Capacity building and Experimentation for Innovation for Place-based Transformation

The aim of this contract is to develop and implement an integrated set of activities for equipping European practitioners and policy makers from EU and third countries associated to the programme Horizon Europe with the resources needed to design and implement innovation policies for place-based transformation in the frame of the “Innovation for place based transformation” initiative supported by the European Parliament, with the aim to: 1. Reinforce territorial capacities for transformative innovation policies by developing and delivering a Capacity Building programme; 2. Support a place-based transformative innovation policy experimentation arena, where territories can jointly engage into different thematic policy Experimentations Journeys, based around common challenges. To achieve these objectives the following activities are foreseen in the contract: • To design, develop and deliver a modular training and coaching package (capacity building) targeted to national, local and regional administrations, and their territorial stakeholders (business sector, academia and citizens representatives) from the EU and third countries associated to Horizon Europe. • To design and facilitate transformative innovation expertise and logistic for the support of a minimum 6 Experimentation Journeys (experimentation activities) to be proposed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC) based on the analysis of the received expression of interest by participating territories; • The modular trainings and coaching package and the Experimentation Journeys must be designed to provide a self-standing experience for those taking part in one of the two, and a coordinated experience to those attending both. • In addition, the contractor will undertake the following activities: management and organisation of events, including logistics, (online, in presence and hybrid), continuous engagement and communication with participants; and coordinating all activities related to Capacity Building and Experimentation Journeys in close collaboration with EC-JRC.