Our members from Bretagne Development Innovation (BDI) invite you to the Smart Energy Conference that will be held in Brussels on 20th March in the framework of the SET-UP project. SET-UP is an Interreg Europe project that focuses on regional policies as a driver to smart grid development and a mechanism to coordinate the energy [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Regiostars and European Entrepreneurial Region Awards Since 2008, the European Commission hands out annual REGIOSTARS awards to EU-funded projects which demonstrate excellence and new approaches in regional development. With the goal of inspiring other regions and project managers across Europe, participating projects are in the spotlight of communication activities at [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Speakers wanted for the WIRE Conference Apply before March 15th to promote the good practices from your agency in the 10th Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE), co-organised by the RDA Nord Est and DG Research of the European Commission on 26 – 28th of June 2019, in Iasi, [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Fernando Casas appointed new Director-General of IDEA Casas replaces Julio Samuel Coca Blanes as the Director-General of the Innovation and Development Agency of Andalusia (Spain) Fernando Casas Pascual has been appointed new Director-General of the Andalusian Agency for Innovation and Development IDEA of the Government of Andalusia (Spain). He replaced [...]
Yesterday, the European Business Angel Network (www.eban.org) celebrated its 20th anniversary. Christian Saublens, former Director of EURADA and co-founder of EBAN: “In 1995 I had a phone call from a French colleague asking about ‘business angels’. After that call, we had a presentation from a British colleague in our next annual conference AGORADA. The interest [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 European Innovation Council Pilot Today's successful, high-growth innovative enterprises often rely on new business models and technologies emerging at the intersection between sectors and disciplines. The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot supports innovators developing breakthrough innovations with the potential to create new markets and boost jobs, growth and prosperity in [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 New Regulation on Smart Specialisation Nowadays, we can say that Smart Specialisation policy experience is positively valued across EU countries and regions so far, but there are some aspects that need to be examined and approached.Regarding to the design and implementation of the RIS3, human capacity is needed, being the [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 EU Financial Instruments for SMEs in 2021-2027 The European Commission proposed in last June to create the InvestEU programme gathering all the financial instruments for the next programming period 2021-2027. This proposal will substitute the so-called “Juncker Plan” that has triggered €287 billion in investments as of May 2018. The [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 AGORADA 2019 Scoping Paper AGORADA is designed to deliver in one day, what the participants and their institutions can achieve only in weeks of work. AGORADA helps exchange, network and make the most of current and upcoming opportunities for social enterprises and related ecosystems. The unique concentration of high-level guests [...]
The TeRRItoria project is holding its kick-off meeting, with the aim to adapt Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) to regional and territorial governance. The project will improve territorial RRI by developing a set of transformative experiments, involving the quadruple helix actors (universities, industries, governments and civil society) in five different European territories. EURADA will take [...]
