D6.6a: Collaboration with other Smart Anything Everywhere projects and Digital Innovation Hubs

This deliverable addresses the liaison and cooperation activities with other projects that will contribute to the Smart Anything Everywhere and Digital Innovation Hubs initiatives It entails contributions to the following activities The action will support the SAE network and help achieve broad coverage in technological application innovation and geographic terms and to link up with regionalnational innovation initiatives and other Digital Innovation Hubs Its tasks and services shall include maintaining a single innovation portal sharing of best practices dissemination brokering leveraging further investment and training For these support actions close cooperation with ECSEL and other CSAs funded under the Digitising European Industry focus area is looked for Participate to common dissemination events Exploit synergies between projects eg brokering access to facilities offered by the other projects guiding SMEs to the appropriate project sharing of best practices leveraging further investments and training Link to innovation networks eg Entreprise Europe networks National Contact Point networks in order to multiply innovation beyond projects Contribute to a common web portal and a corporate identity without detriment of the individual identity and web site of each project Join forces on dissemination brokerage events eg innovation sectorspecific events Organise regular meetings to assess the cooperation activities Participation to the development of a Digital Innovation Hub Catalogue