Under the support of the IncoNet Eastern Partnership project, energy experts from Eastern Partnership countries participated at the Energy Networking4Innovation Bratislava event, an international energy efficiency and renewable energy brokerage event. On 29 November RCISD provided H2020 training back-to-back with the brokerage event for experts from Eastern Partnership countries.
‘EaP PLUS’ (STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership Countries – PLUS) is a new coordination and support action funded under Horizon 2020, which was launched on 1 September 2016. The 17 partners of the project took part in a kick-off meeting on 26 September in Athens.
The Triple-Helix Conference with the title Supporting the development of bio-based economy partnerships in the Danube Region through a triple-helix approach organised by the Danube-INCO.NET project took place in Budapest at Danubius Hotel Gellért on 19-20 July 2016.
Within this “upon invitation” workshop organized by the Danube-INCO.NET project more than 20 experts from 8 countries of the Danube Region (AT, BG, DE, MD, HU, RS, SI, SK) have gathered to discuss potentials and topics for a joint co-operation within a strategic activity of COST.
The triple-helix conference on bio-based economy “Supporting the development of bio-based economy partnerships in the Danube Region through a triple-helix approach” is one of the major events of the Danube-INCO.NET project. Its main objective is to support the university-business-government cooperation (triple-helix model) to enhance the establishment and development of bio-based economy partnerships in the target countries, tackling societal challenges in the field of food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, water research, bio-based economy and bio-energy.
In the framework of the Danube-INCO.NET project the S3 Platform together with the Academy of Sciences of Moldova successfully organised on February 18-19.2016 in Chisinau, Moldova the first workshop on smart specialisation (S3) strategy design targeted to the EU enlargement and neighbouring countries.