Innovative Sustainable Economy

• Grant agreement ID: Euro-MED0100007

• Total project budget: 4.999.826 €

• Start Date: 01/01/2023

  End Date: 30/09/2029

• Project website: innovative-sustainable-economy.interreg-euro-med.eu

There is multi-level growing consensus on the role of transformative place-based innovation to reach the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and create political and operational convergence to accelerate the transition of the Mediterranean region towards a green, blue, circular, and inclusive economy.

In this context, the Innovative Sustainable Economy mission of the Interreg Euro-MED Programme works to boost a fair transition to a circular economy through two governance projects that promotes innovative technical knowledge and ensure new solutions are transferred into public policies. To amplify individual thematic projects’ results and raise the overall mission impact, the mission relies on the know-how and field implementation knowledge of the Thematic Community Project along with the policy and advocacy knowledge of the Institutional Dialogue Project.

Jointly the two governance projects contribute to: i) facilitating the exploitation and REUSE of knowledge, experiences, and project results towards other stakeholders; ii) facilitating the TRANSFER of results to other stakeholders, Programmes and territories and their mainstreaming into local, regional, national, and European policies; and iii) increasing COORDINATION between stakeholders covering the Mediterranean based on shared knowledge, experiences, and results.

In particular, the Thematic Community Project (featured by the name of Community4Innovation) is developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities for the uptake of technologies in order to support the transition to a circular economy and consolidate a competitive innovation ecosystem with the 4-helix stakeholders. Therefore, Community4Innovation acts as an engaged and structured community that improves collaboration among projects, stakeholders, and relevant institutions to find solutions for common challenges and promote the transfer of novel practices to other actors and territories for their integration into policies and strategies.

Main outputs comprise the activation of a Community of Practice, starting-up and animating the Innovative Sustainable Economy Community Hub, providing capacity building, and fostering joint advocacy activities for the overall achievement of the SDGs.

The Community4Innovation consortium is integrated by 10 partners from Spain, Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, France, and Bulgaria. The Community4Innovation project is the successor of the Green Growth Community of the previous programming period Interreg MED 2014-2021, both coordinated by the BETA Technological Centre.