The Digital Innovation Hub of Confartigianato Ancona Pesaro and Urbino is a no profit organization, coordinated by Confartigiano Imprese, an industrial association, which has been supporting micro and Small-Medium Enterprises from 70 years.

Specifically, the DIH acts an innovation centre for artisans, SMEs and citizens who want to acquire digital competences. The DIH offers to its clients, especially SMEs of different sectors, high level services and updated training to access new technologies.

The main objective of the DIH is building a digital ecosystem linking and managing relationships between enterprises, universities and financial services in order to support businesses, particularly SMEs, towards digital transformation.

Moreover, the DIH owns specific digital and technological tools, such as 3D printers and software. SMEs can exploit this equipment directly through the DIH to develop new process and products. Furthermore, the DIH has a team of experts which can support directly SMEs, levering also on the assistance of other professional of the field. 

In particular, thanks to ICT experts operating inside the DIH, enterprises can access knowledge, experience, competences on technological tools and equipment to transform their idea in prototypes and then products. Businesses can use software, 3D printing, virtual reality exploiting the opportunity of coaching from experienced professionals.

Each client of the DIH is supported in the development of new processes and products, testing first of all their level of digital maturity, ithen defining an accurate plan of actions for developing new process and products. Lastly, based on the emerging needs and knowledge required, the client is connected by the DIH to suitable partners of the ecosystem.

The relation of the collaboration is guided by the Digital Innovation Hub from the beginning, setting meetings and supporting the partners throughout the entire collaboration.

In addition, the DIH offers specific sessions of training involving experts from DIH staff together with external professionals. Training sessions continue involving a high SMEs of different sectors. The courses relate to a wide range of topics from web marketing, cybersecurity and privacy, prototyping and 3D printing and programming. Digital technologies.

The DIH Veneto is managed by Confindustria Veneto SIAV Spa, the service company of Confindustria Veneto.

It operates at a regional level in close connection with the "territorial antennas" set up by the Industrial Associations of the Veneto provinces and the provincial DIHs of Confindustria.

It is an important player in the 4.0 regional ecosystem, which includes the 4 Universities of Veneto, the Competence Center Smact, the public Innovation Agencies (T2I, Galileo Visionary District and Veneto Innovazione), the system of regional cluster (Reti Innovative Regionali) the smart factories of “100 luoghi di Industria 4.0”;

Awareness-raising on the opportunities related to the application of 4.0 technologies through the organisation of seminars, workshops and particularly the animation and promotion of the regional network of Industry 4.0 showcase factories

https://100luoghi.industria40veneto.it/

Research and studies in the field of 4.0 aimed at promoting and developing the managerial culture

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Training courses, seminars, workshops, and study visits;

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Digital maturity assessment: support in the use of digital maturity assessment tools, the definition of the roadmap for the digital transformation of business processes and accompaniment in the development of 4.0 projects through the support of highly qualified managers

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Customized consultancy to companies on specific issues of Industry 4.0 European projects (Force, Adapt, Equal, Leonardo, Erasmus Plus, Cross-border Projects, Horizon, Interreg) with a network of hundreds of partners throughout Europe.
Liaison with major regional clusters. SIAV is part of 12 technology clusters recognised by the Veneto Region.

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All the services (except consultancy) are provided free of charge to companies thanks to the SIAV support in accessing regional, national and European funding Digital technologies.

​​​​Digital Innovation Hub at University of Maribor is a regional non-profit network hub of research, industry and business support organizations, utilizing state of the art infrastructure, in order to bring the digital revolution in Slovenia by offering cutting-edge digital technology innovations and services to the manufacturing industry. It also acts as a one-stop shop for East Cohesion Region of Slovenia, directing industry player towards partners who can help them during the digital transformation process.

The mission of DIH UM is to bridge the gap between the digitalization needs in the industries and the viable solutions. DIH UM’s vision is to create a collaborative community focused on digital technologies and new business models that can improve the competitiveness of companies.

