What We Do
Interregional Collaboration
The Vanguard Initiative is focused on building sustainable and robust European partnerships and offers fantastic opportunities to work with like-minded regions across Europe in driving innovation, entrepreneurship, research and innovation. The member regions are politically committed to implementing smart specialisation strategies, advancing technological developments through interregional collaboration, supporting demonstration and piloting of new European value-chains, and making the Vanguard Initiative a powerful force for European technological change and advancement.
Vanguard Initiative’s Smart Health Pilot’s Local Stakeholders from across Europe meet at Plenary Event in Brussels
Last Friday, the Smart Health Pilot’s plenary event was held at the House of Dutch Provinces in Brussels, in presence of representatives from the pilot’s participating regions’ ecosystems, as well
Vanguard Initiative will contribute to the newly launched S3 Community of Practice Secretariat
As a dedicated advocate of Smart Specialisation and cluster-based Interregional cooperation to foster new industrial growth in EU regions, the Vanguard Initiative is t
Annual Political Meeting 2022
On November 29, the Vanguard Initiative held its Annual Political Meeting.
VI Regions together for the last event of the VI Innovation Networking Initiative to accelerate the digital transition in health
On 15 November 2022, the Vanguard Initiative (VI) organised the closing conference of the “V
European Week of Regions and Cities: Vanguard Initiative Regions boosting the Digital Transition
The Vanguard Initiative (VI) workshop organised in the framework of the European Week of Regions and Cities, provided a valuable opportunity to discuss h
European Week of Regions and Cities: Vanguard Initiative Regions boosting the Green Transition
VI regions hosted a seminar during the European Week of Regions and Cities, to present how they lead by example in achieving the Green Transition and sup
Science meets regions - Final Event
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Science meets regions - Lower Austria
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Science meets regions - North East Romania
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New Era of Urban Safety & Security? SURE!
Over the course of more than three years, the SURE - Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience project team has gathered a wealth of knowledge and experience on urban and
