The German Centre for Robotics (DKR - Deutsches Kompetenzzentrum fur Robotik), which was developed within the company Industrial Automation d.o.o. Tuzla is the first centre of industrial robotics in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. It covers over 400m2 of modernly equipped laboratories where automation and robotics engineers create new values every day. This centre provides solutions for automation of production with and without robots and also provides the possibility of education in the field of automation, robotics and CNC machines. They received the support of the C2C fund for the project in the field of education.

“Robotics V-Lab, is the name of the project that helped us, together with a grant from the C2C fund, to create a virtual laboratory for remote robotics learning. This includes a web application for robot control, modular lessons, text, videos, quizzes as well as the ability to directly control the robot with real-time video transmission. The greatest added value to our product is precisely the applicable industrial knowledge with the incredible experience of manipulating an industrial robot from your home, work environment or any other place in the world”, they say in the Industrial Automation company.

The project is worth a little more than 67,000 BAM, of which 51.30% was financed from own funds and the remaining 48.70% are grants from the Challenge Fund.

“Given that this is a development project, which arose as a pandemic and changes in the complete model of teaching, learning and working around the world, this project helped us digitize the services of providing industrial robotics training online. The project is aimed at educating and employing final year students of technical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this way, we irreversibly strengthen the capacities and economically empower future engineers, giving them the opportunity to master robot programming and prepare for the labour market”, they explain in the DKR Centre.

The support of the Challenge Fund, in addition to the financial aspect, was an additional motivation for them to further grow and develop the company's capacity.