Context
The DIH² project is funded by Horizon 2020 – the European Union research and innovation programme tasked with bringing great ideas from lab to market. The programme is at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth for the future of Europe.
Aim
The DIH² vision is to build a sustainable pan-European network to facilitate and accelerate the knowledge and technology exchange among robotics Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs). The DIHs will facilitate the uptake of the latest robotic technologies across the European Union in the field of agile production.
DIH² believes in the power of robotics to transform the agility of manufacturing in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and drive economic growth across the European Union.
Our role is to facilitate the connections that will enable agile production in factories where speed and versatility are essential to satisfy customer demand
Impact
The ambition of the project is to:
- Improve the cost-effectiveness of advanced robotics solutions.
- Drive growth of the European manufacturing robotics market.
- Generate innovation that maximises productivity and optimises agility in over 300,000 manufacturing SMEs and Mid-Caps across the EU.
How to get DIH² funding
- Equity-free funding is available through two competitive Open Calls (2020, 2021) with over €26,000,000 of public and private funding available for Agile Production through advanced robotics solutions.
- During the 1st Open Call (2020), DIH² has funded 11 Technology Transfer Experiments (TTEs) among the 96 submitted proposals across Europe to transform the agility & efficiency of factories.
- One of the successful TTEs is an Irish consortium, supported by IMR from opportunity identification to final project pitch, composed by Malone Engineering and Ventac and set out to automate the stitching and taping of Ventac’s product range.
- After 9 months of innovative development and cross-European collaboration, the STAR (Stitching and Taping assisted by Robotics) experiment successfully delivered a demonstrator powered by FIWARE in Ventac’s facilities. The fixture-less STAR solution enables the Robot arm & the stitching machine to work in sync to achieve a precise finishing trajectory.
Partners
THEMATIC PILLAR
Robotics and Automation
SHARE
LINZ CENTER OF MECHATRONICS GMBH
SIRRIS HET COLLECTIEF CENTRUM VAN DE TECHNOLOGISCHE INDUSTRIE
SOFIA TECH PARK JSC
INOVACIJSKI CENTAR NIKOLA TESLA
CY.R.I.C CYPRUS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTER LTD
INTEMAC SOLUTIONS, SRO
AALBORG UNIVERSITET
FUNDINGBOX RESEARCH APS
OU IMECC
Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
BLUMORPHO SAS
PROXINNOV
EFFIZIENZCLUSTER MANAGEMENT GMBH
FIWARE FOUNDATION EV
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES EV
ITECHNIC GMBH
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
EUROPEAN DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS SA
PANNON GAZDASAGI HALOZAT EGYESULET
IRISH MANUFACTURING RESEARCH LTD
C.R.E.A.T.E. CONSORZIO DI RICERCA PER L’ENERGIA L AUTOMAZIONE E LE TECNOLOGIE
DELL’ELETTROMAGNETISMO
NODIBINAJUMS VENTSPILS AUGSTO TEHNOLOGIJU PARKS
LIETUVOS ROBOTIKOS ASOCIACIJA
STICHTING ROBOVALLEY
FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP ZOO
SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ – PRZEMYSLOWY INSTYTUT AUTOMATYKI I POMIAROW PIAP
PRODUTECH-ASSOCIACAO PARA AS TECNOLOGIAS DE PRODUCAO SUSTENTAVEL
FILIALA TRANSILVANIA A ASOCIATIEI ROMANE PENTRU INDUSTRIA ELECTRONICA SI DE SOFTWARE
ELEKTROTEHNICKI FAKULTET UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU
National Centre of Robotics
FUNDACIO EURECAT
INTERNETSIA, S.L.
PROYECTOS Y SISTEMAS DE MANTENIMIENTO SL
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB
LOUPE 16 LTD
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824964.
