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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+

25.01.2018

THIRD CAll

84 proposals submitted in innovation

Our third call for project proposals closed on 25 January. 84 project proposals were submitted in the innovation priority. The applications will now undergo the administrative and thematic quality checks. New projects are expected to start early 2019.
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20.02.2018

NEWs

Innovation is essential for EU's prosperity and social model

The new report shows that Europe's economic prosperity and social model rely on its ability to create and disseminate innovation. At the same time, the EU needs to fully embrace emerging innovations and technologies in order to overcome a productivity problem and to sustain the current economic growth. READ MORE

innovation in numbers

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Innovation Results 2007-13

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PORTRAITS Innovation

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Cooperation map

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