Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HUBiquitous (Paving the Foundation for Disruptive Technologies in Tomorrow's Digital Innovation Hubs)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-01-01 do 2022-06-30
HUBIQUITOUS: Paving the Foundation for Disruptive Technologies in Tomorrow’s Digital Innovation Hubs. HUBiquitous is an Innovation Action aiming at creating a joint Africa-Europe Startup & Innovation Ecosystem for long-term collaborations and partnerships. The project has the ambition to increase the technology level and capacity building of 30 local DIHs/TechHubs in 5 African countries.
HUBiquitous Innovation Enablers and Programs will support and empower the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems from both continents with the development of a rich and sustainable collaboration between African and European DIHs. HUBiquitous consortium is composed of a partnership of Nine (9) entities, five European and four African, coming from nine different countries.
It builds on the existing cooperation and partnership stemming from two previous H2020 ICT International Collaborations with Africa projects (WAZIUP and WAZIHUB).
The ultimate target of HUBiquitous is to pave the way for long-term and sustainable innovation for the African DIHsThe HUBiquitous Innovation Enablers will,, support and empower the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems from both continents with the development of a rich and sustainable collaboration between African and European DIHs.
At the end of the 40 month duration of the project, we will have:
- Developed 30 Solution Labs deployed in Africa, associated with each identified DIH;
- Developed 5 Application Business Boxes addressing five vertical application domains in Africa;Onboarded 5000+ ecosystem’s partners and actors;
- Developed and demonstrated 4 types of DIH services based on the Innovation Enablers
- Mentored 75 “Train the Trainer” experts. Local “Train the Trainer” teams will be developed for each of the 25 associated DIHs;
- Trained 150 local individuals within the Talent Program (i.e. online course + bootcamps & hackathons), to improve digital skills and competences for local young Communities.
- Created 50 new products and services in the Accelerator Program. The Accelerator Program will launch two open calls to support entrepreneurs/startups for the creation of new products and services.
- Organized 3 African innovation weeks, 5 soft-landing mission events, 8 co-design events, 20 bootcamp and hackathons organized to support a strong community building.
HUBiquitous Innovation Enablers and Programs will support and empower the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems from both continents with the development of a rich and sustainable collaboration between African and European DIHs. HUBiquitous consortium is composed of a partnership of Nine (9) entities, five European and four African, coming from nine different countries.
It builds on the existing cooperation and partnership stemming from two previous H2020 ICT International Collaborations with Africa projects (WAZIUP and WAZIHUB).
The ultimate target of HUBiquitous is to pave the way for long-term and sustainable innovation for the African DIHsThe HUBiquitous Innovation Enablers will,, support and empower the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems from both continents with the development of a rich and sustainable collaboration between African and European DIHs.
At the end of the 40 month duration of the project, we will have:
- Developed 30 Solution Labs deployed in Africa, associated with each identified DIH;
- Developed 5 Application Business Boxes addressing five vertical application domains in Africa;Onboarded 5000+ ecosystem’s partners and actors;
- Developed and demonstrated 4 types of DIH services based on the Innovation Enablers
- Mentored 75 “Train the Trainer” experts. Local “Train the Trainer” teams will be developed for each of the 25 associated DIHs;
- Trained 150 local individuals within the Talent Program (i.e. online course + bootcamps & hackathons), to improve digital skills and competences for local young Communities.
- Created 50 new products and services in the Accelerator Program. The Accelerator Program will launch two open calls to support entrepreneurs/startups for the creation of new products and services.
- Organized 3 African innovation weeks, 5 soft-landing mission events, 8 co-design events, 20 bootcamp and hackathons organized to support a strong community building.
For the first project period at M18 all project work packages have been active. Key results are:
- the website ready and constantly updated
- the co-design sessions on the innovation enablers
- the development and first implementations of the solution lab
- the design and development of the Learning Center and implementation in the train the trainers and talent program
- the design and first MeetHub prototype
- the launch of the talent and acceleration first open calls and rollout of the two programs
- creation of a pool of external experts
- a strong dissemination of all project activities on social media with impressive audience
- part of ICT-58 family active participants
- the website ready and constantly updated
- the co-design sessions on the innovation enablers
- the development and first implementations of the solution lab
- the design and development of the Learning Center and implementation in the train the trainers and talent program
- the design and first MeetHub prototype
- the launch of the talent and acceleration first open calls and rollout of the two programs
- creation of a pool of external experts
- a strong dissemination of all project activities on social media with impressive audience
- part of ICT-58 family active participants
The learning Center as a one-stop-shop for DIHs and young entrepreneurs to improve IoT and related technologies expertise through cutting-edge content.