We welcome you to apply to the Call for Expression of Interest for new partnerships.
Regional authorities and/or quadruple helix actors with a mandate from their regional authority can also get involved by expressing interest to form a new partnership together with other regions.
Five main elements should be considered when aiming to set up a new partnership:
The application form to set up a new partnership is open continuously via an online application form on the S3 Community of Practice Website. Two cut-off dates for applications are applied each year, with the next cut-off date scheduled for 29 March 2024
Link to Expression of Interest via EU Survey is available here
A guidance report to support the preparation of an application is found below.
The expressions of interest will be assessed based on the following criteria to assess the partnership proposals:
Building upon the above criteria, the expression of interest will be assessed together with the S3 CoP Secretariat, DG Regio and the responsible thematic DGs. Promising partnerships will have a meeting to discuss their aims, objectives, regions participating and goals for their work together as well as potential demonstration cases, and vision for commercialisation and scale-up. Following the meeting DG Regio will take the final decision on the selection of new partnerships. Each partnership will receive information about the outcome of their expression of interest within three months of the deadline.