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Future RIS3 includes skills development, industrial transition and entrepreneurship

Brussels, 14/11/2018.

EURADA reports that Katja Reppel, Deputy Head of Unit Unit G1 - Smart and Sustainable Growth (DG REGIO), has explained the recent proposal of the Comission regarding to the structural funds chapter and the future of the research and innovation strategies for smart specialization in a conference held in SOST-CDTI premises in Brussels about the future of the Cohesion Policy in the period 2021-2027, 

Reunión en SOST, Bruselas

The Smart Specialisation Strategies will apply only to the first policy objective, a smarter Europe. It has been now incorporated in a new one focused on developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship. This is a novelty, because we are talking about skills and education, something that was included until now mainly in the Social Fund; if the proposal is approved, the ERDF will support training, lifelong learning and professional education activities.

Ex-ante conditionalities now are transformed into enabling conditions; this means that the proposed regulation will assure the application of the condition during the entire new programming period (not only as a condition that has to be done just before the start of the Operational Programme).

Regarding to the management of the S3, a specific body will be created, due to the fact that one-per-year steering committee meetings is something that has not worked effectively.

The Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) will continue to have relevance, its effectiveness has been included specifically as part of the proposed regulation and it can be financed by ERDF.

In the new RIS3 will be of high importance the industrial transition, much more than research and innovation as it was in the current programming period. This is meant to help companies, specially SMEs, inasmuch as this kind of companies do not use to invest in research.