DIH UM is oriented towards industrial sectors, which are prioritized in the Slovenia’s Smart Specialisation Strategy (S4). Priority area Healthy working and living environment relates to areas of application where systemic solutions should be developed based on R&D investments and intensive collaboration between stakeholders, especially companies and knowledge institutions. One of the main goals of DIH UM is to use available mechanisms, such as SRIPs, clusters, value chains etc. as a vehicle to identify future challenges and determine appropriate solutions to accelerate innovation and digital transformation. In the case of SMEs - to support them at scale-up activities to develop and implement digital skills. Experiences show that facilitating and enabling SMEs to access research facilities (e.g. HPC) removes various barriers for them (e.g. costs, lack of personnel, learning curve, lean optimization of business model) and greatly improves the likelihood of them becoming world leaders. On the other hand, for DIH UM’s technology and knowledge providers, such partnerships stimulate long-term R&D collaborations and create solid basis for strong and sustainable links between science and industry.

The largest ongoing investment is a 20 million project HPC-RIVR. UM has secured 16 million EU funding (+4 million national funding) to build a supercomputer center in Maribor to boost national high-performance computing capacities for research, innovation and business. The project will ensure integration with existing infrastructures, such as the Slovenian State Cloud. HPC-RIVR is a reference project of the Digital Slovenia 2020 (Information Society Development Strategy to 2020).

The DIH UM is bringing together skilled workforce, researchers, policy, network, knowledge, research findings and the industry. For this reason, various activities aimed at integrating knowledge and R&D with the industry are being implemented in order to initiate concrete projects contributing to new jobs and new products with high added value. Because of the vast implementation scope and focused scientific excellence - DIH UM partners immerse in many local, regional and global value chains, e.g. varying from global automotive value chains to regional health-care value chains and local agrofood value chain.

The services that Digital Innovation Hub is offering to regional business are divided in three main pillars:

Produce and share knowledge:

Skills and education (DIH UM organizes workshops, courses in the field of digitalization and also provides instant access to its available and extensive R&D infrastructure for educational purpose)
Financing innovation (DIH UM provides expert help to companies on identification of funding opportunities, consultancy for the application for local and EU grants, consultancy for the application for private investments).
Business support and consultancy (DIH UM offers expert assistance in assessment of business ideas; feasibility studies and offers assistance in preparing business plans. Furthermore, we offer advice on technology transfer, intellectual property protection and other related issues)
Search for international partners (DIH UM provides support to organizations seeking to sell or install new technologies for partners in international research, technology and innovation projects)

Co-develop, test, and launch new products and services

Strategic research and development projects and contract research (DIH UM foster the establishment of successful partnerships for the joint implementation of R&D projects)
Experimentation / Prototyping (DIH UM provides technical support on company’s scale-up and also provides instant access to its available and extensive R&D infrastructure)
Testing phase (DIH UM provides product demonstration for companies)

Nourishing the digital innovation ecosystem

Community building (DIH will strengthen its community with time through different formal networks, such as EEN, KTT, DTC, DEMOLA, VZHODNA.SI, etc.)
Strategy development (DIH UM will assist local, regional and national government in content preparation of strategies and policies in the field of digitalization; furthermore it will assist companies in development and implementation of digitalization strategies)

The coordinator of the DIH:UM is University of Maribor (UM) - the second largest university in Slovenia and the largest knowledge provider in East Slovenia cohesion region with approximately 13,000 students and 17 faculties offering a full specter of natural and social study programmes. UM is very entrepreneurially oriented and thus has strong partnerships established with businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations and other institutions in order to initiate concrete projects contributing to new jobs and new products with high added value; to address key societal issues; and to promote sustainable development and contribute to the public good. Digital technologies.

“DIH Udine” is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of “DIH Udine” is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

DIH deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industrie 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

In particular the main activities are:

Awareness Dissemination (Meeting, Workshop, etc.)

Supporting activities to industrial companies for Industry 4.0-based project implementation

Support access to tax breaks provided by Piano Industria 4.0

Supporting activities for assessing digital readiness

Supporting activities to facilitate manufacturing companies access toinnovation regional ecosystem

Design and delivery of training initiatives

Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories

  Digital technologies.

