The artificial intelligence and robotics center AIRE (EDIH) is co-financed by the European Union from the "European Digital Innovation Hubs" program (project number 101083677) and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.
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With AI consulting services, we assess your company’s ability to implement AI solutions. The assessment will result in an expert opinion, consisting of a mapping of the current state of your business, an analysis of digital technologies and data usage, and the feasibility/probability and practicality of implementing AI solutions.
The services of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Centre AIRE (AIRE) are targeted at small to medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMEs) and small mid-caps (up to 499 employees, turnover up to €100 million). We can provide a limited service (up to 10% of clients) to large mid-caps (up to 2999 employees). In the case of a large local company belonging to a multinational group, the numbers of the group are aggregated worldwide.
The AI consultancy service will analyse the process to understand how to optimise the technologies and data already in use in the company for the deployment of AI. In addition, the analysis will address the company’s ability to increase agility with digital solutions, facilitating processes and increasing the company’s competitiveness. The AI feasibility consultancy will be carried out by industrial process experts with extensive experience in the field of artificial intelligence, brought together by Tehnopol Science and Business Park and Tartu Science Park. AIRE’s capital raising advisory service will help to raise capital for the costs of AI deployment.
A total of 15 companies, ranging from start-up manufacturing companies to long-established industrial enterprises, will have received advice from Tehnopol in 2022. In Tehnopol, the feasibility consultancy service for AI implementation for industrial companies is carried out by 4 partner companies. Many of the companies that have completed the AI consultancy have moved on to other AIRE services (implementation of demo projects, public and private equity funding) and also to the AI Development Programme, which distributes additional funding for the implementation of specific AI-based projects (more information-ai.tehnopol.ee). Contact – Anu Puusaag, Smart Technology Area Manager (Tehnopol); anu.puusaag@tehnopol.ee.
During the period November 2021 – June 2022, 12 companies, including Tarmeko Spoon, HUUM, Tiksoja Puidugrupp, Estiko Plastar, Torm Metall, received AIRE AI consultancy through Tartu Science Park. The companies that have received the advice have already developed their own pilot projects for AI solutions, which have also received support from the AI development programme funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, including Tarmeko Spoon, which received a grant of €65 000 for the pilot project, and HUUM, which received a grant of €35 000 (more information at-teaduspark.ee/ai). Contact – Martin Rebane, AI Area Manager (Tartu Science Park); martin.rebane@teaduspark.ee .
To be eligible for AIRE’s services, you also need to have completed the digital maturity consultancy of IMECC OÜ. The AI feasibility consultancy service will be recorded as de minimis aid (de minimis aid) to the amount of EUR 1400.
Anu is the area manager of smart technology in the Tehnopol business campus. Her main task is to support the development and growth of AI-based or other deep technology companies in export markets. For the last 20 years, Anu has created supporting activities for the development of companies.
