EU-IoT

The main ambition of EU-IoT is to transform the current IoT community of researchers and innovators in Europe into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, as an essential part of a Next Generation Internet.

This will be done by:

• Ensuring the establishment of an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for EU-made IoT, to achieve the H2020 goals, while supporting the transition to Horizon Europe.
•  Fostering the creation of synergies, liaisons and exchange among all key players in the European landscape, including research, industry, policy makers, and civil society.
•  Supporting and coordinating outreach and impact creation activities of upcoming ICT-56 RIAs and in RIAs from other relevant calls involving IoT, e.g., dissemination, open calls, events, contributions to standards.
• Paving the way to the development of business models, innovation activities and skills building, lowering the barrier for adoption and development of IoT-empowered solutions.

EU-IoT will provide a collaborative framework, including content, tools and processes, to engage all EU researchers, developers, integrators and users. Such collaborative framework will overcome fragmentation and ground a strong European IoT-empowered economy as core building block of the EU Digital Single Market.

EU-IoT will operate as a “living hub '' to assist expanding and empowering IoT research and innovation capacity in Europe, by offering a rich set of tools and services to connect and collaborate in an open, inclusive and dynamic environment. EU-IoT leverages synergies by connecting all relevant stakeholders and relying on previous and ongoing EC funded projects, in coordination with efforts from highly relevant R&I, standardization, and business initiatives.

EU-IoT will act as an accelerator for the whole European IoT ecosystem, intervening and assisting stakeholders to engage and create value, as well as setting up a self-sustaining community, by:

• Aligning stakeholders on a common vision and strategy to grow European efforts for human-centric IoT.
• Promoting collaboration, networking, liaisons, partnerships and knowledge sharing.
• Ensuring effective value creation out of relevant research and innovation efforts and achievements.
• Identifying incentives and mechanisms to sustain community efforts in a durable and impactful way

EU-IoT builds on a comprehensive, thoroughly structured and well-articulated approach, which is grounded on in-depth comprehension of the technological, research, socio-economic, ethical and policy-related factors relevant for IoT, combined with a set of tools, actions and competencies brought in by the consortium.

The solid know-how and positioning of the consortium is further strengthened via the regular exchange of information with its well-assorted Advisory Board (AB) as well as with its Expert Group. EU-IoT will provide the European IoT ecosystem with awareness and understanding of the opportunities of human-centric IoT, major scientific and industrial push and pull factors, market and users trends, as well as policy/regulatory aspects.

Main research contributions are:

• Regular exchange with a wide pool of European and USA based experts.
• Several events, including 2 yearly editions of a main NGIoT community event and an SDG-IoT Hackathon focusing on both Consumer IoT, and Industrial IoT with SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) industrial IoT focus.
• Development of an online IoT catalogue for the IoT open-source ecosystem landscape.
• Training workshops, webinars,  best practice and success stories documented in the form of interviews, video material, and reusable media contents.
• Toolbox of (self-evaluation) methods and models for IoT business model innovation combined with a set ofrecommendations for late bloomers.

H2020 ICT 56, grant nr. 956671

01.10.2020 - 31.03.2023