- Walloon Region
- NUTS 1 : BE3
- BE
Facts & Figures
Capital: Namur
Size: 16,903.0 km2
Population: 3,603,439
Regional GDP: 93,551
% of the National GDP: 23.40
Regional GERD (%): 2.91
% of Unemployment: 11.8
Contacts
S3
Hennart, Florence
Email: florence.hennart@spw.wallonie.be
S3 Priorities as Encoded in the "Eye@RIS3" Tool
| Priority Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Creative Economy | Creative Economy - Creative Wallonia Plan and Wallonia European Creative District |
| Aeronautics & space | Aeronautics & space. Composite and metallic materials, embedded systems, space applications and systems, modelling and simulation |
| Agro-Industry | The focus is put on the following strategic axes: health (food and nutritional quality), industrial efficiency, connected food, packaging, sustainable agro-industry |
| Digital technologies and Industry 4.0 | Smart mobility, e-health, green technologies, Internet of things, serious games, big data, open data, transmedia, 3D stereoscopic imaging, serious games, digital media, Internet and mobile content, scanning and digital archiving, motion recognition |
| Mechanical engineering | Innovative functional systems (machines, industrial or consumer equipments, as well as processes). Comprehensive forming technologies and additive manufacturing , microtechnologies and mechatronics, Intelligent maintenance, metal recycling |
| Sustainable Transport, Logistics and mobility | Multimodality, sustainable logistics, supply chain security, internal logistics and management of industrial processes |
| Health & well being | Health biotechnology and medical technologies Biomarkers, Diagnostics in vitro and in vivo, innovative tools and equipment, medication administration systems, innovative therapies (cell therapy, protontherapy), IT applied to human health, medical equipment, drug discovery, innovative processes and organizational innovations |
| Sustainable materials and Materials and surface of the future | Sustainable materials and Materials and surface of the future (Multifunctional coatings, Biomimicry, Production / Energy Storage, Recycling, Superconductivity), Nanotechnology, Plasturgy (polymers, engineering plastics, elastomers and rubbers, foamed products, composites, technical textiles). |
| Sustainable chemistry | Green Chemistry and bio-based economy, Renewable (bio-sourced) or recycled raw materials, Environmental technologies, new products and systems applied to energy management, sustainable energy and energy efficiency, effluent treatment, re-use or recycling and sustainable building |
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Region Related News
- Wallonia selected by DG GROW as Demonstrator Region for sustainable chemistry
- Wallonia participated actively to the annual political meeting and to the matchmaking event of the Vanguard Initiative (February 2016)
- All results and publications from the “Wallonia, European Creative District” project
- Regional Smart Specialisation Strategy adopted by the Governement (September 2105)