ERRIN Smart Specialisation WG meeting - Interregional collaboration instruments to boost innovation: taking stock & next steps

11/09/2023

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The value of interregional collaboration and engaging whole regional and local R&I ecosystems in the processes of achieving broader European policy aims has been increasingly recognised in the recent years. However, as new different EU instruments for interregional collaboration are sprouting, navigating their landscape and trying to identify the ones with most added value for a given territory with its particular conditions is a challenging task. While instruments are there, their specific aims, expected engagement and benefits are often perceived as not clear enough to differentiate between the proposed initiatives, comparatively assess them, convince decision-makers to join them and/or commit necessary resources. This is hindering the uptake, even in territories where general motivation to engage in interregional collaboration and capacity to do so, might already be there.

In this context, the S3 WG is organising a meeting on 9 November from 10:15-12:00 in person at ERRIN premises, with welcome coffee from 10:00. The event will offer a look across four EU initiatives oriented specifically towards interregional collaboration, which have recently been gathering most attention and which offer possibilities of engagement: Thematic Smart Specialisation Partnerships; Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument; Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI); and Regional Innovation Valleys (RIVs). The aim is to take stock and systematise understanding, opportunities offered and next steps of each of these initiatives, following a case-by-case structure. ERRIN members actively engaged in the respective initiatives will be invited to additionally share their experiences, hands-on insights including encountered challenges and benefits, and exchange with meeting participants.

Luis Goñi from SODENA will speak at this event, explaining the Navarra European Circular Innovation Valley proposal.

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