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In this issue
- March 2019
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S3 Platform
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Editorial
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Editorial from Tudor Constantinescu - Directorate General for Energy
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Dr Tudor Constantinescu is Principal Adviser to the Director General for Energy in the European Commission. He is an engineer and an economist by education. Before joining the Commission, he set up as Executive Director the Buildings Performance Institute Europe. He was the president of the Romanian Agency for Energy Conservation and for the period 2008-2009, he held the presidency of the EnR network of European Energy Agencies. Between 1996-2007, he coordinated the energy efficiency and related environmental activities of the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels.
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Highlights
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"RIS3 in Greece: Consolidating Governance and Raising Ambition"
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The JRC, in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of National Economy and Development organised a workshop in Thessaloniki in February 2019 with two aims: 1)to contribute to the improvement of RIS3 governance. Under the guidance of the JRC, participants jointly mapped the governance functions within each region and their position within the multi-level governance of S3; 2) to raise the ambition of RIS3 in Greece in preparation for the next programming period. To this end, invited experts presented examples of integrated projects aiming to transform production and consumption systems. These included projects in the circular economy, electric mobility and advanced manufacturing. A common feature of these projects was the combination of research and innovation interventions with synergetic actions in other policy areas, including urban planning and large-scale infrastructures.
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Upcoming Events
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19 - 20 March 2019
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Reminder: TAIEX-REGIO Workshop on State Aid Map in Energy Sector
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The S3PEnergy team, in collaboration with the Andalusian Innovation Agency (IDEA) and the Andalusian Energy Agency, is organising a Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX-REGIO)multicountry workshop on State Aid Mapping in the Energy Sector, which will bring together State aid practitioners from several EU Member States. The event will take place in Seville on the 19th and 20th of March 2019.
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27 March 2019
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Reminder: Agri-food Working Committee Meeting
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The next Agri-food Working Committee Meeting will focus on "Working Towards the Long-Term Sustainability" and will take place in Florence on the 27th of March 2019. It will bring together members of the five existing Agri-Food partnerships along with representatives from DGs REGIO, AGRI, RTD, as well as the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Vanguard Initiative. Participants will examine in detail a number of issues related to the long-term sustainability of interregional collaboration in the context of Smart Specialisation.
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Upcoming Innovation Camps
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As part of the pilot project: "Science meets Parliaments/Science meets Regions", several innovation camps will be organised in various places across Europe to tackle a number of key challenges such as the circular economy and the raw materials industry in Asturias (Spain)
on 28-29th of March, air quality in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 29-31st of March, urban renewal in Nijmegen (NL) on 17-19th of March and in Ghent (BE) on 8-10th of May, or healthcare in rural areas in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) on 4-5th of April 2019. They are based on a methodology developed by the S3 Platform to support multiple stakeholders' involvement in entrepreneurial discovery processes and policy co-creation.
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3 April
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DIH Workshop on Digital Tools, Platforms and Marketplaces
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The European Commission is organising the sixth Working Group meeting of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), with the aim to explore how the solutions developed by DIH-related European projects could be re-used by other SMEs, and what role regions and DIHs could take in this. The event welcomes projects that have developed relevant platforms or marketplaces, regions that could re-use these tools for SMEs in their own territories as well as Digital Innovation Hubs themselves to see what additional solutions they may be able to add to their service offerings. The event will take place on the 3d of April 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Registration is open until the 1st of April. Participants are offered to share their experience and ideas on the three topics of the day – if you are interested, submit your expression of interest to CNECT-A2-EVENTS@ec.europa.eu before 20 March 2019.
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S3 Publications
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Place-based Innovation Ecosystems: Ljubljana start-up ecosystem and Ljubljana Technology Park
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This case study focuses on the catalyser role played by the Technology Park Ljubljana and other intermediary bridging organisations for the cohesion and development of a collaborative innovation ecosystem that supports the nurturing of new innovative companies – notably start-ups, but also scale-ups and spin-offs – in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and beyond. It is the second volume of a series on place-based innovation ecosystems that was launched in 2017, as part of a fruitful collaboration between the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) on promoting the importance of evidence-based policy development for regional and urban policy makers.
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General Information
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Presentation of the Innovation Camps methodology at the European Parliament
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The annual high-level event "Science meets Parliaments" was held by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in February 2019 at the European Parliament. The event marked the launch of a serie of 26 national, regional and local events under the "Science meets Parliaments / Science meets Regions" Pilot Project under the auspices of the EP. Six of those events will adopt the modality of Innovation Camps, a methodology established by the Smart Specialisation Platform (S3P) in collaboration with the Committee of the Regions. During the event, the S3P provided a training on the methodology to representatives of Sofia (BG), Saxony-Anhalt (DE), Asturias (ES), Catalonia (ES) and Nijmejen (NL) together with two senior experts.
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Interregional Cooperation in Agri-Food Smart Specialisation
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Published on the Regional Studies's website, this online article sheds light on the European Commission’s Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform on Agri-food. It highlights the background of the initiative, the criteria for successful submissions and outlines the potential benefits the scheme can bring to collaborating European regions.
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Presentation of S3P place-based innovation case studies - ARLEM
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In February, the Committee of the Regions organised in Seville the annual gathering of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM). On this occasion, The Smart Specialisation Platform chaired a side event on local innovation ecosystems, where three case studies prepared by the JRC were presented: Start-up ecosystem and the Technology Park Ljubljana (Slovenia), Digital social innovation ecosystem in Barcelona (Spain) and Innovation districts in Boston (USA). In addition, the President of Westpomerania region (Poland) presented its regional ecosystem.
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Forthcoming EU Survey on Digital Innovation Hubs & S3
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The S3 Platform, in partnership with DG CNECT, will launch in the coming days a survey to investigate the states of digitalisation and digital competitiveness across industries within regions and DIHs positioning, as well as how DIHs and Smart Specialisation Strategies relate to each other and how they (or could) interact in the future. The survey is addressed to DIH managers and regional policy actors from regions hosting DIHs who will receive individual invitation emails to get access to it.
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