Project description
Supporting digitalisation and innovation among women entrepreneurs
As digital transformation advances across all economic sectors, women entrepreneurs must improve ICT usage and build connections within innovation ecosystems. The EU-funded INFIMO project aims to create interconnected and inclusive innovation ecosystems through collaboration among various clusters and innovation actors. Focusing on women entrepreneurs using ICT for digital transformation and the twin transition, the project aligns with the Industry 5.0 and emerging Industry 6.0 frameworks. It will develop two collaboration models: one to support digitalisation and sustainability across sectors, and another to enhance competitiveness in the mobility sector through joint research, development, and innovation pilots and an open innovation competition. Both models are designed for implementation across various European innovation ecosystems.
Objective
The project unites three clusters: Estonian ICT Cluster as coordinator (legal entity: Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications; representing a Strong Innovator region and bridging the project with three large European networks, the European Digital SME Alliance, DIGITALEUROPE and ITS Nationals), MOBINOV automotive cluster from Portugal (representing a Moderate Innovator region and leveraging outreach of the project to other EU mobility and automotive clusters via the European Automotive Cluster Network) and Georgian ICT Cluster (representing a Modest Innovator region and linking the project with the Georgian Digital Transformation Consortium and other national innovation actors). The consortium also includes Baltic Innovation Agency (Estonia), an experienced innovation management company and representative of Enterprise Europe Network in the project. Together the partners will act as a driving force to build strategic collaboration between their ecosystems and encourage the involvement of more diverse innovation stakeholders (with a specific focus on stronger involvement of woman entrepreneurs) as well as building contacts with innovation ecosystems from other countries.
The main aim of INFIMO is to foster the development of interconnected and inclusive innovation ecosystems via a strategic collaboration between clusters and a variety of innovation actors, focused on using ICT for digital and twin transition in various economic sectors aligned with the industry 5.0 (and emerging industry 6.0) framework. Related to this, INFIMO develops and validates two collaboration models: (1) a generic model supporting digitalisation and sustainability in a variety of economic sectors; (2) An advanced model facilitating the twin transition and higher competitiveness in the mobility sector based on joint RD&I pilots as well as an open innovation competition. Both models can be used to in a wide range of European innovation ecosystems in the future.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01
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11415 TALLINN
Estonia
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