Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation and Smart Specialisation

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

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Life & Health Sciences

Digital Foundations

Advanced Broadband

Andalucia : pilot for community building of 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, farms

Cantabria : Territorial cohesion, Digitalisation

Gaeltacht : Cooperate with Ireland's national broadband plan to prioritise and maximise the rollout of high speed broadband in Gaeltacht areas listed in the plan.

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

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Västernorrland : Increase supply of ICT & ebusiness skills; Attract more women & young people into ICT; Build awareness of potential to use ICT in other professions; Recognise digital competences in formal learning; raise awareness of eLearning as a reskilling tool.

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

South Ostrobothnia : University Consortium of Seinäjoki (UCS) and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (UAS); Digital factory

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 Product testing Use of digitalisation tech

Smart City & Region

Smart Energy

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County; BDOs like Into SeinÃ¤joki

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

Mobility as a Service

South Ostrobothnia : Main responsibililty state and municipalities; RCSO, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County; BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Public Services

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County; BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Västernorrland : Develop new modern public services that take advantage of disruptive technologies for communities and local areas

Intelligent Infrastructure

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County; BDOs like Into Seinäjoki

Cantabria :

Spatial Planning

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, SO Wellbeing Services County, BDOs like Into SeinÃ¤joki; SYKE (Finnish Environment Institiute) has open environment and spatial data available

Cantabria :

Digital Innovation

Open Data

South Ostrobothnia : Seinäjoki UAS and UCS, BDOs like Into Seinäjoki; RIS3 thematic netwooks of Agrifood; High Tech Farming, Traceability and Big Data, Smart Sensors, Food Systems

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

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

Cantabria :

Digital Innovation Hubs

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

South Ostrobothnia : UCS, Seinäjoki UAS, business development organisations e.g. Into Seinäjoki / Skaalaamo Start Up Hub Seinäjoki, municipalities, businesses - especially SMEs, IOT Compass digital innovation hub

Cantabria : Accelerator Programme (Life & Health Sciences & Food Production)

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

Stimulate Digital Startups

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

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

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

Cantabria : Hub (Life & Health Sciences, Food Production)

Research Procurement

West Romania : ICT Cluster

South Ostrobothnia : RCSO, municipalities, South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County

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 ?)

Cantabria :

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

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

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

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

Transform Traditional SMEs

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 :

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

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

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

Derry & Strabane : Work with businesses, community and social enterprise to create green jobs, increase skills and reduce waste.

Remote Working

Donegal : Implement the actions in Donegal's Remote Working Strategy to increase the number of digital remote workers, entrepreneurs, startups and existing tech companies with a presence in the County.

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

Västernorrland : Develop the opportunities for skills supply to the public sector and SMEs in sparsely populated areas.

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 : Seinäjoki UAS / Digital Factory, 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), AI in health, education, public services,...

Västernorrland : Use AI technology to increase effective and quality in welfare technology and healthcare, case management process & public administration

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

Data Analytics

West Romania : Autonomous Vehicles (Automotive), Business Intelligence (Digital - Large Tech), Patient Data (Life & Health Sciences)

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

Västernorrland : Basis for effective decision-making.

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

Robotics

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

Blockchain

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

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.

Västernorrland : Improved data security

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

3D Printing

West Romania : Parts & Prototype (Automotive), Testing (Food), Entertainment (Digital - Creative), Testing - Dental (Life & Health Sciences), Models (Construction)

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

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Virtual Reality (VR)

West Romania : Training & Design (Automotive), Gaming (Digital - Large Tech & Creative), Training (Life & Health Services), Simulation (Construction)

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

Ljubljana : The use of VR in industry, health and education settings

Cantabria : Manufacturing (Metalic Transformation)

Västernorrland : Use of VR technology in, for example, medication and in learning environments for training.

Upper Franconia : Application in production, learning environments Interactive designs Working in 3D space

Internet of Things (IoT)

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

Västernorrland : Can be an interesting development in elderly care.