A joint initiative between Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG and WOBCOM, the iHub aims to turn the region into a preferred investment iHub for technology companies, while also reaffirming North Germany as a premier ICT location. In close collaboration with relevant technology partners, the initiative seeks to secure a set of key enablers to nurture an attractive Open Source ecosystem for targeted investments, for instance, talent, infrastructure, R&D institutions and platforms, incentives and funding, networks, broadband access and liveability.  Non-profit aim The non-profit aim of our DIH is to strengthen digital innovations in Lower Saxony and to master regional-specific challenges. The vision is to create incentives for new companies to settle in the region and modernize existing ones. The resulting networking of open source and various forms of cooperation should result in solutions that should improve the living conditions of citizens in cities in the long term. For example, this is how practical digital applications are created. Supporting local SMEs In close cooperation with national and international technology companies, Stadtwerke and WOBCOM want to create the conditions to promote an attractive open source ecosystem for targeted investments. The aim of the ASTRID iHUB is to make the region a preferred investment location for technology companies and to strengthen northern Germany as a first-class location for information and communication technology (ICT). The open source culture is the basis of all activities of the ASTRID iHUB, where sharing ideas and results creates better solutions and more innovations for everyone. As an open platform, the ASTRID iHUB is intended to promote new ideas for digital services in the future and form a central point of contact for established SMEs in order to jointly identify partners and financing options for projects. The focus is the development and implementation of concepts in the areas of digitization so that cities become more digital (Smart City), mobility more intelligent (Smart Mobility), industry more networked (Smart Industry) and applications more secure (Smart Security). As part of the international open source community of the FIWARE Foundation, the ASTRID iHUB will promote cross-border innovation activities while building bridges to local SMEs. Our Story In 2016, the City of Wolfsburg unanimously approved and developed a strategic plan to guide the City’s economic development activities and investment over the next decade. The result was a set of goals, strategies, and actions that will propel the City of Wolfsburg forward toward its vision for 2025. Called #WolfsburgDigital, a Private Public “model city for digitization and electromobility”. This project had the goals to improve Digital Transformation in the city, the investor in leaders and teams, created for entrepreneurs with the aim of retaining the talent generated in Wolfsburg, which has the collaboration of the University of Ostfalia, Business Partner and the City of Wolfsburg. In 2018, the Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG built a functionalist construction situated in the heart of the city’s downtown district. The facility’s location, onsite transportation access, and proximity to the airport (Berlin or Hanover) are attractive to commuters from across the metro area (Metropol Region). The newspace has the capacity as a modern office with an integrated Data Center and the objective of establishing a business incubator is to accelerate business growth and success and decrease the likelihood of failure. This in turn creates new jobs, diversifies the industrial base, and enhances the quality of life in the community. After this experience and a lot of projects in the city, the Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG, have decided to invest more in Innovation and R&I (Research and Innovation). The project ASTRID iHUB will be a business incubator based on talent and new technology.   Digital technologies.

Sustainable Production using AI enabled Assistive Technologies and Robotics Production (Automotive, Machinery, Aerospace, extendable to other Sectors)

The Cognitive Robotics and Factory Hub is a non-profit Hub with currently 6 Institutions from Research (University and non-University Institutions), Industrie and Consulting. The Goal is to provide services and solutions to Austrian (and central Europe counties) in the field of Robotics and Factory Solutions. A roadmap is currently in development with a focus on continuous extension of the network and proceeding further services.

The Hub and its members support local Industry and mainly SMEs in the field of robotics and factory related issues with following actions.

Hosting Workshops and Meetings (3 -4 a year) to inform SMES about newest developments, possibly actions in digitalization, experience and partner exchange. The main purpose of these workshops is creating a sustainable network.
Creating consortia’s including SMEs and initiating Research, development and transfer projects
Providing or mediation of services in to SMEs to apply for such projects in the field of digital transformation in Robotics and factory issus by:

Project development and management services
Knowledge transfer design and support for implementing
Innovation management and RTD activities
Consultancy on funding facilities

Providing services for training, skill improvement and education and giving SMEs access to pilot facilities of the HUB partners.

All these activities are non-profit activities. The Hub and its participants orientate their activities towards objectives that are in the public interest; it is not oriented towards making a profit. Any random profits or profits from individual projects must be used again in the interest of the Hubs's purpose and not distributed to the shareholders.

