Great news: AIRE has been awarded for the second funding period of 2025-2028!
AIRE as has been recognised as impactful EDIH and has been granted to continue its activities to support SMEs in their digitalisation journey.
During 2022 and 2025 AIRE has:
· supporting more than 270 Estonian SMEs by triggering additional investments to AI and digitalisation by €62M (public and private funding),
· reaching out to 120 SMEs outside Estonia by March 2025 (mainly through webinars, awareness raising and match-making),
· collaborating actively with 27 EDIHs to build up cross- border collaboration services,
· reaching more than 1200 employees of the SMEs for skills and training and
· hosting about 3000 participants in the AIRE Club networking events to promote AI innovation for competitiveness in Europe.
During the period 2025 – 2028 AIRE’s vision is:
· To be an active European-level stakeholder in the field of knowledge transfer of artificial intelligence (TRL levels 6+) in collaboration of European universities, science-parks, innovation centres and clusters
· To foster economic impact – The goal is to double the productivity and added value in Estonia’s industry
· To raise awareness in the field of AI
AIRE will continue offering services:
· AI suitability assessment
· Test before invest AI demo projects
· Trainings and webinars on AI
· Consulting on access to public and private funding
· AIRE Clubs
New services AIRE will introduce:
· First-line AI Helpdesk
· AI Act awareness and Toolbox
· Matchmaking with SMEs
· Collaboration with EDIHs on cross-border service delivery
· Consulting SMEs on access to EU AI Ecosystem
More information in coming weeks. Stay tuned in social media and our webpage!
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