Sep 19, 2024
Register! EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum: Eastern Partnership clusters
Registration is open for this year’s EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum, to be held on 9 October 2024 under the theme ‘Eastern Partnership clusters capacity building to support digital innovation’. The ICT Innovation stream of EU4Digital Facility is excited to invite policy makers, start-ups, innovation clusters and cluster management organisations, international donors, and experts in digital innovation and development to join in the event.
The 2024 EU4Digital Innovation Forum organised in cooperation with the European Clusters Alliance (ECA) will be a hybrid event, primarily online with some participants on site in Chisinau, Moldova. It will be held in parallel with the ‘Clusters Meet Regions’ event organised by the European Cluster Collaboration Platform and the EU4Moldova Focal Regions Programme.
This annual, high-level forum brings together leaders of ICT innovation and startup ecosystems from the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region, including representatives of government ministries, agencies and other experts. With a focus on a different critical aspect of the region’s ICT innovation and startup ecosystem development each year, the 2024 spotlight is on innovation clusters.
In this year’s Forum
The 2024 event will be the venue for key EU and Eastern partner policymakers and leading cluster organisations as well as international donors to share experiences and strategic plans, and to discuss challenges, cluster policy and donor support. Topics will include the evolution of innovation clusters and how to support innovation clusters in a digital economy, as well as their capacity to foster the ability of Eastern partner start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to be innovative and harness the benefits of digitalisation.
Participants in the 2024 EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum will also:
- hear results of the EU4Digital survey into the capacity of Eastern partner cluster organisations to support innovation and digitalisation;
- learn which five Eastern partner innovation clusters have been selected for EU4Digital support with the European Cluster Management Excellence benchmarking and quality labelling process;
- gain insights from participating innovation clusters about development trends and their support needs;
- hear the policy makers and donors about the innovation clusters policy and support.
Forum details and registration
- DATE: 9 October, 2024
- TIME: 9:00–14:00 CEST (Brussels)
10:00–15:00 (Moldova, Ukraine)
11:00–16:00 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) - WHERE: Online (connection link to be sent upon registration), with possibility to join physically in Chisinau, Moldova
- LANGUAGE: English
- Register for the ICT Innovation Forum!
Further information
The the ICT Innovation Forum and the new Clusters activity are part of the ICT Innovation and Start-up Ecosystems stream in EU4Digital Facility Phase II. To find out more about EU4Digital ICT Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem activities, visit our ‘Explainers’ web content and view our short video ‘This is ICT Innovation’, available in our online Library.
In case of any questions, please contact Atile Ivanovaite at Atile.Ivanovaite[at]lt.ey.com
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