Within the framework of research and innovation cooperation between the European Union and the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Information Day on the Horizon Europe Program took place on 6 February 2023. The European Commission (EC) and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) organized the...
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) received a delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina in its Seville premises last 28th and 29th of November, 2022 to discuss the state of the art of the Smart Specialisation design process in that Balkan country. The collaboration between the Territorial and Urban...
The latest region to register to the S3 Platform is Trakya Region (TR).
Becoming the first ever carbon neutral continent or mainstreaming the digital transition to deliver smart grids and mobility solutions are key EU priorities. They are also critical challenges for the economic, social and environmental sustainability of EU local territories.
The fourth informal working group under the Eastern Partnership (EaP) R&I Panel took place on the 20th and 21st of October, 2022 in the city of Tbilisi in Georgia. The event gathered 56 participants including 26 representatives from five (5) EaP countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the...
On October 18 and 19, 2022, the Marriott hotel in Skopje was the chosen venue for the international conference “Implementing the Western Balkan Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport – Support to Smart Specialisation in the Western Balkans and Türkiye”. More than 100...
A call for expression has been sent by the JRC targeting European regions with the aim to generate interest in contributing to the Pilot Project "REGIONS2030: Monitoring the SDGs in the EU regions - Filling the data gaps", supported by the European Parliament. The REGIONS2030 Pilot Project will...
Europe is rich in diversity. All territories face the same societal challenges, such as climate change, energy crisis, or the interruption of supply chains, but these impact on regions in different ways. Every region has different priorities, different conditions and different assets in face of...
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.
