Our application for additional activities under the 5th call has been approved!
INNOGROW kicked off last Thursday, the 7th of October 2021, virtually.
The 7 partner organisations are namely:
- Region of Thessaly (EL)
- Lombardy Foundation for the Environment, FLA (IT)
- The University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
- Stara Zagora Regional Economic Development Agency (BG)
- Chamber of Commerce of Molise (IT)
- Regional Development Agency of Gorenjska, BSC Business Support Centre L.t.d., Kranj (SL)
- Pannon Novum West-Transdanubian Regional Innovation Non-Profit Ltd (HU)
Under this new call, all INNOGROW partners will initially map the COVID-19 impact on rural SMEs’ innovation and growth activities, document policy & implementation challenges encountered, and identify promising recovery & resilience pathways. Using these findings as a baseline, partners will organise three (3) interregional workshops to elaborate on the new knowledge acquired and address policy implementation gaps, so as to respectively build capacities on how to:
- take advantage & create synergies with opportunities offered by EU and national restructuring initiatives,
- support rural SMEs in planning for future crises by integrating risk management approaches in business models, and
- reorient rural SMEs’ innovation & growth activities towards green & digital pathways.
These policy exchanges will lead to the integration of lessons learnt in the policy instruments addressed, following a peer-review process.
