Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation and Smart Specialisation

Find out more about digital transformation and smart specialisation priorities of the ERNACT regions

< Back

Manufacturing

Digital Foundations

Advanced Broadband

Derry & Strabane : Work with government, telecommunication companies & academia to deliver the high speed broadband infrastructure needed for people & organisations: IoT network coverage, 5G Mobile, high speed for rural areas, local business

Donegal : Actively working to ensure that Donegal's businesses and citizens are connected at work and at home with fibre, public wi-fi and the latest mobile technologies.

West Romania : High-Performing Intranet, HPC

South Ostrobothnia : Companies responsible of building broadband; municipalities, private companies

Upper Franconia : Promote broadband expansion politically and in practice

Digital Skills

Derry & Strabane : Work with schools, training bodies, industry and 3rd level institutions to highlight career opportunity, to improve the supply of skills and ensure the city is attracting & retaining workers with the required skills. Focus on youth.

Donegal : Establish a working group on training spearheaded by ATU Letterkenny and pursue set-up of a Donegal Training portal related to digital skills.

West Romania : Upgrade of Tier 1 & 2 (Automotive) + vocational training in emerging industries; DIH, EEN - upskiling to exploit ICT technologies in all smart specialisation sectors and boost digital transformation of SMEs;

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk and educational organisations of the region (VET Sedu), business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, RCSO, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs

Ljubljana : - Collaboration in Pact 4 Skills; Prediction of future skills needed; Programs for digital skills for companies, public administrators and local authorities. - Advanced ICT training, covering all the topics in this document in Ljubljana partner

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Digital Research

Derry & Strabane : Work with government, research bodies and industry to increase the level and quality of research in key sectoral areas

Donegal : Work with universities in West, North West and Northern Ireland to increase the supply of the relevant digital research needed to support smart specialisation and target economic sectors

West Romania : E-Austria Research & Development (ICT Center of excelence); Vest University of Timisoara, Polytechnic Univeristy, regional mutinationals, ETA2U innovation and Technology Transfer Center

Ljubljana : -6G use cases exploration for standardisation support, user/community need and pricing/reward mechanisms -Research equipment

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

South Ostrobothnia : University Consortium of Seinäjoki (UCS) and Seamk

Upper Franconia : Knowledge transfer, training, and research with regional business and stakeholders within the fields of AI,VR/AR, Robotics, Interaction design, Hypertext (information & knowledge management),Market research, digitalisation health and social economy

Smart City & Region

Smart Energy

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Health District (will be a part of the new social-and health care region); BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

Donegal : Transition to a low carbon economy via adoption of green technologies, smart energy management, renewables and energy efficiency

Upper Franconia : Energy supply Energy efficiency Hydrogen applications Air-conditioning and cooling applications Municipal heat planning

Mobility as a Service

South Ostrobothnia : Main responsibililty state and municipalities; RCSO, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County (the new social-and health care region); BDOs like Into SeinÃ¤joki

Public Services

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Health District (will be a part of the new social-and health care region); BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Intelligent Infrastructure

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Health District (will be a part of the new social-and health care region); BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Upper Franconia : Public services

Spatial Planning

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Health District (will be a part of the new social-and health care region); BDOs like Into Seinäjoki; SYKE (Finnish Environment Institiute) has open environment and nature data available

Digital Innovation

Open Data

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk and UCS, BDOs like Into Seinäjoki; RIS3 thematic netwooks of Agrifood; Traceability and Big Data, Smart Sensors; EDIH and other DIHs

Ljubljana : Open data for smart public services on regional and national level.

Derry & Strabane : Develop an open data action plan to stimulate innovation & entrepreneurship

West Romania : ICT Cluster. RDA West, public-private partnerships

Open Innovation Test Beds

Derry & Strabane : Create highly visible spaces where companies can meet researchers and innovations. This is targeted at advanced manufacturing, creative digital and health & lifescience sectors

Donegal : Develop "living labs" in the key areas of Advanced Manufacturing, Public Services (Energy, Public Planning service) Blue Ocean and Tourism and Culture (VR). Leverage the Digital Hubs network (Blue Economy in Killybegs; VR in Gaoth Dobhair,....

