Final Information and Dissemination Event of the project Design4Innovation
The final awareness event for Design4Innovation was held on the 6th of October 2021 in the Silesian Stadium (Katowice, Poland). The event targeted at the dissemination of the project’s results and outcomes and was part of a larger event, the European Future Forum, which supported several events on the future of the European Funds. During the event on Design4Innovation, the representatives of Silesia (Partner in the project) presented the evaluation of the previous RIS and the basic structure and priorities of the new one. The next session was dedicated to the presentation of the project and its results, followed by a live discussion among the stakeholders on their experience and benefits for their participation in Design4innovation. The Greek side was represented by Mr Gongolidis V. from the Department of Design and Programming of the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation. In his speech, Mr Gongolidis mentioned the improvements on the Action “Research-Create0Innovate”, which took place as a result of the project activities and referred to the good practices where Design Thinking allowed for innovation to enter traditionally mainstream SMEs. Finally, it is important to stress the fact that the participation was high, as was the interest as well, considering the size of the event and the variety of parallel sub-events.