What We Do
Interregional Collaboration projects
The Vanguard Initiative is getting involved in EU projects consistent with its regional membership political commitment of implementing smart specialisation strategies, advancing technological developments through interregional collaboration, supporting demonstration and piloting of new European value-chains, and making the Vanguard Initiative a powerful force for European technological change and advancement.
Vanguard Initiative acknowledged in new JRC publication on interregional partnerships for smart specialisation
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a new manual called “Methodological Manual Developing Thematic Interregional Partnerships for Smart Specialisation”.
ADMA Pilot updates January - April 2020
With the completion of the NeSSIE project in 2019 and the Pilot Action on Sens
ESM and Bioeconomy Pilots successful in TAF-applications
Technical Assistance Facility (TAF), launched by the European Commission as a tool to support Smart Specialisation Platforms (S3P) -Industry investment projects has been open for a second assessmen
COVID 19 - VI Regions Actions to Support Businesses
The Vanguard Initiative network continues to work towards strengthening EU industry, and making sure we build Europe’s innovation capacity through complete EU value chains. However, the implicatio
EVENT POSTPONED: How Smart is your RIS3? Cardiff 25-26 March
UPDATE: Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19 this conference has been postponed; we will provide further details once we are in a position to reschedule. If you had registered to attend, yo
ESM Pilot closes 2019 reflecting on its role in the new programming period
The ESM Pilot annual meeting took place in Brussles on 13th December.