X-PAR-2: AI EU Consortia
Experiment Description
DIGIHALL engaged in a matchmaking collaboration initiative with DIH Saxony-Anhalt (Fraunhofer IFF) and Munich DIH (Fortiss) in order to support SME clients in the identification of partners with unique AI expertise to establish an effective consortium for applying to EU funded call for proposals and hence develop together successful project proposals.This has been achieved through the organisation of a joint matchmaking event on Horizon Europe opportunities in the field of AI. DIHs used the DIH4AI and AIoD platforms to disseminate the planned event and identify potential AI partners/experts in line with the matchmaking request. Also OCs’ winners have been involved as speakers at the event, to share their valuable example and success story to the SMEs
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Impact
The idea was to leverage both DIH capacities to mobilize their ecosystem: this would give French and German SMEs the opportunity to join the core group of proposal makers, facilitating the possibility to create real EU collaborations and hence guaranteeing basic eligibility criteria for participation in collaborative project. In this sense, such experiment could be widened and opened to other DIH partners.