West Romania : Development of centers of competences at county level covering entire West Region; Support the development of regional test beds of stakeholders (i.e Nokia Garage)

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk/ EDIH will develop to helpt to test before investing; IOT Compass Hub for manufacturing/SeAMK; Metaverse/SeAMK; Into, SeAMK/Food Lab

Ljubljana : This part can be covered in the DIH part.

Digital Innovation Hubs

Donegal : Deliver a network of digital innovation hubs to support local communities, SME's, start-ups, remote workers. Pursue collaboration between Donegal Hubs. Develop advanced tech exposure & digital capacity of SME's & communities via the Hubs.

West Romania : Start-up Hubs (Digital - Large Tech); CIT Cluster, Competence Centers, Innovation Agency

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk, business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs, IOT compass Hub/Seamk; EDIH/Seamk (if approved); Food Hub/Into; companies/SMEs

Ljubljana : Continue the development of 4PDIH

Derry & Strabane : Promote the City's network of Hubs/tech parks & improve their digital innovation capacity. Develop a network or rural innovation hubs to bring digital innovation & entrepreneurship to rural towns and villages

North West City Region : Develop and promote the regions digital hubs/tech parks & improve their innovation capacity

Stimulate Digital Startups

West Romania : Pilot Digilatisation (Automotive), Software Development (Digital - Large Tech). ADR Vest' s Pre-accelerator and Accelerator

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

Derry & Strabane : Increase the number of spin-offs by technology transfer, collaboration between research centres & entrepreneurs, test-beds.

Donegal : Promote emerging disruptive technologies and local research projects to inspire local entrepreneurs as well as Digital entrepreneurs amongst diaspora

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk, Into and other BDOs, municipalities, businesses

Industry 4.0

Donegal : Improve support for introduction of Advanced manufacturing techniques into relevant sectors in Donegal. Identify companies who can benefit and bring I4.0 to them.

West Romania : Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) cooperation (test before invest, good practices, case studies)

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk and educational organisations of the region (VET Sedu), business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, RCSO, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs , cluster and ecosystem

Ljubljana :

Derry & Strabane : Increase the number of local manufacturing companies piloting Industry 4.0 by collaboration with research centre such as CIDRA & developing living labs

North West City Region : Bring the resources of the region's technology providers to bear to develop the I4.0 capability of the region's SMEs

Research Procurement

West Romania : ICT Cluster

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County (the new social-and health care region)

Ljubljana : This part can be covered in the DIH part.

Cantabria : Professionalisation (Life & Health Services, Food Production), New Research & Development Groups ( Manufacturing - Chemistry), Export/Import (Manufacturing - Metalic Transformation)

University in Innovation

West Romania : Digital Innovation Hub, Regional Innovation Agency

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk, UCS (together with BDOs ?)

Ljubljana : Support and increase knowledge transfer

Cantabria :

Derry & Strabane : Develop the links between the City's Research centres and local business to act as a catalyst and innovation enabler

Donegal : ATU to work with the public and private sectors in the County for demonstration & piloting of disruptive digital technology, aimed at potential entrepreneurs and existing companies

Grow Existing ICT SME Cluster

Donegal : Improve the level of business between Donegal's existing small ICT companies and other sectors.

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk and educational organisations of the region (VET Sedu), business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, RCSO, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs

Cantabria : Process to Launch (Food Production), New Programme (Manufacturing -Chemistry )

Derry & Strabane : Implement an innovation programme to create more jobs, start-ups & new ventures via digital enterprises

Ljubljana : This can be joint with digital skills

West Romania : Support SMEs explore new business mdoels, new applications of latest technologies (ie.AI)

Transform Traditional SMEs

West Romania : Test new instruments/ develop new platforms (i.e continue initative to "Arome Proprii" Niche Pilot)

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk and educational organisations of the region (VET Sedu), business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, RCSO, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs

Ljubljana : Based on the structure of the Slovene economy, this is very important for us.

