Boosting European DIH Success Through a new funding mix approach

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Digitalisation, as an innovation enabler, has a proven impact on economy and society by improving productivity, quality of life and boosting access to knowledge and public services. New business models and employment patterns are emerging thanks to digital transformation. Digital technologies have the potential to reshape entire industries and value chains and to enable smaller, innovative and dynamic businesses to develop and bring faster to market innovative products and services, thus incrementing their competitiveness. Despite the progress, however, SMEs in the EU do not appear to reap all the benefits digitalisation has to offer when compared to larger enterprises and the level of digitalisation in European SMEs remains highly uneven per country, sector or size. The overall objective of the project is to improve the implementation of regional development policies in the field of digital transformation, thanks to the increased institutional capacities of the consortium partners. The implementation of these policies will take into account the key role that DIHs and EDIHs can play and ensure the coordinated delivery of funding between different administration levels Main expected results of the project will be: - The setting up of an online tool to support the exchange of information between partners and promote exchange with stakeholders. - A Best Practices guide about DIHs Funding Instruments. - A recommendation guide for regions based in the Best practices Guide. - A European observatory for Funding Instruments for digital transformation with the involvement of DIHs (upload in Interreg Europe-Project Best practices portal). Other outputs will be: - 4 Working Groups. - 6 Interregional Workshops (4 Interregional Thematic Seminars + 1 Creative Interregional Workshop + 1 Follow-up Interregional Workshop). - 6 Study visits. - 6 Project Newsletters. - 1 Final Event.

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