DIH TERA (Digital innovation hub TERA) is a consortium that functions as a one-stop-shop and provides companies with the possibility of enhancing their competitiveness concerning their business/production processes, products or services by using digital technologies. DIH TERA is based on technological infrastructure (Competence Centre – CC) and provides access to the latest knowledge, expertise and technologies for providing support to companies in the implementation of pilot projects, testing and experimenting with digital innovations. The hub provides business and financial support for introducing innovations, if necessary, through the value chain, and acts as the first regional contact point that strengthens the innovation ecosystem. The DIH TERA consortium consists of organisations based in East Croatia, among which there are constituents of the two East Croatian universities and development agencies from all five of the region’s counties, as well as business support institutions and renowned Croatian SMEs with extensive knowledge and experience in the IT sector and digitalisation processes. The coordinator is an SME with a not-for-profit clause, established by the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County and the City of Osijek. All the partners undertake not to make profit from the activities implemented within the DIH, in compliance with the not-for-profit clause. DIH TERA operates not only on regional but on the national and international levels as well. It cooperates with international consortia and initiatives, bringing companies closer to service providers from other regions. The members of the DIH TERA consortium participate in numerous international projects, programmes and networks, such as D-Rural, Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), Horizon2020, KAM (Key Account Management), Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE), KETGATE, KET4CP, MobiliseSME, Time Machine, EIT Food, Erasmus+, Interreg, Danube Transfer Centres (DTC), Open Innovation System of the Adriatic-Ionian Region network, ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), Crowdhelix. Key services: Test Before Invest: the services encompass digital maturity evaluation, demonstrational activities, evaluation and simulation for digital transformation, support for integration and adaptation of different technologies, testing and experimentation with digital technologies, technology transfer, development of mobile and web applications. Skills and Training: workshops, seminars, in-house education and training. Access to Finance: the services encompass connecting companies within the EEN network, creating and publishing clients’ profiles in the EEN database, advisory services regarding business internationalisation on the EU market, a consultancy in defining project proposals for financing, directing entrepreneurs to cascade financing of R&D activities and prototype financing, connecting entrepreneurs with international networks of R&D institutions. The process: An analysis of justification and needs is performed on the expression of the client's interest and the need for entrepreneurial support. To this end, an evaluation and support team shall be set up, involving relevant experts from the consortium's partner institutions. The experts are tasked with preparing a work plan (consultancy support, education, prototyping, testing, preparing project proposals for other sources of funding and other activities according to the profile and needs of the project). In the initial phase, the work of DIH TERA focuses on activities that can significantly improve business through digitalisation, such as building sustainable food supply chains through the digital transformation of agriculture, which includes the use of artificial intelligence in quality control systems, the use of blockchain technologies un certification and labelling of food products, the use of GIS/GPS technologies in precision agriculture development, use of additive production to shorten the time required for product and packaging design, personalised nutrition and functional food production, as well as other unspecified activities. Based on the connections with other international consortia and initiatives, the range of technical competencies and services is significantly expanded. Digital technologies.

The DIH TECHNICOM is a Regional Industrial DIH established as a specific (nonprofit) workplace of the University Science Park TECHNICOM (USP), which is a university-wide organizational nonprofit unit of the Technical University of Košice (TUKE).  The USP is an Innovation and Technology transfer HUB at TUKE orienting on areas within the scope of research and educational competencies of TUKE. In line with this focus, the USP represented TUKE in the H2020 MIDIH project (Manufacturing Industry Digital Innovation Hubs / 2017-2020). In accordance with the mission, results, and products of the MIDIH project, the Regional Industrial DIH began to actively operate and gradually develop in the UVP environment (from 01.2018), and it was officially open as the DIH TECHNICOM  (DIH) at 25. August 2020.

   The declared background and organizational position of the DIH enable it to make full use of the innovative potential of the USP ecosystem and adequate access to the R&D ecosystem of the university. The DIH, in line with its orientation and USP mission, provides a "one-stop-shop” and "one-stop-shop marketplace" services aimed at:

- Raising awareness of the importance of the development and implementation of relevant concepts of the I4.0 strategy.

 - Accelerating efficient implementation of digital transformation at the application of smart innovation in the relevant industrial production areas. 

In this sense, DIH services support a collaborative approach as: 

-Transfer and application results of R&D  in practice;

-Ensuring access to technology, business, and knowledge support for research, development, and innovation industrial projects, and activities of its clients. 

   Relevant ICT, training, and “smart” business services aimed at supporting the development of SMEs are very successful and have a strong link to the "Start-up" and "Spin-off" projects under the "TUKE Business Acceleration Program" provided by USP since 2014. All activities support national, European, and international cooperation aimed at developing solutions for the state-of-the-art concepts of "smart" I4.0 strategies, to which accessible assets and platforms of the MIDIH ecosystem makes a significant contribution.

