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[Event review] – Danube S3 Workshop: “Gathering opportunities around RIS3 priorities”

This Danube smart specialisation (S3) workshop was co- organised on July 7th within the “Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy” initiatively the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. The event brought together about 70 project partners representing research institutions, academia, public authorities, implementing agencies, business networks and other institutions involved in R&I policies from Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The event was designed around some of the main smart specialisation priorities in the Danube region and on the results of the online survey on examples of successful inter-regional and trans-national R&I partnerships implementing past and current innovation strategies (for smart specialisation) and aimed at identifying concrete initiatives for trans-national co-operation linked to common smart specialisation priorities and interests in the Danube region.

The purposes of the event – to share some examples of successful and sustainable transnational R&I partnerships, to give a frame for exploring cooperation opportunities within the selected RIS3 priority areas in the Danube region, and to identify those opportunities that would have potential to develop into the new joint initiatives or collaborative commitments to be further evolved into the projects which could benefit from INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme 2014-2020, Horizon 2020 or other financial sources available for the Danube region.

The workshop had focus on 4 main thematic priorities: ICT, Health, Energy, Sustainable Innovations. 

PRESENTATIONS

Potentials for S3 collaboration in the EU macro-regions

Macro regional strategies  as frameworks for inter-regional and transnational cooperation in R&I. Focus on the EUSDR Marco Onida (EC DG REGIO)

Transnational R&I collaboration in smart specialisation strategies: mapping of Danube region’s R&I priorities and projects  Ales Gnamus (JRC-IPTS-S3P)

Benefiting from collaboration in smart specialisation in the Baltic Sea Region –  Karin Nygård Skalman (EUSBSR PA Innovation Coordinator)

Potentials for collaboration in RIS3 in the Danube regionDjuro Kutlaca (“Mihajlo Pupin” Institute, Serbia, on behalf of EUSDR PA 7 Knowledge Society)

Collaboration within UPDR-Urban Platform Danube Region Daniela Urschitz (EUSDR PA 10 Institutional capacity and cooperation, Vienna City Administration)

Session – ICT

DO-IT – EUSDR Flagship Project (Danube Open Innovative Technologies) –  Zdravko Kačič (University of Maribor, Slovenia)

DEMOLA Network and ICT R&I cooperation activities –  Laszlo Bacsa (DEMOLA Budapest, Hungary)/ DEMOLA Slovenia Emilija Stojmenova (RAZ-UM, Slovenia)

Session – Health

DanuBalt H2020 project “Novel Approaches in Tackling the Health Innovation and Research Divide in the Danube and Baltic Sea Region”Hicham Abghay (Steinbeis Europe Zentrum, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Interreg project “TRANS2CARE – Transregional Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer to Improve Health Care”Sabina Passamonti (Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy)

 Session – Energy

Climate-KIC activities Miklós Gyalai-Korpos (Climate-KIC Central Hungary RIC)

Smart Energy in the EUSDR –  Szilárd Árvay (Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

Regional Energy Concepts (CEP-REC) –  Csaba Vaszkó (WWF Hungary)

Session –  Sustainable Innovations

European Innovation Partnership on WaterNikolaus Fleischmann (EIP Water Secretariat)

Danube River Research and Management (DREAM) project Christine Sindelar  (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

Bioeconomy Strategy in the Global Perspective: Austria’s Case –  Hubert Dürrstein (OEAD – Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education, Science and Research in Austria)

After the presentations of collaborative R&I projects in the first part of the workshop participants were further divided in the smaller thematic discussion groups on ICT, health, energy and sustainable innovation where 16 new project ideas were explored to start collaboration in S3 priorities.

Some of project ideas and collaboration areas discussed in the parallel sessions:

Big data and internet of things

Danube Data Cube

Smart meters

Internet of things related research activities

Unconventional Algorithms and Computing

Common actions and synergies in health

Other information

If you have questions about this workshop please contact Dr. Ales Gnamus or Lina Stanionyte