Based on the JRC's experience with smart specialisation strategies over the past decade and state-of-the-art literature on innovation, the S3 team is revising the EDP's experience to contribute to the ODP's conceptual, methodological and practical development by summarising the lessons learned...
The Republic of Georgia, one of the EU Eastern Partners, recently completed the first phase of the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) for the Imereti Region.
Under the theme of “Science, technology, and innovation for building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, the seventh multi-stakeholder forum on STI for the SDGs was held on 5-6 May 2022. The...
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) together with the Directorate of Economic Planning of Bosnia and Herzegovina organized an S3 awareness-raising event within the implementation of the project Support to Smart Specialisation in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood region. The initiative took place in...
The latest region to register to the S3 Platform is the region of Blekinge in Sweden.
Today, 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...
The European Startup Village Forum is part of the flagship action on research and innovation for rural communities, included in the Long-Term Vision for the EU’s rural areas set out by the European Commission in 2021.
The European Committee of the Regions and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) have launched the call of interest for a new pilot action on Partnerships for Regional Innovation. The Pilot Action will involve up to 24 European participants (Member States, regions or groups of...
The HESS advisory group is made up of seven selected external experts from across the EU who work as academics or practitioners in the field of education and skills and territorial development, and includes the OECD and EURASHE as observers.