Preliminary Details of the Hubs infrastructure, its partners and the provide services could be found on the web page: https://www.profactor.at/en/open-labs/cognitive-factory-lab/.

Coordinator PROFACTOR: 

Since its foundation in 1995, PROFACTOR has been a leading industry's point of contact for production research in Austria. In this role, PROFACTOR sees itself as a link between science and business, and documents this through seamless value creation from basic research to industrial implementation.

For PROFACTOR as a research institute, the applicability of the research results in the companies is an essential criterion in addition to the scientific orientation. In the course of industrial implementation, research results are transferred into tailor-made products and services in industrial projects together with our customers.

With two strategic research fields, PROFACTOR sets essential cornerstones and trends in the production of the future:

Industrial Assistance Systems
Additive Micro/Nano Manufacturing

The two research fields are based on important research topics that are internationally visible and competitive in the scientific and industrial fields. Furthermore, the topics are unique within the Austrian research landscape and there are clear interfaces to non-university institutions in particular, which can also facilitate synergy effects.

Austrian Institute of Technology:

The AIT is Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO) and belong to the first league worldwide in many of our areas of research. This makes us a powerful development partner for the industry and one of the top employers in the international scientific scene.

In the HUB the Center for Vision, Automation & Control (Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Andreas Kugi ) and the Center for Technology Experience (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Tscheligi) are involved.

Universität Salzburg:

The Center for Human-Computer Interaction is an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Salzburg. Established in 2005 as research unit at the former ICT&S Center, currently approx. 40 researchers study the interplay between humans and computers in order to enable desired interactions and explore desirable futures. The Center is directed by Professor Manfred Tscheligi who is a widely recognized expert in the field.

Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel:

The networking of knowledge and the exchange of experiences can provide the necessary impetus for new ideas - the Mostviertel research network offers the suitable framework for this.

MindConsult:

MIND CONSULT & RESEARCH aims at excellence in service culture, quality and relationship with its clients. Our team is well experienced to meet costumers´ needs by tailor-made solutions. Furthermore we are embedded in an international knowledge pool of experts to assure a competitive edge.

Project development and management services
Regional and urban development
Knowledge transfer design and support for implementing
Innovation management and RTD activities
Consultancy on funding facilities

RIC:

In 2007 in Gunskirchen, Upper Austria,  BRP-Rotax GmbH Co KG agreed to build an innovation centre of the next generation with a focus on specialised innovation and skills development.

The RIC is best described as facility which houses a unique collaborative network of individuals who combine their superior theoretical know-how and practical knowledge to create the engine technologies of the future. It is a place where innovation is born; where new competences are developed with enthusiasm, enjoyment, and with the highest level of professionalism helps develop  cutting-edge solutions and new skills to help create challenges for the future of the economy, such as industry to be prepared for Industry 4.0, and production of the future in "Lot size 1".

As the innovation and educational centre of the region, the RIC also contributes substantially to improving standards of work and creation of new jobs. The RIC centre is also the focus of development and improvement of technological knowledge which is the driving force in economic development.

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ART-ER-DIH (former ASTER) is a non-profit consortium made up of the Regional Emilia-Romagna Government and the most relevant innovation players on Emilia-Romagna territory (Universities, RTO's, formation centers, industrial associations). The nature of ART-ER-DIH let it operate as a Digital Innovation Hub at a regional level in Emilia-Romagna, also being a point of contact for innovation-oriented actions from other Italian and European regions. ART-ER-DIH offers the connection of its shareholders and the integration of initiatives, services and opportunities to exploit infrastructures, knowledge, experiences for the sake of both companies and providers (of facilities, services, training, etc.). ART-ER-DIH connects actors and services in order to cover a number of digital technologies domains and provide the right services according to meet client needs (business and public administration). It gets to a specialised offer based on the qualified technical competencies of its partners, complemented by services provided by other actors, with a special focus on TRL from 3 to 8. This role is positively supported by ART-ER’s shareholders.

ART-ER-DIH supports the Digital Innovation in Emilia-Romagna actong as a coordinator of his shareholder’s initiatives. More in details, ART-ER-DIH:

supports Regional Authority in the definition of the Data Economy Regional Strategic Programme;
coordinates, supports, and is founding member of the High Technology Network ( https://www.retealtatecnologia.it/en/ 
coordinates the Clust-ER activity (https://www.retealtatecnologia.it/clust-er);
acts in its role of founder and Board of Directors Member of Associazione Big Data;
acts as founder and strategic board member of the BI-REX consortium (National Competence Centre)
leads the Artifial intelligence Pilot Action of the Vanguard Initiatiative and the Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interface TSSP Industrial Modernisation Thematic Area;
Coordinates the setup process of the AI DEMO LAB GRID, an inter-regional GRID of Innovation laboratories to provide high-level AI-enhanced innovation services to SMEs;
organizes R2B events aimed at linking SMEs to scientific and technical research from the local universities and RTO’s, the most relevant being the annual R2B event (https://www.rdueb.it/)

  Digital technologies.

AREA Science Park is a system based on innovation,  digital transformation, research and the development of new high technology businesses.

Physical presence

AREA Science Park owns and manages two campuses in Friuli Venezia Giulia, both near Trieste http://en.areasciencepark.it/park/why-to-become-a-tenant/ hosting more than 80 companies http://en.areasciencepark.it/park/companies/ and research centers http://en.areasciencepark.it/park/research-centres/ with a total of 2400 employees.

AREA SCIENCE PARK DIH

From the beginning of 2017 AREA Science Park is operating as a DIH, adding new specific services to its set of established best practice methodologies to support innovation processes in SMEs www.areasciencepark.it/innovazione/. This has been realized thanks to the partnership with primary tech actors that are tenants in our campuses and thanks to a vast set of top end/frontier tech infrastructures (ex: AREA owns and run a Synchrotron light machine).

The website dedicated to DIH and innovation services are

https://www.areasciencepark.it/innovazione/modello-intervento/

http://www.openinnovationsystem.it/it/home/

https://www.areasciencepark.it/digital-innovation-hub-ip4fvg/

and  https://www.areasciencepark.it/innovazione/

 

and these days contents are migrating on the brand new website of IP4FVG – Industry Platform for Friuli Venezia Giulia www.ip4fvg.it , the new regional Platform for the digital transformation of SMEs (read more in the LINK To Regional/National Initiatives)

The R&D activities carried out in AREA Science Park focus on five clusters: Life Sciences; Information Science, Electronics and Telecommunications; Physics, Materials, Nanotechnologies; Energy and the Environment; Qualified Services.

Non profit Organization status

Area Science Park is a public national research organization that promotes the development of innovation processes. Thus, AREA Science Park is a non profit public body that operates under direct control of the MIUR - Ministry of Education, Research and University.

Statute: www.areasciencepark.it/chi-siamo/statuto-e-regolamenti/

 AREA’s mission is to contribute to the development of the business sector through innovation, technological research and digital transformation. Digital technologies.

Arctic Drone Labs DIH is a non-profit innovation ecosystem that provides world-class innovative solutions, technical and non-technical services to its members and partners in the field of UAS, robotics, autonomous systems and associated fields. We gather the best practices in relevant research and industry domains and contribute to the advancement of research knowledge, stronger innovative practices, industry-driven standardisation and development of relevant vertical and horizontal markets in close collaboration with key stakeholders. The alliance opens access to research results and brings the expertise of all its members to enable ascension in the value chain, improve work efficiency and ensure new business opportunities. We contribute to the common industry and research-driven proprietary and open system platforms and open-source solutions and are involved in standardisation and dissemination activities and policymaking. By investing systematically into the cutting-edge technology innovations, with comprehensive digitalisation and following the security by design approach, we deliver the complete range of solutions from technology enablers to post-operational data analytics – seamlessly integrating them into the existing or newly-developed processes, tools, platforms and architectures. Ethical, data privacy and data protection aspects are considered as crucial in all our operations and those projects that we plan and develop. Well-established and continuously-developed collaboration with stakeholders, including government bodies and business and research circles representing different industry sectors and research domains from all around Finland, allows us to mobilise required resources in a fast and efficient way. Together with our members and partners, we meet international requirements to facilitate European move towards digital single market strategy and contribute to the establishment of a European U-Space Demonstrator Network. Digital technologies.

