CIDIHUB – Canary Islands Digital Innovation Hub
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Acronym: CIDIHUB
Reference: 101083701
Partners: Innovalia Asociación de Empresas Tecnológicas. Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias, Clúster Marítimo de Canarias (CMC), Clúster Canarias Excelencia Tecnológica (CET), Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN), Avantalia Soluciones, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Gestión y Planeamiento Territorial y Medioambiental (GESPLAN), Tech Universidad Tecnológica, and Sociedad Canaria de Fomento Económico (PROEXCA).
Duration: November 2022 to October 2025 (36 months)
Budget: 2,139,540.02 €
Co-Financing:
• Digital Europe Programme – DIGITAL-2021-EDIH-01
Programme to Support Digital Innovation Hubs (PADIH), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Project overview
The Canary Islands Digital Innovation Hub, CIDIHUB, is made up of a consortium that brings together multiple organisations and centres of expertise specialising in business digitalisation, providing key infrastructure and resources for the digital transformation of private companies and public entities. The consortium operates mainly in the Canary Islands region, although it collaborates with entities from other territories within and outside Europe through connections forged with other EDIHs.
CIDIHUB (Canary Islands Digital Innovation Hub) was created with the aim of facilitating the digital transformation of Canary Islands SMEs.
With its recognition in 2022 as a European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) in the European “Digital Europe” call for proposals, CIDIHUB has achieved the European seal of excellence, as well as receiving European funding to strengthen its structure with the participation of the main regional and island players in areas of greatest impact in the Canary Islands, such as Digital Transformation, the Blue Economy and Sustainability.
CIDIHUB offers free services to SMEs in the Canary Islands through co-financing received from the European Union, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, and the Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society (ACIISI). These services are structured into four broad blocks, which can be consulted in detail on the initiative’s website (https://cidihub.org/):
- Diagnosis, strategy, digital solutions, testing and technological validation. This block includes actions such as digital maturity diagnosis, preparation of a digitalisation strategy, assistance with R&D&I, access to infrastructure and resources for proof of concept, and more.
- Investment for digitisation. The CIDIHUB consortium provides support in the search for sources of funding for the development, implementation and validation of digital solutions, as well as other private sources and R&D&I calls at different scales, among other services.
- Training in digital skills. One of the lines of work is training in digital skills. To this end, training activities are organised to promote these skills and competences.
- Ecosystem for innovation, networking and entrepreneurship. CIDIHUB promotes the creation of networks to connect with public and private agents, companies and professionals for the promotion, growth and development of initiatives, companies and ideas in the field of digitalisation..
The Canary Islands Digital Innovation Hub, CIDIHUB, is made up of a consortium that brings together multiple organisations and centres of expertise specialising in business digitalisation, providing key infrastructure and resources for the digital transformation of private companies and public entities. The consortium operates mainly in the Canary Islands region, although it collaborates with entities from other territories within and outside Europe through connections forged with other EDIHs.
CIDIHUB services can be requested free of charge from its website.
To promote cybersecurity in the Canary Islands, CyberCan was created within the framework of CIDIHUB, where ITER also participates with the implementation of demonstrators that improve the cybersecurity of participating companies, among other initiatives. You can learn more about CyberCan here.
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