{"id":277,"date":"2020-04-22T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bioeconomy.sk\/en\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:44:43","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bioeconomy.sk\/en\/projects\/chain-reactions\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"277\" class=\"elementor elementor-277\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5c22b3fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5c22b3fe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3bae291d\" data-id=\"3bae291d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3346bd18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3346bd18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interreg-central.eu\/Content.Node\/Chain-reactions\/Press-release.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Check out the latest press release of CHAIN REACTIONS!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The area of central Europe is well industrialised but not fully using the innovation potential generated by large leading corporations\u2019 headquarters with strong research and development activities. As a result, the local small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) show rather low performances in the indicator \u201cinnovating in-house and with others\u201d as measured by the European Innovation Scoreboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: HU;\">CHAIN REACTIONS<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> project aims to increase the capacity of industrial businesses to innovate. The idea is to absorb new knowledge and turn it into competitiveness edge and business value, growth and profits.\u00a0There is especially a need to help SMEs to overcome operational stress and a capacity shortage with respect to innovation as well as a stronger integration into emerging transnational and global value chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: HU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The project focuses on a few key sectors based on their embedding in regional smart specialisation strategies: advanced manufacturing, ICT and electronics, energy and environment, health, bioeconomy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: HU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Read through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interreg-central.eu\/Content.Node\/Chain-reactions\/Press-release.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release of CHAIN REACTIONS<\/a>\u00a0and learn about successful pilot activities of the project!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: HU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Response to the COVID-19 situation by the INTERREG project CHAIN REACTIONS published as a best practice at the COVID-19 Forum on European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clustercollaboration.eu\/forum\/best-practices-sharing\/covid-19-impacts-reflected-running-interreg-project\">COVID-19 impacts reflected in running INTERREG Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As agreed during the online Steering Committee meeting on 21<sup>st<\/sup> April 2020, INTERREG project CHAIN REACTIONS that<br \/>aims on \u201c<em>Driving smart industrial growth through value chain innovation\u201d<\/em>, will adjust its activities in order to reflect the current COVID-19 situation and potential impacts on value chains in the Central Europe region.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The project deals with five key sectors based on their embedding in regional smart specialization strategies. These include advanced manufacturing, ICT and electronics, energy and environment, health and bioeconomy. Pandemics COVID-19<br \/>will have strong effect on all mentioned sectors and so international partnership agreed to focus on such effects and impacts on value chains during implementation of their pilot activities. Partners responsible for individual sectors will assess potential impact of new situation on value chains and propose solutions through various business models.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>COVID-19 Forum for Industrial Cluster Actors allows you to share your needs, offers, questions, experiences and solutions with the community. This forum is open to all registered users of the European Cluster Collaboration Platform. 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