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Bringing industry into the European Open Science Cloud
EOSC-hub Week, Prague
11 Apr 2019
Sy Holsinger, EGI Foundation / EOSC DIH Coordinator

EC Digital Innovation Hub Initiative
Background and landscape

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.

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

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
€110m of funding has been invested in
I4MS since 2013; - 11 large projects
funded by Fp7 and H2020, 70
competence centres;
22 innovation hubs all over the
European continent, soon expanding
worldwide
Digital Innovation Hubs in H2020: The
EC is focusing EUR 300M in H2020
(2018-2020) – short time from idea to
hands-on experimentation and
development.

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
http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/di
gital-innovation-hubs-tool
8

DIHNET.EU Project

Launch 3 Working Groups
To derive recommendations to the High-Level Governance Meeting within 1 year
1. 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

WP 2018-2020 ICT
"Digitizing and transforming European industry and services" calls for digital innovation hubs (€300M)
• 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
• 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
+ Support action DT-ICT-06-2018: Coordination and Support Activities for Digital Innovation Hub network

EOSC Digital Innovation Hub
Objectives, pilots and ongoing collaborations

• 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 – www.eosc-
hub.eu)

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
EOSC DIH: Overview
https://www.eosc-dih.eu/

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

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

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

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

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

ACTION Seaport
Space Weather Data for the DRACO
Observatory
Bot Mitigation Engine Sport Smart Video Analysis
CyberHAB
Furniture Enterprise Analytics
Datafurn
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
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
EOSC DIH: Our Initial 6 Business Pilots
Demos today at EOSC-hub Week!
11 April 2019
Demos ran at DI4R 2018 - Lisbon

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)

eosc-dih.eu @EOSC_DIH
Contact Us!
business@eosc-hub.eu
EOSC DIH Team
• 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)
EOSC DIH Partners