HUB FOR DIGITAL INNOVATIONS
H4DI
WHO WE ARE?
Hub For Digital Innovations (H4DI) is a consortium of its founding members, which are:
CzechInno Association
An interest association founded to support the development of innovation in Czech companies
Electrotechnical Association of the Czech Republic
Association of companies and representatives of employers in the field of electrical engineering
Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Interest association founded by six professional institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the holder of the Enterprise Europe Network Czech Republic
Society of Science and Technology Parks of the Czech Republic
association of science parks, technology centers and business incubators from all over the Czech Republic.
Strategic accessing partners of H4DI are:
Long-term strategic partners of H4DI are:
ELA Blockchain Services
as the provider of first ever Czech open blockchain platform ELA Blockchain
University College of Business in Prague
as provider of a university education in first ever interdisciplinary study programme Digital Economics and Society whose aim is to educate profesionals in the field of usage of new informational tools within digitalisation of enterprises and society.
České Radiokomunikace (CRA)
as the provider of a unique radio, television and internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic, initiator of an open platform for sharing of data within Internet of Things CRA IoT HUB and provider of the platform to support successful implementation of IoT in enterprises and public organisations IoT Port
Komerční banka (KB)
as a banking institution offering exclusive services and products with EIB guarantee and supporting foundation and growth of digital enterprises as well as digital transformation of the Czech enterprises and organisations
H4DI furthermore systematically cooperates with many more important implementation partners
Our aim is to offer Czech SMEs and public organisations access to the technologies, infrastructure and services needed to successfully increase their digital maturity and manage the consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
We meet the definition of Digital Innovation Hub and we are part of the European catalog of these hubs.
Our current European projects
Planning future collaboration of DIHs and EDIHs across Europe
Pan-European ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs Initiative to expand the digital innovation of manufacturing SMEs in Europe
Boosting digital innovation in Europe, mobilising regions to cooperate on the discovery of advanced digital solutitons
Digital transformation of the European Agrifood Sector
European federation of data driven innovation hubs
Supporting transformation of manufacturing SMEs to become Factories of the Future embracing the ecological, digital, and societal challenges
DIH network for boosting technology and business development in South, Eastern and Central Europe
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
We organize educational and training events for companies, such as the following:
Regular thematic regional and online events- currently specifically dedicated to the topics of IoT and blockchain
Annual international forums aimed to promote cooperation in the field of digital
Annual parade of smart entrepreneurship and activities of the Czech and European Digital Innovation Hubs
We provide and support systhematic education in the field of digital knowledge and skills, i.e.
Study programme Digital Economics and Society dedicated to the students as well as professionals
Systhem of seminars and worskhops to widen the skills in the field of data analytics and data science
Base of the knowledge needed to perceive and successfully implement the Elements of AI
We facilitate access to finances for projects focusing on digital transformation, namely:
Within the services of National Information Centre for European Research and assistance of National Contact Points
In the context of advantaged investments into innovations with guarantee of European Investment Bank
We create environment and provide access to experiments with digital technologies:
We provide free-of-charge possibility of Digital Maturity Evaluation Model
We ease the orientation of those, who are interested in implementation of a robotic solution, in their needs and matching offers within the app How to handle a robot
We enable experiments with data from the IoT sources within our platform for open IoT data sharing (IoT commons) IoT Hub
We offer the possibility for experimental blockchain solutions on ELA Blockchain Platform
We implement projects aimed at mediating the dissemination of digital know-how to small and medium-sized companies:
DigitaliseSME – a project aimed at implementing exchanges of digitization experts in foreign small and medium-sized companies throughout the EU
We mediate contact between:
Innovative companies and their potential partners
Czech and European Digital Innovation Hubs within the DIHNET.EU Project
All those who need more information, contacts and facilities to better orientate in their digital needs and the matching solutions for successful and fair digital transformation of Czech SMEs and organisations and those who can help them
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
Because we believe that…
… digitizing a business pays off
..every digital solution has its necessary contexts and you need to think about them the most.
..when those who have a chance to find common ground come together, the resulting effect can only be positive.
HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?
Come to one of our next events
Get involved in one of our projects