NMP-REG

Additional Year of Activities After completing its run, the NMP-REG project has successfully taken part in an additional call for proposals launched by Interreg Europe, which aim is to provide new opportunities to the approved projects to exchange experiences on the way the COVID-19 crisis impacts the issue they address and to further improve their regional development policies to better face the current challenges. With the global health emergency, the NMP industry (nanotechnology & production, new, advanced materials) sought to reconfigure production complying with the new role of advanced materials in a post-Covid society. Key areas of interventions:

• Innovation climate & business eco-system
• Business R&D & innovation, including fostering Start-Ups and Gazelles
• Human Resources, skills & capacity

To reach its objectives, NMP-REG has therefore planned to implement the following work plan in 2022:

1. Examine the role of NMP in COVID recovery
2. Analyse how relevant public policies policy have evolved, learning about Good Practices and capacity building needs (using regional analysis, regional consultation)
3. Design proposals for policy change (using regional analysis, workshop)

Final results from Phases 1 and 2 The results that each region has achieved from the implementation of its Action Plan was summarized in a video that was presented during the European Week of Region and Cities 2020. NMP- REG took part in a workshop on the future of clusters in the innovation ecosystem during the week dedicated to Cohesion and Cooperation /12-16 October 2020). The workshop capitalised learnings of the 3 Interreg Europe projects involving more than 20 European regions: CLUSTERIX 2.0, ClusterFY and NMP-REG. Our stakeholders have their say We collected video interviews from our regional stakeholders and we created two videos. In the first video, the interviewees tell us why they have decided to actively participate in the project, while in the second one, our stakeholders explain what future benefits they see once the project is finished.

• Interest in NMP-REG project

• Future expectations

Background

Nano-technologies and new materials (NMP) are a cornerstone of EU policy for innovation and advanced manufacturing. As one of the Key Enabling Technologies, the EU believes that NMP can reverse negative growth trends in manufacturing and foster growth and jobs. The common challenge is to ensure that innovation actors cooperate to deliver research results to the manufacturing sector, with subsequent benefits for regional growth.

Objectives

NMP-REG groups partners from 5 European regions, who want to face this challenge together. NMP-REG works towards a medium/long-term impact of creating a regional system that can support the manufacturing sector in applying NMP research to create new products/services; create places of work; promote a market for improved and cost-efficient products.