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Innovation procurement was the main topic of the 1st PPI2Innovate days which took place on 3rd of October 2017 in Lublin, Poland. This event, organized by Rzeszow Development Agency, brought valuable information to all participants.

The main goal of the Accelerator project is to build a sustainable accelerator program in each project-participating region, including the Liberec region. However, prior to the actual program development, a comprehensive mapping was conducted in order to identify potential strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities in our region related to the project implementation.

SMART4MD project entered its key phase in September 2017. With its nearly finished feasibility study taken place in Spain and Sweden in last 2 months testing the developed SMART4MD application for mild demential patients, their carers and healthcare professionals, all is now being finalized for start of the 18-month large-scale clinical trial for 1200 patients in 4 countries, including the Czech Republic.

DEX IC presented PPI2Innovate project at the 20-Year Anniversary Conference of Interreg Central Europe programme in Berlin, Germany.

The international conference about boosting the usage of Public Procurement in the field of innovative solutions will take place on Tuesday, October 3rd in Lublin, Poland.

We are looking for partners for SoDiCE (Social Digital Class for the future Entrepreneurs) project in upcoming the 3rd Interreg Central Europe call.

The four-year SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia) project, which is also being developed by our institute, is preparing a tablet application that will primarily target people with mild dementia.

The HoCare project, whose main goal is to boost innovative Home Care solutions and where DEX Innovation Centre is involved as a Project Partner, competes for the prestigious European Health Award.

The NewGenerationSkills Project Partners met on 27-29 June 2017 in Liberec, Czech Republic to work on the main goal of the Project, which is the support of young people from selected regions of Central and Eastern Europe who would like to start their own successful businesses.

Two-day International Thematic Workshop of HoCare project was held at the beginning of June in Ljubljana and Litija (Slovenia). The main topic was a faster delivery of innovative home care solutions to the market.

DEX IC had an opportunity to share his experience in preparation of projects in European Territorial Programmes with participants of Workshop Interreg Central Europe in Brno, 9th of June 2017.

The eafip Workshop on innovation procurement in public construction will be held in the Old Town Hall in Prague, Czech Republic, on 14th November 2017. The workshop targets public procurers (ministries, regional and local authorities, agencies, public bodies, etc.) 

Our institute was delighted to be chosen to moderate a regional conference “Regionem za vyzkum”, which was held on April 26, 2017 at the Regional Research Library in Liberec.

One of the first content-wise deliverables of PPI2Innovate project was the Trans-regional study on institutional frameworks relevant for PPI in 6 CE Countries, that was moderated by UNITO.

On Tuesday, April 25 a meeting of representatives of the public administration, academia and business was held at Grand Hotel Imperial in Liberec.

Project , funded by the Danube Transnational Program, primarily targets young people (15-29) and will engage SME's, NGO's, cities, educational organisations and also mentors, lectors and coaches to build and test common initiatives support the young.

DEX IC had opportunity to share it´s experience in preparation of projects in European Territorial Programmes with participants of seminar related to programmes of European Territorial Cooperation and Visegrad fund, which was organized in premises of Kralovehradecky region, 25^th of April 2017.

In case you are interested to learn more about DEX IC and project preparation in European Territorial Cooperation Programmes, please don´t hesitate contact us.

DEX Innovation Centre and Technology Centre AV CR organized seminar in topic “Financing of innovation through PPI” in the framework of the project PPI2Innovate. Seminar took place in premises of Technology Centre AV CR on Wednesday 19^th of April. Participants were representatives of public procurers and another stakeholders.

PPI2Innovate project is focused on project procurers at all levels of public administration in Central Europe, with the aim to build regional PPI capacity, change attitude related to PPI and to strengthen links between stakeholders in regional innovation systems and thereby increase using of PPI in Central Europe.

The second HoCare International Thematic workshop, part of the European project “HoCare” which deals with the issue of ageing population and aims to boost generation of new innovative solutions for home care,​​ was organized in Budapest on 27th and 28th March 2017 by the National Healthcare Service Center from Hungary. The workshop offered many opportunities to exchange experiences and good practices in the field of generation of innovative solutions for home care. The focus of the second workshop was on generation of innovation through the public driven innovation approach. For the Czech Republic, DEX Innovation Centre has been joined by a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Mr. Robert Wenzel, to present and discuss regional situations and good practices in this field from the Czech Republic and gather and discuss good practices from other countries.

Watch the video from the workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqniayPXfE 

Watch the video about the project and from the 1st workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9liHOTH6CA 

Read more about the project.

HoCare project (PGI01388) is carried out under the Interreg Europe programme financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

We would like to invite you to webinars on Wednesday 22nd March 2017 from 13:30. Webinars are organized by EASME. Project Advisers will be presenting the funding opportunities and will answer to your questions.

More info about webinars and the registration link you can find here.