Derry & Strabane : Stimulate adoption of digital transformation approaches by the traditional business sector by supportive interventions

Donegal : Focus support interventions to assist non-digital SME's to adopt the more advanced disruptive technologies (e.g., online selling)

Circular Economy

West Romania : Pilot projects and test beds for ICT technologies that enable circular economy business models

Upper Franconia : Compostable packaging Wastewater treatment Anthropogenic water cycles Hydroponics & Acquaponics Sponge city & sponge region concepts Recycling of conventional and bio-based polymers CO2 and CH4 balances Energy saving concepts sustainable textile

Remote Working

South Ostrobothnia : Businesses and private organisations; UCS, Seamk and educational organisations of the region (VET Sedu), business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki, RCSO, municipalities

West Romania : Enable talent valorisation within the region, enable cooperation among regions; develop capacities to capitalize on new workforce paradigms

Innovation ecosystems

Donegal : Establish or adapt innovation ecsosystems to support digital transformation initiatives in the current or emerging context

Digital Transformation Technologies

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk, UCS, Public organisations, services (e.g. health)

Ljubljana : - Applicative use of AI in smart cities and smart villages - AI ethics research, new digital skills to broaden economic inclusivity (Mapping approaches, needs of regions, industry sectors, society)

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

Derry & Strabane : Capacity building / piloting to evaluate the implications of incorporating AI into public service development. Increase local AI/ML talent pool .

Upper Franconia : Multimodal AI assistants: Chat assistants that can also be controlled by normal conversation or gestures

Data Analytics

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk, UCS, Public organisations, services (e.g. health), companies

Ljubljana : Data analytics for better desicion making

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

Donegal : Develop local talent pool. Increase understanding and capability of business and community.

Upper Franconia : Promote alternatives to conventional commuter traffic in rural regions Avoiding waste in production processes derive analyses from health and disease data and help rare diseases both migraine and headache patients

Robotics

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk, UCS, Public organisations, services (e.g. health), companies

Cantabria : Autonomous Vehicles (Blue Ocean, Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation)

Derry & Strabane : Develop initiatives, piloting between CIDRA and local businesses to increase awareness, skills and capability in Industry 4.0.

Upper Franconia : Programming side of robotics Skilled workers at logistics, production porcelain, and automotive suppliers

Blockchain

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk; companies (e.g. food sector)

Ljubljana : - M2M and user applications, e.g. (short)supply chain monitoring resistant to modification, efficient and verifiable. - Applicative use of blockhain in smart cities and smart villages

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Cybersecurity

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seamk, Into and other BDOs, municipalities, services, businesses

Ljubljana : - Cybersecurity for the companies and municipalities - public services. - 5G private testbed infrastructure for experimentation, measurements, testing and verification of large-scale communications systems as well as services, security capabilities

Cantabria : Technical skill, cibersecurity regional centers.

Donegal : Develop local talent pool. Increase understanding and capabiltiy of business and community.

Upper Franconia : Software security DDoS Amplification, secure distributed systems Anonymisation services Vulnerability assessment Privacy

3D Printing

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk, Into for business development, UCS, companies

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Virtual Reality (VR)

Donegal : Develop VR/AR resources in the region and leverage to empower businesses and community to explore the potential benefits

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk/Metaverse, UCS, Public organisations, services (e.g. health), companies

Ljubljana : The use of VR in industry settings

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Upper Franconia : Application in production, learning environments Interactive designs

Internet of Things (IoT)

Donegal : Develop IoT pilots within open data initiative for areas such as energy, environment and tourism.

South Ostrobothnia : Seamk IOT Hub for manufacturing, UCS, Public organisations, services (e.g. health), companies

Ljubljana : Smart cities and smart villages contexts - digitalisation in agriculture

Cantabria : New Factory Layouts (Automotive), Manufacturing (Chemistry & Metalic Transformation), Long Range Sensors (Food Production)