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Attention to all creative enthusiastics – Hacker Games are coming back in Klaipėda on October 26-28th!
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Hacker Games is an event where you are able to realize all innovate ideas of marketing, engineering, programming and other fields in order to build it as a startup. High qualified mentors will help you brainstorm, solve and create during many working sessions.
If you are interested in this opportunity, don’t hesitate and take part in the event with your team!
Register your team: https://goo.gl/UgbZpf
More information: http://hackergames.lt/
Klaipeda Science Technology Park together with Western Baltic Engineering organised a workshop “3D Scanning for digitalization of shipyard processes”. The event took place in Klaipėda on 21-23 August, 2018.
The aim of the workshop was to share expertise, data and knowledge on how 3D scanning can be applied in the shipyards.
How can a city become smarter? What makes places attractive to global talent? How to improve public space and reduce segregation?
The world is experiencing growing urbanization. Although most of the growth comes from Asia and Africa, we can still see this process going on in already urbanized Europe. The growing population in the cities affects the access to public services, puts heavy pressure on public infrastructure and affects the overall living environment.
At the same time, the population in Europe is ageing which means that countries, regions and cities in Europe must compete for global talent if they want to remain competitive on the global scale. Cities in Europe are also seeing the moral and physical decay of dormitory districts built after WWII, the most likely destinations for minority groups and people with a lower socioeconomic background. Because of this trend, cities in Europe are also seeing growing segregation and are in front of the question of how to address the dwellers that live in these districts and improve the overall living environment of these districts. These are the topics that Tallinn Innovation Camp wants to address because Tallinn is not an exception here.
Challenges of the camp:
1) How to increase citizen participation and promote co-creation to improve the living environment and quality of life?
2) How to smarten up the region?
Tallinn Innovation Camp is organized by Tallinn City Enterprise Department in collaboration with Aalto University and Tallinn University of Technology.
More information and registration
Klaipeda Science Technology Park together with Western Baltic Engineering are organizing a workshop “3D Scanning for digitalization of shipyard processes”. The event will take place in Klaipėda on 21-23 August, 2018.
The aim of the workshop is to share expertise, data and knowledge on how 3D scanning can be applied in the shipyards, to gain efficiency and improve competitiveness by:
• Quality and availability of digital data
• Less human resources for surveys and inspections
• Improving project quality
• Less dry-docking time
During the workshop there will be a possibility to obtain practical training on 3D scanning procedures in shipyard and to discuss, the 3D scanning application with the experts and technology providers.
Register here by 17th of August
The short film about the activities of the ReforB project LLI 143 was designed to attract the attention of the target audience from Latvia and Lithuania to the illustrative and attractive project.
At the beginning of the story, the problem that young people are facing and what it would take to participate in the project activities and what it gives for start a business is emphasized. At the end of the story, the benefits of business seminars and games that give not only ideas, advice and inspiration to business, but also give a sense of community and team spirit are highlighted. Take part! Enjoy! Be ready for business!
Eco-efficiency and digitalisation in the shipping industry in the Baltic Sea region will be at the focal point in a seminar organised by ECOPRODIGI project on 24 October 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In October, it will be a year since ECOPRODIGI project consortium started working for more eco-efficient and digitalised shipping sector in the Baltic Sea region. The seminar titled “Heading towards digital and eco-efficient shipping in the Baltic Sea region” will present the objectives and first findings of the project.
In addition, the two key themes of the project, digitalisation and eco-efficiency, will be featured in two interesting keynote speeches as well as in two panel discussions.
As a confirmed keynote CEO Lars Jensen from Seaintelligence Consulting will touch upon the requirements for the shipping industry for succeeding in digital transition.
The seminar will bring together academic researchers, industry end-users and policy-makers, who all have a crucial role in shaping the future of shipping in the Baltic Sea region.
The programme for the one-day event will be published and registration will open in August-September 2018.
Follow the news about the seminar at ECOPRODIGI website and Twitter, @ECOPRODIGI_BSR!
MORE INFORMATION
For seminar arrangements and programme:
Miitta Eronen
ECOPRODIGI Communications Manager
miitta.eronen@centrumbalticum.org
+358 (0)40 509 6444
For project contents:
Milla Harju
ECOPRODIGI Project Manager
+358 (0)50 505 8625
Smart-Up BSR Mini-Camp in Palanga-Klaipeda, organized jointly by Aalto University, MITA – Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology and Klaipeda Science And Technology Park, on 13-15 June 2018 brought together a group of about 30 dynamic professionals from Baltic Sea harbor areas, universities, cities & municipalities to innovate solutions for grand societal challenges, sustainable port development and sustainable future in Baltic Region.
First results of the working groups are roadmaps for continuing the innovation process in full-scale innovation camps at Tallinn (September 2018) and Brandenburg (November 2018).
The working group on promoting inter-regional collaboration worked around the questions like:
- How to engage and collaborate across regional borders in Baltic Sea Region?
- How to create and develop the spearhead initiatives together in the macro-region?
