JRC together with the Vojvodina Regional Government organise this first peer review workshop in a non-EU country. The overarching topic of the workshop is transnational cooperation in research and innovation: how to best include transnational elements in the development of RIS3.

The aims of the workshop are:

• to allow regions from both EU and accession/candidate countries meet their peers, European Commission staff, academic experts and others to discuss common issues related to smart specialisation.
• to allow regions and countries to peer-review each other’s work on RIS3.
• to better understand how to incorporate transnational cooperation in RIS3.

Three regions will submit their strategies and reflections to peers: Vojvodina (RS), Northeast Romania (RO) & Weser-Ems (DE). The community of peers will be complemented by a number of experts and representatives from Commission services, as usually is the case in our peer review workshops. The workshop results will be summarised in a workshop feedback report by JRC with expert collaboration, which will be distributed to the participants. This will feed into the Peer review reports for smart specialisation strategies and recommendations.

More info: Peer review workshop for regional RIS3