DA-SPACE Open Innovation to Raise Entrepreneurship Skills and Public Private Partnership in Danube Region
The Danube region is still very fragmented and presents great disparities in prosperity, jobs opportunities and innovation capacities. DA-SPACE addresses these challenges by piloting a model of open innovation lab in which companies, public authorities, universities and the civil society can create fundaments for innovation together with young talents.
The DA-SPACE labs promote a cross-disciplinary and transnational cooperation among different stakeholders able to generate new solutions and nurture the entrepreneurial skills of all the actors involved. The project will pilot 7 open innovation labs in 7 regions: here seekers (public authorities, universities, companies, young talents) will define a challenge that will be addressed by solvers (young talents) on a transnational level. Through co-creation methods, young talents will develop new solutions and business ideas within the lab and they will furthermore benefit from an entrepreneurship training. The exchange among these actors in the DA-SPACE labs will profit both sides:
• young talents will work on real business cases and will be able to test and prototype their ideas in a safe environment, acquiring entrepreneurial skills;
• seekers (e.g. small and medium-sized enterprises, public authorities etc.) will test co-creation and open innovation methods and will benefit from the exchange with young innovators. Besides, their employees – involved as mentors in the lab - will improve their business competences responding to market requirements and developing skills for future job needs.
The results from the pilots will serve to define a transnational strategy to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in the Danube region that will be declined in regional actions plan. All knowledge acquired in DA-SPACE will be transferred to up to 4 further Danube regions through transferability workshops. The consortium will also define a sustainability strategy to finance the lab after the end of funding, taking into consideration public-private-partnership, sponsorship or national/European funds.
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-06-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1787166,5
- ERDF Contribution: 1342128,75
- IPA Contribution: 176962,77
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Innovative and socially responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Increase competences for business and social innovation
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Transferability Workshop Programme | 30-09-2019 23:37:50 | |
| Strategy to boost Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 30-09-2019 23:37:04 | |
| Sustainability Strategy | 30-09-2019 23:36:12 | |
| Staff Exchange | 30-09-2019 23:35:38 | |
| Entrepreneurship Training | 30-09-2019 23:35:04 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Ulm | Lead partner | s.richter@ulm.de | Germany |
| bwcon | ERDF partner | grillea@bwcon.de | Germany |
| Association for Promoting Electronic Technology - Electronic Innovation Cluster | ERDF partner | bogdan.mihailescu@apte.org.ro | Romania |
| "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati | ERDF partner | florin.popescu@ugal.ro | Romania |
| Institute of Management, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava | ERDF partner | marian.zajko@stuba.sk | Slovakia |
Project News
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DA-SPACE - Final booklet of DA SPACE project
- 27-06-2019
After a successful two year implementation of the Danube Transnational Programme Project DA-SPACE we want to share our journey and success stories with you. The final booklet can be found here.
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DA-SPACE - TRANSFERABILITY WORKSHOP IN PODGORICA/ MONTENEGRO
- 23-06-2019
One of the last activities in DA-SPACE was a transferability workshop with partners from Montenegro. Montenegro is with only 650.000 inhabitants the smallest country of the Danube region, located between the Danube river Basin and the Adriatic...
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DA-SPACE - 2nd Local Demo Day - Ulm
- 06-06-2019
Between August 2018 and January 2019 thirty Young Talents worked on eight challenges provided by local companies to learn more about the skills and mindsets of entrepreneurs. Following the principles of design thinking and lean startup the...
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DA-SPACE - CTU on the opening day of Innovation Week
- 05-06-2019
CTU participated on the opening of Innovation Week on 20 th May 2019 in Forum Karlín. Innovation talks were provided by doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of CTU and Lukáš Sedláček, founder of Innovation Week. Visitors had an opportunity to explore...
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DA-SPACE - Road Traffic Monitoring Solution for Smart Cities
- 25-05-2019
Team Traffic Watch consists of eight students from Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies (FIIT), Slovak University of Technology (STU) in Bratislava that developed the winning solution within the second cycle of the Interreg project...
