YES! Our new project AID4SME has kicked-off in Leuven – Belgium in December of last year. This is an impression video of the meeting.
TechConcepts is excited to be part of project AID4SME. Also, we are extremely proud this project has kicked off, because we are main developer of the concept behind the project, main proposal author, and the ones who brought the consortium together.
We can look back to a great meeting where the partners got to know each other, and we’ve set the first steps in execution of this cool project. TechConcepts has hosted a firefighting workshop and other activities to facilitate the teambuilding.
Congratulations to all partners for having such a wonderful project and a great #teamspirit. And a special thanks to KU Leuven for being a wonderful host!!
ABOUT AID4SME
Project AID4SME will facilitate SMEs in developing combined AI and data solutions for large scale resource optimisation challenges for industries that have significant impact on the objectives of the Green Deal. Minimum 20 SMEs, selected through 2 open calls, will receive funding from our project (at a maximum amount of 200kEUR) to develop these solutions with the support of a Community of Practice (COP). The ambition is to create a COP that will continue after the project lifetime.
AID4SME brings together 9 technology blocks and low-TRL playgrounds from 4 scientific partners, to educate and support the SMEs. Additionally, 4 large industry partners (LTH from the automotive, BEKO from the whitegoods, VERKOR from the battery and ELES from the energy sector) provide real-life large scale resource optimization challenges that require combined AI and data solutions, and high-TRL playgrounds to integrate and demonstrate the solutions. AID4SME offers an open platform that is flexible to bring in challenges from outside the consortium.
AID4SME provides the infrastructure and learning environment that enable the SMEs to solve the challenges, demonstrate solutions and grow into impactful enterprises. The technology blocks cover a wide area of AI & data technologies for the full cycle of data collection, creation of insights, decision support and automation. These technologies have the potential to have significant impact on the Green Transition and boost EU competitiveness for industries.
AID4SME will collaborate with the AI-on-Demand platform to enrich its repository with the AID4SME tools and framework, while it is open to deploy the tools/frameworks already available on the AI-on-Demand platform for new use cases.
AID4SME will assess the impact of the developed technologies on Green Deal objectives and on social and human aspects. AID4SME brings along partners who are experienced in re-skilling and up-skilling of SMEs and applying standardization as enabler for exploitation. The wide geographical coverage, with partners and DIHs from all across Europe, ensures maximum impact.
AID4SME project will run from December 2024 to November 2027.
THE ROLE OF TECHCONCEPTS
TechConcepts is the main developer of the concept behind the project and the main author of the AID4SME application proposal to receive funding from the European Union. Within the project, TechConcepts will coordinate and support the partners with the exploitation of the results. And we will probably organise some nice team-building events during our General Assembly meetings :-).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF EU SUPPORT AND DISCLAIMER
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101189562 (AID4SME). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HADEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.