  The DIH has active collaboration with the Prototyping and Innovation Centre (PaIC), which is a partner workshop of USP, allocated at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty.  PaIC ensuring the active performance of the Robotic DIH (http://roboticshub.sk/en/) guarantee by the TUKE, whose development is supporting by the H2020-RIMA project “Robotics for Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance”.  Similarly, the corresponding local AI Department at the TUKE in the H2020-AI4EU project “A European AI on Demand Platform and Ecosystem” With the support of the project, the “Slovak AI meetup” platform was created.  The close cooperation between the presented three innovation institutes significantly supports the European dimension, multidisciplinary, and holistic approach of DIH activities at the TUKE environment. Digital technologies.

DIH Tartu operates under the University of Tartu, Estonia in collaboration between the Institute of Computer Science and the Institute of Technology. DIH Tartu aims to become a recognised innovation and knowledge transfer hub for digitalisation of industries in the areas where scientific research and R&D contribution is needed. The key objectives are to develop: 

constant dialogue between the industries and university to raise the awareness of advantages of digitalisation and identify R&D needs relevant to local industries; 
R&D capacity and knowledge transfer capability through different collaboration formats and support services in the areas of interest of local, regional and global industries;
personal careers of students into highly skilled professional digital careers at the industry. 

DIH Tartu is the centre of digital excellence with strong and versatile network of partners from public, private and third sector, each with its clear focus and capability to contribute to the DIH’s value proposition to companies seeking for support in digitalising their businesses. DIH Tartu provides services for companies to enable and support digital innovation in the areas of:

Data Science (Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence), 
Software Engineering & Information Systems, 
Business Process Management, 
Cyber Security, 
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing & IoT,
Collaborative robotics and flexible manufacturing,
Cyber-physical systems,
Virtual and augmented reality system.

The services include consultations, mentoring, trainings, workshops, prototyping, joint R&D projects, technology and process audits, access to labs, infrastructure and high performance computing power, access to international research and collaboration networks, etc. DIH Tartu also contributes to skills development of future digitalisation specialists and entrepreneurs by offering:

pre-incubator programmes for students to encourage digital entrepreneurship; 
support for researchers to create spin-offs for innovation, knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry;
project based internships and digital product innovation experiments, industrial master and doctoral programmes to co-educate future specialists  (in collaboration with specific industry partners).
Digital technologies.

DIH PANNONIA, located in Vinkovci, Croatia, is a digitalisation promotion centre. It operates as the centre for digital transformation of entrepreneurship and food processing sector, while VSC DA holds the role of activity coordinator. DIH PANNONIA is an instrument of support to economic entities, emphasising on food processing sector, with the purpose of competitiveness improvement by developing their business and production processes using the implementation of digitalisation and creation of new products and services. DIH PANNONIA services will enable digitalisation and introduction of Industry 4.0 into economic entities with an emphasis on agriculture and food industry. DIH PANNONIA users are scientific research centres, public institutions and economic entities in the Slavonia, Baranja, and Srijem area.

DIH PANNONIA’s mission is to push the boundaries of innovation-based development and to contribute to digitalisation according to the principles, priorities and realisations of goals set out in the EU Declaration of cooperation on ‘A smart and sustainable digital future for European agriculture and rural areas’, the Digital Agenda for Europe, the European Digital Strategy, the National Reform Programme and the 2030 National Development Strategy.

Digital technologies are able to increase the efficiency of economic entities and improve production, as well as contribute to improving systems’ sustainability from an economic, social and environmental standpoint. Such technologies are able to improve all types of production, allow better decision-making and reshape the functioning of the market. Increased use of digital technologies is going to have a positive impact on the quality of working conditions, business efficiency and the economy as a whole. 

DIH PANNONIA’s task is the promotion of digital transformation and provision of services for the increase of the application of digital technologies in the real, public, and science research areas, as well as in all sectors, with an emphasis on food processing sector.

DIH PANNONIA gives opportunity for easier propelling of strategic partnerships, better cross-border cooperation for various projects, start-up companies, micro-enterprises and SMEs, which deal with digital technologies. Simultaneously, it connects business entities from different industries with interest in using and implementation of newly created innovative solutions.

DIH PANNONIA will provide services/activities of:

-   Promotion of digitalisation and technology and knowledge transfer,

-  Organisation of training and guidance for the digital skills development of economic entities,  public sector, students and family farms, with the access to the professional knowledge of universities and other consortium partners,

- Education and skill development provision, needed for a successful digital transformation,

- Support to economic entities, public administration and other users in improving business models by using new technologies,

-   Networking and connecting providers and users in the digital transformation line at the national     and international level,

- Providing access to product testing and experimentation infrastructure,

-  Advisory services in accessing financial means and the use of financial mechanisms,

-  Preparation and implementation of development projects for users,

- Support for the development of innovative ecosystems and networking opportunities.

