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If you are working on "innovation" somehow in Japan or with Japan, this is a stimulating opportunity to attend in Osaka, this December. https://lnkd.in/gY59z6iQ This conference is not fully for academic people. Rather, this is where professionals working on innovation somewhere somehow get mingled with their peers in the world, exchanging their experience and opinions. In short, it will be a vivid and dynamic opportunity for those who are active with a keyword of "innovation". So, if you have some interesting innovation-related cases to show off to the world, or, have some issues to share and discuss with your peers from other countries, their submission window is still open. Let me repeat: the submission topic can be any practical cases from your work, and the most important point is "interacting professionally with your peers of innovation"! In addition, now the conference itself shows good interests in Japan, and it looks they are strengthening the network in Japan not only in Osaka but also in other areas in Japan. So if you want to get involved their activity, or, to use their networking in your innovation work from now on, I believe this is a good timing to start it

Time to share, reflect and celebrate at the '2024 Conference EU investments in strategic projects: an outlook from Catalonia'. Institut de Recerca Sant Pau has joined this event today, which was hosted by Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Fundació Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. We've had great sessions, which showcased amazing projects on 🌱European Industrial Green Deal 💻Human-centric Digital Age and 🔬Health and Life Sciences. I feel proud of what the Catalan research system has achieved and of the #excellence,  #interdisciplinarity, #collaboration and #capacity our research institutes, universities and infrastructures have. Not surprisingly, the highlighted challenges to improve our competitiveness have been the same in all sessions: 👥 talent 📃 bureaucracy 💶 investment They are clearly identified. Let's start approaching them soon! Our society deserves us to be competitive and agile. Go #Europe! #nextgeneration #HorizonEurope European Commission ICERCA - Centres de Recerca de Catalunya Generalitat de Catalunya Xavier Prats Monné Jordi Surrallés EIT Health Spain Izabel Alfany Joan X. Comella Núria Gavaldà Universitat de Barcelona Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Banc de Sang i Teixits Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) HIPRA

The 2024 Canada-Italy Forum, titled "Nurturing our Well-being with AI" was a unique opportunity for cultural and professional exchange between Italy’s innovation ecosystem and that of Quebec. The program facilitated mutual sharing of projects and experiences, as well as visits to key innovation hubs and universities in Montreal. The Italian delegation, welcomed by the Italian Ambassador to Canada, Andrea Ferrari, and led by the Italian Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada, included numerous institutions and companies. Among them were ICE – the ITA - Italian Trade Agency, the Regione Puglia, Regione Emilia-Romagna, the Comune di Taranto, Clust-ER Build Edilizia e Costruzioni, Clust-ER Health - Emilia-Romagna, Ap-EDIH, Dante EDIH, CTE CALLIOPE, Meditech - Competence Center, Planetek Italia, and a pool of innovative startups including befreest srl, Mathclick, fore ai, Tilebytes srl, and Limitless Device, along with several professors from Italian universities. All representatives took part in the Forum's various sessions, actively participating in working groups aimed at fostering transatlantic collaborations. In this context, significant meetings organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada were held at innovation hubs and universities in Montreal, including IVADO Labs, Scale AI, ADAPT/ES, QIS, McGill University, and others. This opportunity was valuable for exploring potential synergies, especially considering Canada's entry into the #HorizonEurope program. Participation in the Business Forum was a key networking opportunity to better understand Quebec’s innovation ecosystem, providing an ideal environment to develop innovative projects on an international scale.

On June 4th, the Ministry of Science, Education, and Youth celebrated National Knowledge Valorisation Day as part of the European Commission’s "Tour de Capitales." 💡 Key Highlights: ➡ The RISE team showcased our impressive project portfolio. ➡ Smiljka Vikic-Topic led a session on balancing economic and societal value in knowledge valorization. It was a fantastic day of learning and networking. Read more about the event in the article 👇 #KnowledgeValorization #Innovation #ResearchImpact #TechnologyTransfer

Don't miss the 4th newsletter of #EBN project RESOURCE - Financing Circular Economy in Aragon! To learn more about the project, join #EBN2024 and the session "Closing the Loop: Circular Economy, a Key Factor for Sustainability," powered by Resource, where the outcomes will be presented. You can register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-Fnb9rE

