Introduction of the cluster projects
Presentations made during the SAE launch event in Grenoble introduce the 4 projects clustered in SAE and the SAE initiative. The presentations can be downloaded from this page.
Presentations made during the SAE launch event in Grenoble introduce the 4 projects clustered in SAE and the SAE initiative. The presentations can be downloaded from this page.
Starting in FP7 and more broadly applied in Horizon 2020, the European Commission is supporting a group of innovation initiatives supporting SMEs and mid-caps across the economy in digital value creation. The formula for success is the collaboration of industrial actors across the complete value chain in a large number of small experiments facilitated by Europe’s leading competence centres. By going broad both in terms of applications and in terms of actors (e.g. SMEs and mid-caps both on provider and user side), this scheme is an important means for putting Europe’s industrial renaissance on a more solid foundation.
The major initiatives are “ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs” (I4MS), supporting largely process innovation, and “Smart Anything Everywhere” (SAE), supporting product and service innovation:
The innovation actions called for in 2015 under topics ICT4 (customised and low power computing) and FoF9 (I4MS phase 2) are also foreseen to be part respectively of the Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) and the ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) initiatives. These innovation actions aim at stimulating broad adoption of novel embedded and cyber-physical systems technologies and their enablers in industrial and societal applications important for Europe. In the context of FoF9 they also aim at the uptake of advanced ICT technologies like simulation and cloud computing by manufacturing SMEs.
The French Directorate General for Enterprises in collaboration with the European Commission, DG CONNECT Components and Systems are pleased to invite you to LAUNCH OF THE EUROPEAN INITIATIVE SMART ANYTHING EVERYWHERE To be held in conjunction with the FRANCE FORUM ON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO ENABLE SME COMPETITIVENESS Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March 2015 Minatec Grenoble.
This forum will launch the European cluster «Smart Anything Everywhere» made of 4 networks of regional competence centres and funded with 26 M€. Their ultimate goal is to facilitate access to latest technologies in the areas of systems and components. The forum will discuss capabilities of electronics and ICT technologies to enable SMEs building innovative and competitive «smart» products. In addition, France will present its experience with a complementary initiative to foster innovation in SMEs:
For more details please visit the event’s website.