Capacity Building Among European Stakeholders In the Areas of Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT & Embedded Systems: The SMART4ALL Digital Innovation Hub Perspective

The goal of the SMART4ALL EU funded project is to build capacity amongst European stakeholders via the development of selfsustained, cross-border experiments that transfer knowledge and technology between academia and industry. It targets Customized Low Energy Computing (CLEC) in the Cyber-Physical (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) domains by combining a set of unique characteristics that join together different cultures, different policies, different geographical areas, and different application domains. The SMART4ALL vision will be realized mainly through funded (via open calls) Pathfinder Application Experiments (PAEs) that will enable the transformation of academic knowledge into industry especially targeting South and Eastern European countries that are currently underrepresented in European funding opportunities. In this way community building, strategy development, and ecosystem learning are envisioned for boosting high-quality research and development in South Eastern Europe (SEE), through an efficient combination of regional, national and European policies. Furthermore SMART4ALL sets forward the concept of marketplace which is offered as a service (Marketplace-as-a-Service or MaaS) that acts as one-stop-smart-stop by offering tools, services, platforms based mainly on open sources technologies as well as technology suppliers - adopter matchmaking capabilities customized to the targeted thematic pillars of the project.