SMART SPECIALISATION IN EDUCATION IN LAGGING CITIES AND REGIONS
Challenge Owner: EC Joint Research Centre (DG JRC)
How to innovate 21st-century education so as to match the ambitions and goals of local smart specialization strategies?
Turn education into a competitive advantage by encouraging creativity, entrepreneurial skills, risk taking adaptability and innovation capacity, problem solving skills, skills related to effective teamwork and sharing information and knowledge.
How to prepare young people for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t even been invented and for which competition will be global?
Design the education ecosystem that grows Europe's young innovators
Encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of regions and cities and the move towards open innovation, within a human-centered vision of partnerships between public and private sector actors, universities and citizens
Let’s work together to design vital, intelligent & inclusive cities. Better linking smart specialization with the Urban Agenda of the EU
How to promote Regional Innovation ecosystems
Create the city of inclusive prosperity: balance the environment protection, economic development and social equity