Explore the ultimate guide on place-based transformation
A hands-on resource set to empower local, regional and national stakeholders to drive societal well-being and climate-resilient development through strategic partnerships.
Initiatives taken around Europe with different degrees of transformative innovation.
Discover a collection of tools for taking action towards place-based transformations.
Projects
This call aims to facilitate and promote the transformative innovation approach by awareness raising, capacity building, and experimentation activities with selected participants.
An Exploratory Research Activity that aims to research how regional innovation policies can effectively leverage the dual-use and defence industry.
Place-based transformative innovation can help accelerating the adaptation of the EU and its territories to the impacts of climate change.
This project considers how higher education can support systems change, what skills are required and how this can be made a reality in EU territories.
POLYTRoPOS project aims to build the knowledge base, investigate the feasibility and demonstrate the potential policy applications of System Dynamics (SD) in the area of system-level innovation.
This Pilot action project saw the voluntary participation of 74 European territories to learn more on place-based transformative innovation policies.
Transforming Territories Working Paper Series
This JRC Working Paper Series collects scientific contributions with high policy relevance specifically for a better understanding of place-based transformative innovation.
It aims to bring new perspectives to both the design and implementation of approaches for systems change and the role of places, and point out their relevance for the European policy agenda of prosperity, security and democracy, with a particular focus on competitiveness in the twin transition.
Other publications
JRC Technical report introducing a POLYvalent system dynamics model for the ex ante evaluation of TRansformative POlicy Scenarios (POLYTRoPOS).
An analysis of ERDF and RRF support for S3 skills in the 2021-2027 programming period
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JRC Working Paper Series on Transforming Territories N° 01/2024 – Transition to sustainability in the European Union Aviation System - Revealing the Significance of the Place-Based Dimension of European Aviation Transition Policies
This report explores the varying role of strengthening HEI’s contribution to and participation in territorial transformation, and aligning the different university missions to connect HEI entrepreneurship and innovation to the territory.
The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) creates a regulatory framework to boost the competitiveness of EU industry and technologies crucial for decarbonisation.
An analysis of ERDF and ESF support for S3 skills in the 2014-2020 programming period.