22ND OF SEPTEMBER 2017
MADRID

1. Mark Parsons - EPCC
2. Isabelle Dor - CEA
3. Maurits Butter - TNO
4. Gabriel Rissola – JRC/EC
5. Giovanna Galasso - PWC
6. Fabio Pianesi- PWC

EPCC
The UK’s leading HPC Centre
• 27 years old
• 100+ staff
• Host and support many of UK’s National
HPC and Research Data services
• Always worked with industry and
commerce – SMEs and multinationals
• Self funding – commercial mindset
• Digital Innovation Hub in partnership with
Scottish Enterprise
• Fortissimo grew from Supercomputing
Scotland model

Fortissimo Project
High Performance Computing and Data Analytics for Manufacturing SMEs
• Too few European manufacturing SMEs
use modelling and simulation to improve
their products and services
• Fortissimo helps them take their first
steps through a small 18-month
“experiment” – typically 3-4 partners
• Statistics
• 218 partners
• 129 SMEs
• 92 experiments
• €34m costs / €26m funding
New company established
Fortissimo Marketplace Ltd

EuroCPS OVERVIEW
• Call: ICT-01-2014
• Launched: Feb 1st, 2015
• Duration: 3 years
• 9 Countries
• 14 Partners
• 7 Technology Platforms
• Budget: 9,178,641€
• EC funding: 8,186,835€
• 3 open calls
• Cascade Funding FSTP)
Industrial Experiment support: 76% of the EuroCPS funding

• Strong involvement of all the partners:
– Website continuously fed (visited by more than 6000 unique visitors; 2400 for the last open call)
– Organization and participation to 31 brokerage events (SAE events, IoT Planet…), F2F meetings, use
of social platforms (Twitter, Linked in…)…
– Communication kit (3 press releases, platform poster, …)
– Networking, Platform and competence working methodology with SMEs
• Successful launch and management of the 3 open calls:
– 34 IEs overs 118 proposals (acceptance rate < 29%).
– All the technology platform support at least 3 IEs
– All the competence centers support at least 2 IE
WHAT WE ACHIEVED so far
Cross-border 82%
Prop. outside
consortium
20%
IE countries outside
consortium
+2

Overview of the
I4MS Mentoring programme
• Business plan: The Mentoring programme is first step
• Ecosystem: Clear need and added value
• Business model: Multi-business model applies
• Services: Ecosystem, education, awareness and research
are core
• Brokerage: Service core to the hubs
• Finance: H2020 is crucial, together with regional
• Partners: Research in charge, industry a partner
• Customers: SMEs and start-ups, but also large
enterprises

DIH
database
Start-up Top down identification (Digital initiatives)
Bottom up through the website
Finalization
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Questionnaire
The DIH Catalogue
Partners: TNO, Civitta, CPI, D’Appalonia,
EDATER, European Dynamics, Jennifer Harper,
LIST, SmartIS City, TC CAS, Tecnalia, VDI, VTT,
University of Zagreb
Where are we now:
• Top down and bottom up procedure are closed
• Data is verified by TNO and NCPs
• Finalisation of database to be transferred to JRC
Results:
• Database with almost 500 DIHs
• Entries characterized with codified classifications
• First version database migrated to JRC systems
Service/Funding
COSME
ERDF
EuropeanSocialFund
Horizon2020
Memberships
Nationalbasicresearchfunding
Nationalfunding
Partnerresources
Privatefunding
Regionalfunding
Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking 3 9 5 16 9 6 8 10 6 11
Education and skills development 2 8 4 14 9 6 7 8 5 10
Collaborative Research 3 8 5 15 9 6 7 10 6 12
Awareness creation 2 6 4 14 6 5 8 8 5 10
Testing and validation 3 8 4 11 7 6 6 7 5 8
Incubator/accelerator support 3 6 5 9 6 3 6 6 4 7

DIHs online catalogue @S3 Platform
http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/  Tools  DIHs
 Yellow pages on DIHs– map user interface to identify Hubs, location and contact data
– street level map data + exportable list
 DIH – fact sheet – in depth data on HUB, almost all data from catalogue
 Upload and editing function – function for users to upload data on Hubs or edit
existing one (Nov'17)
 Overview page provide in-depth information on the state of play for policy makers, in
a map, but more focus on regions and regional borders. To illustrate presence of
services and capabilities, and to make comparison with other data sets (2018)
 Network linkages – illustrate data on relations between HUBs in a map, based on
network analyses (2018)
 Different types of filters and user interfaces per tool (2018)

The Project: objective and expected results
To support the European Commission (DG Connect)
in implementing a network of DIHs across 13
new EU Member States.
To develop DIHs from the early stage (potential
DIH). The goal is to boost local ecosystems less
developed and reduce the gap of new Member States
in using digital technologies.
To select 30 DIHs that can participate in a Programme of Training and Mentoring.
The aim will be to support each DIH in the business model definition and the feasibility study.
To capitalize on lessons learned from previous and ongoing relevant initiatives.
A Final Study Report will define policy recommendations for DIHs in new Member
States.

Call for Digital Innovation Hubs in EU13 Member States
DIHs interested in the Programme are invited to fill in the Application Form
by 22 October. By the end of November, the 30 selected DIHs will be contacted
to take part in the Programme.
Training and Mentoring activities will take place
between January and June 2018.
Stakeholders that can lead applications to the Programme are:
 Universities, Research and Technology Centres
 Incubators and Accelerators
 Cluster Organisations and Industry Associations
 Public Administrations
Candidates can fill the Application Form following the link below:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/ApplicationForm

THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION