A series of online workshops on priority domains of Slovenian Smart Specialisation Strategy have been held by the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy as part of the exercise of preparing an updated Smart Specialisation Strategy for the upcoming programming period 2021-2027 on the basis of entrepreneurial discovery process.
A total of 10 workshops took place between 26 March and 19 April 2021. The kick-off workshop focused on presenting the process of updating Slovenian Smart Specialisation Strategy (S4) and outlining the relevant expert and programme bases of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, the Ministry of Public Administration, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy that the updating exercise should build on.
At the nine domain- or sector-specific online workshops that followed coordinators and beneficiaries of the Strategic Research and Innovation Partnerships (SRIPs) outlined the scope and objective of the work to be carried out under the workshops, whereas representatives from SRIPs put forward concrete proposals for new focus areas and product lines under each priority domain; these were the result of the previous stages of the entrepreneurial discovery process. The scheduled presentations and the group discussion that followed afterwards gave the stakeholders an opportunity to share their views and insights on current priority domains, focus areas and product lines, and to propose new ones.
The workshops were widely attended, bringing together over 900 stakeholders from the business sector, public and private institutions, associations and societies, government departments and other spheres. The events were recorded; anyone who missed them and is interested in the discussion and conclusions can access workshop video recordings on our YouTube channel (here).
All presentations and workshop videos are available on our dedicated website:
Kick-off workshop: 26 March 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Materials as end products: 29 March 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Mobility: 31 March 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Health - Medicine: 2 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Factories of the future: 7 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Sustainable tourism: 9 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Sustainable food production: 12 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Network for transition to circular economy: 14 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Smart buildings and home including wood chain: 15 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
Smart cities and communities and horizontal ICT network: 19 April 2021 (Presentations, Video)
While open workshops on proposed priority domains, focus areas and product lines of the updated S4 have already finished, the stakeholders are still invited to submit their proposals, views and questions at [email protected] to actively participate in the shaping of the updated S4. At the end of the day, entrepreneurial discovery process is, and should be, a continuous, open, inclusive and meaningful multi-stakeholder process.