As EDIH Saarland, we aim to actively and sustainably drive the digital transformation in Saarland and the wider region.
Our tailored and free services on digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI) and IT security are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), mid-caps, start-ups and public institutions in Saarland and the Greater Region (Saar-Lor-Lux).
Our offers are divided into the following areas:
Together with you, we are addressing the current challenges and helping you plan or optimise your digital strategy. To stay competitive, make your business processes more efficient and open up new markets.
We offer one-hand services and accompany you on the way to digitalisation:
Whether newcomers or professionals, our diverse expertise, our network and our innovative testbeds are at your disposal!
We support the following areas:
Thematic focus:
AI, robotics, assistance systems, digital production
“The future belongs to courage.”
Thematic focus:
Internal project management & communication
“The Saarland EDIH pools key competences in digitalisation & AI, in the region for the region!”
Key topics:
AI, language technology, digitalisation in the public service
‘Success is not happiness. it is the result of an accurate analysis. and good teamwork.”
Thematic focus:
Networking, Matchmaking Events, GovTech, Start-ups
“Enhusiasm and collaboration will boost innovation in business and governance in a sustainable way.”
Thematic focus:
AI, Low Code Development
‘My objective: Finally bring about concrete change rather than just talking about it.”
Thematic focus:
Public relations, support programmes
“I want to help make EDIH a driving force for digital excellence.”
Thematic focus:
Digital twins, Mixed Reality, Industry 4.0, Human Robot Collaboration
‘EDIH Saarland: Your bridge to the digital future – together, understandable and result-oriented.”
Thematic focus:
Secure, digital infrastructures
“I work for the Saarland EDIH because I believe in the power of innovation and I want to be part of a community that shapes the future of Saarland.”
Thematic focus:
Digitalisation, data collection & integration, knowledge transfer & management
“Digitalisation lives from acting, not mere planning.”
Thematic focus:
Digitalisation and AI
“EDIH Saarland stands for digital futures.
My aim is to accompany companies and public institutions with innovative solutions on their path of transformation.”
Thematic focus:
AI
“Creating real added value with creative freedom for the Greater Region.”
Thematic focus:
Human-centric assembly
“Research in the ivory tower does not reach its full potential, that needs to be closer to practice!”
Thematic focus:
Digitalisation analysis, digitalisation projects, evaluations
“We shape the digital economic landscape together.”
Thematic focus:
Digitalisation of business and administrative processes
“I am interested in EDIH Saarland as an enabler for digitalisation in start-ups, SMEs and public administration.”
Thematic focus:
Digital communication, marketing
“Digitalisation should not be afraid, it is fun. Get involved, we can help.”
Thematic focus:
Networking, International Cooperation & Marketing
“Leave us to create a world where digitalisation connects people, drives innovation and makes everyone’s lives much better. ‘...
Thematic focus:
Marketing & Outreach
“Think, transform and grow together digitally.”
Thematic focus:
Marketing & Outreach
“Big targets need many small steps! Let’s go together!”
Thematic focus:
Marketing & Outreach
‘Think digitally creatively’.
Thematic focus:
Marketing & Events Management
“Together, we make the challenge of digitalisation an opportunity.”
The August Wilhelm Scheer Institute for Digital Products and Processes represents application-oriented research transfer at international level. The focus on content research around the companies of the future, the Super Smart Enterprise. As a stand-alone research institute, the Digitalisation Institute is working to develop innovative technologies and anticipate business models, with a strong emphasis on the close link between research, innovation and practice. For more than seven years, the Institute has been accompanying medium-sized enterprises in a holistic manner in their digital transformation. In the project, the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institut focuses on the thematic areas of AI in the office, digital business models, low code application development, digital process optimisation, administrative transformation and knowledge-intensive digitalisation of services.
The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is active in innovative software technologies based on methods of Artificial intelligence is Germany’s leading business-oriented research institution. To place reliable and trustworthy AI from Germany and Europe at the forefront of international competition, the DFKI initiates, realises and supports many activities.
For example, the DFKI provides excellent scientific performance in all areas of AI – such as synthetic data for environmental protection, AI processes for a resilient and resilient manufacturing industry, quantum computing, dynamic supply chains and secure data spaces, robotics, language technologies, smart farming, etc. In basic research, the research centre works closely with universities in the DFKI sites.
We are convinced that AI technologies help to successfully address whole-of-society challenges such as man-made climate change, social injustices and the fight against dangerous diseases, and we are working on these challenges with great energy.
Strong partnerships are more important than ever to address technological challenges together, quickly and with success.
East Side Fab provides space and network for innovation and is a focal point for business and science from the region. As an accelerator of innovation, the East Side Fab supports all companies in making ideas sustainable.
Based on business for business, the focus is on implementing cross-industry innovation projects and creating new products and solutions in the field of future technologies.
Here, industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups learn to grow even more together, to master change together and thus to set the course for the future.
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The Centre for Mechatronics and Automation Technology understands itself as a development partner for the industrialisation and technology transfer of research and development results.
In our development activities, we work closely with institutes and chairs of the University of Saarland (UDS) and the University of Technology and Economics (HTW saar). Professors in the relevant fields, in particular mechatronics, care for highly qualified scientific staff working at the Research Centre. This ensures that scientific potential, specific know-how and state-of-the-art research results are used in a synergetic and sustainable way in the work of the ZEMA.
