DA-SPACE Open Innovation to Raise Entrepreneurship Skills and Public Private Partnership in Danube Region

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

After five months of enhancing innovative thinking and entrepreneurship skills among young talents, an ending event of DA-SPACE Open Innovation Lab cycle at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula was held on April 5th, 2019. “Local Demo Day” gathered...

On 14th of May, during the International Demo Day, in Ulm, Germany, seven Open Innovation Labs from seven countries: Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Romania have presented their results to real...

On March 28th the Open Innovation Lab from “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati (UDJG OI Lab) gathered together 46 young talents, project team members, jury members and representatives of local media at the Faculty of Engineering (room D12) for...

After a successful three year implementation of the Danube Transnational Programme Project DA-SPACE we have shared our journey and success stories during our final conference on the 15th of May in Ulm, Germany. We could present these...

The official start of the 2nd cycle of VOICT Open Innovation Lab (OIL) was the kick-off event organized on November 14th in VOICT OIL at Business Incubator Novi Sad. After that, 28 young talents worked in 9 teams, and together with their mentors,...

The Second Local Demo Day for DA-SPACE Open Innovation Lab at CTU Prague  was held on the 16-th of April 2019. Each from nine solver teams presented the results of their work. Some of the evaluation criteria for the jury were maturity of the...

The Second Local Demo Day for DA-SPACE Open Innovation Lab at TU-Sofia was held on the 9-th of April 2019. The event joined together lab managers, current and future seekers and solvers and guests, including the Innovation Program Managers of the...

What is innovation and co-creation? How do interdisciplinary teams develop innovative ideas? How will companies remain competitive in the future? How can policy makers support these topics? The DA-SPACE Open Innovation Labs are working...

To make sure that the results of DA-SPACE project will be used also outside the DA-SPACE partners’ regions, the consortium developed a transferability concept to allow a smooth transfer of knowledge towards interested third parties. The...

A call for expression of interest was launched on October 18th and a second cycle of the VOICT OIL started after the kick-off event organized on November 14th, within the premises of ‘Business Incubator Novi Sad’ in the European Youth Capital...

The Croatian Open Innovation Lab's activities are in a full swing. After the kick-off meeting held in December, the regular meetings of the solvers and seekers have continued during December and January. On the 16th of January the first Review...

The lecture took place on 18 January 2019 on which Sanja Radolović from the JDUP presented the topic “Project Management” to the members of the TUS solver teams at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The overall objectives of...

Staff exchange is an important part of the DA-SPACE project for both the lecturers and listeners from the paticipating institutions. The lecturer is often bringing a new topic and is faced with a foreign audience speaking different language and...

On Dec. 12, 2108, at the Faculty of Engineering of UDJG, the young talents from Romania, solvers of new challenges in the frame of DA-SPACE project, met on the Training Mentors workshop with their mentors from the companies that launched...

The Open Innovation Lab of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati organized the event for the Launch and promotion of the call for expression of interest for solvers, the second edition, on November 05, 2018. The event was attended by...