This session will provide you best practices in the area of strengthening regional economic development and the role of RIS3 and higher education programmes in selected Danube region countries:
- Bulgaria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Germany
- Hungary
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
Transnational cooperation supported by the concept of the Smart Specialization contributes to improvements of global competitiveness and creation of economy based on knowledge. Smart Specialization assumes developing a vision and strategy including competitive advantages to help boost development of excellence and region´s potentials based on knowledge and create conditions to use regional diversity as advantage. S3 means identifying region´s potentials and strengths as basis for competitive advantage (smart), further develop the strengths and potentials through research and innovation (specialization) and prioritise investments in research and innovations (strategic). Bosnia and Herzegovina as non-EU countries still did not developed S3 strategy on a national level, while other selected countries have national S3 strategies and the level of including of HE in this is different.
After reading best practices and approaches of different countries in this field, you will be able to understand the necessity of adapting different strategies and approaches in supporting economic development in accordance with various framework conditions in the country.
Session 4 e-learning course