DIA European Digital  Industry Alliance is a partnership of six European clusters (and more than 850 companies) involved in digital industry to foster cross-sectorial and  international cooperation among SMEs and enhance innovation in the field of digital technologies and smart manufacturing.

In particularly we differentiate two types of SMEs:

• those of the ICT clusters, including mobile communications, embedded systems, IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, digital security, Cloud Computing, Big Data, artificial intelligence etc.
• those of the manufacturing and industrial clusters, including plasma technologies e.g. dealing with surface modifications, Smart Systems Integration, system automation, digital manufacturing, Human Machine Interface e.g Operator interaction monitoring system, micro and nano technologies applications e.g. Devices for the production of carbon nanotubes, photonics and additive manufacturing e.g laser welding system, sustainable production, simulation and industrialisation of new products.