CD-EDIH

TechCircle is based in Central Denmark designed to support SMEs to innovate and develop their companies and products and is a strong alliance between stakeholders within business development, researchers, and public sectors. The aim is also to overcome the sustainability challenges and the environmental impact of their manufacturing, production, and consumption value chains. This will lead to a significant technological boost, leveraging Circular Economy approaches: use of data, data analytics, handling of big data and analysis and production of new data, to ultimately achieve economic impacts, such as more efficient processes, reduced risk, improved durability of products, new products and services, improved energy and resource efficiency, improved revenues and other.

TechCircle is a collaboration between 10 partners within the Danish business innovation eco-system. The hub is based on the strengths and focus of the Central Denmark region including, but not limited to, a focus on agriculture and the food industry, manufacturing, digital technologies etc. The Hub's aim is to promote and accelerate advanced digital capacities and technologies, ultimately contributing to the region's path to sustainability and implementing smart city and circular economy initiatives in its broadest sense.

Business Hub Central Denmark coordinates TechCircle/CD-EDIH and supports over 5000 companies annually in central Denmark. They offer impartial guidance, facilitate networking opportunities, and provide co-financing options across various business domains including strategy, sales, marketing, funding, digital transformation, and green initiatives. Their mission is to foster growth, innovation, and sustainable development for companies and entrepreneurs.

Aarhus University are pioneering automated verification, big data analysis, machine intelligence, cybersecurity, and more. Their interdisciplinary approach ensures a comprehensive understanding of the digital landscape, and they are dedicated researchers collaborate across departments to shape the future of technology and business development.

The Alexandra Institute assists companies and organizations in applying world-class IT research in practical settings. Their R&D specialists cover disciplines such as CyberSecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data analysis, Augmented Reality, IoT, Visual Computing, and more.

CLEAN concentrates on data and digital solutions that support and enable innovative sustainable solutions within water and resources. Their key domains include sustainable groundwater use, reducing leakages (non-revenue water), resource recovery from wastewater, mitigating overflow, sustainable materials, circular and sustainable systems (such as take-back solutions and material reuse, including plastics), emission detection, carbon capture and utilization (CCUS), biodiversity, etc.

DigitalLead is the Danish cluster for digitalization and innovation, where businesses, research institutions, and public authorities collaborate to drive innovation. Their focus is on cutting-edge Horizon projects and partnerships related to digitalization.

FORCE Technology concentrates on digital and sustainable solutions, including designing products with long lifetimes, assessing and optimizing factory sustainability, condition monitoring, implementing take-back systems, and documenting sustainability.

Food & Bio Cluster Denmark accelerates innovation and sustainable development in food and bioresources. They achieve this through inspiration, networking, collaborations, and business development in partnership with knowledge institutions, investors, and public authorities.

We Build Denmark strategically partners in the building and construction industry to transform infrastructure with digital and sustainable innovation.

MADE emphasizes Smart and Sustainable manufacturing, digitalization, and automation, including Industry 4.0 technologies and Industry 5.0 perspectives across shop floors and value chains. They aim to increase knowledge exchange, establish collaboration agreements, and participate in project proposals across Europe.

The City of Aarhus is committed to leading smart city initiatives and is interested in developing and testing new innovative and emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, and data spaces in urban environments.