Industrial Modernisation
The Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation (S3P-Industry) supports industrial modernisation across the EU by facilitating the emergence of inter-regional partnerships focused on shared investment projects.
Industrial Modernisation
Industrial modernisation requires important investment efforts. The regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) helps to prioritise and align efforts between public and private stakeholders in EU regions and allocate EU and regional funds in a focused and efficient way. At the same time, there are clear opportunities to engage in strategic interregional cooperation along shared S3 priorities in order to complement each other’s competences, share infrastructure, and develop joint investment projects. Such interregional cooperation with allow scaling up towards larger impact and more effective collaboration along industrial value chains.
The Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation (S3P-Industry) aims to support EU regions committed to generate a pipeline of industrial investment projects following a bottom-up approach - implemented through interregional cooperation, cluster participation and industry involvement.
The S3P-Industry partnerships are co-developed and co-led by the regions themselves, ensuring an active participation of industry and related business organisations such as clusters, as well as research institutions, academia and civil society.
The Commission mobilises a wide range of advice and support services to offer continuous support to the interregional partnerships to make this approach a real success for the benefit of all EU regions and their stakeholders.
Contact
Joint Research Centre
European Commission
Latest news
Check the case study briefs from previous S3P-Industry projects supported by TAF
Four projects were awarded support by TAF in the application round of April.
The call for applications for the membership of the I3 Expert Group is open.
Events
TAF webinar on Interregional Innovation Investment (I3) funding instrument
In the context of the TAF Talks series 2.0, the TAF team is organising a series of webinars focusing on potential funding sources for inter-regional investment projects.
TAF Talks 2.0: New sessions and formats
TAF Talk Series: Capacity building workshop on financials and links between clusters and interregional projects
Publications
The paper explores how the leadership of the thematic Smart Specialisation partnerships effect the motivation and commitment within the partnership by comparing attitudes of leaders and participants to explore the potential for more effective operation. Accordingly, in this paper, the previously proposed assessment framework is been piloted on two thematic Smart Specialisation partnerships.
- Fatime Barbara Hegyi, Laszlo Borbely and Gabor Bekesi
This research proposes to examine the role of good governance and leadership contribute to the overall sustainability and viability of interregional initiatives. Accordingly, the paper explores how the leadership of the cross-border partnerships effect the motivation and commitment within the partnership by comparing attitudes of leaders and participants to explore the potential for more effective operation.
- Fatime Barbara Hegyi, Laszlo Borbely and Gabor Bekesi
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