Successful interregional collaboration includes issues of trust, bridging different business models, finding appropriate partners, collaborating with ‘competitors’, and citizen and stakeholder engagement. If these and other issues are successfully addressed, this project can demonstrate that the BSR is a vital and dynamic idea.
The working group came up with diverse open questions, Big Ideas, and proposals for action. Among the Big Ideas are the importance of mobilizing political leadership, using Associate Partners as resources, and sharing expensive technologies across the BSR.
The five initial proposals for action in Baltic Sea Region:
- Gdansk – Helsinki: explore how to develop a collaborative Maritime Incubator
- Klaipeda – Riga (Univ. Of Latvia): explore possibilities for University collaborations
- Kotka-Brandenburg: co-create business opportunities with recycled materials
- Kotka – Brandenburg: explore how Potsdam Science hub and Kotka’s Acceleration programme can leverage strengths of BSR universities for start-up support
- Kotka – Brandenburg: leverage strengths of BSR Gaming industries in collaboration without competition
The working group on grand societal challenges tackled the question of:
How could smart specialisation approach contribute to solving grand societal challenges?
Smart sustainable cities are the vision and future epicentres for human activities, initiatives, and projects for addressing the grand societal challenges. But lack of awareness and collaboration between different stakeholder groups is a major obstacle undermining sustainable development and cooperation. Smart specialisation approach offers the quadruple helix as a base for more open collaboration.
The working group outlined the key questions for the roadmap of building a smart city:
What is a smart city? What are the indicators for measuring “smartness” and progress? How can a smart sustainable city ensure well-being of its inhabitants?
The results of the working group focus on developing several key elements of the smart cities:
- platforms for citizen participation;
- innovation units for rapid experimenting;
- communication strategy to overcome the divide between the stakeholders.
In the context of Baltic Sea Region, the working group developed a question for addressing in the upcoming innovation camps:
How can a smart city connect and support a smart region?
Klaipeda region brought forward their regional challenge to become a competitive and sustainable port – an important part of Lithuanian national economy:
- How to flexibly transform local maritime industries in tune with global digitization and automation trends?
- How to find its own niche and competitive advantage?
- How to reach stakeholder consensus locally and lobby on national level?
The Mini-Camp started with a visit to Western Baltija Shipbuilding to get the insights on maritime industry development at Klaipeda region.
The working group on Klaipeda regional challenge outlined the importance of joining different key actors to promote and work with maritime industry. This should help to have a critical mass to get maritime industry on national smart specialisation strategy. The working group developed a roadmap for linking maritime industry to RIS3 priority areas:
- Finding key players
- Preparing pitches for industries connected with maritime
- Business cases
- Clustering
- Changing mindsets: e.g. by shock therapy – what if Lithuania had NO maritime industry?
Solving Grand Societal Challenges for Sustainable Future in BSR
come get inspired | come learn | come get smarter
June 13-15, 2018, Palanga-Klaipeda, Lithuania
How to tackle grand societal challenges like climate change and healthy ageing via smart specialisation in Baltic Sea Region? How to promote circular economy? And how to attract relevant businesses inclusively?
Smart-Up BSR Mini-Camp in Palanga-Klaipeda, organized jointly by Aalto University, MITA Science Agency and Klaipeda Science And Technology Park, brings together a group of about 30 dynamic professionals from Baltic Sea harbor areas, universities, cities & municipalities to innovate solutions for grand societal challenges, sustainable port development and sustainable future in Baltic Region.
Klaipeda region opens up on its regional challenge to become a competitive and sustainable port – an important part of Lithuanian national economy. How to flexibly transform local maritime industries in tune with global digitization and automation trends? How to find its own niche and competitive advantage? How to reach stakeholder consensus locally and lobby on national level?
The Mini-Camp starts with a visit to Western Baltija Shipbuilding to get the insights on maritime industry development at Klaipeda region. Three working groups in Smart-Up BSR Mini-Camp will focus to explore the Klaipeda challenge, and the broader context of how to address grand societal challenges through smart specialization and inter-regional collaboration.
Stay tuned to learn about the outcomes of the Mini-Camp in Palanga-Klaipeda!
Click to see more information abour Smart-up BSR project
Marine or „blue“ biotechnology is a young field of modern biotechnology, based, upon well established traditions of basic science at universities of the Northern European shores. With the rise of the blue biotech business sector, biological ressources from marine habitats become more and more interesting.
Due to their ability to adapt to harsh ocean environments, marine organisms are a promising source for new medical drugs, new enzymes for food and feed production and provide alternative ways of producing chemicals. Newest results in basic and applied science and successful results of economic implementation will be showcased.
The conference is part of the project „Baltic Blue Biotech Alliance“, funded by EU INTERREG BSR. The initiative represents a step forward in the implementation of the BLUE GROWTH strategy of the European Union. Up to 120 scientists, entrepreneurs and stakeholders from the public and the private sector will attend.
There is no registration fee for your participation.
