Project description
A digital boost for under-digitised sectors
The health, agrifood and manufacturing sectors are crucial to society and the economy, but they are struggling to keep up with technological advancements. In this context, the EU-funded DIATOMIC project will establish a sustainable ecosystem to ignite digitisation. Specifically, three sector-specific cross-border application experiments will be conducted, enabling technology adopters, end users, and smart solution developers to learn about the concrete benefits of digitisation. Anchored by three interconnected digital innovation hubs, the ecosystem will cater to sector specific needs, delivering advanced manufacturing and engineering and smart system integration applications to a significant customer base. By fostering partnerships, providing technological support, and funding application experiments, the project is planning to spur transformative change in these vital industries.
Objective
DIATOMIC aims to establish a sustainable ecosystem to facilitate AME/SSI-based innovation in the health, agrifood and manufacturing sectors, all of which are under-digitized and of prime importance for society and the economy.
DIATOMIC ecosystem draws from the advanced technological excellence of the DIATOMIC consortium to execute three sector-specific cross-border Application Experiments to help technology adopters, end-users and smart solution developers realise tangible benefits of digitization. In-house excellence in dissemination is leveraged to ignite further ideation of digital products, processes and business models from non-tech SMEs and midcaps; thus promoting interest in experimentation with AME and SSI.
At the heart of the ecosystem, three interconnected sector-specific Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) pulsate to accelerate digitization in-beat with sector-specific needs, and to enable delivery of AME/SSI based applications to a critical mass of customers. DIHs first assist non-tech companies to couple with counterparts across the EU with complementary technological competencies. Then, acting as a one-stop-shop, they offer the teams (i) strong technological support to accelerate design, development, prototyping and manufacturing and (ii) business support to develop solutions with a robust product/market fit.
Two open calls are organised to attract and select the best of the best consortia, consisting of tech adopters, tech providers and Competence Centers. Application Experiments will be funded to generate AME/SSI-based products, processes and business models with strong market potential.
DIATOMIC delivers the structure and three instances of sector-specific DIHs, +75 Competence Center, +20 application experiments, along with a validated ecosystem sustainability plan.
DIATOMIC consortium is a fusion between: technological research centers (IPA, IPN and BIOS), CCs (INTRA, LIB and SYN), innovation consulting (INO), SMEs community (F6S) and investors (FASTT).
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringdigital electronics
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium