DigiFed opens the 1st call up to € 55k for EU companies to digitalise their products and services

The Horizon 2020 project “Digital Innovation Hubs Federation For Large Scale adoption of digital technologies by European SMEs“ (DigiFed) opens today its first call for applications.

Operating within the framework of the Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative, DigiFed seeks to boost the adoption of advanced digital technologies, or cyber-physical systems (CPS), by European Start-up, SMEs and Mid-Caps with a focus on non-digital businesses. 

It will help applicants implement business plans for the sustainability of a federation of Digital Innovation Hubs designated by the European Commission, while providing key support mechanisms for both individual companies and groups of SMEs to foster the introduction of digital technologies in their product-and-service offerings.

About the call

The first call is specifically aimed towards “Application Experiments”, meaning that the applying company has a good idea of an innovation, a clear market vision and is in need of technical and/or business innovation expertise to validate the concept. Applicants are invited to apply if they are:

• Developing novel and innovative smart solutions worthy of market leaders.
• Bridging the physical and virtual worlds with advanced technologies and industrialized solutions.
• Interested in using premium resources and competencies to speed up development.
• Wishing to access a unique European ecosystem composed of: leading industrial companies, world-class research organizations, innovation accelerators and private investors.

DigiFed offers: 

• Access to industrial platforms in the domain of cyber-physical and embedded systems (CPS).
• Product support aimed at bringing project innovations to target markets.
• Up to € 55k in funding – representing 70% of the project’s declared budget.
• Added value to the applicants product through the usage of high-level technical expertise pooled from research centres across Europe.
• Innovation management support focusing on sustainable business development – to help the project’s innovation get to the market via DigiFed and the Smart Anything Everywhere ecosystem.
• Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) services to identify technical partners, commercial opportunities in Europe and receive tailored help, webinars and boot camps through the DigiFed project.

To find out all the details regarfing eligibility criteria and how to apply visit the DigiFed website at www.digifed.org 

Coordinated by CEA-Leti, with Nanolec IRT, the three-year, €7.9 million project includes the companies AVL (Austria), BluMorpho (France), STMicroelectronics (France and Italy), and Zabala (Belgium); universities BME (Hungary), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), research center Digital Catapult (United Kingdom), and Ikerlan (Spain); and hub-focused entities Minalogic (France) and Steinbeis Innovation (Germany).