[Event Review] 4th Research and Innovation Meeting, Vienna 9-10 June 2019

The fourth Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting took place in Vienna on June 9-10, 2019 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for the Steering Platform (SP) on Research...

Conclusions of the 3rd Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting held in Sarajevo on March 26-27, 2019

The third Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting was organised in Sarajevo on March 26-27, 2019 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for the Steering Platform (SP) on Research...

[Event Review] 3rd Research and Innovation Meeting, Sarajevo 26-27 March 2019

The third Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting took place in Saraejvo on March 26-27, 2019 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for the Steering Platform (SP) on Research...

Technology Transfer Summer School by EU4TECH Project

The EU4TECH Project will be holding a 4 day residential Technology Transfer Summer School in Podgorica Montenegro from June 04, 2018 to June 07, 2018.

European Sustainable Week -EUSEW - 2018

The conference will have a set of sessions that allow European Commission and different energy stakeholders to debate new policy developments, best practices and sustainable energy ideas, while networking...

European Week of Regions and Cities 2018

This year, the European Committee of the Regions and the DG Regional and Urban policy join forces with 13 other Directorates-General and 3 executive agencies of the European Commission, over 140 regions...

European Commission - Joint Research Centre - IPTS - Spain

The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) is one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), located in Seville, Spain. Since 1994, ...

JRC offers reimbursed participation at the Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

In the frameworks of its Enlargement & Integration Initiative,  the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission is offering pre-paid travel and accommodation to researchers/experts...

Join the S3 Platform - How can regions and countries do it?

Established in 2011 following the Communication 'Regional Policy contributing to smart growth in Europe 2020', the role of the S3 Platform is to provide information, methodologies, expertise...

Submit an abstract to the 2018 SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development

The Regional Studies Association in partnership with European Commission's Joint Research Centre invite you to register and submit an abstract to the 2018 SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation...

WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletters sent in 2018

WBC-RTI.INFohas prepared several newsletter issues in 2018. Thematic articles were drafted while relevant stakeholders contacted and in some cases also interviewed.

[Theme in Focus] How should Western Balkan countries “smartly specialise"? WBC-RTI.info Newsletter, April 2018

What difficulties to expect and how to overcome them? Smart specialisation (S3) is an increasingly popular and worldwide spreading innovation policy concept. In the EU, under the umbrella of EU Cohesion...

Higher Education for Smart Specialisation: Towards strategic partnerships for innovation

This Policy Brief reports on the results of the first phase of the project 'Higher Education for Smart Specialisation' (HESS).

Eye@RIS3: Innovation Priorities in Europe (updated)

Eye@RIS3 visualises public investment priorities for innovation across Europe. It enables public managers and stakeholders to position their territory in comparison to other territories and to find potential...

ICT Monitoring Tool - Planned ICT Investments under ESIF

The ICT Monitoring tool allows the user to search ESIF data (ERDF, CF, ESF, YEI and EAFRD) by MS (‘country’), region, CoI, TO, activity area (keywords) and financial form and to view the search results...

Smart Specialisation Platform

The S³ Platform (S³P) assists Member States and regions to develop, implement and review Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS³). Established...

INNOPLATFORM

INNOPLATFORM aims at improving the competitiveness of the Balkan Mediterranean region by advancing existing knowledge on business model innovations and developing a set of tools (InnoTools) and services...

High-Level Innovation for a Value-Driven Exploitation of a Joint S3 in The Adriatic Area

The HIVES Project wants to deal with the main challenges in the field of entrepreneurial innovation in the IPA Adriatic area: low R&D investments,low propensity among SME to collaborate on knowledge...

Centre of Excellence for Advanced Technologies in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Agriculture and food security are one of the main focal points of EU policies, since, in the next 20 years, world food production must increase by 50%, while 80% of that increase must come from intensification...