Project description DEENESFRITPL Mapping the digitalisation journey for SMEs New digital technologies – from artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things and Big Data analytics – are forever changing business dynamics. For Europe’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the opportunities are vast and there is enormous growth potential. SMEs lack the know-how and hands-on solutions required to take full advantage of advanced technologies. The EU-funded DigiJourney project will reverse this trend. Its aim is to assist innovation agencies exchange knowledge, know-how and good practices through Twinning+ initiatives. The project will map a digitalisation journey tailored to meet the specific needs of SMEs according to their national and regional contexts. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The digital transformation of EU business and society presents enormous growth potential for Europe. It is estimated that digital technologies, such as Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence or the Internet of Things, have the potential to add 1.5 million jobs to the EU’s digital economy, and that SMEs can grow two to three times faster when they integrate digital technologies into their business models. Nevertheless, on the one hand, SMEs are not currently taking full advantage of these advanced technologies because they usually lack orientation, know-how and hands-on solutions in line with their current business, and on the other hand, digitalisation services in too many occasions do not take into account the rapid changing innovation ecosystem and the emerging of new technologies.The objective of DigiJourney is to enable the participating innovation agencies to exchange knowledge, know-how, and good practices on advanced methodologies and tools for digitalisation assessment to SMEs and customised support services. In particular, based on the Twinning+ methodology, the project aims to cover peer learning activities for three digitalisation approaches and the design of a digitalisation journey for SMEs, which will facilitate all innovation agencies to improve their digitalisation support services adapted to their specific national/regional contexts, and will allow SMEs to get the right digital tools to gain competitiveness. This peer-learning and peer-review scheme has been developed based on each partner's identified competences in advanced digitalisation services for SMEs. DigiJourney will therefore contribute to the specific challenge of increasing SMEs support programmes and the satisfaction of them with the support provided, through a joint learning effort of the three participating partners and the elaboration of a suitable Design Options Paper that will be shared with other EU innovation agencies and networks, and with national and EU policy-makers. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig datasocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs Topic(s) INNOSUP-05-2018-2020 - Peer learning of innovation agencies Call for proposal H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05 Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator FUNDACION FUNDECYT - PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE EXTREMADURA Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address Avenida de elvas campus universitario edificio parque cientifico tecnologico 06071 Badajoz Spain See on map Region Centro (ES) Extremadura Badajoz Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all LUXINNOVATION GIE Luxembourg Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address 5 avenue des hauts fourneaux 4362 Esch sur alzette See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 IPA SA Romania Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Str calea floreasca 169, corp p1, camera 1, etaj 4 014459 Bucuresti See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Bucureşti Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
