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  • Wallonia and Flanders stress the importance of interregional cooperation in Belgium’s position paper on EU industrial policy

    13.12.2017

    The regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels recently published the Belgian position paper on the EU’s industrial strategy, as communicated by the European Commission in September. Belgium welcomes the Communication on a renewed EU industrial strategy, but requests a further long-term consolidation of this strategy in line with strategic objectives to be set for 2030. In its position paper, Belgium underlines the importance of interregional innovation investments and collaboration, pointing to the Vanguard Initiative’s experience.

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  • 3D-printing pilot to hold plenary meeting

    27.11.2017

    In early December, regional stakeholder involved in the pilot on High Performance Production through 3D-Printing will gather in Brussels for a plenary meeting. The meeting aims to facilitate discussions on potential funding tracks and the structure of cooperation projects formed in each of the pilots’ six areas of joint demonstration. New regions and stakeholders are invited to partake in the meeting and to get involved in pilot activities to further strengthen the cooperation.

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  • Vanguard regions lead pioneer industrial investment in the EU

    24.11.2017

    Senior political representatives from 29 of the 33 member regions of the Vanguard Initiative met in Brussels on the 22nd of November to reconfirm their political commitment to further implementing the Vanguard methodology. Five new regions (Autonomous Province of Trento, Lower Austria, West and East Slovenia, Region Orebro County and Varmland) joined the recently created Vanguard ASBL.

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  • The ESM-pilot aims to develop demo-cases through Milan summit

    15.11.2017

    With the objective of further deepening transregional cooperation projects, two of the demo-cases within the Vanguard Initiative’s ESM-pilot will be hosting events in Milan. The events, that will be held on the 30th of November and the 1st of December, aims to build a critical mass of regional actors for a project regarding an upscaling of the use of new, innovative materials based on plastics.

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  • The NeSSIE project – Moving forward in the search of new offshore materials

    26.10.2017

    Although its relatively recent launch, the ADMA pilot based project NeSSIE is progressing at a steady pace. September marked the launch of the interregional collaboration on anticorrosion technology and novel subsea material solutions own website and steps are now being taken to further develop NeSSIEs’ three demonstration projects.

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  • NEW ALLIANCE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

    12.10.2017

    The regions of Basque Country, Navarra, Cantabria and Asturias, as a result of their involvement in the ADMA ENERGY pilot of the Vanguard Initiative, have created an alliance of test sites that will promote the testing of technologies linked to the development of marine energy.

    This alliance seeks to add capabilities, taking advantage of their complementarity and offering to the industry a series of unique facilities along the European offshore value chain, from the development of new materials to the testing of prototypes under real operating conditions.

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  • Bio-Economy pilot highlighted in Commission report

    09.10.2017

    The Vanguard Initiatives Bio-Economy pilot is in the spotlight in a recently published paper, by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center, on the function and practices of the S3P on Agri-food. In addition to mentioning the bio-economy pilot, the report also provides insight into the commission’s recommendations to S3P thematic partnerships.

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  • The Vanguard Initiative in the spotlight at the ‘Competitiveness & Growth’ working party of the Competitiveness Council

    22.09.2017

    Following the recent publication of the communication “Strengthening Innovation in Europe's Regions: Strategies for resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth“, the Vanguard Initiative was invited to present its organization and practices before the Competitiveness & Growth’ working party of the Competitiveness Council.  

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  • Opportunities for SMEs within Vanguard Initiative

    21.09.2017

    The Vanguard Initiative member region Saxony invites to the conference “Vanguard Initiative – New business opportunities for European Industry” to give an opportunity to SMEs to inform themselves on the potentials the Vanguard Initiatives projects offers SMEs and to network with potential partners. Along with talks regarding strategies to involve businesses in Vanguard projects, advanced regional industries will be visited.

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  • Matchmaking event on innovative materials

    20.09.2017

    Watify, an initiative with the objective to boost technological transformation within European industries, is to host a matchmaking event on sustainable, advanced and new materials in Barcelona.

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