🌟 Exciting Event Alert: EIC Info Day in Rome! 🌟 🚀On 17 September 2024, the European Innovation Council (EIC), in collaboration with APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea and CDP Venture Capital SGR, is organising an Info Day in Rome. 🎉This is a unique opportunity for Deep-tech Researchers and Innovators to learn how the EIC can support their groundbreaking work. 🔍 Event Highlights: Focus on the EIC Accelerator Programme: Discover how this programme helps start-ups and SMEs develop and scale up deep-tech and disruptive innovative products or services (TRL 6-9). ❗ Application Insights: Speakers will provide valuable insights into the application process and share tips on crafting an excellent application. ❗National Support Mechanisms: Learn about the national support mechanisms for deep-tech in Italy and the services provided by Access2EIC Stay tuned for the detailed agenda! 📅 📣 Don't miss out on this chance to propel your innovation to new heights. See you in Rome! 🇮🇹 #EICInfoDay #DeepTech #Innovation #EICAccelerator #Startups #SMEs #RomeEvent #TechSupport #Research #Innovation #APRE #CDPVentureCapital #EUeic Access2EIC

📢 Out right now! 📝 New blog: The Devious Dozen: 12 fallacies behind innovation lab "failures" (https://lnkd.in/g6D--JXr) Take a look at the new blog from my colleague Benjamin Kumpf and me on 12 reasons behind innovation lab "failures". Why the use of quotation marks in "failures"? First, apparent failures are extremely important occasions to correct biases and pre-assumptions, embed learnings, strengthen existing approaches, and adjust the planned trajectories for lab design and delivery. As a matter of fact, many labs were precisely created as safe spaces to try, fail and improve. Not even the end of a lab means failure, some might transform into new units or leave institutional and cultural legacies as planned, while others might evolve in specialised innovation and tech units. From the review of an extensive collection of 137 cases, plenty of practitioners' insights and a pile of specialized literature, we have identified 12 traps that innovation labs may run into and present 12 examples of how to dodge them. Powerful cases from amazing innovation labs around the world. Learnings and tips from all continents: 🇿🇦#SouthAfrica (Centre for Public Service Innovation), 🇧🇷 #Brazil (Enap/Gnova and LabHacker - Laboratorio Brasileiro De Cultura Digital), 🇵🇹 #Portugal (AMA - Agência para a Modernização Administrativa, IP/LabX - Centro para a Inovação no Setor Público), 🇧🇩 #Bangladesh (a2i), 🇨🇵 #France (La 27e Région), 🇨🇱 #Chile (Laboratorio de Gobierno), 🇦🇺 #Australia (The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI)), 🇵🇪 #Peru (Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital de la Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros/Red Nacional de Laboratorios de Innovación), 🇨🇭 #Switzerland (staatslabor), 🇺🇸 #UnitedStatesofAmerica (GSA @18F), 🇳🇿 #NewZealand (Service Innovation Lab). Let us know your own experiences! The blog comes with a short survey for you to share your insights. Pedro Marcante Arruda dos Santos Vladia Mattar Hudson Camila Medeiros Pablo Pascale Mariana Romiti Loredana Stan Francisco Rojas Martín Carlos Santiso Orlando Rojas Fiorella Zavala Almendra Orbegoso Hidalgo Pierre Schoonraad Rui Martinho Jorge Lagarto João Dias Elsa Castro Cristiano Ferri Faria Brenton Caffin Lukas Kastner Frédéric Baervoets Stéphane VINCENT Paiusescu Anca Larisa (Panait) Barac Marjana Dermelj Evija Taurene Léa Boissonade Amélie Durozoy