The Arctic Development Environments cluster provides businesses in Finnish Lapland a one-stop-shop access point to the digital technology expertise and services of its member organisations: universities and research organisations in the region. The cluster supports businesses by helping to improve their processes, products and services by means of digitalisation. The cluster is coordinated by the Lapland University of Applied Sciences, based in Kemi-Tornio and Rovaniemi, and its operations are not-for-profit, with a pricing model based on actual costs. Most of the cluster partner organisations are publicly funded and the revenue is allocated back to the units that have operational costs from providing the service. In addition, the cluster offers businesses services related to R&D funding (access to finance).

The cluster offers companies support at different stages of the product development cycle. The cluster's services include: contract research; test-before-invest; product development; prototyping; business development; access to technological platforms and innovation spaces; funding mapping and matching; and training.

The cluster includes 50 modern infra, environments and laboratories (TEFs) and more than 750 experts and specialists, spanning almost the whole of Lapland. The cluster is also in the process of developing inter-regional collaboration to widen the spectrum of digitalisation services available through the cluster.

The digitalisation services of the cluster can be accessed on the Ardico.fi service portal. The service themes are listed at https://ardico.fi/portal#/themes. These themes include e.g. product testing and analysis, IoT, VR/AR, Cloud services and Big data. The services span the whole TRL scale, with a novel test-before-invest service portfolio.

The portal also provides businesses with tools to e.g. evaluate their level of enterprise digitalisation: https://ardico.fi/portal#/tools

The cluster's service model:

The company contacts the cluster.
The cluster produces a requirement specification based on the company's need.
The business receives a tender specifying the pricing and schedule of the service.
If the tender is accepted, a service contract is drawn between the company and the cluster. The pricing is based on the actual costs of the service.
A group of experts is selected and their work is coordinated by the cluster.
The cluster assists the company with identifying and applying for suitable R&D funding.
The cluster submits the results to the company.

The service model has been developed through piloting with SMEs. The cluster’s services are further being developed according to customer needs and feedback. The ultimate goal is to support businesses in developing new products and business models and to launch them with the help of high-quality research.

Further resources for the region’s development will be acquired through international cooperation. Networking with other Digital Innovation Hubs enables cooperation and planning of new project initiatives and consortia. Digital technologies.

The Application Center for Automation in Healthcare is operated by the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology of Fraunhofer IPA. The project group was established by the state of Baden-Württemberg and Fraunhofer to develop new ideas for automation in medicine and biotechnology. The Application Center is used to conduct research and development for automation in healthcare applications. It is also used by companies to develop and test new automation applications in their own projects or to train medical staff. Today's demonstrators already show the beneficial use of robotics and other automation technologies to improve healthcare economics and patient outcome. 

The center is located at CUBEX41 at the heart of the University Hospital in Mannheim and pursues the following objectives:

1. Enable access to and cooperation with all medical and biotechnological facilities in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area for SME and large industries 

2. Establish automation in healthcare by joint research on demonstrators and showcases

3. Facilitate the translation of new technologies to medical applications through strong interaction with medical staff from university hospitals

4. To develop and test needs based solutions and to offer a complete spectrum of services from idea to clinical evaluation

The Application Center for Automation in Healthcare is fueled by several public and private funded projects. E.g. the Application Center receives funding via the BMBF Forschungscampus M²OLIE (http://www.m2olie.de/eng/metas/home).  Digital technologies.

The Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) Andalucía Agrotech is an ecosystem created to help companies in the digitisation process of the agri-food sector. This hub gathers the needs of the agri-food sector, technological services provided by ICT companies, the innovation capacity of knowledge agents and public programmes promoted by the public administration to provide support. The DIH Andalucía Agrotech has been designed to be an instrument to speed-up the implementation of digitization in the agri-food value chain and to provide, in the first phase, the necessary training.

