The Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) Conference is the flagship event where S3 stakeholders from across regions in EU Member States meet. The Conference will take place in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) on 11 and 12 December 2024. 

The S3 Conference will be presented around three pillars:
👉 Smart Specialisation Strategies and place-based innovation for resilience and strategic autonomy: challenges, capacities, and policy mix. It will explore how S3 can foster place-based innovation while ensuring resilience and strategic autonomy in the territories and EU as a whole.
👉 Smart Specialisation Strategies and interregional collaboration: We will learn from many experiences related to interregional collaboration, exploring challenges, opportunities, and mechanisms to align different instruments with regional strategies and capacity building tools.
👉 Smart Specialisation and strategic domains at the EU and local level, looking at key thematic areas identified in the New European Innovation Agenda, namely: green, digital, food, health, energy, raw materials, and manufacturi

A call is open until 30 June for those interested in participating as speakers. Find more information about the S3 initative on this website.