Central European Technology Forum - CETEF'26

Effective and rapid digital transformation of industry and socio-economic infrastructure is one of the main objectives of the European innovation policy, which was defined by the European Parliament and the European Commission for accomplishment within 2021-2027 framework. The importance of this objective has considerably increased in recent times as a result of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. More than 150 billion euro in the form of grants and loans has been allocated to the member states from the Recovery and Resilience Facility for the purposes of implementing and accomplishing the objective. Additionally, significant funds have also been allocated for these purposes within the framework of the operational programmes of particular EU member states for 2021-2027. The dynamic development in information technologies has indubitably enabled digitisation of all areas of social and economic life. Nonetheless, it appears to be an insufficient factor in this context. As a matter of fact, digitisation depends largely on the technical level of numerous complementary fields: automatics, robotics, mechatronics, electronics, photonics, as well as smart energy grids and smart transport networks.