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.
New Walloon S3 adopted by the Government
On the 19th of March 2021, the Walloon Government adopted its S3 2.0.
Supporting Pilot Project participants to collaborate
Pilots and their participants work every day to develop collaboration projects to further strengthen the value chain of their choice.
Vanguard Initiative Regional Conference: New growth of industrial regions through Smart Specialization
The Vanguard Initiative Regional Conference New growth of industrial regions through Smart Specialization
EU Industry Days: successful webinar on The Industrial Transition
The EU Industry Days webinar Regions in Industrial Transition: Making digital work for SMEs in regional innovation ecosystems organized by Th!nk East Netherlands in the framework o
The Nano Pilot is growing: three new demo-cases have been launched
The call for ideas launched in September to support the start-up of new demo-cases in the Nano Pilot has originated three proposals.
The ADMA Energy Pilot Outlines its plans for 2021
The year 2020 presented challenges through the global pandemic COVID-19.