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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.

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...