Welcome to the EDIH for Urban Interconnected Supply and Value Ecosystems, in short EDIH4UrbanSAVE, in Hamburg. We are proud to be part of the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) program, a program co-funded by the European Union aiming at building up digital competitiveness all over Europe.
We specifically aim at equipping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), mid-caps as well public sector administrations (PSO) in the Hamburg metropolitan area for tomorrow’s challenges. Requirements for critical infrastructure are changing as we speak, and new solutions must be evaluated and implemented – ranging from general digitalization topics, matters of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, distributed infrastructure, or high-performance computing.
Hamburg, globally renowned not only for being an important European logistics and business location as well as an award-winning “Smart City”, offers both, the competencies as well as the network, to address these challenges. Our group of 6 local partners, including academia, craft, industry hubs as well as technological organizations, offer a wide range of services to our target group – and thus strengthen the innovation ecosystem in a targeted & efficient manner.
Our offers have been specifically developed to be aligned economic & geographic conditions of metropolitan Hamburg, as well as with the Smart Specialization and Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS3).
EDIH is a pan-European Program initiated & co-funded by the European Union. We are grateful to be part of this initiative. In addition, the EDIH Hamburg is co-funded by the IFB Hamburg, the DE HUB Program and the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Hamburg, both supported by the by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Digital 2021 researchand innovation program under grant agreement No 101083713.
Please see below for an overview of the formats, that our EDIH Partner offer.
For more details, you can always contact us or refer to the services page.
Strengthen the local ecosystem, e.g . by enabling know how transfer between experts, promoting relevant services, developing technology use cases, scouting & matchmaking processes, as well as promoting joint projects – in short: Building up & supporting the overall local innovation community.
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Facilitating the pathway to technology, e.g. by developing checkups for technologies such as AI, RPA, Cloud, Big Data, IoT, Cyber Security or High Performance Computing, as well as organizing workshops or providing access to Tech Labs and rapid prototyping environments. Additionally supporting in building up skills in agile working methods.
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Offering a wide range of formats regarding key technologies of digital transformation, with special focus on logistics, crafts and industry sectors: AI, HPC, Cloud, Big Data etc. These will be offered by all of our partners and will come in many shapes.
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Establishing access to finance for SME & public services from regional, federal & EU (public & private) sources – basically supporting SMEs in investment matchmaking and increasing investment readiness, as well as supporting companies in the creation of innovation / R&D project proposals.
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On September 9 and 10, 2025, we were once again delighted to welcome a high-profile delegation of decision-makers and representatives of leading Estonian technology companies to Hamburg. Our exchange focused
Cooperation between politics, business and science is crucial for the successful implementation of innovations. We were proud to support our colleagues from HQIC(Hamburg Quantum Innovation Capital) at the first Parliamentary
The second FFplus Open Call is open until 26.08.2025 and is specifically aimed at supporting companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources
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