DIH- Confartigianato Ancona - Pesaro e Urbino

The Digital Innovation Hub of Confartigianato Ancona Pesaro and Urbino is a no profit organization, coordinated by Confartigiano Imprese, an industrial association,which has been supporting micro and Small-Medium Enterprisesfrom 70 years.

Specifically, the DIH acts an innovation centre for artisans, SMEs and citizens who want to acquire digital competences.The DIH offers to its clients, especially SMEs of different sectors, high level services and updated training to access new technologies.

The main objective of the DIH is building a digital ecosystemlinking and managing relationships between enterprises, universities and financial services in order to support businesses, particularly SMEs, towards digital transformation.

Moreover, the DIH owns specific digital and technological tools, such as 3D printers and software. SMEs can exploit this equipment directly through the DIH to develop new process and products. Furthermore, the DIH has a team of experts which can support directly SMEs, levering also on the assistance of other professional of the field.

In particular, thanks to ICT experts operating inside the DIH, enterprises can access knowledge, experience, competences on technological tools and equipment to transform their idea in prototypes and then products. Businesses can use software, 3D printing, virtual reality exploiting the opportunity of coaching from experienced professionals.

Each client of the DIH is supported in the development of new processes and products, testing first of all their level of digital maturity, ithen defining an accurate plan of actions for developing new process and products. Lastly, based on the emerging needs and knowledge required, the client is connected by the DIH to suitable partners of the ecosystem.

The relation of the collaboration is guided by the Digital Innovation Hub from the beginning, setting meetings and supporting the partners throughoutthe entire collaboration.

In addition, the DIH offers specific sessions of training involving experts from DIH staff together withexternal professionals. Training sessions continue involving a high SMEs of different sectors. The courses relate to a wide range of topics from web marketing, cybersecurity and privacy, prototyping and 3D printing and programming.