The event will be hosted in cooperation with the Hungarian partner of the Enterprise Europe Network and the five Hungarian partners involved in Europe INNOVA projects.

The overall objective of the APE is to provide an 'interactive arena' in which all projects will be able to share experience and generate new ideas on the future development of activities. Key issues for many of the network actions (Financing, Clusters and Standards) include designing an exit strategy to ensure that European funding has a lasting impact. The 'seed capital' of EU funding should have generated a sustainable partnership committed to maintaining and expanding the methods and tools developed. By sharing ideas on these 'exit strategies' and 'result exploitations', the APE event should assist as many of the current projects as possible to finalise their plans for 'life-beyond' Europe INNOVA.

A second key objective will be to foster a debate on what the next generation of Europe INNOVA 'platforms' can learn from the experience of the past three years. Cross-cutting issues arising from the analytical work (Sectoral Innovation Watch, European Cluster Observatory, IMP³rove)
will be put in the spotlight alongside the lessons learned from the more practical and operationally focused activities of the various networks.

More information available: http://www.europe-innova.org