Through the services of consortium, DIH PANNONIA will provide entrepreneurs with:

Access to technology for prototyping production,
Advanced research equipment and laboratories for the development of high-tech digitalised solutions
Digitalisation and technology transfer educations

DIH PANNONIA will operate through a strong consortium members partnership, of which every member will provide a certain level of specialized services with a joint goal of opening new job positions and strengthening the economy of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem.

DIH PANNONIA consortium includes 15 partners, whose vision is focused on connecting relevant stakeholders in an efficient business support system in order to become more efficient by way of developing smart skills, creating new innovations, thus becoming more competitive in their line of work as well. Carefully designed consortium, consisting of two universities specializing in technology transfer and business development, and 4 faculties, the Rectorate of the University in Osijek, five public regional coordinator institutions from Slavonija, Baranja and Srijem, entrepreneurs, eminent ICT associations of the civil sector, provides interdisciplinary and systematic support to entrepreneurs in the Vukovar-Srijem County and beyond. The partnership of scientific and research higher education institutions in agrobiotechnical, technology and primarily food technical field will ensure the expertise transfer and enable access to innovative technologies for new product experimentation, development and testing in all sectors of economic development in the easternmost part of Croatia. The consortium’s scientific research sector will also deal with the knowledge transfer related to the development of digital skills. Experts within the consortium will provide systematic and interdisciplinary support tailored to the profile and needs of every individual entrepreneur. This support will strengthen innovation capacity and create added value.

All 5 development agencies in the region will provide advisory services for finance access and use of financial mechanisms for specific innovation needs in the region and each county, through their role of entrepreneurial support institution. Moreover, they will implement advisory services regarding business and other management, as well as, technical and consulting assistance in the implementation of programs and projects, educational activities for the project preparation and implementation, informational and educational activities (workshops, seminars, round tables, info days).

The role of entrepreneurs with implemented Industry 4.0 and within the consortium is very important as it serves as an example of good practice and support provider to entrepreneurs/clients through a direct practical example of the results of digital transformation and providing consulting services in achieving business growth by way of digitalisation.

Non-profit associations are link to the civil sector. They operate within the consortium and in the field of promoting digitalisation and technical sciences, software development, encouraging entrepreneurship in the IT sector, increasing the attractiveness of the development profession, increasing developers’ competitiveness in the market, legal entities’ networking and gathering of natural persons interested in IT sector strengthening and development on the territory of the Republic of Croatia and abroad if necessary, solving professional tasks and organising professional and scientific lectures and conferences in the electrical engineering, computing and information technologies field.

In addition to this fact, the consortium is open for the admission of new partners, as well as cooperation with other DIH consortia within or outside of Croatia and international networks.

It will operate as a One-stop-shop and offer comprehensive and complete support and concrete solutions to companies for introduction of digitalisation into their business processes, product and service development, sales and distribution in order to implement Industry 4.0 principles.

DIH PANNONIA operates in close cooperation with the start-up incubator within the Regional Center for Digitization and Development, since the incubator is one of the components of the Regional Center, as is DIH PANNONIA itself. The start-up incubator is connected with the activities of DIH PANNONIA, through which it will provide start-up companies with the necessary professional support and specialized infrastructure in the digitalization process.

DIH PANNONIA will operate in association with consortium, of which every member will provide a certain level of specialised services.

In association with the members of consortium, the users are going to be provided with intersectoral cooperation of institutions in the field of economy, with an emphasis on food industry.

By means of DIH PANNONIA, Vukovar-Srijem County Development Agency (VSC DA) will play an active role in providing advisory services regarding the access and use of financial mechanisms intended for specific innovation needs of the region, and will strengthen financing realisation activities with advisory services for business growth by digitalisation and support in implementing Industry 4.0 into production processes in the economy.

The coordinator of DIH PANNONIA is VSC DA, which operates as a public institution, established by the Vukovar-Srijem County with the aim of successful coordination and incentivisation of regional development of the County, and an entrepreneurial support institution.  DA VSC, as a member of the BOND network and entrepreneurial support institution, through its activities has achieved long-term cooperation with entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial support institutions, universities, local and regional self-government units and government agencies throughout Croatia, and has a representative in the Thematic Innovation Council for Food and Bioeconomy, which operates within the Croatian Chamber of Commerce. Thanks to this, DIH will expand its activities at the national level to the field of bioeconomy.

