STARS EU Partner Regions

The partner HEIs teachers’ and researchers’ communities focus on three common priority areas, through joint research and educational activities. Each partner HEI is located in a non-capital European region, and contributes to implementation of the regional smart specialization strategy (S3).The nine regions under consideration are: Västra Götaland, Portugal Norte, Noord-Nederland, Bremen, Malopolskie,Canarias, Moravian-Silesian, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,  Albania. STARS EU aims to capitalize on the partner regional strengths, but also to identify needs for academic support to skills and knowledge development, as well as opportunities for innovation regarding regional transitions, through a cross-sectoral interregional approach, building on the partner HEIs’ strengths. Starting from the S3 as place-based approaches, the STARS EU partners build on the assets and resources available in each partner region and on their specific socio-economic challenges, in order to focus on the opportunities for cross-sectoral and inter regional approaches to address the STARS EU priority areas and efficiently connect. An in-depth assessment of the S3 of the partners’ hosting regions has been carried out and can be found at here