This high-level event will highlight the key role of regions in developing new growth dynamics for Europe, based on bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovation. It will mark the mobilisation of this potential for transformation in priority areas such as energy transition, digital growth, circular economy, agro-food and industrial modernisation.
Smart specialisation strategies can leverage numerous new growth opportunities for regions, when aligning their business-driven smart specialisation investments in new European value chains. This event will accelerate the set-up of effective partnerships for co-investing across regions that commit to their smart specialisation priorities. It will show the way forward by using the synergies between the different public and private funding mechanisms to support such investment dynamics.
During the two days, the participants will have the opportunity to visit the Smart Regions Exhibition where regions will showcase their smart specialisation areas.