The DIH Andalucía Agrotech is a centre of activity to create, anticipate and channel digital innovation in the agri-food sector, that provides the best conditions to enable sector companies achieve business success in the long-term. It is: 
    • an ecosystem. The Hub has to be understood as a connector and facilitator of all the actors involved in agro-technology. It is the place where the experience and know-how of farmers, livestock producers or agro-industrial experts converge with the innovative talent of technological entrepreneurs, all together with the support of the public sector, as well as with partners and stakeholders of technological and agri-food areas.
    • a one-stop shop. The Hub has to act as a pool of people, resources and tools (financing, talent, processes, methodologies, knowledge, employment, alliances, etc.), that is to say, it has to be the contact point for all the companies, people and actors related to the agri-food sector and to the implementation of digital technologies in this sector.
    • based on Competence Centres. They offer technological infrastructures, provide access to the latest knowledge, experiences and technologies to support their customers with pilot, test or experimental projects using digital innovations.
    • a provider of financial or business support to implement innovations.
    • a platform. It will be a physical and digital platform that will enable the effective collaboration between the actors of the Hub and will make resources available to them according to the working models established. 
    • the first regional contact point. Proximity is key to strengthen the innovation ecosystem.
    • a regional and international benchmark hub in the field of agro-technology. Bearing in mind the global environment currently existing, the DIH has to have a double scope: on the one hand, it must be centred on the digitization of the agri-food businesses of Andalusia and, on the other hand, it must work to connect them to other businesses at national and European levels; it must promote the cooperation of actors at regional level, but it must also be a point to generate alliances between our regional initiatives and others beyond our regional borders.
    • a driver of change. Boosting the digitisation of the agri-food sector is a fundamental task, but not an end in itself. It is a powerful way to not only achieve the competitive improvement of the sector but also to obtain positive social and environmental impacts. 

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 The Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) Andalucía Agrotech is an ecosystem created to help companies in the digitisation process of the agri-food sector with a non-profit character. This hub gathers the needs of the agri-food sector, technological services provided by ICT companies, the innovation capacity of knowledge agents and public programmes promoted by the public administration to provide support. The DIH Andalucía Agrotech has been designed to be an instrument to speed-up the implementation of digitisation in the agri-food value chain and to provide, in the first phase, the necessary training.

This DIH Andalucía Agrotech is a centre of activity to create, anticipate and channel digital innovation in the agri-food sector, that provides the best conditions to enable sector companies achieve business success in the long-term.

We can conclude in this respect that this DIH Andalucía Agrotech is a non-profit ecosystem with non-profit aims.

  Digital technologies.

The AMSYSTEMS Center In 2016, TNO and High Tech Systems Center of the Eindhoven University of Technology founded the AMSYSTEMS Center, a joint innovation center to develop the next generation additive manufacturing production equipment for smart, personalized and multi-functional products. Additive manufacturing (AM) concerns methods whereby products are produced layer by layer, such as 3D-printing. The AMSYSTEMS Center targets high-tech applications, 3D printed electronic devices, 3D printed food and pharma applications with spin-off to other markets that require personalized, customized, on-demand manufacturing. At the heart of the Brainport / Eindhoven region The AMSYSTEMS center is at the heart of the Brainport region and has a strong link with the Dutch Smart Industry action agenda. It also has established the Smart Industry Fieldlab MultiM3D and received an investment grant for a pilot line additive manufacturing (PrintValley2020) to be operated at the Brainport Industries Campus (BIC). Scientific and technological challenges. For many applications the AM technology is still immature. The product quality is typically inferior to that obtained with conventional manufacturing methods, the choice of available materials is limited, the yield is low by process-induced defects, manufacturing costs are high, and productions speeds are typically low. The AMSYSTEMS Center therefore focusses on the development of new multimaterial/multi-technology AM concepts and the integration of these technologies in masscustomization production chains, making it an integral part of a ‘next generation industry’ approach, and aimed at stimulating the competitiveness and growth of the industry. Our focus. The center brings AM concepts from prototyping to industrialization with emphasis on new functionality and cost-effective manufacturing while maintaining system flexibility, stability & reliability. The center activities focus on the development of: 1) new concepts for multi-material / multi-technology digital manufacturing, 2) high-speed and continuous AM technology, 3) in-line metrology technologies, 4) novel integration and ICT architectures. The AMSYSTEMS center targets the development of high-tech equipment for manufacturing of smart and integrated products, smart electronics, customized medical products, printed food, and 3D printed pharmaceutical and high-tech products. Examples are complete implants, prostheses, dental bridgework, smart electronics like Epill, smart connectors and integrated LEDs or spare parts for high-tech equipment that can be printed on the spot when needed. Why will it work. The AMSYSTEMS Center brings together two complementary expertise areas in a joint proposition, i.e. the mechatronics and materials expertise of the High Tech Systems Center of the TU/e and the AM concept development and 3D print knowledge of TNO. In addition, a new chair and research group ‘Systems Mechatronics for Advanced Manufacturing’ will be established at the Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e. It is foreseen that within four years 25 PhD students research assistants will be undertaking research and that more than 50 full-time professionals will be involved in the center. Common facilities and infrastructure located at the university campus and joint research under one roof will increase the cooperation between the founding fathers TNO and TU/e HTSC and enable easy access of the industrial partners to the programs and research staff. How it will work The center stimulates the co-creation of eco-systems around new AM equipment concepts, organized in shared research innovation programs, addressing next generation AM equipment challenges and creating value for companies along the value chain. AMSYSTEMS offers a mix of shared fundamental and applied research as well as contract research, to serve the needs of the industry. Digital technologies.

