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The innovation priority addresses key socio-economic challenges and needs within central Europe that are related to smart growth as defined in the Europe 2020 Strategy. It aims at more effective investment in research, innovation and education. The projects funded under this priority help strengthening potentials of technology-oriented areas that are destinations of foreign investments and capital flows, notably through better linking actors of innovation systems. They also address regional disparities in knowledge and education such as brain drain, and strengthen capacities and competences for entrepreneurship and social innovation, also responding to challenges related to demographic change.

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Innovation

SPECIFIC
Objectives

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1.1

To improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity in central Europe.

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1.2

To improve skills and entrepreneurial competences for advancing economic and social innovation in central European regions.

innovation PROJECTS

After two calls for proposals, we are funding 25 transnational cooperation projects on innovation topics. With around 46 million Euro ERDF co-financing, partnerships from central Europe are addressing shared regional challenges.

3DCentral | CERIecon | CROWD-FUND-PORT | FabLabNet | Focus IN CD

I-CON | NUCLEI | PPI2Innovate | TRANS³Net | URBAN INNO

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SYNERGY | INNO-WISEs | THINGS+

innovation in numbers

Million ERDF in total

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28.06.2018

Project NEWS

CERIecon: Playpark in Bratislava

The second cohort of the taylor made training and mentoring programme of the CERIecon project started. The set of 7 practical entrepreneurial skills training workshops focused on the topics such as Market Analysis, Business Planning and Modelling, Marketing, Customers, Sale, Finances and Presentation Skills helping 15 new start-up teams to shift their projects to a next phase.
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01.07.2018

NEWs

Regional Innovation Scoreboard

EU's innovation performance last year continued to grow despite somewhat uneven progress observed around Europe. The most innovative region is Stockholm in Sweden, followed by Copenhagen in Denmark. However also central European regional innovative hubs in Prague and Bratislava show significant progress and positive outlook according to the regional innovation scoreboard.
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Innovation Results 2007-13

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PORTRAITS Innovation

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The funding programme CENTRAL EUROPE 2007-13 was our predecessor. More than 1.300 public institutions and private businesses closely
cooperated in 124 transnational projects for the benefit of our regions. Take a look at what Interreg achieved already back then:

CENTRAL EUROPE projects 2007-2013

To find out more about projects and beneficiaries of other cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation programmes within the European Union visit the KEEP database