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European Digital Innovation Hubs Network

S4AI_HUB

Hub information

EDIH Title

Serbian European Digital Innovation Hub on AI

Geographical scope

National

Information

ivan.pavlovic@ntp.rs

Description

Regional socio-economic inequalities have worsened over the past two decades in Serbia and are now among the highest in Europe. Substantial barriers to SME development prevented the less developed regions from mobilising the power of domestic entrepreneurship to challenge incumbent firms which benefitted from their locational advantage in Belgrade and other northern districts. With the transition to a knowledge economy based on digital agenda, Belgrade and Vojvodina benefitted from the high concentration of high technology employment, R&D and research personnel. This gave a further push to regional divergence. To overcome the renewed growth of regional inequalities generated by the structural shifts to the knowledge economy and the digital businesses that are fast emerging, a S4AI_HUB brings better distributed version of the knowledge economy in which the benefits of the digital transformation to the less developed regions of Serbia is going to be spread.

These regions in Serbia need to enhance the uptake of AI in its key priorities defined by RIS3 and participate in the European ecosystem of excellence and trust.

 

Therefore, it is essential to use and transfer the knowledge from cutting-edge research into business practice, support digitalisation in companies, especially SMEs, delivering innovation from startups and university to value chain and closely related issues of the qualified and retrained workforce. These regions in Serbia can build on its industrial and entrepreneurial tradition and the high technological intelligence of the population in this respect. It is why a highly diversified consortium consisted from 7 partners from BSOs, R&D, and the private sector, along with 13 Associated Partners (national level institutions, regional innovation centres, R&D, and academia) was established. This consortium will provide essential support to SMEs and public institutions in their digital transformation targeting at least 300 SMEs and public institutions.

Coordinator information

Contractual contact information

dr. Milan Randjelovic
+381 668821000

Operational contact information

Ivan Pavlovic
+381 668821002

Website

Coordinator address

Aleksandra Medvedeva 2A
18000 Nis
Serbia

Coordinator Business name

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Coordinator Legal name

Market and services

Technologies

Additive manufacturing
3/5
Artificial Intelligence & Decision support
5/5
Big data
3/5
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
3/5
Cloud Services
4/5
Communication network
3/5
Digital twins
3/5
Gamification
3/5
High performance computing
4/5
Human computer interaction
4/5
Internet of Things
5/5
Internet Services & Applications
5/5
Location-based applications
3/5
Logistics
5/5
Quantum Technologies (computing/communication)
3/5
Robotics
5/5
Sensors & Vision Processing Systems
3/5
Software Architectures
3/5
Virtual Reality
5/5

Sectors

Aéronautique
5/5
Développement local piloté par la communauté
4/5
Produits de consommation
4/5
Économie culturelle et créative
4/5
Éducation et formation
5/5
Energie
5/5
Environnement
5/5
Santé
5/5
Fabrication et transformation
5/5
Ville intelligente
5/5
Télécommunications
3/5
Transport et mobilité
3/5
Voyages et tourisme
3/5

Services

Circular economy
4/5
Ecosystem building
5/5
Field trial
4/5
Finance
5/5
Innovation management
5/5
Knowledge transfer
5/5
Prototyping
5/5
Public sector innovation
5/5
Regional development
5/5
Smart Specialisation strategies
5/5
Sme Business Development
5/5
SME support
5/5
Technological innovation
5/5
Technology transfer
5/5
Vocational training
5/5

Beneficiaries

Contact Name Role Country Address Business Name Legal Name Participant Type
- Partner INOVACIONI CENTAR ELEKTROTEHNICKOGFAKULTETA U BEOGRADU DOO (ICEF),
- Partner ISTRAZIVACKO-RAZVOJNI INSTITUT ZA VESTACKU INTELIGENCIJU SRBIJE (IVI)
- Partner PRIVREDNO DRUSTVO CENTAR ZA DIGITALNU TRANSFORMACIJU DOO BEOGRAD-SAVSKI VENAC (CDT),
- Partner KLASTER NI-KAT (CLUSTER NI-CAT),
- Partner ISTRAZIVACKO-RAZVOJNI INSTITUT ZA VESTACKU INTELIGENCIJU SRBIJE (IVI)
- Partner ICT HUB DOO BEOGRAD (ICT HUB DOO),
- Partner ISTRAZIVACKO-RAZVOJNI INSTITUT ZA VESTACKU INTELIGENCIJU SRBIJE (IVI)
- Partner DRUSTVO SA OGRANICENOM ODGOVORNOSCU NAUCNO TEHNOLOSKI PARK CACAK (STP Cacak),