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.
Future of Vanguard Task Group meeting
Future of VI task group organized on April the 1st a session about the future of VI.
Emilia-Romagna Region and Lombardy Region new co-leads for ADMA
The energy transition and a rapid shift towards a more distributed renewable energy production system call for urgent actions.
Circular Economy in Textile Sector: Expression of Interest
During the 2021 ESM Plenary event, Slovenia presented the "Circular Economy in Textile Secto
Science meets Regions - Launch event
On 3 March took place the launch event of the Vanguard Initiative Innovation Networking Initiative (VI INI) series ov events organised in the framework of the Science meets Regions program
ADMA Energy takes part in the webinar “Offshore Renewable Energy: emerging opportunities for the offshore industry”
On November 9th, ART-ER (the business development agency of Emilia Romagna) in collaboration wit
Technical Assistance Facility for Industrial Modernisation and Investment (TAF) - Final Conference
"Creating successful interregional investment projects - learning from experiences on the TAF initiative to modernise Europe's industries through cooperation
Vanguard Initiative General Assembly
The next Vanguard Initiative General Assembly (GA) will take place on 28 October from 14.00 to 16.40.
ISLANDS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES - Transitioning to Net Zero
As part of EU Sustainable Energy Week 2021, Scotland House Brussels is delighted to invite you to the last in
EWRC: Connecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems: Interregional Value Chains to spur the Digital transition
Vanguard Initiative, jointly with the VI Regions East Netherlands, Asturias, Baden Württemberg, East and North Finland, Emilia Romagna, Scotland, Slovenia, and South Neth
VI Regional Conference "Connecting innovation strengths across regions: a place-based approach to stronger European
The recording of the event and the presentations ara available here