EDIH
European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH)
Your impact on digital maturity, measured rather than narrated
An EDIH has to demonstrate the progress of the companies it supports, against the DMA framework defined by the Commission. Datamensio covers the whole chain: the baseline assessment, the services delivered by partners, the reassessment, and the export the programme expects.
All your beneficiaries on the same framework, assessed at once.
Your DMA portfolio
4
Overall score
52 / 100
Average of your 4 beneficiaries
The problem
The mandate is clear, the instrumentation is not
An EDIH is a one-stop shop: it supports SMEs and public sector organisations, with test before invest, skills, and access to finance. That work has to be measured, and the Commission expects it measured against a common framework, on entry and at regular intervals.
Between assessing a hundred companies, coordinating partners who each have their own tools, tracking delivered services and producing the report, the chain usually runs on spreadsheets. It holds while the programme is small, and it breaks at scale.
Datamensio turns reporting into a by-product of running the programme: the data the Commission expects is the data the programme produces by operating.
- Official term
- European Digital Innovation Hubs
- Programme
- Digital Europe (DIGITAL), 50% co-funded
- Network
- Over 100 hubs operating across the Union
- Required framework
- Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA)
The EDIH call
Six Commission expectations, six answers
The call puts AI at the centre, requires mandatory service pillars, credible co-funding and demonstrated impact indicators. Here is how the platform plugs into each.
What the Commission expects
What the platform brings
A strong AI focus
AI is central to the call: helpdesk services, AI Act compliance, cooperation with AI Factories and TEFs, and promoting AI uptake among beneficiaries.
AI works at every stage of the journey: building the framework, analysing results, prioritising the action plan, drafting the report. AI maturity and AI Act compliance frameworks are in the catalogue.
Mandatory services
Several required pillars, including test before invest, skills, access to finance and ecosystem building, with a public service and price list for State aid transparency.
Each partner publishes its services in the consortium catalogue, with cost, lead time and expected effect on the score. The list is readable by beneficiaries and exportable.
Sustainable co-funding
Fifty per cent European funding, fifty per cent national, regional or private, with a credible financial plan and a sustainability strategy.
A tooling cost known in advance for the whole programme, training included. The budget line goes into the application without a contingency for uncertainty.
KPIs and impact
Measurable indicators, including clients served and AI usage, and a demonstration of impact on digital maturity.
Each beneficiary's score, the gap to target, the progress between two campaigns and partner activity are all measured in the platform, then exported in the expected format, with no re-entry.
Continuity and maturity
Build on the results of the previous period and demonstrate the consortium's strength, experience and operational readiness.
Successive assessment campaigns stay comparable over time: track record becomes evidence rather than a file to reconstruct.
Strategic alignment
Match the regional, national and European priorities of the territory covered.
The programme's framework is built or adapted around those priorities, so the themes tracked reflect the territory's strategy rather than a generic template.
The journey
Your programme, from kick-off to report
Five stages, one place. Each stage produces the data the next one needs, and the final report is simply a reading of what happened.
- 01
Kick-off
- Off-the-shelf or custom-built framework
- Consortium services structured
- DMA mapping built in
- Partners and access in place
- 02
T0 baseline
- Initial assessment of the beneficiary
- Immediate score, theme by theme
- AI-assisted analysis
- Priorities identified
- 03
Service delivery
- Targeted action plan
- Services aligned with the observed gaps
- Operational tracking by partner
- Budget and schedule traced
- 04
T1 impact measurement
- Guided or self-service reassessment
- T0 and T1 comparison
- Gains visible by dimension
- Objectified impact, traceable data
- 05
Reporting
- Export in the format the programme expects
- No re-entry
- Data consolidated across the consortium
- Online access kept for the companies
The roles
Coordinator, partners, beneficiaries
An EDIH is not an organisation, it is a team of teams. Each sees what concerns them, and the coordination sees the whole.
Coordinator
- Receives every beneficiary's results and analyses
- Tracks partner activity and project progress
- Consolidates by territory, by theme, by campaign
- Exports the programme's data at any time
Partners
- Run the assessments or conduct them as interviews
- Produce an AI-assisted analysis from the diagnostic
- Offer their services against the observed gaps
- Track delivery, budget and indicators
Beneficiaries
- Answer by self-assessment link, or with a partner
- Access their results in a secure online space
- Receive a service selection matched to their maturity
- Validate their plan and follow their progress
The framework
The DMA, built in and usable
The Digital Maturity Assessment was developed by the Commission's Joint Research Centre, and its use is mandatory for every funded hub: that is the condition for data to aggregate at regional, national and European level.
It comes in two versions, one for SMEs and one for public sector organisations. On Datamensio it is taken online or in an interview, produces a score per theme, and feeds the action plan directly.
The six themes assessed
- Digital business strategy
- Digital readiness
- Human-centric digitalisation
- Data management and connectedness
- Automation and artificial intelligence
- Green digitalisation
The measurement cycle
T0
The starting point, measured before any intervention.
T1
A year later: what the support actually moved.
T2
The trajectory confirmed, theme by theme.
Evidence
+12.8%
in digital maturity between the baseline assessment and the reassessment
Progress measured in the field
An Irish EDIH assessed a precision plastics SME against the DMA on entry, supported it through twelve services, then reassessed it: 55.67 at baseline, 62.81 a year later, across nine of the eleven themes covered. The progress is not narrated, it is measured against the Commission's own framework.
Read the case studyWhat is already settled
What you will not have to negotiate
Your data stays in Europe
Hosted in France with OVH, backed up with Scaleway, no transfer outside the European Union. For a Commission-funded programme, that is not a selling point, it is a prerequisite.
Your brand, not ours
The beneficiary reporting space carries your colours and your logo. The companies you support see your programme, not a third-party tool.
Operational in weeks
The framework, the consortium's services and partner access are configured without development work. The programme starts on the grant agreement's calendar, not on a software vendor's.
The framework stays yours
Start from the catalogue or have your own framework built, then adapt it. A frozen framework does not survive a three-year programme.
« We have identified significant benefits in Datamensio's software and support offerings, which align perfectly with our consortium's strategic objectives. We are excited by the possibilities for Irish companies as well as for the transformation of public services. »
Barry KennedyCEO, Irish Manufacturing Research (EDIH Ireland)
« Datamensio meets the operational, technological and human challenges of our European and local transformation projects: this innovative online software consolidates the entire workflow, allowing our group to operate optimally given the multiplicity of topics and stakeholders involved across the country. »
Philippe MestreCFO, Occitanie Region (EDIH Occitania)
Your EDIH, equipped for the length of the programme
Thirty minutes is enough to see the whole journey, from framework to report, on a case close to yours.