UDD

UDD aims at accompanying Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Public Administrations (PAs) towards the advanced digital transition in the Umbria region. Through its services, centered on the three main digital technologies (Artificial Intelligence - AI; High Performance Computing - HPC; Cybersecurity), UDD intends to cover some specific areas, such as manufacturing, energy, and life science with a significant impact on the strategic sectors of commerce and tourism. UDD has a multi-sector focus and it targets on PAs and SMEs that have an organizational structure suitable to digitization procedures. The objective is to enhance the regional specific characteristics while joining the European EDIH Network in order to increase exchange opportunities providing businesses and PAs with the widest range of digital services and advice. UDD main goals towards SMEs and PAs are: The development and the implementation of AI capabilities; The development and the implementation of HPC competences; The acquisition of digital competences in Cybersecurity and advanced technologies; A greater awareness about sustainability and the ethical use of AI. UDD will work mainly on some specific focused areas, as: • Machine learning: AI applied to industry, Blockchain; Data Analytics and HPC; • Advanced manufacturing for the innovation of products and industrial procedures; • Life science technologies, also concerning emergency management; • Advanced materials and nano-materials employed in innovative business activities in the regional territory; • IoT, Automation, Embedded Systems; • Green Economy, Energetic Efficiency, Logistics and resources management. UDD includes 13 partners: 5 research and technological transfer institutes (among which there are the University of Perugia and The National Institute of Nuclear Physics that are the main UDD technical partners), 4 trade associations, 2 regional agencies, a Digital Innovation Hub and an Institute for Higher Technical Training.