1. EOSC Digital Innovation Hub (EOSC DIH)
Bringing industry into the European Open Science Cloud
Sy Holsinger, EGI Foundation / EOSC DIH Coordinator
EOSC-hub Week, Prague
11 Apr 2019
Dissemination level: Public

2. EC Digital Innovation Hub Initiative
Background and landscape

3. Digital Innovation Hub
EC definition
What is a Digital Innovation Hub?
An ecosystem of start-ups, SMEs, large industries, researchers, accelerators and investors that fosters the creation of partnerships to stimulate innovation.

4. Digital Innovation hub
A one-stop-shop providing services to companies in the region through a multi-partner cooperation
Access to Specialist Expertise and Infrastructure
Brokering/matchmaking
Awareness Creation around Digital Technologies
Innovation Scouting
Digital Maturity Assessment.
Visioning and Strategy Development for Businesses
Mentoring

5. European Landscape of DIHs
Agile, and demand-driven, Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe are sustainable innovation ecosystems, not just a gateway to services.
Running DIH initiatives
22 innovation hubs all over the European continent, soon expanding worldwide
Digital Innovation Hubs in H2020: The EC is focusing EUR 300M in H2020 ( ) – short time from idea to hands-on experimentation and development.
€110m of funding has been invested in I4MS since 2013; - 11 large projects funded by Fp7 and H2020, 70 competence centres;

6. Digital Innovation Hubs Catalogue
First version available:
Fact-sheets with profile, contact data, service examples for regional, national, and EU- supported DIHs
Map-based search tool by technical competences, market sector, services
gital-innovation-hubs-tool 8

7. DIHNET.EU Project

8. Launch 3 Working Groups
To derive recommendations to the High-Level Governance Meeting within 1 year
WG on Digital Innovation Hubs addressing issues such as
Raising awareness and engaging SMEs
Improving access to finance for SMEs
Networking and collaboration including business models
Role of Member States/regions for the development of DIHs
Reinforce digital skills and training dimension
2. Joint WG of DEI and Multi Stakeholder Platform (MSP) on standardization activities of Digital Industrial Platforms
Coordination of platform building and piloting activities
Synchronization and acceleration of standardization efforts
3. WG on Future Partnerships
The Multistakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation (MSP) and the Digitising European Industry initiative (DEI) set up a joint Working Group in March 2018 with the aim of providing a comprehensive plan to foster standardisation in support of the digitalisation of European industry. It brings together nominated representatives of the MSP and the High-level governance meeting of the European platform of national initiatives on digitising industry, including national ministries and actions on digitising industry, European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs), Public-Private Partnerships, and relevant European associations.
In particular, the Working Group will:
Identify, as a starting point, the standardisation needs in the manufacturing sector, which might serve as a blueprint for other domains in the future.

9. WP ICT
"Digitizing and transforming European industry and services" calls for digital innovation hubs (€300M)
DT-ICT : Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Initiative, with the "widening" part for industrial regions that are currently underrepresented in I4MS and SAE
DT-ICT : Robotics – Digital Innovation Hubs
DT-ICT : I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers and digital manufacturing platforms
DT-ICT : Photonics Innovation Hubs
DT-ICT : Big Data Innovation Hubs
In SC2: DT-RUR : ICT Innovation agriculture – Digital Innovation Hubs for Agriculture
+ Support action DT-ICT : Coordination and Support Activities for Digital Innovation Hub network

10. EOSC Digital Innovation Hub
Objectives, pilots and ongoing collaborations

11. Builds on the EC initiative to onboard industrial partnerships within the European Open Science Cloud
Joint effort from years of individual e-Infrastructure industry engagement programs
Focused on (not limited to) start-ups and SMEs
Starts with 6 business pilots selected during project preparation; open for many more
To persist beyond the life of any support project (e.g. EOSC-hub project – hub.eu)

12. EOSC DIH: Overview “To bring private companies into the Start:
Key Figures
Mission
“To bring private companies into the
European Open Science Cloud
through concrete business cases.”
Start:
1st January 2018
48 Service offerings
25 Partners
6 Pilots running
Driven by

13. EOSC DIH: Objectives
Offer access to e-Infrastructure resources to support pilots, prototyping, scaling-up, design, performance verification, testing, demonstration, etc.
Facilitate partnerships with SMEs/industry, innovation clusters, accelerators and investors that stimulate innovation
Increase visibility on a European/International level
Provide business coaching and training to “accelerate” market uptake and exploitation results
Support access to funding/grants
Develop long-term business relationships

14. Piloting and co-design
EOSC-DIH: Services
Pilots/proofs of concepts
Service/Product design
PaaS/SaaS Integration
Performance verification
Testing
Piloting and co-design
Compute (HTC, HPC, Cloud)
Storage (Online/Archive)
Data management
Research data
Tools & applications
Technical access
Technical consultancy
Service management
Commercialization and business coaching
Brokerage to funding and opportunities
Training & Support
Media Exposure
Participation to events
Promotional print material
Inclusion in marketplace
Networking
Visibility

15. Collaboration Platform
Vouchers, Marketplace, Platform
Vouchers
*additional options based on use case
EOSC Marketplace
Collaboration Platform
*prototype based on

16. Initial 6 Business Pilots
Pre-selected to kick start the DIH - open for many more!

17. EOSC DIH: Our Initial 6 Business Pilots
ACTION Seaport
Space Weather Data for the DRACO Observatory
CyberHAB
Bot Mitigation Engine
Sport Smart Video Analysis
Furniture Enterprise Analytics Datafurn

18. EOSC DIH: Our Initial 6 Business Pilots
Improving safety and operational performance of seaports
A Cloud Framework for State-of-the-art Space Weather
Using data cloud Services to manage harmful algae blooms
Demos ran at DI4R Lisbon
ACTION Seaport
Space Weather Data for the DRACO Observatory
CyberHAB
Solutions to secure online services from Botnets Attacks
Analysing Sport Performance through a Cloud-hosted platform
Platform-as-a-Service Data Analytics for the Furniture Industry
Demos today at EOSC-hub Week!
11 April 2019
Bot Mitigation Engine
Sport Smart Video Analysis
Furniture Enterprise Analytics Datafurn

19. Additional Collaborations (at various stages)
Why Collaborate
Why should industry engage the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)?
Diverse services; Exploit research data; Expertise; Wide visibility; Funding opportunities
Single point for discovery, request and access of services and expertise
Collaborate on a European and international scale
Promote services (agreeing to the ‘rules of participation’)
Participant in procurement framework
Are you already in a Digital Innovation Hub?
EC wants to create a pan-European ‘network’ of DIHs, we should work together
Additional Collaborations (at various stages)

20. EOSC DIH Team EOSC DIH Partners Sy Holsinger (EGI)
Marcin Plociennik (PSNC)
Agnieszka Rabenda-Tomczak (PSNC)
Konrad Leszczynski (PSNC)
Claudio Arlandini (CINECA)
Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA)
Nuno Varandas (F6S)
Hugo Cantão (F6S)
Catherine O'Donoghue (F6S)
David Wright (UCL)