Three innovation support agencies jointly collaborated and implemented peer learning activities, continuously exchanging knowledge and experiences, to reach the project objectives and achieve the results during the project lifetime.
WP1. Management and communication
Project partners conducted project management, monitoring and reporting in accordance with the Horizon 2020 rules. The Consortium Agreement was prepared and signed by all three partners.
Internal communication process is conducted on a daily basis to ensure coordination and achievement of project objectives. Four partnership meetings are organized to ensure the successful implementation of the project. During the Final meeting, the partnership organized the Virtual Conference to share project results.
Partners prepared Dissemination and Exploitation Plan. External communication to local/regional stakeholders was implemented via several communication tools; Virtual Conference, regular publishing of information on partners’ websites, sharing information via social networks and media. Partnership also developed the Data Management Plan specifying content regarding types of data that the project will generate and collect.
Deliverables: 1.1 Consortium Agreement, 1.2 Dissemination and Exploitation Plan, 1.3 Data Management Plan.
WP2. Learning process
Peer learning is implemented through sharing of experiences and regional best practices among the project partners. Good practices visits in all three countries are realized during the partnership meetings. Project partners also analyzed third parties’ solutions (e.g. studies, project results, literature etc.) and lessons learned within this process are used. Based on joint learning process the INNO GREEN model is developed, offering different approaches adapted to specific regions’ characteristics, for an innovation increase by SMEs “going green”. At the end of the learning process three pilot projects are performed, one in the region of each participating partner, with the aim of testing the proposed model in real-life situations with different backgrounds. Pilot actions will be implemented with local SMEs in order to gain feedback on the model’s assumptions. Implemented pilot projects are described in the Report on the pilot projects.
Deliverables: 2.1 Draft INNO GREEN model, 2.2 Report on the pilot projects.
WP3. Preparation of the Design Options Paper
Under the guidance of the RDA Green Karst, the project partners started the development and preparation of the Design Option Paper. The Design Options Paper document is based on the outcomes of the peer learning process (see WP2). It includes the INNO GREEN model as an innovative tool to support SMEs in “green” entrepreneurship and experiences from implementation of pilot actions. During the Final Partnership Meeting, a Virtual Conference is organized by the partnership, raising discussion on the project’s results to relevant stakeholders on regional, national and EU level. The INNO GREEN model and Design Option Paper are presented to representatives of other business innovation agencies and experts. The Design Options Paper is further developed and improved based on the feedback gained during the Virtual conference. The final version of the Design Options Paper will be used to share the knowledge gained within the project with other interested innovation agencies and other stakeholders.
Deliverables 3.1 The INNO GREE Design Options Paper.
