiatives A regulatory framework adapted to the digitisation of industry Data: flow, access, exploitation safety, responsibility (liability) Prepare Europeans for the digital age Training, education, new work environment
our added value at EU level European platform of National Initiatives on Digitising Industry (Rome, 2017) To reinforce the EU's competitiveness in digital technologies and to ensure that any industry in Europe – big or small, wherever situated, whatever sector – can fully benefit from digital innovations to upgrade its products, improve its processes and adapt its business models to the digital transition. The platform: our added value at EU level Coherence, collective steer, co-ordination Monitoring actions at all levels: EU, MSs, regional and industrial Diffusion of Best Practices Pool investments Les initiatives prises par les E-Ms se complémentent et se renforcent mutuellement S'appuie et complémente les 15 politiques nationales de numérisation AT, BE, CZ, DK, FR, DE, HU, IT, LI, LU, NL, PL, PT, ES & SE Encourage et soutient les nouvelles initiatives en préparation BG, HR, FI, RO, SK, SL & UK - Forum de la communauté Essen, DE 31 jan – 1 fév.. 2017 500+ participants - tables rondes - Lancement de la plateforme européenne lors du Digital Day
Level of digitisation differs according to size of company, sector and region 56% of companies in computer programming, consultancy and information services are highly digitised. Only around 6% of companies in basic metals & fabricated metal products excluding machines & equipment are highly digitised. 42% of large companies is highly digitised in the EU vs 16% of SMEs 53% of Danish companies are highly digitised vs 8% in Bulgaria and Romania NL
Digital Innovation Hubs: Towards organic Growth "Ensure that every business in Europe, whatever its sector of activity, wherever located and whatever its size, can take full advantage of digital innovations and competences" Member States & regions: build-up/strengthening of national and regional structures of DIHs Commission: Set up a pan-EU network of DIHs Support activities such as cross-border experiments, catalogue and assistance in the creation of hubs Dans la communication, DIH = pôle d'innovation numérique particular attention to SMEs Ensure companies can access advanced technologies and enhance their digital competences €100 million per year (EU) of support to the hubs and 10 times more from the Member States and regions
What is a Digital Innovation Hub? Provide support to existing industry to manage their digital transformation Competence Centres are at the core of DIHs, ecosystem approach Variable geometries: technology applications, sector, SME focus, service portfolios, etc Provides opportunities for both ICT users and ICT suppliers one-stop-shop services to help companies with digital transformation multi-partner cooperation specialist expertise infrastructure brokering/ matchmaking awareness creation innovation scouting digital maturity assessment visioning and strategy development mentoring training Access to finance investor readiness services Digital Innovation Hub Competence Centre Digital Skills Digital Transformation Experiments experimentation and testing coaching pilot factories fabrication of new products Fab-labs Working Group report on DIHs: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/report-wg1-digital-innovation-hubs-mainstreaming-digital-innovation-across-all-sectors-final
Digital Innovation Hubs Catalogue Work in progress About 60 entries for NL Soon available on http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ >> Tools.
WP 2018 – 2020 - ICT Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet Focus area "Digitising and transforming European industry and services" calls for digital innovation hubs (for 300 M€) DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Initiative, with the "widening" part for industrial regions that are currently underrepresented in I4MS and SAE DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics – Digital Innovation Hubs, with a focus on maintenance and inspection robotics DT-ICT-03-2020: I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers and digital manufacturing platforms DT-ICT-04-2020: Photonics Innovation Hubs DT-ICT-05-2020: Big Data Innovation Hubs In SC2: DT-RUR-12-2018: ICT Innovation agriculture – Digital Innovation Hubs for Agriculture
WP 2018 – 2020 - ICT Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet Focus area calls for innovation actions with the following characteristics: Consortia should be deeply rooted in regional/national DIH Critical mass of highly innovative, cross border experiments. At least 50% of the budget should directly benefit SMEs or slightly bigger companies. Activities should aim at long-term sustainability and include a business plan for the digital innovation hubs, a plan to attract investors, to address training and skills development needs and dissemination. Established networks reaching out to SMEs like the Enterprise Europe Network and the NCP network should be used. Selected projects are expected to collaborate on building a network of Digital Innovation Hubs, covering most regions in Europe.
Critical Mass of Cross-Border Application Experiments Competence Centres Infrastructure and access to technology Cross value chain design experiment Develop novel products or services with digital technologies. Bring together actors along value chain. Suppliers to assist new users in customising and applying digital technologies in their environment. Financial support to third parties may be used for flexibility Many projects are using FSTP to implement open calls in H2020
Stimulate the development of the next wave DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet Stimulate the development of the next wave of products with digital technologies inside A network of Digital Innovation Hubs in the following 4 areas: Area 1: Cyber-physical and embedded systems Area 2: Customised low energy computing powering CPS and the IoT Area 3: Flexible and Wearable Electronics Area 4: Widening Digital Innovation Hubs Innovation Actions up to 8 million €. www.smartanythingeverywhere.eu 48 M€
Examples within Cyber-physical systems – safety critical systems Autonomous robot that can check lights on airport runways EZ10: a driverless shuttle to cover short distances on predefined routes Steery.io/EasyMile Autonomous weeding robots
Digital Innovation Hubs DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics – Digital Innovation Hubs Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet Facilitate and accelerate a broad uptake and integration of robotic technologies A network of Digital Innovation Hubs in the following 4 areas: Healthcare Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance Agri-Food Agile Production Innovation Actions up to 16 million €. 64 M€
Digital Innovation Hubs in SC2 Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet 20M€ DT-RUR-12-2018: ICT Innovation agriculture – Digital Innovation Hubs for Agriculture To accelerate the adoption of ICT-based solutions for more productive and sustainable agriculture systems. Innovation Action up to 10M € Topic published under the Societal Challenge 2 Work Programme "Food Security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research and the bio economy".
