Agenda and Presentations

INTRODUCTORY PLENARY SESSION

• Welcome addresses

  • Stavros ARNAOUTAKIS (Regional Governor of Crete)
  • Ioannis FIRBAS (Director-General, Ministry of Economy and Development)
  • Agni SPILIOTI (General Secretariat for Research and Technology, GSRT)
  • Panagiotis PADAZATOS (Dep. Head of Unit, European Commission, DG REGIO)

• Introduction to the JRC project: RIS3 Support to Lagging Regions – Mark BODEN (European Commission , JRC-SEVILLE)

• JRC Survey of RIS3 Progress in Greece – Michalis METAXAS (Innovatia Systems)

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

• Industrial strategy and specialisation – Keith SMITH (Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM)

• Peers report on RIS3 implementation experiences: Bottlenecks and how they were tackled:

  • Nathalie BOULANGER (Centre-Vale De Loire, FRANCE)

  • Roberto PARRAS CORTES (Generalitat Valenciana, SPAIN)

• Lessons on Monitoring & Evaluation of RIS3
  • The JRC Massive Online Open Course on RIS3 Monitoring – Karel HAEGEMAN (European Commission, JRC- SEVILLE)
  • Evaluation of  RIS3: Preliminary thoughts – Ken GUY (Wise Guys Ltd, UNITED KINGDOM)
• The European Institute of Innovation & Technology: Fostering Innovation through Knowledge Triangle Integration– Katerina SERETI (European Institute for Innovation and Technology)

PARALLEL SESSIONS (1^st round). Methodological approach for the parallel sessions – Dimitrios PONTIKAKIS

• A1: Governance Structure: integration of all available resources - Moderator:  Effie Amanatidou (University of Manchester) ; Rapporteur : Yannis TOLIAS, (Innovatia Systems)
• Introduction: Chrysi DASKALAKI (Region of Crete)
  • Within the region
  • Multi-level

• A2: Diversification of policy instruments for capacity building in both business and academia - Moderator: Michalis GKOUMAS (Ministry of Economy); Rapporteur: Dimitrios PONTIKAKIS
• Introduction: Ioannis KAPLANIS (Industrial Property Organisation: Intellectual Property as a Vehicle of Economic Development)
• Intervention: Josean URDANGARIN, (Basque Government, Spain -Lead partner: CREADIS3 Interreg project) and Spyros PAPASPYROU (Region of Western Greece)
• A3: RIS3 implementation and monitoring: learning from best practices- Moderator: Nikolaos KARAMPEKIOS (National Documentation Centre); Rapporteur: Michalis METAXAS (Innovatia Systems)
• Introduction: Nena MALLIOU (National Documentation Centre)
• Intervention: Alkisti STATHOPOULOU (Region of Western Greece)

PARALLEL SESSIONS (2^nd round)

• B1: Regions in industrial transition - Moderator: Georgios PEROULAKIS (DG REGIO):  Rapporteur: Yannis TOLIAS
  • Introduction:   Thomas BOURNARIS (AUTH: Hi-tech farming project)
•  B2: Diversification of policy instruments for capacity building in both business and academia- Moderator: Antonios GYPAKIS (GRST); Rapporteur: Dimitrios PONTIKAKIS (JRC)
  • Introduction: Katerina SERETI (EIT) and Antonis POLITIS (NTUA /EIT RM Materials Project)
• B3: Successfully navigating state aid issues - Moderator: Dimitrios KYRIAKOU (JRC); Rapporteur: Michalis METAXAS
  • Introduction: Mihalis KEKELEKIS (The EFTA Surveillance Authority)

PLENARY REPORTING BY THE RAPPORTEURS

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE OUTLOOK

• Ministry of Economy
• GSRT
• European Commission, DG JRC-DG Regio

Full Agenda of the event.

Summary Report of RIS3 Implementation Status in Greece by Mr Michalis Metaxas (Innovatia Systems)