Test technologies before investing: Our test environments and prototyping labs allow you to experiment with AI, IoT, or data solutions risk-free. Companies can assess feasibility, develop prototypes, and test specific use cases in a practical, efficient manner with expert guidance.
- Individual Needs Analysis: We analyze your requirements and identify the technologies and solutions that could be most relevant for your company.
- Test Environment: Use our state-of-the-art infrastructure to test new technologies such as AI, IoT, or data spaces risk-free.
- Technical Expertise: Our experts support you in every step of the way to ensure that the tested solutions align with your business requirements.
- Cost Efficiency: Minimize risks and costs by ensuring that the solution provides clear added value before implementation.
Our team can support you with the following services (service list) – free of charge for companies up to 3,000 employees and public organizations in compliance with de minimis regulations. In a non-binding initial consultation, we will find the perfect service from our portfolio to help your organization take the next steps toward digitalization!
Workshops and Workshops Series
Based on your needs, this service offers flexible workshops and workshop series, including ideation workshops, AI workshops, data strategy workshops, design thinking workshops, business model innovation workshops, and requirements workshops. Each workshop is tailored to your specific challenges.
Lead User and Innovation Panel Acceptance
This service supports early-stage valiation of AI-based solutions through structured feedback and testing with selected end users. User acceptance, usability, and perceived value are analyzed prior to full-scale development providing you with concrete insights for concept refinement and reducing risks.
AI Technology Scouting
This multi-day service provides systematic identification and evaluation of emerging AI technologies – including off-the-shelf tools, relevant models, and trends. The insights support strategic decision-making.
AI Agent Prototyping
Ideas and concepts for AI agents are validated through feasibility analysis, value assessment, and rapid prototyping. Empirical testing of assumptions supports evidence-based decisions for real-world deployment helping you reduce uncertainty and investment risk before full-scale development.
Data Management, Test and Analysis
AI-driven innovation starts with the right data. This service enables structured data acquisition, testing, and analysis for tourism, wellness, and sports. Experts evaluate whether planned AI initiatives are feasible with the available data before scaling, which supports informed decision-making and strategic project planning.
IoT/AI Product Prototyping
This service enables you to prototype and evaluate IoT- and AI-based solutions before committing to full-scale development. Through rapid development, testing, and expert guidance, feasibility, user fit, and market potential are assessed.
Data Space Concepts and Prototyping
This service covers the design, implementation, and governance of secure, standards-based data ecosystems that support controlled data sharing, AI-readiness, and cross-organizational collaboration. From concept to prototype, organizations are guided through every step.
Smart Visitor & Mobility Analytics Lab
This service provides a modular experimentation facility with tailored sensor setup, data acquisition, and analysis for visitor and user flows in real-world environments. Combining big data, digital nudging, and prototyping, it supports tourism, sport, and wellness applications.
Consumer Nudging towards SDGs
This service covers the development, usability testing, and evaluation of digital nudging interventions to foster sustainable consumer behavior, e.g. on mobility platforms or e-commerce sites. Testing takes place in a virtual environment for safe and cost-effective validation before real-world deployment.
Hackathon: Rapid Innovation for Regional Challenges
New ideas within 24-48 hours: international student teams tackle real SME challenges together with mentors and experts, developing prototypes with digital tools and agile methods. This offers a unique chance for fresh perspectives and access to the European innovation network.
Use Cases for Self-Organising Systems
This use case workshop aims to unlock the potential for innovation and define follow-up activities for self-organising systems in sports, wellness, tourism, culture and more. Participants will explore scenarios, assess their feasibility and outline a clear implementation plan, ensuring that the results translate into concrete initiatives.
Wireless Tech Comparison Lab
The suitability of wireless technologies such as 5G and UWB for specific use cases (e.g. energy consumption during data transmission) is compared. This helps companies to identify the most suitable communication technologies for their technical networks, including sensors and devices.
SwarmX Feasibility Lab
Potential applications of drone swarms, such as visitor management and sustainability monitoring, are explored. We assess the feasibility of specific scenarios for companies and helps them select suitable drone systems.
Workshop Data Space Use Case
In a joint workshop, you develop concrete use cases to create rapid added value through your own data and data exchange in data spaces. The fundamentals of data spaces and data governance are also conveyed.
