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spinit
The project
The SpinIT project addresses significant territorial disparities within the Danube Region (DR), particularly in innovation capacity, knowledge, and technological development, as well as the isolation of ecosystems in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The project takes a transnational approach by operating in 10 locations across 8 countries in the Danube Region. This approach is necessary because the challenges faced by the region are not confined to a single country or locality. By promoting knowledge exchange and transnational implementation of pilot projects, the project aims to support digitalization, smart specialization, and sustainable development in the region.
The project has a threefold impact:
1) directly supporting innovation intermediaries, start-ups, SMEs, and advanced ecosystems.
2) engaging a wide range of stakeholders; and
3) raising awareness of ecosystem linkages and promoting skills development aligned with Smart Specialization Strategies (S3) through communication, events, and workshops.
The overall objective is to connect less developed hubs with advanced ones, engage businesses, academia, policymakers, and SMEs, facilitate networking and peer-learning, and stimulate connections among local public and private stakeholders.
The SpinIT project incorporates several outputs to address the challenges and achieve its objectives in the Danube Region. These outputs include:
- Enhanced cross-border cooperation among organizations
- Local Action Plans
- Pilot Projects
- Validation of Pilot Projects
What is new and original about the SpinIT project is its focus on special niches of three pre-defined clusters: IT, I4.0 (Industry 4.0), and IT cross-sectoral collaboration.
By concentrating on these areas and targeting less developed geographies where the distance to global best practices is greatest (Southern and Eastern Europe), the project aims to maximize its impact. Additionally, the project emphasizes the importance of diversity and transnational cooperation as catalysts for innovation, market growth, resilience, sustainability, and financial performance.
SpinIT pays special attention to ensure the durability and transferability of its outputs. Through financial sustainability, institutional structures, and political impact, the project aims to have a lastingeffect on the territories and population. On boarded ASPs will enhance durability and transferability of the project’s outcomes.
innomine’s role
innomine is a Territorial Partner (TP) in the project and performs all planned activities accordingly.
innomine is the first point of contact in Hungary, represents, implements and promotes the SpinIT project. We are the main driver of the Local Discovery Group and we are building, organizing and managing the quadruple helix network. We are able to get our wide network of SMEs, midcaps, Start-ups and scale ups in the circulation of the project and representing achieved results, success stories and pilot projects in the thematical field of SpinIT.
With our experts, tools and methodology we are contributing to the identification of ICT and digital development needs in Hungary and its macro-region level. As well, we connect local actions towards smart specialization or IT sector development, policy framework and key stakeholders.
innomine promotes cooperation, experience exchange between and capacity building of innovation actors, hubs and RDI centers. Our role also covers the organization of workshops with targeted audience and key stakeholders in order to define needs, co-develop solutions, enhance knowledge sharing and co-innovate.
the project’s overall objective
Development of skills for advancing smart specialisation strategies, industrial transformation and transition towards industry 4.0, including cross-sectorial collaborations.
Through this project we intend to harvest transnational knowledge in order to align to S3 and to provide solutions developed through bottom-up approach with quadruple helix involvement in order to develop skills for S3, IT sector development, I4.0 and IT cross sectoral collaboration in 10 territories and 8 countries of DR. Total of 10 countries and 17 organizations will be involved in order to foster new initiatives and faster development of non-Member States and macro region as a whole.
About S3: “Smart Specialisation Strategies foster knowledge-based growth in EU regions and countries. They are crucial to achieving a smarter, sustainable and inclusive Europe”. S3 Website
background
There is an ever increasing (market) pressure on manufacturing SMEs in EU to be in the same time very competitive and also eco-friendly. In the domain of manufacturing PET products this aspect is extremely important since manufacturing PET resin generates more toxic emissions (nickel, ethylbenzene, ethylene oxide, benzene) than manufacturing glass. Producing a 16 oz. PET bottle generates more than 100 times the toxic emissions to air and water than making the same size bottle out of glass. Even worse, most toxic releases went into the air, and the plastics industry contributed 14% of the national total (https://ecologycenter.org/plastics/ptf/report3/). The manufacturing process of plastic water bottles alone releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the surrounding oxygen becomes contaminated, making it harder to breathe and, in some regions, even making the residents sick.
However, SMEs producing PET bottles (incl. the selected pilot user for this proposal) are lacking the knowledge and experience in the context of organizing more environmentally friendly production.
main partners
Zenica Development Agency ZEDA ltd | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) |
DEX Innovation centre | Česko (CZ) |
Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb | Hrvatska (HR) |
innomine Digital Innovation Hub Nonprofit Ltd. | Magyarország (HU) |
Optimization Ltd. | Hrvatska (HR) |
University of Montenegro | Crna Gora (ME) |
Institution for development of competences, innovation and specialization | Hrvatska (HR) |
Municipality of Cluj-Napoca | România (RO) |
European Development Agency | Česko (CZ) |
INOSENS Ltd Novi Sad | Serbia (RS) |
ASPECT-Management and Intercultural Relations | Bulgaria (BG) |
Foundation for Innovation, Technology and Transfer of Knowledge | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) |
Bulgaria Economic Forum | Bulgaria (BG) |
Pannon Business Network Association | Magyarország (HU) |
University of Pannonia | Magyarország (HU) |
Scientific Reseach Centre Bistra Ptuj | Slovenija (SI) |
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