Related CSA's DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere CSA to support SAE network – 1 M€ DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics - Digital Innovation Hubs CSA to support Robotics DIH network – 2 M€ DT-ICT-06-2018: Coordination and Support Activities for Digital Innovation Hub network CSA to network all DIHs – 1 M€
Upcoming open "cascading funds" calls Project Technology Area Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 4 Call 5 I4MS (Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs) Initiative HORSE Robotics Nov.17 - ReconCell L4MS Logistics for Manufacturing Sep.18 Sep.19 CloudiFacturing HPC cloud-based simulation services Jul.18 Jul.19 MIDIH CPS/IoT for Manufacturing Mar.18 Mar.19 AMABLE Additive Manufacturing Mar.20 SAE (Smart Anything Everywhere) Initiative FED4SAE Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems May18 Nov.18 TETRAMAX Bilateral Low energy computing powering CPS and IoT Oct.18 Apr.20 Value chain/ interdisciplinary Feb.18 Dec.18 Oct.19 Entrepreneurial Aug.18 Aug.19 Aug.20 DIATOMIC Advanced micro-electronic components and Smart System Integration SmarTEES Organic and large area electronics Apr.19 Other projects Data Pitch Data brokerage between public sector organisations and SMEs Jul.17–end of Sep.17 Autumn 18
Where to find cascading funds open calls on participant portal? http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/other/competitive.html
Main messages Regional/national funding for DIHs will be a requirement for participating in EU funded Digital Innovation Hubs Draft workprogramme is now published Work with Smart Industry to set up/reinforce DIHs targeting the sectors which are important for the Netherlands. European proposals should focus on networking of DIHs in order to: Promote Dutch excellence elsewhere in Europe Find missing expertise elsewhere in Europe
Further information ICT Proposers' Day 2017 - Budapest, 9-10 Nov 2017 Working group on Digital Innovation Hubs Report: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/report-wg1-digital-innovation-hubs-mainstreaming-digital-innovation-across-all-sectors-final Catalogue of Digital Innovation Hubs https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/digital-innovation-hubs-catalogue-project-0 Mentoring project for Digital Innovation Hubs https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/call-digital-innovation-hubs-eu13-member-states: Open until 22 October
Open Innovation Test Beds Open Innovation Testbeds in NMBP Open Innovation Test Beds PILOT LINES CHARACTERISATION MODELLING SAFETY ACCELERATING INNOVATION for MATERIALS Industry In the two KETs: Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials Open Innovation Test Beds 1) Directorate D mission is to support the Industrial transformation of Europe and we would like to do that while promoting Open Innovation principles and fostering New Innovation Ecosystems 2) We (or I) believe that, supporting the creation of OPEN INNOVATION HUBS at EU level that will accelerate the physical innovation for the Materials Industry in the areas of Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials, is the way to move forward – acceleration time to market 3) Since the beginning of H2020 we have been working in that direction with: (Instruments implemented by my Directorate so far that will contribute to the proposed solution) Investment of more than 150 million euros in Piloting and upscalling facilities and Setting up the European Pilot production network Investing on Materials Characterisation and setting up the European Materials Characterisation Council (EMCC) Investing on Computational modelling Projects and setting up the European materials modelling council (EMMC) Investment in Nanosafety and Nanotechnologies Risk governance projects and the NANOSAFETY CLUSTER Europe must exploit this potential! Need to engage industry, SMES, public and private investors Develop a favourable ecosystem for materials upscaling Support regional growth through fast deployment of new technologies 4) My idea today is to support the development of an integrated innovation ecosystem of interconnected Open Innovation Hubs in order to move this agenda forward FP7-H2020 H2020-FP9
Open Innovation Test Beds - Tasks Open access to facilities and services for design, development (prototyping), testing, and upscaling materials and nanotechnologies for new products Demonstration in the relevant industrial environments Show-casing technologies with user industry in cross border applications Facilitate access of European SMEs along product supply chains Identification and assessment of potential regulatory, economic and technical barriers Engagement of stakeholders across the EU and the Associated Countries
Open Innovation Test Beds Disclaimer: Preliminary information, workprogramme has not been approved yet For upscaling nanotechnology and materials in the following technology domains Lightweight nano-enabled multifunctional materials and components Safety Testing of Medical Technologies for Health Nano-enabled surfaces and membranes Bio-based nano-materials and solutions Functional materials for building envelopes Nano-pharmaceuticals production The activities will be supported through the establishment of Open Innovation Test Beds in Characterisation and Modelling as well as the already established NanoSafety Platform
Differences DIH and open innovation testbeds Technology focus In DIH beneficiaries should be deeply rooted in a regional/national digital innovation hub DIHs allow Financial Support to Third Parties for open calls