CIDIHUB: Canary Islands Digital Innovation Hub

The CIDIHIB is a partnership of 15 organizations and competence centers specialized in business digitalisation, providing key infrastructure, resources and knowledge for the digital transformation of companies and public institutions. Although mainly operating in the Canary Islands region, the CIDIHUB also collaborates with entities located in other countries in and out of the European continent.

The CIDIHUB pursues to accomplish the following objectives and priorities:

1. CIDIHUB will act as one-stop-shop and cornerstone mechanism for coordination of digitalisation and digital transformation in the regional industry (with special attention to SMEs) and public institutions, facilitating the development and uptake of digital technologies in a combined and complementary effort with other local stakeholders.
2. CIDIHUB will continuously upgrade and build capacities on the necessary infrastructure, expertise and resources to provide a complete and updated set of services aligned with the digital needs specially of startups, SMEs, mid-caps and public institutions in the Canary Islands, with a focus on green and blue transition.
3. CIDIHUB will engage and partake in the Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs to develop enhanced capacities in HPC, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Advanced Digital Skills and accelerate the best use of digital technologies, not only limited to the Canary Islands ecosystem but also to other European regions under a collaborative, synergetic and win-to-win approach with other EDIHs.
   

With a special focus on tourism, green&blue economy and manufacturing sectors, the CIDIHUB will coordinate all its local high-level resources and capacities in order to deliver a number of digitalisation-oriented services, as well as monitor impact on the target groups, categorized in the domains of test before invest, support to find investments, training and digital skills, and ecosystem, networking and entrepreneurship.