Innovative Sustainable Economy Community Hub
Imagine a vibrant community of like-minded individuals coming from the entire Mediterranean region, each with different knowledge and expertise but connected and engaged to drive a shared mission: to boost a fair transition to sustainable economy through transformative innovation in the Mediterranean basin. This is what we aim to do with the creation of the Innovative Sustainable Economy Community Hub: a virtual place where it will be possible to connect, closely collaborate, and be a reference community for all mediterranean stakeholders interested in the Innovative Sustainable Economy Mission.
The Hub will be officially launched in September 2024; we are now in the development process. By expressing your interest, you can become part of the consultation process that will take place in March 2024 and help us co-design strategic parts of this Hub according to your needs and interests. In this page you will be able to find all the updated information on the initiative.
The Hub in a Nutshell:
The Innovative Sustainable Economy Community (ISEC) Hub will function as a community of organizations and individuals: the Hub will unite the Quadruple Helix of Mediterranean stakeholders from the North, East, West, and South and aims to become a dynamic space at the forefront of transformative innovation in the Euro-Mediterranean region. This collaborative effort is dedicated to advancing the goals of the Interreg Euro-MED Mission on Innovative Sustainable Economy.
Our Vision:
The ISEC Hub serves, among others, as the nexus for Mission actors and external contributors. It will be supported by diversified online tools, fostering continuous engagement and interaction. This space will serve to connect stakeholders, facilitating exchanges and interactions, and to promote co-ownership of the ISE Mission’s activities by the community. Here, you can stay informed about our ongoing activities, receive concrete collaboration prospects, and offer your input by sharing your regional challenges, knowledge gaps, capacity requirements, as well as your priorities, events, and initiatives, contributing to our collective dialogue.
We have identified four pillars that will guide and support the Hub: Connect, Learn, Share and Collaborate. With these pillars, you will be able to:
- Connect with other like-minded people within the Mediterranean critical mass following the Innovative Sustainable Economy Mission;
- Learn about existing innovative tools, solutions, and policy approaches to drive innovation in your territories;
- Share and read relevant news, institutional developments, events, and collaboration opportunities;
- Collaborate with other stakeholders, to exchange on territorial challenges and other collaboration prospects.
Become a Hub Ambassador:
Your interest and participation are pivotal in shaping the Innovative Sustainable Economy Community Hub. As Hub Ambassador, you will be part of the first members of the Hub, helping to define the Hub’s direction and activities. Let’s unite Mediterranean stakeholders, foster learning, share experiences, and collaborate for a sustainable future. Become an Innovation Ambassador and lead the charge towards an Innovative Sustainable Economy in the Mediterranean. Take this chance to be part of the change and shape the ISEC Hub together!
By signing the form below, you will receive a link to connect to the consultation process, an online workshop taking place on the 26th of March 2024 (10.30h-12.00 CET), and other updates on the next steps of the Hub:
Connect
Create and connect a community of actors acting for the transition towards an Innovative Sustainable Economy in the Mediterranean region. It is in the heart of the ISEC Hub to bring together like-minded organizations and individuals that share the Mission’s goals. The connection effort is two folded: to connect the critical mass (the Mission stakeholders) with the governance projects but, most importantly, to connect the members of the critical mass among them so to facilitate their dialogue and collaboration.
Online Networking Directory
With KUMU Platform: a quick-access, user-friendly virtual space highlighting each members’ areas of interest, possible expertise, collaborative potential and first-level contact details. Use it for consultation and partners’ search.
Online Interactive Space
LinkedIn Group: a vibrant online interaction forum for partners to communicate, ask, propose and disseminate about their own innovation work in the Mediterranean region. Use it for interaction and dissemination
Learn
A place to provide and share knowledge, enriched by a broad Mediterranean community of stakeholders involved in the Mission.
Capacity building and strengthening programs
Access to webinars, modules, and other training products, many of which identified via the other Pillars. Online form to facilitate the identification of capacity building needs.
Tailored-made mentoring programs
Mentorings as good practices and outputs replicated in other regions. Online form to facilitate the identification of beneficiaries.
Share
After connecting the critical mass the next natural step is to facilitate the dialogue and the exchange. Being one of the most transversal pillars, this pillar facilitates the exchange of information and opportunities to further collaborate.
Knowledge Sharing Space
MIRO board: an open-access, user-friendly sharing space to facilitate the exchange of information and opportunities to further collaborate. Use it to support and articulate other pillars linked with technical activities, depending on the preferences of the members and the nature of the topics being covered, mainly driven by the thematic tackled by the Thematic Projects. From asynchronous comments to dedicated workshops.
Rolling Calendar of evente and synergistic opportunities
Calendar: centralised sharing space of Euro-MED events and synergistic opportunities regarding the Mission scope (Blue and Green Economies). New non-existent service.
Collaborate
Collaborative design and experimentation is the natural continuation of the networks and groups created through the Connect, Learn and Share Pillars. Therefore, collaborate is crucial to keep the members engaged and interested, giving the opportunity to build something together as a community therefore favouring the shared ownership of the Mission (beyond the project partners).
Sustainable Challenge Forums
Dedicated spaces for deepening discussions on sustainable challenges, stimulating further networking of ISEC Hub actors. The activity will contain both a phase of planning (“Scan 4 Synergies”) and another one of active engagement (“Engage”). Spaces (or “moments”) for discussion will be shaped both at level of Online Platform discussions (e.g. ISEC Hub LinkedIn Group and in partner platforms) or in introduced as side activities inside previously mapped and already existing events (both in person and online) (e.g. in MED Innovation Camps or MED Innovation Days).
Shaping a common Mediterranean vision and voice
This activity aims at developing policy-inspiring messages jointly across stakeholders at Mediterranean level. It is understood as a concrete way to develop collaboration and for advancing common positions on ISE fields. ISEC Hub members will have the possibility to self-aggregate to develop joint positions and may be called-to-action by Mission governance projects, Mission Thematic Projects, or other key Hub actors. The role of the Mission governance projects in this respect will be guided by the Liaising for advocacy strategy and supported by the policy impact task forces foreseen. Two delivery types are envisaged, ACT and REACT.
