Description
The project has two main goals: to improve the quality of higher education and offer a wider variety of university programmes in the County of Šibenik–Knin and to make Šibenik into a green innovation and industry centre of the Adriatic. The project also aims to strengthen bilateral relations between Croatia and Norway in various fields of green innovation and green industry: aquaculture, environmental protection, and sustainable energy technologies. The main measurable outcome of the project will be a projected increase in the regional development index for the County of Šibenik–Knin from the current 80.9 % to 83 % (of the overall national average). The project has 6 specific objectives in the area of research, education and technological transfer, as explained within the project proposal. The City of Šibenik will be the most obvious beneficiary of the project as it will provide three avenues to achieve its goal to become the Centre of Green Innovation and Industries of the Adriatic Region.
Summary of project results
The project is needed to improve the quality of higher education and offer a wider variety of university programmes in the County of Šibenik–Knin in order to increase the overall competitiveness index of the region as well as to make Šibenik the green innovation and industry centre of the Adriatic, a hub of international cooperation activities in the fields of research and development, knowledge and technology transfer, as well as facilitation of business partnerships. The creation of synergies between the research, education, and business sectors leaded to the establishment of the iNavis Centre for Research and Innovation as a legal entity which would provide an institutional environment where both challenges could be effectively answered and where all three sectors could be fruitfully developed. Strengthening of the bilateral relations in research, university level education, technological transfer and business cooperation between Croatia and Norway in various fields of green innovation and green industry: aquaculture, environmental protection, and sustainable energy technologies was achieved. Number of companies participating in business-to business meetings and workshops – was fully achieved -set target 15 companies achieved, and several contracts between croatian and Norwegian companies signed.
Summary of bilateral results