At the end of February, the annual innovation week was organized by Vidzeme Planning Region where lectures, experience stories and masterclasses for entrepreneurs and business support organizations on responsible innovation were held. GoSmart BSR project was one of the key players with its powerful innovation capacity building event with lectures and workshops on innovative solutions […]

Recently, in the framework of the GoSmart BSR project, Estonian and Polish partners organized a meeting in Bialystok, Poland to meet stakeholders who are potentially interested in further cooperation. Even though entrepreneurs already have a seemingly significant range of support tools and different programs and events for networking and finding new cooperation partners, TIBS is […]

In February 2020 a meeting was held in Valga, where representatives of Valga Municipality Government, Tartu City Government, Tartu Science Park, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and Ministry of Finance were participating to discuss Estonian government’s short and long term plans. We were interested in how much and what kind of effort does Estonian […]

📉⚙ Many companies now are in a difficult situation. An innovation broker at Vidzeme Planning Region, Latvia, Ilona Platonova 🗣 invites you to look at new opportunities and offers 6 tips for business growth. Ilona, as well as other GoSmartBSR brokers, continue to work as an entrepreneur support persons, providing advisory services to SMEs on development issues remotely. 💻📲 Take the [...]

“GoSmart BSR” Steering Committee member Ms Laila Gercāne from Vidzeme Planning Region (VPR) (Latvia) attended the 12th Baltic Sea Tourism Forum and Smart Regions 3.0 Conference in Brussels to purposefully spread the word on the project’s “GoSmart BSR” outcomes. The participation in conferences provided the opportunity of networking, to join in matchmaking events with [...]

On February 25, 2020, in Madrid, Wiesław Urban, the project coordinator, at the invitation of the European Commission, presented the experience of our project and took part in a workshop discussion under the slogan Interregional Cooperation workshop, Lagging Regions. The seminar was held as part of the EC’s horizontal activities aimed at collecting the experience of […]

Currently, the economy is undergoing major structural changes. Digitization and sustainability transform entire locations and regions. Therefore, developing new strategies for networking and specialisation is of great importance. The EU Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) aims to promote the structural change towards growth, based on knowledge and innovation and in individual regions. [...]

On the 13th of February 2020, members of the Mothers in Business Kymenlaakso network visited Kouvola Innovation Oy, a dynamic development company owned by the City of Kouvola (Finland), to learn more about services provided by the company to SMEs at different stages of business growth. Marina Sorokina, a Project Manager of the GoSmart BSR […]

To identify potential co-operation models and contacts for strengthening support opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises also outside current Transnational Innovation Brokerage System (TIBS) working area, GoSmart BSR team from Vidzeme Planning Region participated in the World Latvian Economic and Innovation Forum, that took place in Valmiera, Latvia. The event, which has [...]

More than 30 entrepreneurs, united by the Valga County Business Club in Estonia, visited the industrial zone in Valka, Latvia, where they met with Latvian manufacturer “PepiRer” Ltd. and “efn Nord” Ltd. The visit was organized by Valga Municipality within the framework of the GoSmart BSR project, as one of the main objectives of it […]