Opportunities we facilitate
Whichever stream of cooperation is preferred, the 3S EDIH Corridor’s value proposition in practice includes the following opportunities:
- Dissemination of project outcomes to relevant audiences (e.g. policymakers, industry, academia, citizens);
- Exploitation of results for further innovation, commercialization, or policy development;
- Transfer of knowledge or practices to other regions, sectors, or initiatives;
- Sustainability planning, ensuring results live beyond the project’s duration.
Regular exchange of insights, experiences, and operational intelligence across participating hubs and associated entities is equally vital both online and offline.
To foster more efficient and sustainable cooperation, Cyber4AllSTAR EDIH—acting as coordinator of the 3S EDIH Corridor—is actively promoting a range of cross-border knowledge and business exchange opportunities, including webinars, training sessions, and online info days. Examples include: the joint webinar on the future of EU's cybersecurity policy landscape, co-organized with CroboHub++ EDIH (Croatia) in 2024 over the shared EDIH community space at ConvoCircle; the annual cross-industry editions of the Balkan Online Fair (members of EDIH Trakia innovators' ecosystem); the monthly European Digital Innovation Days, held throughout 2024 and 2025, offering hybrid opportunities for sharing best practices among a diverse range of European innovators across sectors, etc.
At the same time, efforts are being made by the coordinator of the Corridor to nurture interaction among its contractual partners through active on-site participation. This includes engagement in networking forums such as the annual Digital Innovation Summit (hosted by ICI Bucharest) and the Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference (hosted by DNSC Romania); participation in study visits organized by hubs such as DigiTech EDIH (Hungary) and smartHEALTH (Greece); and involvement in practical workshops designed to facilitate collaboration among EDIHs—such as the session hosted by AI5Production (Austria) during the 2024 EIT Manufacturing Day in Vienna.
The work of the 3S EDIH Corridor is particularly beneficial to programmes like Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, and Interreg, where emphasis is placed not just on generating results, but on ensuring those results create real-world value across the EU and beyond. Through its cooperation initiative, Cyber4AllSTAR EDIH has thus far managed to support a number of project proposals under these funding frameworks, such as: Interreg's ‘EcoScan: Mapping Heavy Metal Pollution in the North-Western Black Sea Region’ (coordinated by Turkey, with the involvement of Bulgarian, Romanian, Moldovan partners); Horizon's "KNOW THYSELF: Revolutionizing Science Communication for Connected Europe - Transdisciplinary Science Communication: Modular Approach to Bridge Knowledge Gaps in the European Research Area" (coordinated by Poland, with the involvement of 10+ CEE and Mediterranean countries); Erasmus Plus' "CyberSec: Cracking the Secrets of Digital Safety" (coordinated by Bulgaria, with the involvement of partners from the Baltics /Estonia/; the Black Sea /Romania/, the Adriatic Sea /Slovenia/ and the Mediterranean /Turkey/).
In addition, the collaboration facility relies on synergies generated through its members’ participation in established pan-European innovation networks—such as the Women4Cyber Foundation and the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), both of which are leading actors in the field of cybersecurity. The greater the diversity of participants in the 3S EDIH Corridor—from various industries and industrial ecosystems—the stronger the potential for cross-pollination of expertise, solutions, and innovation practices.
The 3S EDIH Corridor is promoting mutual learning and opportunities through co-development and sharing of methodologies, tools, and success cases related to digital transformation support and activities.
The coordinators of the Corridor draws inspiration from the Living-in.EU platform—of which it is a participating member alongside other EDIHs from across Central and Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, such as DIH DATAlife (Spain) and Digital Innovation Zone EDIH (Romania). Rather than developing and delivering fully fledged joint services—such as test-before-invest, training, or access-to-finance offers, which are often difficult to standardize and imitate due to varying national and regional procedures and requirements—the 3S EDIH Corridor focuses on identifying and supporting the decentralized deployment of common digital solutions at EU scale, including tools, blueprints, guidebooks, curricula, and other transferable and customizable resources. This approach aligns closely with the broader commitments of the EDIH network, promoting practical, scalable cooperation among its members.
Some of Cyber4AllSTAR EDIH's own contributions in that spirit are the awareness-raising initiatives on green digitalization and ransomware prevention, available for reuse under Creative Commons license; its Cyber4AllSTAR app (open source CRM for EDIHs); Elegance XLS solution for DORA reporting; the weekly threat intelligence newsletter, among others. Soon to be added to the list are open tools for Cyber Resilience Act compliance assessment under the OSCRATproject (developed in partnership with Italian, Romanian, Estonian and Polish partners /EMAG from EDIH-SILESIA/) and OT security technology trainings under the CyberSec4OTproject (developed in partnership with partners from Turkey, Greece, Spain, Estonia).
