Tuttlingen/Stuttgart - As one of twelve selected locations in Baden-Württemberg, the Digital Hub Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg can now start the full application: This week, the consortium was accepted by State Minister of Economics Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut accepted the corresponding announcement. During the planned project phase, extensive measures are planned to support companies with the entry and implementation of digitization projects.
The joint project with consortium leader MedicalMountains GmbH and the partners bwcon GmbH, Hahn-Schickard Society for Applied Research eV, Furtwangen University, imsimitiy GmbH, SICOS BW GmbH and St. Georgen Technology Center as well as the associated partners Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Schwarzwald-Baar -Heuberg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TechnologyMountains eV and Virtual Dimension Center TZ St. Georgen combine various competencies in the field of digitization. The Digital Hub Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg, DigiHub SBH for short, is a central point of contact with a practical concept that aims to strengthen the future viability of companies in the region and to encourage them to start digital projects. A wide range of offers should enable a low-threshold entry, says MedicalMountains project manager Marena Hauser: "Thanks to the broad-based consortium, we can implement a cross-industry and holistic support concept." As a megatrend, digitization offers "enormous economic opportunities with high innovation potential for regional companies". Through the intensive cooperation of the consortium with its highly specialized companies and research institutions, the DigiHub SBH creates needs-based measures - ultimately giving the opportunity for innovative advances.
In 2017, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs funded the development of ten regional digital hubs with a total of around ten million euros as part of an initial call for funding - including the DigiHub SBH. In the second round of funding, ten million euros are available until the end of 2025. This is intended to establish new regional digital hubs on the one hand and allow existing hubs to develop further on the other. So does the DigiHub SBH. The spectrum of actors is expanded to include Furtwangen University and MedicalMountains GmbH. In this context, DigiHub SBH will have a third location in Tuttlingen in addition to Villingen-Schwenningen and St. Georgen.
Economics Minister Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut announcing the hub selection. “The use of digital technologies offers enormous potential for added value. As part of the second funding phase of the regional digital hubs, the focus will be even more on the topic of sustainability," said the minister.
