Events

Peer review
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Thematic Peer-Review Workshop on RIS3 Governance

Across Europe (and even outside), regions are at different stages in the quest for smart specialisation, from understanding what it means and setting a vision for the future, to establishing priorities through an entrepreneurial process of discovery, and finally to begin implementing their...
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Peer Review Workshop in Podkarpackie (PL)

This peer review workshop in Rzeszów was organised by the S3 Platform and the Marshal Office of Podkarpackie. Since transition is one of way of economic development to be chosen within the frameworkd of smart specialisation, this time our flagship event focused on the economic transition of regions.
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In-depth Peer Review Workshop: Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (GR)

Together with the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (REMTh), JRC-IPTS is currently carrying out a European Parliament Preparatory Action. This project has two main aims: to provide "hands-on" support to the implementation of the RIS3 in REMTh, a region heavily hit by the crisis, and to...
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Peer Review Workshop in Baiona, Vigo (Galicia/Spain)

The town of Baiona near Vigo in Galicia was the location for an S3 Platform Peer Review Workshop. Located close to the Portuguese region of Norte, the workshop had a transborder theme.
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Digital Growth & Smart Specialisation

DG CONNECT and the Smart Specialisation Platform are jointly developing measures to support Member States and regions in developing Digital Growth Strategies. As part of this work and in cooperation with Lodzkie Region and Lodz Univeristy of Technology an outreach event on ICT strategies and...
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Peer Review Workshop in Dublin

Five countries presented their current work on RIS3: Bulgaria, Ireland, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. The rest of workshop participants acted as 'critical friends' and discussed the strategies of the countries under review. All five countries had a number of shared priorities and common questions...
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S3P Peer-Review Workshop for National RIS3 in Portoroz (SI)

EU countries face a number of challenges for implementing and governing their smart specialisation strategies. In the S3 process, entrepreneurial actors play the leading role in discovering promising areas of future specialisation. One implication for policy makers is that this requires policy...
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Peer-Review Workshop for Regional RIS3 in Novi Sad (RS)

Countries and regions in the EU, in Southeastern Europe and in the Danube macro-region are at very different stages of development and exhibit high variation in their regional innovations systems. In addition, smart specialisation is a legal requirement only for EU member states. Nonetheless,...
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Peer Review workshop for National RIS3 in Riga (LV)

EU countries face a number of challenges for implementing and governing their smart specialisation strategies. In the S3 process, entrepreneurial actors play the leading role in discovering promising areas of future specialisation. One implication for policy makers is that this requires policy...