On 22 September 2015, the Vanguard Pilot on ‘3D Printing’ had its 5th Plenary Meeting. Over the past months and after a preliminary ‘mapping’ of capabilities, challenges and ambitions in the 24 EU-regions participating, 7 first cases for joint-demonstration had been identified and elaborated. The 7 demo-cases identified encompass various domains of application such as healthcare, automotive, textile, creative industries or machinery and tooling.

Last Thursday, 16th April 2015, Mr. Wojciech Saługa, President of Silesia Region together with Mr. Marek Sowa, President of Malopolska Region have signed the Milan Declaration.

It is a confirmation of a strong political engagement of these two Polish regions, not only to the values and objectives of Vanguard Initiative, but most of all to the interregional cooperation and future economic development of Europe.

Over 100 senior delegates gathered in Scotland last week to reflect on the progress that the Vanguard Initiative has made to date and to discuss and agree the actions required at regional, Vanguard and European level to consolidate and build on the early work of the Initiative.

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On Monday 23 February, Vanguard Initiative and European Commission (EC) representatives encountered stakeholders from business, innovation sector and local administration from Southern Poland regions. The announced goal of the conference was to foster more interest from regional partners for the VI activities.

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