Workshop Data Strategy
This two-part series lays a solid data foundation for organizations. Part one conveys the basics of data strategy and data governance; part two presents a guideline for creating a data management plan, including a practical toolkit.
Prototyping Lab – Sports Innovation
This service involves developing a functional physical or digital prototype based on a specific problem statement during a compact one-day one-on-one workshop. At one of the two Pioniergarage locations, sports-related startups, SMEs, clubs, and associations receive targeted consulting, coaching, and practical support – either from the on-site team and/or from specialized external experts.
SportsTech Challenge
The SportsTech Challenge is a hackathon format to solve a specific, real-world problem for one or more companies in the sports sector. Interdisciplinary teams develop creative, technology-driven solutions.
Bootcamp: Co-creation for Smart & Sustainable Regions
In collaboration with E3UDRES2, this bootcamp brings together interdisciplinary European student teams to develop innovative solutions for real regional challenges. SMEs submit their challenges and collaborate with young talents on digital transformation and sustainable regional development.
Cyber Defense Center: Simulated Cyber Threat Assessment for SMEs
The Cyber Defense Center offers a safe, simulated cyber range environment to experience and assess real-world cyber threats. Through hands-on scenarios, participants improve incident response strategies and build resilience enabling informed, evidence-based investment decisions in cybersecurity infrastructure.
AI Reality Lab: Guided AI Demonstrations for SMEs
The AI Reality Lab offers guided demonstrations of cutting-edge AI technologies. You experience selected AI applications in realistic environments and explore industry-relevant use cases to better understand the potential of AI and make informed investment decisions.
(AI) Assisted Design Sprint
This multi-day AI-assisted sprint applies the first five Design Thinking phases to rapidly explore, prototype, and test innovative product or service ideas. Validation with real users reduces innovation risk and delivers clear next steps such as a Proof of Concept.
PoC-Technology Bootcamp
A multidisciplinary team develops a feasible solution to a real challenge using agile design thinking: asking the right questions, experimenting, rapid prototyping, and failing fast. AI supports knowledge management, patent research, tech scouting, programming, machine learning, and digital fabrication.
MVP-Technology Bootcamp
This service co-develops a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with the customer — a functional prototype for early user feedback and iterative development. Structured in phases with decision gates, it delivers insights on materials, functionality, and costs. AI supports tech scouting, programming, and CAD.
Digital Transformation Hackathon
This multi-day hackathon harnesses the creativity of young talent for a shared digital transformation challenge. Through design thinking, open innovation, and digital fabrication, prototypes are built. AI supports ideation, prototyping, and content creation.
Technology Scouting
Technology scouting identifies, evaluates, and integrates emerging product and process technologies. Using a structured knowledge generation process, results are presented and discussed — with options for feasibility studies, prototyping, and AI-supported patent and literature research.
Workshop and Workshop Series (Data ecosystems)
This workshop series covers data ecosystems and data spaces through best practices and use case modeling, as well as circularity and the digital product pass. For SMEs and public organizations, it provides practical frameworks and tools for implementing data-driven and circular innovation strategies.
Innovation Sparring
This service provides you with expert guidance for digital prototyping and pre-testing of solutions. It facilitates the testing and roll-out of new digital business models, supports hands-on experiments, and advises on planning digital innovation projects.
Design Thinking Workshop
This Design Thinking Workshop fosters innovative and user-centric solutions. Structured to drive digital transformation and regional development, it empowers participants to co-create and prototype novel services that address their sector’s specific challenges.
Workshop “How To Design & Build” AI-Agents
This hands-on workshop gives organizations from public services and tourism the skills to design and develop AI agents for sustainable innovation. Participants explore modern tools for intelligent, autonomous systems and gain practical expertise for a vibrant AI and IoT ecosystem.
Digital Innovation Workshop
A workshop session for SMEs focused on applied AI and digital innovation for real-world use cases in sport, tourism, wellness, and culture. Participants gain practical tools, methods, and insights to apply AI and digital technologies to challenges in their own business context.
AI Compliance Consulting
This service provides legal and ethical advice for the development of new AI solutions, prototypes, and data-based applications within EDIH projects. It supports you in ensuring AI innovations are legally compliant, minimizing legal risk, and deploying AI responsibly.
