Join us Tuesday 9 April at 11:00 am to see how territories are implementing their place-based strategies. We will talk about innovation in a streamed live TV show with Commissioners, the Committee of the Regions and MEPs in Brussels. Some time ago, we embarked in a pilot project to accompany European territories towards innovation strategies for place-based transformations. With the collaboration of the Committee of the Regions, more than 70 territories took ownership of the initiative and worked together to co-create and test new ways forward. Together, we have outlined a framework, the ACTIONbook, to root efforts in the unique characteristics and potential of each region and territory, and steer them towards EU priorities. Learn about the territories and the activities that are transforming Europe through innovation.

On May 17th, the Commission announced the 63 regions, seven cities and four Member States selected in the pilot project for Partnerships for Regional Innovation, an initiative developed together with the Committee of the Regions. Participants in the pilot action are open to share good practices and to co-develop and test tools to mobilise multiple sources of funding and policies, and connect regional and national programmes to EU initiatives for the green and digital transformations. These Partnerships will feed into the new Innovation Agenda for Europe, where innovation drives the transformation for sustainability, connecting local strategies with EU-level initiatives.

"Too much or not enough? The dual nature of green discontent and its geography". This study examines the dual nature of green discontent, which manifests as dissatisfaction with insufficient climate action and opposition to policies perceived as overly restrictive or economically disruptive.

"Navigating Opportunity Spaces: A Practitioner's Guide to Linking Climate Adaptation and Place-Based Transformative Innovation Policy" offers a comprehensive approach to help regions identify and activate opportunities at the intersection of innovation policy and climate adaptation.

A list of recent publications using EUROMOD, including direct links.

The European Commission's Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs is launching the second edition of European Social Economy Regions with the aim of building effective networks of social economy and social innovation stakeholders. Deadline for application is on 31st of January 2019.

The Greek capital used innovation to overcome the economic and social crisis of its past years. The European Commission recognised Athens' extraordinary efforts and awarded it with the title of the European Capital of Innovation 2018 and a €1 million prize. The runner-up cities - Aarhus (Denmark), Hamburg (Germany), Leuven (Belgium), Toulouse (France), and Umeå (Sweden) - received €100,000 each. The prize money will be used to scale up local innovation activities and work together with other cities.

The EIT invites applicants to submit their proposals with a view to forming a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the domains of Urban Mobility and Added-value Manufacturing. The deadline for the submission of proposals is the 12th July 2018.

Engaging with the research community is core to ECAT's work, especially when it comes to the investigation of systemic risks, as outlined in the DSA. A wealth of insights on these risks and their mitigations are regularly published across the world, and we hope to draw your attention to just some of the projects that have caught our eye.

On 29 April, we kicked-off the work of the Preparatory Action 'Innovation for place-based transformation'! High level speakers such as the Executive Vice-Presidents Teresa Ribera and Raffaele Fitto, and Commissioner Jessika Roswall joined territories and experts in Brussels to discuss transformative innovation approaches to tackle key global challenges.

A Transforming Territories podcast, a part of the awareness-raising branch of the European Parliament Preparatory Action: innovation for place-based transformation. This initiative looks to work with around 200 territories on innovative ideas that can help them transform and become ready for the future- more competitive, more sustainable and more digital.

A member of the ECAT team will be at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) to deliver a tutorial on data access for researchers under the DSA

Six special sessions organised by the Joint Research Centre during this year's European Regional Science Association Congress will focus on territorial development and innovation. The call for abstracts is open until 25 February!

One week left to submit abstracts for the Joint Research Centre's special sessions at this year's European Regional Science Association Congress. Deadline is 25 February.