By providing access to technical expertise and experimentation as well as the possibility to 'test before invest', EDIHs help companies improve business/production processes, products, or services using digital technologies. They also provide innovation services, such as financing advice, training, and skills development that are needed for a successful digital transformation. Environmental issues are also taken into account, in particular with regard to energy consumption and low carbon…

Digitalization is deeply affecting all industry sectors as the driver of product, service and business innovation, but also as the threat to organizations which are reluctant to change or not keeping pace with the evolving environment. Many Central European production companies are urgently searching for guidance and support to master the transformation towards Industry 4.0. These trends are not challenging only for the companies, but also for the business support organizations in need to…

The EACN partners, among which was Silesia Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing Cluster, successfully collaborated in the ESCP-S3 project “EACN for Joint Industrial Modernisation Investments”, that had been co-funded by the COSME programme of the European Union and ended in January 2021. In 2019 EACN opened to other automotive clusters. EACN clusters joined forces to support their members during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and to develop a joint vision for the European automotive…

In view of the upcoming European call for the preselected European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) candidates, the European Commission has been organizing the series of webinars. These on-line meetings targeted at the potential EDIHs are to answer the main themes and issues raised by DIH community during the “Gearing up towards EDIH” event in January 2021. For those, who haven’t yet been to those events, it is a great opportunity to clarify issues relevant to the European call as well as…