🙌 Second day of S4i | Science for Industry! The #MorningAgenda on the Main Stage for today is packed with innovation, science, and technology! 🎤 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎𝐡 | 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞'𝐬 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲, with: 🔹 Inés Carpio San Román, Director General for International Financing, Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa. 🔹 Felix Zamora, Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation, and Culture at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 🔹 Jose Maria Blasco Ruiz, Executive Director of Growth and Competitiveness at ICEX. 🔹 Viorel Peca, Head of Unit of Transition and Business Acceleration Services of the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). 🔬 𝟏𝟏:𝟎𝟎𝐡 | 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 Christian Serre, Research Director at CNRS, will unveil the potential of Metal-Organic Frameworks in tackling air quality issues. 🔬 𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎𝐡 | 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝟐𝐃 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths’ Professor at the University of Cambridge, will explore how metallic 2D materials are being translated into technological applications. 👋 𝟏𝟑:𝟎𝟎𝐡 | 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 Key figures will wrap up this groundbreaking edition of S4i: 🔹 Angel Niño, Councillor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ayuntamiento de Madrid. 🔹 EMILIO VICIANA DURO, Councillor for Education, Science, and Universities. 🔹 Felix Zamora, Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation, and Culture at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. A morning full of insights and inspiration awaits! Explore the full agenda here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dywnfNwe #S4i #DeepScience #Innovation #Agenda

📣 Attention Innovators and Change-Makers 🚀, 📍 WHEN? On June 11th, 2024, from 10:00 to 12:30 CEST, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is hosting an insightful Online Info Session about the second 2024 European Innovation Ecosystems open calls. 📍The European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) work programme is designed to foster more connected, inclusive, and efficient innovation ecosystems. This initiative supports the scaling of companies and drives responsible innovation to address significant challenges, as outlined in the New European Innovation Agenda. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration among public and private sectors, academia, civil society, and regional and national levels. 📍ABOUT WHAT? This session will delve into the specifics of two EIE topics accepting applications from June 6, 2024, to September 19, 2024, 17:00:00 CET: 📝 HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01 (https://lnkd.in/dHEK5hEG): Expanding Academia-Enterprise Collaborations Description: Fostering innovation ecosystems with educational and research institutions, enhancing their entrepreneurial roles, and integrating their assets into regional specialisations. Budget: 2.5 million EUR Target Groups: Vocational schools, higher education institutions, public authorities in education and employment, innovation agencies, SMEs, deep tech companies, EIC and EIT start-ups, research organisations, tech transfer offices, associations, students, and researchers. 📝 HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-02 (https://lnkd.in/dhQ8br5d): Mutual Learning and Support Scheme for National and Regional Innovation Programmes Description: Improving dialogue and networking among public innovation authorities and agencies for better regional and national innovation funding programmes. Budget: 1 million EUR Target Groups: National or regional innovation agencies, authorities managing innovation programmes, and EIC Plug-in contact points. 🔗 Register here for the Info Session: https://lnkd.in/dGEFRXYN 🔎 For more details, visit the https://lnkd.in/dbjpex-g. ✒ For any inquiries, feel free to email EISMEA at EISMEA-EU-ECOSYSTEMS@ec.europa.eu. #Innovation #EISMEA

💡 Cambra de Barcelona will host on the 10th and 11th of October an innovation event that will bring together cities, start-ups, companies, universities, and technology centers. The meeting, entitled ‘Innovation Procurement and Horizon Europe City Mission and CL5 brokerage event’, will be a unique occasion for debating on innovative solutions to drive the green transition and to explore business opportunities by transferring knowledge from I+D centers to organisations. In addition, the event will become a platform to do networking and explore how to transfer knowledge from I+D centers to organisations. 📍 This event is co-organized by Leitat Technological Center, one of Spain's leading technology centers, ACCIÓ, the Catalan Agency for Business Competitiveness, and Diputació de Barcelona, the Provincial Council of Barcelona. It is financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain the State Research Agency -the Spanish Agency for promoting scientific and technical research-. This meeting is addressed to: ✅ Companies and start-ups, that will have the opportunity to showcase their innovative solutions and present them to local public buyers for reaching new markets. ✅ Local administrations, which will get to know leading-edge solutions stemming from Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe projects for meeting their local needs. ✅ Universities & Research and Technology organisations, to bridge the gap between the development of innovative solutions and their uptake. ▶ Find out more information about this event! 👉 https://n9.cl/mj3y5