Digital Innovation Hub on Livestock Environment, Agriculture & Forest

The DIH concept was proposed by the European Commission in 2016 as an instrument for digital transformation. It is conceived as a “one-stop shop” where enterprises, technicians and institutions may access to knowledge, technology, services and facilities they need to successfully tackle their digital transformation processes. It is an institution with full legal entity, founded to offer (with non-profit ambition) supporting services to promote the digital transformation in companies, mainly SMEs, and with the main goal to boost their development, create employment and open new business models and innovation opportunities. The DIHs also support the Public Sector in their digitalisation. Each DIH is settled in a specific geographic area and is organised around a market or a market segment aligned with the Smart Specialization Strategies (RIS3) of the region they are settled in.

“The DIHs are non-profit organizations conceived as support networks, capable of catalysing digital innovation in different sectors and territories”