The conference is organised within the framework of the Romanian presidency of the Council of the EU with the aim of exploring the progress, results and challenges related to the development and implementation of successful smart specialisation strategies, innovation ecosystems and technology transfer capacities.

The event provides excellent opportunity to collect the best practices from the smart specialisation processes in South-East Europe, also with special focus on the Western Balkans economies. It will open a dialogue on possibilities and issues for regional and transnational cooperation for smart specialisation and technology transfer. The conference is also linked to the "Innovative Enterprise Week" which will bring together innovation activities from different EU R&I funding programmes and agencies and in light of the future European Union's R&I programme Horizon Europe(2021-2027).

You can find more details on the event’s website.

Click here to see the draft agenda and if you’re interested click here for registration.