am-LAB is having a physical presence in the West Pannon region of Hungary. The location of am-LAB is: 9700 – Szombathely, Zanati str. 32-36 (Hungary). am-LAB is in the proximity of the CLAUDIUS Industry Park of Szombathely supported with excellent road connections (motorway, highway), excellent public transport (regular buses, trains), and of course high speed internet is granted.

am-LAB is the service provider for promoting and assisting digitization of SMEs in Western Hungary. In the forefront are additive manufacturing, maturity technology survey and their broad applications. am-LAB is the 100% daughter company of Pannon Business Network Association - PBN.

Currently am-LAB website is operating under www.amlab.hu where it is clearly explained am-LAB activities and the services provided related to the digital transformation of the SMEs.

PBN has over a decade of experience in developing competitiveness of businesses and transforming them into policy inputs. Over 200 SMEs received innovation benchmarking and mentoring services in the previous funding period. More than 50 international partnership projects contributed to the gathering of high end international know-how and connections that were translated for the benefit of the companies. Key industrial focus areas are mechatronics, wood and furniture and logistics.

For over 3 years by now, Industry4.0 and digitization are the core areas. Numerous partnership projects include Central European collaboration for knowhow sharing, specialization in the field of smart factories. Additional competency is the high growth companies development. PBN got the contract of developing nationally the top 300 most promising HGCs, and transform their growth into a sustainable way – with digitization the center. It also includes technology maturity audit, in close co-operation with Upper Austria and Baden- Württemberg. Over a year ago additive manufacturing was also incorporated into the vision.

PBN has strong co-operational network in mechatronics, which is a decisive sector in Western Hungary. The relevant cluster management and educational institutions have a strategic working relationship with PBN.

Wood and furniture sector is important, as the forestry coverage is significant and the only university with forestry specialization is located in Western Hungary. The nationally accredited cluster management has ten years of working relationship with PBN. Logistics and warehousing are dependent on the strong manufacturing industry. It represents important part of the employment, and Hungarian SMEs are well represented.

 

am-LAB partnership hub has a broad access to regional and national SMEs. PBN has over a decade of experience with SME innovation management and benchmarking. The pool of partners exceeds 250, covering all strategic sectors of the Western Hungarian economy. Additionally, PBN is the partner of the High Growth Companies development program, including 300 manufacturing companies. It is the exclusive access to the highest potential family-owned companies in Hungary. There are ongoing activities related to the SMEs at PBN. It also supports a living, innovation-oriented partnership pool, which is a solid platform for the am-LAB hub.

Local innovation technology transfer network has strong organically developed relations. Members of the hub are local university – ELTE Multidisciplinary Science Network -, local manufacturing company, cluster of mechatronic manufacturing SMEs. Regional government is supporting and closely following the progress.

PBN is also member of the Hungarian National 5G Coalition, which aims to collect all the innovation-oriented organizations that are willing to benefit from the broadband development of Hungary. am-LAB - due to the large quantity of digital data generated and processed – is a strategic member. Conferences are great platform to intermediate international knowledge to the local ecosystem.

PBN is organizing conferences and workshops, in 2017. November on additive manufacturing. 6 international partners are presenting and sharing how digitization contributed to their local business environment evolution, and am-LAB will be introduced as the anchor of the regional digitization initiatives in SME manufacturing. It is a regular form of sharing insights and know-how. Digital technologies.