{"id":1052,"date":"2026-04-07T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:23:07","slug":"meet-our-partner-industry-innovation-cluster-iic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/meet-our-partner-industry-innovation-cluster-iic\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Partner: Industry Innovation Cluster (IIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1052\" class=\"elementor elementor-1052\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c901c6d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5c901c6d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13828d1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13828d1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A platform connecting industry, research and innovation to enable digital transformation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Industry Innovation Cluster (IIC), based in Bratislava, connects companies, universities and research organisations to drive industrial innovation and digital transformation. Since its establishment in <strong>2017<\/strong>, it has supported businesses of all sizes in joining European research and innovation projects. IIC has been successfully involved in <strong>Horizon Europe<\/strong>, <strong>Digital Europe<\/strong>, <strong>EIT Manufacturing<\/strong>, <strong>Interreg<\/strong> and several national innovation initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IIC brings together academia and industry, creating a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing and strategic partnership development. Through the <strong>Slovak Centre for Digital Innovations (SCDI)<\/strong>, it helps SMEs advance their digital transformation, with a strong focus on <strong>Gaia-X<\/strong> and <strong>IDSA<\/strong> principles for secure and trusted data exchange. As a partner in EASTGATEH2V, IIC contributes to strengthening digital readiness and innovation capacity across the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The role of the Industry Innovation Cluster (IIC) in the EASTGATEH2V project<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>IIC connects industry, research and innovation to build a <strong>smart, data-driven Hydrogen Valley<\/strong>. It collaborates on the development of the methodology and the digital twin that will enable real-time monitoring of hydrogen production, distribution and consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>IIC is responsible for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>defining strategies and <strong>key performance indicators (KPIs)<\/strong> to assess the project\u2019s impact,<\/li>\n<li>ensuring data exchange between partners based on <strong>Gaia-X<\/strong> and <strong>IDSA<\/strong> principles for secure and transparent data sharing,<\/li>\n<li>cooperating with A.U.S. on developing a digital model that will support optimisation of the entire Hydrogen Valley\u2019s operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IIC contributes expertise in <strong>digital transformation, innovation and research-to-industry collaboration<\/strong>, strengthening Slovakia\u2019s competitiveness in Europe\u2019s hydrogen transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about IIC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industryinnovationcluster.sk\/\">https:\/\/www.industryinnovationcluster.sk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Industry Innovation Cluster (IIC), based in Bratislava, connects companies, universities and research organisations to drive industrial innovation and digital transformation. Since its establishment in 2017, it has supported businesses of all sizes in joining European research and innovation projects. IIC has been successfully involved in Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, EIT Manufacturing, Interreg and several national innovation initiatives.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastgateh2v.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}