2nd Steering Committee meeting - 08 November 2017

The 2nd Steering Committee of the Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation took place - alongside the GROW your REGIOn conference held on 8-9 November 2017- in Valencia, Spain.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the leading regions of the 11 qualified partnerships, various European Commission services, EIB, Interreg and invited experts.

Presentations from European Commission services:

• Progress and next steps
• European strategic cluster partnerships
• Pilot actions linked to smart specialisation

Presentations from the new partnerships:

• Sport partnership
• Building the European photonics alliance
• Medical Technologies
• Digitalisation and safety for Tourism

Presentations from EU projects:

• Value chain analysis of promising KETs-based products
• The Cluster Nano Road project

Presentation from the EIB

• EIB - Enabling access to finance for KETs companies