Short description: How tech transfer in AI, Data and Robotics can be harnessed by the Financial Support to Third Parties mechanism from the European Commission and by EDIH networks.
Date: 05.11.2024 | 10.45 - 12.15
Location: Mercury room
Description:
Europe has embraced Industry 4.0 for years, focusing on AI, Data and Robotics (ADR) and key technologies to enhance industrial efficiency. This technology-driven transformation has yet to be implemented all over Europe; in the meantime, a new shift towards Industry 5.0 is emerging. In order to face these challenges, end-users and early adopters of the industry require more efficient tools to access and adopt ADR technologies and carry out their digital transformation properly.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the effectiveness of two important “tools” or mechanisms introduced by the European Commission to promote technology transfer in ADR and to maximise the outreach of the digitisation of the EU industry. One of them is the Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) mechanism and the other one is the establishment of a network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs). Paying special attention to the widening countries participation of experts, FundingBox will lead the workshop. While main achievements and lessons learned from FSTP and EDIHs will be showcased, the workshop will focus on the main challenges still in place and how FSTP and EDIHs can be adapted and improved to face those challenges. For example, while EDIHs hold immense potential to catalyse local technological growth and development, they also face challenges like securing sustainable funding, building strong partnerships, and adapting to the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
To overcome these hurdles and maximise their impact, FundingBox will present examples on how EDIHs can benefit from organising local events with international experts, facilitating peer-learning sessions, and creating a reliable network for sharing updates and opportunities through European projects and solutions. Fundingbox will moderate a panel discussion with representatives from the ecosystem’s stakeholders: technology providers, system integrators, end-users / early adopters. The audience will participate using Slido (a participative online tool). Final conclusions will be used by FundingBox in future actions and proposed to the ADRA Topic Group Innovation, Deployment and uptake of ADR technologies.
Organiser: Antonio Montalvo - FundingBox Accelerator Sp Zoo
Speakers:
- Davorka Moslavac Forjan - CROBOHUB
- Francesco Ferro - PAL Robotics
- Gizem Bodzemir - PAL Robotics,
- Krzysztof Samp - ITTI Sp Z.o.o
- Pedro Arques - CENTIC
- Marije Remigius - CIRCU-LEREN