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ATTRACT DIH
Digital Innovation Hub for ArTificial InTelligence and High-PeRformAnce CompuTing @ Portugal

Challenge

The ATTRACT DIH (Digital Innovation Hub for ArTificial InTelligence and High-PeRformAnce CompuTing @ Portugal) believes that digital transformation, namely solutions based on AI and HPC, will represent important business opportunities at the international level, for companies and technological sectors, allowing significant qualitative leaps in the performance of organisations.

Solution

ATTRACT DIH’s mission is to promote and support experimentation, testing, development and adoption of solutions using Artificial Intelligence and HPC, as well as to address training needs, while boosting the innovation ecosystem in these fields, towards achieving significant improvements in the performance of organisations and reaching important sales volumes of national solutions in the international market.

Objectives, Activities and Results expected / achieved

Main specific objectives:
• Support the design, development and validation of new products and services that benefit from AI or HPC;
• Promote the dissemination and adoption of solutions based on AI or HPC, including the implementation of demonstrators of said technologies;
• Support the establishment of new companies to develop or explore solutions based on AI or HPC;
• Promote the capacity-building of human resources from companies, PA and R&D entities;
• Promote and develop innovation ecosystems that include the areas of AI or HPC, while facilitating and promoting the access of companies and public entities to the European network of Digital Innovation Hubs, thus favouring the exchange of experiences and knowledge at European level, as well as the development of joint projects.

Project Reference

774; Grant Agreement No 101083770

Funding


Intervention Region

Europe

Total Investment

5.999.745,73

IPN Investment

256.586,00

Total Eligible

5.999.745,73

IPN Eligible

256.586,00

EC Funding – Total

2.999.872,85

EC Funding – IPN

128.293,00

National public financial support – IPN

96.219,75

Duration

36 Months

Start Date

2023-01-01

End Date

2025-12-31

Approval Date

2022-06-17

Consortium

INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência
DTx Colab - Associação Laboratório Colaborativo em Transformação Digital
DSPA - Data Science Portuguese Association
FCIENCIAS.ID - Associação Para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências
Instituto Superior Técnico
Universidade de Coimbra
Universidade de Évora
Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Porto
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Laboratório Ibérico Internacional de Nanotecnologia
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Universidade da Beira Interior
Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias
Associação Para o Laboratório Colaborativo em Sistemas Ciber-Físicos e Ciber-Segurança
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Associação Industrial Portuguesa - Câmara de comércio e Indústria AIPCCI
INOVA+ - Innovation Services, SA

Website

https://attract.inesctec.pt/

Keywords

Artificial Intelgence;
High Performance Computing;
Digital Innovation Hub.