GreenStep

Green, digital and sustainable transition for technology and process optimisation in Energy-Intensive-Industries (EIIs)

GreenStep: Empowering Innovation, Collaboration, and Sustainability Across Europe’s Diverse Regions

GreenStep is a transformative project aimed at empowering capacity in less developed regions by fostering collaboration,
knowledge-sharing, green and digital transitions, and alignment of S3 strategies leading to enhanced innovation and
economic growth. GreenStep will lay the foundations for long-term collaboration among Q-helix stakeholders in Energy-Intensive-Industries (EIIs) value chains bringing together 8 regions (3 less developed, 2 transition, 1 outermost, and
2 more developed regions) from 6 different countries.

The highly skilled and complementary consortium is formed by 5 clusters, 2 universities, 2 companies, and 1 government body, operating as a cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and interregional network whose expertise ensures GreenStep commitment to excellence. Through interregional cooperation and investments, GreenStep aims to fortify regional innovation ecosystems and EIIs value chains through stakeholder engagement at multiple levels to ensure a broad impact.

For this, a solid project methodology has been designed as 5 progressive steps complementing and nurturing each other. The logic starts with analysing S3 strategies and innovation ecosystems within the project regions (WP3), to provide the information needed to build the bridge between them and create the GreenStep Ecosystem (WP4). Concrete actions to connect the Q-helix stakeholders broadening networks and strengthening cooperation (WP5) will take place, laying the basis to promote interregional investment projects (WP7). A roadmap to ensure the project’s long-term sustainability will be designed, moving the interregional investment projects to the next level (WP6). This framework will be structured around the GreenStep Platform an “out of the box” way of thinking in which the Q-helix in the region exchanges strategies, challenges, and needs, being the core of the project’s long-term sustainability. GreenStep is supposed to be a step forward in contributing to a more inclusive European innovation landscape.

Funding

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Read more about EISMEA here.

Duration

01/11/2024 – 31/10/2026

Budget

1.339.382,00 EUR

Partner

• Nanoprogress (lead partner)

• Archipielago Next

• Agentura regionálního rozvoje spol. s r.o.

• Cluster for the efficient use of water

• FEMETALiNDUSTRY

• Kaunas University of Technology

• Mazovia Cluster ICT

• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação

• Technical University of Liberec