EDITH Hessen, the European Digital Innovation Hub for Hesse

EDITH works in four fields. With "test before invest", a company tries a digital solution before it spends money on it. "Skills & Training" covers workshops and seminars on digital topics. "Support to find investors" connects firms with sources of funding and capital. The fourth field is the innovation ecosystem and networking. The focus topics are artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing and advanced digital tools.

In Frankfurt, TechQuartier leads the networking part of EDITH. It runs the EDITH Innovation Day, TechInfusion workshops, scouting, matchmaking and expert roundtables. TechQuartier describes EDITH as one of 230 European Digital Innovation Hubs.

European Digital Innovation Hubs rest on the Digital Europe Programme, Regulation (EU) 2021/694. For small firms in finance, such as payment institutions, brokers, asset managers and fintechs, the hub's focus topics match their own rulebook. DORA asks more than 20 types of financial entities to manage ICT risk, report major incidents and test their resilience, and the EU AI Act sets duties for AI in credit scoring and insurance pricing.

Testing a cybersecurity or AI tool before buying it fits these rules: a firm learns what the tool does and which data it touches before the contract enters its DORA register of ICT third-party providers. The pages on DORA in Germany and the EU AI Act in financial services explain the duties, and the hub answers on DORA and regtech define the terms.

EDITH is an event partner of Finance Loop and appears among the partner logos on the About page. It supported Finance Loop's Sibos 2025 side event at TechQuartier on September 29, 2025, presented by Frankfurt Main Finance and OKX Institutional. The evening covered payments, blockchain and digital assets for people in institutional finance, across the street from the Sibos venue at Messe Frankfurt. The page of the real-world asset tokenization evening before the Crypto Assets Conference 2025 lists EDITH among those who made the event possible. An EDITH roll-up also stood on stage at the Chainlink panel at TechQuartier.

EDIH stands for European Digital Innovation Hub. Each hub is a regional one-stop shop, co-funded by the EU under the Digital Europe Programme, that helps companies and public bodies adopt digital technology. EDITH is the hub for Hesse, and the EDIH network links the hubs across Europe.

Test before invest is an EDIH service: a company tries a digital technology, such as an AI model or a security tool, on its own problem before it invests. For firms in regulated finance, the test also shows early which data leaves the house and what a contract would need to say.

The Digital Europe Programme is the EU funding program that brings digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations. Set up by Regulation (EU) 2021/694, it funds supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced digital skills, and it co-funds the network of European Digital Innovation Hubs, EDITH in Hesse among them.

EDITH serves small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and public administrations in Hesse, and its support is free of charge. Requests go through edith-hessen.de; events such as the EDITH Innovation Day are announced there and by TechQuartier.