Under this Call, DG REGIO seeks expressions of interest from transnational partnerships of regional authorities, which include regional stakeholders (universities, research centres, clusters, SMEs, etc.), willing to pilot interregional innovation partnerships aimed at facilitating the commercialisation and scale-up of interregional innovation projects and to incentivise business investment.

Apart from the support from the Commission services notably through technical assistance from the ERDF, DG REGIO has allocated a total budget of EUR 1 million to provide technical assistance directly to the partnerships

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

By the end of 2018, each selected partnership should have defined a set of actions to support the commercialisation and scale-up of interregional investment projects

By the end of 2018, the selected partnerships should have analysed the financial and legal obstacles to commercialisation and scale-up, and developed cooperation with other EU programmes and initiatives as well as with partnerships already established under other Thematic Areas that are covered by the three Smart Specialisation Platforms.

Budget:

A total of €1 million from the ERDF to develop five to ten thematic partnerships.

All information related to this Call will be published online here. 

In case of any questions, please contact REGIO-SMART-GROWTH [at] ec.europa.eu