Regions and (E)DIHs alliance for AI-at-the-Edge adoption by European Industry 5.0 Manufacturing SMEs

H2020的I4 MS计划已经并且正在为欧洲制造业中小企业的数字化转型取得巨大成功。该计划的第四阶段专注于DIH和高度创新的技术，如数字孪生和人工智能。特别是，AI REGIO创新行动在地区，DIH，AI解决方案提供商和制造业中小企业之间建立了一个良性联盟，这是通过DIH服务组合和客户旅程分析的新方法实现的，这是一个面向AI 4 EU的数据和AI资源工具包，一个教学工厂及其技术和调节性沙箱网络（TERESA）以及中小企业驱动的实验生态系统及其数字化转型途径。现在是时候将这些重要成果与制造业向工业5.0的演变、云人工智能技术向边缘人工智能的演变、H2020向地平线和数字欧洲计划的演变（例如EDIH、数据空间和制造业的人工智能测试和实验设施）进行协调。AI REGIO I4 MS第四阶段的一些动机现在已经发展：现在是AI REDGIO 5.0保持制造业中小企业采用AI技术的势头的时候了。AI REDGIO 5.0旨在更新和扩展Vanguard欧盟地区和DIH之间的H2020 I4 MS AI REGIO联盟，以实现工业5.0制造业中小企业的竞争性AI边缘数字化转型。AI REGIO结局（DIH治理和跨DIH协作的方法和工具;制造业数据空间和人工智能工具包;教学工厂网络和TERESA设施; 14个先锋地区的中小企业驱动实验）将i）扩展到I5.0原则; ii）由最新的可信技术沿着边缘到云连续体实现; iii）由欧洲开源硬件/软件参考实现支持，维护欧盟价值观和道德原则; iv）与DEP中的EDIH网络以及AI TEF节点和数据空间部署计划互连。

The I4MS program in H2020 has been and is a great success for the Digital Transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs. Phase IV of the program was focussing on DIHs and on highly innovative technologies like Digital Twins and AI. In particular, the AI REGIO Innovation Action developed a virtuous alliance between Regions, DIHs, AI solution providers and Manufacturing SMEs, which is materialised by a new methodology for DIHs service portfolio and customer journey analysis, an AI4EU -oriented toolkit of Data and AI resources, a network of Didactic Factories and their TEchnology and REgulatory SAndboxes (TERESA) and an ecosystem of SMEdriven experiments and their Digital Transformation pathways. It is time now to align such important outcomes to the evolution of Manufacturing towards Industry 5.0, the evolution of cloud AI Technologies to AI-at-the-Edge, the evolution of H2020 to Horizon and Digital Europe programmes e.g. to EDIH, Data Spaces and AI TEFs (Testing and Experimentation Facilities) for Manufacturing. Some of the AI REGIO I4MS Phase IV motivations are now evolved: it is time for AI REDGIO 5.0 for keeping momentum of AI technologies adoption in Manufacturing SMEs. AI REDGIO 5.0 aims at renovating and extending the H2020 I4MS AI REGIO alliance between Vanguard EU regions and DIHs for a competitive AI-at-the-Edge Digital Transformation of Industry 5.0 Manufacturing SMEs. AI REGIO outcomes (methods and tools for DIHs governance and cross-DIH collaboration; Data Space and AI for Manufacturing toolkit; Didactic Factories network and TERESA facilities; SME-driven experimentations in 14 Vanguard regions) will be i) extended to the I5.0 principles; ii) enabled by the newest trusted technologies along the edge-to-cloud continuum; iii) supported by European open source hw/sw reference implementations, preserving EU values and ethical principles; iv) interconnected with the EDIH network in DEP as well as with the AI TEF nodes and the Data Spaces deployment program.