SPAICER — Status Report 01: Kick-Off
Facts, figures and background information on the BMWi’s AI innovation competition from the perspective of DLR
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Prologue
The following report is part of the project SPAICER — Scalable Adaptive Production Systems through AI-based Resilience Optimization, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), based on a resolution of the German Bundestag. You can find more information about SPAICER at www.spaicer.de.
Preamble
The following report summarizes the presentation by Birgit Bott from the official project management agency Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) | DLR Project Management Agency | Division Society, Innovation, Technology | Information Technologies/Electromobility during the SPAICER Kick-off event on 28 April 2020.
Introduction
The SPAICER project is classified within the support program Digital Technologies for the Economy of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). Further information on programmes and projects is regularly published on https://www.digitale-technologien.de/.
Facts and figures on the AI innovation competition
Within the Digital Technologies for the Economy funding program, the two-phase innovation competition Artificial Intelligence as a Driver for Economically Relevant Ecosystems was launched.
Competition phase
- At the end of the call for proposals for the competition phase, 132 outlines of ideas had been received by the project management organisation.
- Of these, 35 projects were selected, which were then allowed to transform their ideas into an implementation concept between 15.04.2019 and 14.10.2019.
- At the end of the competition phase, all 35 projects had to submit their implementation concepts for a preliminary evaluation.
- Only 21 of the 35 projects were so good that they made it to the final of the competition phase, the reviewers’ meeting on 29 and 30 August 2019 in Berlin.
Implementation phase
- Of the 21 projects, ultimately 16 projects were able to convince the evaluators at the meeting on 29 and 30 August 2019.
- Only about 12 % of the initial 132 submitted projects made it into the implementation phase, including SPAICER.
- 8 projects started on 01.01.2020, another 2 projects on 01.0.2020 and the remaining 6 projects on 01.04.2020.
- The implementation phase thus extends from 01.01.2020 to 31.03.2023.
Areas of application
- 6 of the 16 projects serve the field of Production and Process Engineering,
- 3 projects serve the Healthcare industry
- 2 projects on Trade,
- 1 project with the topic Smart Living,
- 1 Quantum computing project,
- 1 Agriculture project,
- 1 Mobility project and
- 1 Construction project.
The distribution shows the importance of Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things for society and economy.
Allocation of the implementation phase
- Overall, the implementation phase has a financial weight of approximately EUR 320 million.
- A maximum of EUR 160 million will be provided by the BMWi and does not have to be repaid.
- At least another EUR 160 million will be invested by the funded partners.
Further programs
In addition to the Digital Technologies for the Economy funding programme, there are other programmes, such as
- Secure Digital Identities
- Smart data management
- PAiCE,
- Smart Service World
- ICT for electric mobility
senseering GmbH
The senseering GmbH is a company founded in September 2018 that was awarded the RWTH Aachen University Spin-Off-Award. The core competence of senseering GmbH is the development and implementation of systems for the digitalization and networking of industrial and production facilities. Likewise, senseering GmbH advises on strategic corporate issues, in particular digital transformation, distributed-leger technologies, edge vs. cloud computing architectures for AI-based real-time control of industrial processes, digital business model innovation and the introduction of digital business processes such as home office, Azure or Microsoft365. Senseering is one of the winners of the first and largest AI innovation competition of the BMWi with the project www.spaicer.de.
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