Vanguard Initiative, jointly with the VI Regions East Netherlands, Asturias, Baden Württemberg, East and North Finland, Emilia Romagna, Scotland, Slovenia, and South Netherlands is organising the eventConnecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems: Interregional Value Chains to spur the Digital transitio…
The European Commission is reviving the debate on “technology infrastructures”: their definition and possibly their financing. A highly relevant debate for Vanguard Initiative, and more in particular the demonstration facilities we integrate into our Pilot Projects’ activities. VI is teaming up in t…
Pilots and their participants work every day to develop collaboration projects to further strengthen the value chain of their choice. In order to guide them to existing and upcoming implementation support, Vanguard Initiative launched earlier polls to EDIHs situated in VI regions. which you can stil…
Many projects’ generations, B2B connections and expertise/experience sharing during the latest 3DP Pilot Plenary Meeting!On the 6th and 7th of July 2021, the 3DP Pilot held his 13th Plenary Meeting and for the first time ever, the dense programme was spread over 2 days. The event gathered more than …
The Atlantic Maritime Strategy was adopted in 2011 to support the sustainable development of the blue economy in the EU Member States bordering the Atlantic Ocean. In 2013, the European Commission presented the Atlantic Action Plan to implement the strategy. The revised Atlantic Action Plan 2.0 was …
The AI Pilot has officially held its kick-off meeting on Monday, 17th May 2021, and presented its vision and its activities for 2021 to more than 100 participants attending the online event.The day was opened by the welcome speeches from representatives of the coordinating Regions – Prof. Paola Salo…
On the 30th of June was held the Mid Term event of the Digital Transformation demo-case, co-coordinated by Sergio Gusmeroli (Politecnico di Milano, Lombardy), Coed de Graaf (Province of Noord-Brabant, South Netherlands), and Minna Lanz (TUT, Tampere). The demo-case is aimed at validating and demonst…
The ADMA Energy partners meeting on 17 May focussed on progressing the proposed actions and activities for 2021, related to the demo case development and networking activities. Notably, the meeting featured a presentation on the European Innovation Council (EIC) by Francesco Matteucci (European Comm…
On 17 June, the directors from the Vanguard Initiative’s member regions met online for the High-Level Directors’ Meeting of 2021. During the meeting, the directors participated in fruitful discussions on the future development of the network and engaged with speakers from the European Commission and…
The first meeting of the Expert Group which will assist the EC in the I3 work programme preparation took place on the 15th of June. It allowed the first exchange of views on this new instrument’s draft work programme 2021-2022.VI is represented by Wim de Kinderen, from South Netherlands, who has bee…
On June 3rd, 2021 from 10:00 to12:00 CEST the 3DP PAN EU project will organise a webinar onAdditive Manufacturing in the EU: Report on the European Demonstration 3D Printing Industry. During this webinar we will present the preliminary results of the study on the additive manufacturing landscape und…
The 3DP Pilot Demo Case focusing on ‘AM in the Built Environment’ (led by the region South-Netherlands) aims at further deploying the use of 3D Printing in the construction sector and recent evolutions in the region further confirmed the high potential of the ‘AM in Built’ field. Indeed, as reported…