Presentation by Mayte Carracedo I4MS Project Coordinator & Business Developer at FundingBox FIWARE Global Summit 8-9 May, 2018 Porto, Portugal

1. Panel 4 FIWARE for industry related
initiatives and success stories
Mayte Carracedo
I4MS Project Coordinator and Business Developer at FundingBox
Mayte.carracedo@fundingbox.com

2. Agenda of the session:
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09.00-10.00 Part I:
FRAMEWORK INITIATIVES
• Mayte Carracedo, I4MS Project Coordinator, FundingBox (Spain). Digital transformation uses cases and supporting initiatives.
• Anna C. Barros, Senior researcher at INESC TEC (Portugal). iMan Norte Hub: Role of Digital Innovation Hubs in the Digitalization
of the Industry.
INDUSTRIAL DEMOS
• Frank Doyle, Researcher at ACORN Research Centre Limerick Institute Of Technology (Ireland). MD4PROD (BEinCPPS).
10.00-10.15 Break
10.15-11.00 Part II:
• Sandro Mehic, Researcher at the University of Florence (Italy). PRIMACY (BEinCPPS OC2).
• Pierlugi Petrali, Manufacturing R&D Manager at Whirlpool (Italy). (BEinCPPS POLIMI).
• Óscar Lázaro, Managing Director of Innovalia (Spain). GF-INNO (BOOST INNOVALIA).
• Q&A from the audience and discussion.

3. Who am I?
■ We support innovators with funding, acceleration services and community building tools.
■ European Leader in Cascade Funding or FSTP. Since 2014, 60M EUR of public funds (cascade funding) attracted to
accelerate 250 companies.
■ Top 10 accelerated companies went on to leverage 20 times the public funding received into private investments
■ Top European online deal-flow generation platform.
Our own community of more than 13.000 SMEs curated in 3 years.
Informatiion platform about cascade funding opportunities www.fundingbox.com
More than 20 digital communities created and dinamised around IoT, Robotics, etc. FundingBox is managing the
FIWARE Community
▪ Cofounder and Bizz Dev at FundingBox
▪ I4MS Go Project Coordinator

4. Digital transformation use cases and
supporting initiatives
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Mayte Carracedo
I4MS Project Coordinator and Business Developer at FundingBox
Mayte.carracedo@fundingbox.com

5. Challenges in adopting digital technologies
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Different levels of
digitalisation
across sectors,
Member States
and regions
Only 1 out of 5
companies in the
EU are digitised
Around 60% of
large industries
and more than
90% of SMEs
feel lagging
behind
Source: Brochure: DEI so far, two years after the launch, March 2018.
European Commission Digital Scoreboard

6. How EU is facing this?
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1.Defining a package of measures (DEI) and
funding initiatives e.g I4MS
2.Defining and supporting the right structures
as regional level, e.g. Digital Innovation
Hubs
3.Promoting enabling technologies and open
platforms, e.g. Fiware

7. Digitising European Industry Strategy (DEI)
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DEI, April 2016 defines the aim:
Any industry in Europe can fully benefit from digital innovations!
Any industry in Europe
• big or small
• wherever situated
• in whichever sector
can fully benefit from digital innovations to
• upgrade its products and services
• improve its processes
• adapt its business models to the digital age

8. EU initiatives to facilitate digital transformation to SMEs and Mid-
caps
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„Digitisation“ Initiatives
One common aim
Same types of action
Innovation Action All the initiatives use this „type of action“ addressing solutions with high
technology readiness levels and demonstrated in operational environment.
Cascade Funding All the initiatives use the new „Financial Support to Third Parties“ scheme.

9. Cascade Funding Mechanism/FSTP
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The EC give a Grant to
intermediary Bodies/EU
Consortium
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EU Consortium distribute
the funding in small tickets
through Open calls
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Beneficiaries win funding for:
- Running experiments
- Accelerate their business
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STEP
STE
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10. I4MS initiative
WHAT IS I4MS?
▪ I4MS (ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs) is the initiative promoted by the
European Commission to foster the digital innovation of manufacturing SMEs in
Europe in order to boost their competitiveness in the digital era.
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11. I4MS: focused on SMEs
Ensure that any SMEs in Europe can
fully benefit from digital innovations to
upgrade its products, improve its
processes and adapt its business
models to the digital age.
• Provide access to competences:
tech solutions and mentoring
• Provide access to innovation
networks of competences and best
practice examples
• Provide financial support to SMEs
and mid-caps (FSTP/Cascade
Funding)
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12. Funding opportunities available
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HPC
Robotics
CPS/IoT
Additive Manufacturing
Call 1 Call 2 Call 3
Jul.18 Jul.19
Sept.18 Sept.19
March 18 Mar.19
May.18 Mar.19 Mar.19
MIDIH Application Experiments
Deadline: 29.06.2018
Areas: Smart Factory or
Smart Product or Smart
Supply chain
Funding: Funding up to €60,000
Web: http://www.l4ms.eu/Open-
Calls http://midih.eu/open-
call.php

13. More information available about FSTP Open Calls
▪ FSTP calls must be published on the HORIZON2020 Participants Portal and on the
projects own web site
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/other/competiti
ve.html
▪ FundingBox website
https://fundingbox.com/explore/opencalls
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14. Platform- Central Information Portal features
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https://i4ms.fundingbox.com
www.i4ms.eu

15. I4MS achievements so far
• 29 member states and associated countries involved
• €110 million in phase 1 and 2, out of €26 million distributed to SMEs and mid-caps
in 15 calls
• €34 million funding allocated to phase 3 (2017 – 2020)
• 84% of the industrial partners are SMEs and mid-caps out of which around 65%
had never participated in EU research and innovation programme before
• 195 experiments have already been started and almost 70 experiments have
already been launched
• 70% of the experiments have a relevant European dimension
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DIHs: supporting structures to facilitate digital transformation
• Provide support to start-ups,
SMEs and mid-caps in managing
their digital transformation.
• Competence Centres are at the
core of DIHs;
• Variable geometries: technology
applications, sectors, SME focus,
etc.
• Different service portfolios offers.
• Single organisations to multi-
partners cooperation.

17. Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH)
Innovation Actions under the I4MS initiative bring SMEs, in
contact with Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH). DIHs are linked to
national and regional industrial networks.
▪ Provide access to their technologies
▪ Provide infrastructure to test digital innovations
▪ Provide training to develop digital skills
▪ Support SMEs in digitising their products and services
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Laser
Cloud-based HPC simulations
Robotics
Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things

18. FIWARE 4 Industry
WHY FIWARE for INDUSTRY 4.0?
▪ FIWARE provides an enhanced OpenStack-based cloud environment plus a rich
set of open standard APIs and OSS components that enables to the full adoption
of Future Internet technologies.
▪ FIWARE for Industry extends FIWARE Technologies towards the implementation of
Smart-Digital-Virtual Factories of the Future, a Lab of Open Source
components, a Hub of reference architectures and digital platforms, as well as a
Showcase of Industry 4.0 success stories
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19. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
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Mayte Carracedo
I4MS Project Coordinator and Business
developer at FBOX
Mayte.carracedo@fundingbox.com
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