Transilvania Digital Innovation Hub

ongoing

Transilvania DIH’s mission is to address industry and societal challenges through innovation driven by digital technologies. We use cutting edge technologies like AI, HPC and Big Data to enable digital transformation processes, provide green/sustainable solutions that improve productivity, competitiveness, growth, and wellbeing at regional, national, EU, and international levels. Transilvania DIH's general objective is to provide a complete set of digital transformation and innovation services for (1) SMEs and (2) public sector organisations (PSOs) conducting non-economic activities from the NW region of Romania and, through the EDIH network, at EU level. TDIH’s primary specialisation and services use AI, HPC and Big Data to support the green and digital transformation of SMEs and PSOs in the fields of Digital Health and Industry 4.0, leading to economic development, competitiveness, and societal progress. TDIH is based on a 3-phase process: Understand > Innovate > Scale, and 2 alternative Client Journeys (Minimal and Optimal) through which we will provide significant innovation and digital transformation services, worth up to 100K EUR, to 96 SMEs and/or PSOs primarily from Digital Health and Industry4.0 sectors, over a 3 and half year period, from a 10x pool (960 beneficiaries) engaged in our innovation ecosystem’s services. TDIH’s offers a customised service list adapted to the challenges and needs of beneficiaries from NW region of Romania, validated in several EU projects, covering the 4 functionalities of a digital innovation hub: (1) networking and ecosystem building, (2) testing before investing, (3) skills and training and (4) support to find investment. TDIH consortium convenes a regional innovation ecosystem orchestrated by Transilvania IT Cluster, the 2 main universities in the region UBB, UTCN, a national research institute – INCDTIM and an industry liaison office – OLI Hygia.