Highlights
Preparatory Steps for the New H2020 Work Programme 2018-2020: Inputs from Danube Region countries’ stakeholders are highly welcome!
The preparation process towards the third and last Horizon 2020 Work programmes covering the period 2018-2020 has started. The European Commission has began with a series of consultations, debates and surveys to gather the inputs of different stakeholders. Stakeholders from Danube Region are also kindly invited to contribute with any specific inputs from macro-regional perspective. Danube-INCO.NET would be happy to consolidate them and include them in its policy dialogue activities. Read ourarticle to find out how to contribute to this initiative.
The SmartEIZ project intends to make a stock of the existing R&D and innovation policies and to understand research and policy support needs of the innovation stakeholders in Western Balkans. Your contribute to the survey will allow SmartEIZ to better focus and organise training workshops on the topic of Smart Specialisation and research & innovation policy for stakeholders from the Western Balkan regions. Click here for our article.
This is the 4th Danube Clusters Networking Workshop of Priority Area 8 and shall contribute to the creation of the strategic cluster cooperation primarily focused on activities development of Danube cluster network – connecting, networking, joint projects, emphasizing in particular the sources and prospects of cluster financing in the programmatic period 2014-2020. Anticipated is participation of the high level EU representatives, as well as the representatives of 14 countries involved in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUDSR) and Central European Initiative (CEI) countries.
Innovation Scoreboards 2016; how innovative are the Danube Region countries?
The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) is a comparative assessment of research and innovation performance and the relative strengths and weaknesses of national research and innovation systems. Beside EU Member States it also covers Serbia and Ukraine from Danube Region. The Scoreboard assess areas in which they need to concentrate their efforts to boost their innovation performance. Most of the DR countries included in the study fit into Moderate Innovators. TheRegional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) is an extension of the EIS assessing the innovation performance of European regions on a limited number of indicators. The RIS 2016 covers 214 regions across 22 EU countries and Norway. The Regional Innovation Scoreboard provides statistical facts on regions’ innovation performance. Compared to the EIS, the RIS has a stronger focus on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Regional performance groups largely match the corresponding European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) 2016 country performance groups although regional innovative hubs exist in moderate innovator countries as well. Check out our articles for detailed data on the Danube countries and regions!