The workings of consortium members will allow users intersectoral cooperation of institutions in the economy field. The emphasis will be on the food industry with numerous connections to activities, projects and cooperation:

DIH North was founded by three partners Technology park Varaždin, Technology Innovation Centre Medjimurje and ENTER Koprivnica.

DIH have several infrastructural units at disposal for potential users of the DIH’s services. There is total of six buildings (two in Koprivnica, three in Čakovec, one in Varaždin) with high-speed optical network available for users. The buildings are equipped with modern network infrastructure including multiple high-speed performance servers, with addition of multiple high-speed performance workstations ready for prototyping and small-scale manufacturing. Workstations are equipped with a 3D printers, CNC machines and laser cutters (basically, a fab lab), with access to necessary hardware and software for prototyping. DIH offer a wide range of services for SMEs, from basic incubation to more advanced business and IT support. 

DIH North support the local SMEs with their digital transformation through activities such as building ecosystem, mediation and networking, development of strategies for companies, concept validation and prototyping, pre-competitive series production. Also SMEs can use infrastructire, can get digital maturity assessment, incubator / accelerator support and mentoring and mentoring.

Since DIH has all the necessary machines for fab lab production available for its clients, prototyping, product development and small scale production are one of the most valuable services that DIH can offer, because region that this DIH covers (Northern Croatia) is support for SMEs in terms of prototyping and product development. DIH has all the necessary software licenses for 3D modeling, design and visual prototyping. Part of DIH's infrastructure are 3D printer, Hologram, VR equpment, 3D scanner for rapid prototyping, CNC machines and laser cutter for rapid prototyping and production of small series, wood and metal processin machines.

DIH supports industries that are of strategic importance in partner regions.
TICM is focused on support for IT sector, metal industry, automotive industry and various types of service industries in Čakovec and Međimurje county.

ENTER Koprivnica in Koprivničko-križevačka county is focused on connecting different industries with experts especially with focus on creative industries sector since ENTER is managing Incubator of Creative Industries. ENTER has focus on SMEs, connecting them with experts from Industry 4.0  and working on digitization of their business.

Technology park Varaždin and Varaždinska county deal with IT sector, Iot, creative industries with focus on audio-visual and IT sector) and renewable energy.

Non-profit aim of DIH North is to provide access to know how, best practices, education and experts. Through DIH North we are aiming to encourage ecosystem members to be actively involved in SMEs digitization processes to help them deal with their challenges and achieve competitiveness.

DIH North has strong connections with its ecosystem members, among which are Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI),  University North,  Development and Educational Centre for Metal Industry - Metal Centre Čakovec, cities Varaždin, Čakovec, Koprivnica, clusters (Croatian cluster of competitiveness of creative and cultural industries), Međimurje IT cluster (MIT Cluster). Digital technologies.

“DIH Marche - 4M.0” is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

DIH Marche - 4M.0 was founded on February 2018 by Confindustria Marche, Confindustria Ancona, Confindustria Pesaro Urbino, Confindustria Macerata, Confindustria Fermo e Confindustria Ascoli Piceno.

The aim of “DIH Marche - 4M.0” is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

In particular the main activities are:

Awareness Dissemination (Meeting, Workshop, etc.)
Supporting activities to industrial companies for Industry 4.0-based project implementation
Support access to tax breaks provided by Piano Industria 4.0
Supporting activities for assessing digital readiness
Supporting activities to facilitate manufacturing companies access to  innovation regional ecosystem
Design and delivery of training initiatives
Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories 

The strategy of 4M.0 project is to:
a)     foster the digital transformation of traditional industrial and manufacturing sectors companies
b)     support the development of technologically advanced companies and compartments, including innovative and high knowledge content startups
c)     to create a framework for all the new innovators;  to create collaborative communities inside regional innovation ecosystem;
d)     to accelerate the development of new business model for SMEs and startup’s
Instead, 4M.0 key principles are:
1)     Economic Sustainability, DIH Business Modeling
2)     Open innovation, networking and already existing on the territory resource development (assets, distinctive skills, infrastructures, services, tools)
3)     Win-win-win model: ability to meet stakeholder expectations by opening up may digital  "Blue Oceans" Digital technologies.