EDIH L

Lombardy Smart Specialisation Strategy identifies digital and green twin transition as the most urgent challenges to boost manufacturing industry resilience and competitiveness in EU and global value chains. Lombardy Region is one of the EU manufacturing motors, the fifth EU regional GDP producer (398.779 mln € in 2019). The mission of EDIH Lombardia (EDIH L) is to lead and implement a digital and sustainable twin transition of Lombardy manufacturing industry via a rich portfolio of 13 services provided by EDIH L partners. The objectives of EDIH L are: increase digital technologies adoption; support digital skills development; foster innovative business model adoption and go to market strategies; integrate digital European value chain. EDIH L deploys an interoperable portfolio of 13 services (OFFER), organized in four categories: Test Before Invest, Skills and Training, Access to Funds and Innovation Ecosystem and Network, which according to the AI REGIO classification can be defined as BEST services supporting Business Ecosystem Skills and Technology twin transition. EDIH L collects the needs, structures the requirements in customer journeys and creates impact on industry (DEMAND), by leveraging digital transformation and innovation market potential, delivering tailor made customer journeys of interconnected services. EDIH L targets both technology user and technology providers, stemming upon a common Digital Maturity Assessment methodology. EDIH L is a consortium of 15 partners: 1 Competence Center, 1 Digital Innovation Hub, both acknowledged in JRC catalogue, 5 Technology clusters, 4 Business Associations, 2 Financial Institutes, 2 EIT nodes. EDIH L service implementation relies on deployment of technology use cases in manufacturing scenarios in manufacturing lifecycle production processes available in EDIH L facilities. EDIH L leads EDIH4Manu, an informal open collaboration network of 25 EDIH candidates focused on manufacturing from 15 EU countries.