Duration: August 2019 – January 2023
Call: 4° call, Interreg Europe 2014-2020
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Budget: 1,358,584.00 €
Website: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/next2met/
The Next2Met project was funded by the fourth Interreg Europe call. It lasts for 3.5 years, from 1 August 2019.
The Lead Partner of the project is the Regional Council of Päijät-Häme (RCPH – Finland). The other partners come from regions:
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Austria
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Spain
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Poland
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Germany
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Ireland
The project also involves a French Advisory Partner.
Objective of the project
Next2Met is an interregional exchange project with a clear challenge and some proposals for policy related solutions. The challenge is how to increase attractiveness, for knowledge, opportunities and capital, of territories located close to metropolitan areas. These areas have insufficient tools to keep experienced SMEs and well-educated people in the region and the critical mass of RDI is not sufficiently strong compared to the capital region.
Next2Met proposes solutions that can be broken down into 3 parts:
- strengthening capacity of priority sectors (RIS3) to differentiate regional offer
- using innovation in soft digitalisation measures to support capacity of priority sectors to attract knowledge, opportunities and capital;
- ensuring cooperation along the innovation chain, to develop and apply soft digitalisation measures in priority sectors, to attract knowledge, opportunities and capital.
Next2Met’s partners work to improve 4 ERDF Operational Programmes and 2 local instruments. The project will create a policy framework in participating regions that focuses financial resources and innovation chain activities on promoting regional attractiveness. It creates the conditions to design, develop and commercialise digitalisation products and services that help regional priority sectors to become the unique selling point of these next to metropolitan areas.
The role of Resolvo
Resolvo supported RCPH in the preparation of the successful project application. Resolvo supports the Lead Partner in project management and in methodological project development.
