🇸🇪 LTU AI Innovation Hub

About this hub

LTU AI Innovation Hub Making northern Sweden the leading region in Applied AI. The initiative supportsa strong innovation system for growth in the AI industry, a Digital Innovation Hub as a base, in collaboration, research, innovation, applied test-driven development, education and clustering. The main financier is the European Regional Development Fund and Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Luleå municipality, Skellefteå municipality and Region Norrbotten. Other sources are EU H2020, Interreg and the Swedish National Innovation Agency. The hub has a non-for-profit aim (funding organisations e.g LTU are mentioned above which makes the hub operations possible) and primary target group is SMEs. The Luleå University of Technology (LTU) as the host for the hub guarantees the non-for-profit organisation. To be more precise the hub is operated by two research and innovations centres at LTU i.e.Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT) andProcessIT Innovation. The chosen focus of the hub is inline with the Norrbotten Smart specialisation strategy (S3) also known as Norrbotten Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS). One of the regional strengths, the core of the Norrbotten economy is nature based economy i.e mineral resources, forest resources and a unique energy infrastructure. The initiative offers a number ofactivities towards regional companies: -Company visitsto identify needs,issues and to talk aboutthe potential of AI -Create meeting places for strategic information work -Active support for the development of research-based or other innovative solutions -Possibility for researchers to work in thecompanies for some time -Develop and implement long (20 months) and for short (10 months) collaborative projects out of real needs and issues that have emerged in meetings with the industry -Organizing knowledge-enhancing workshops focusing on current topics relevant to the development of AI and machine learning   Reference document:https://www.norrbotten.se/sv/Utveckling-och-tillvaxt/Regional-utveckling-och-framtid/Regionalt-utvecklingsuppdrag/Norrbottens-innovationsstrategi/