ACTIVE ID
Activating Citizens Towards healthy lifestyles In Vital EU-regions with Innovative Data-driven solutions
Project summary
ACTIVE ID project strengthens sports & leisure innovation ecosystems and facilitates digital and green upskilling to ensure SME's competitiveness and adaptability
Sports & leisure (S&L) is a broad industry encompassing such sectors as sports, tourism, and recreation. It has a promise of creating a wide societal and economic impact by improving citizens’ well-being and EU regions’ vitality. To be able to do so in full force, the field's industry needs to adapt to the structural and behavioral changes brought about by Covid-19 and climate change.
This requires embracing strong orientation for cross-sectoral innovation, supported by data-driven approach and sustainability principles, as well as creating enabling environments for companies to adopt the innovation mindset.
The project aims at providing holistic support to companies by strengthening regional innovation ecosystems, enhancing the measures for boosting innovation capacities, and facilitating digital & green upskilling to ensure their competitiveness and adaptability.
ACTIVE ID consortium covers five EU regions and seven partners of varying levels of regional development and state of sports & leisure industries:
- Päijät-Häme (Finland): LAB University of Applied Sciences, Regional Council of Päijät-Häme
- Castilla-La Mancha (Spain): University of Castilla La Mancha
- Dalarna (Sweden): Region Dalarna
- North Brabant (Netherlands): Cluster Sports and Technology, Province of North Brabant
- Vratsa (Bulgaria): Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vratsa
What will this project change
Building on the joint interregional learning process, project partners will improve five regional policy instruments that have potential to promote cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder innovation and upgrade support mechanisms.
While developing S&L sectors is often considered as one of the core priorities in regional development, regional policy frameworks often lack a coherent vision of how the interlinkage of these sectors can be turned into a driving force of regional economies.
To address this, project offers an integrated approach to facilitating the growth of regional S&L industries, allowing the regions to build on the priorities set in their regional smart specialisation strategies.
This process will be supported via intensive thematic learning, study visits, deep-dive sessions, masterclasses, and peer-reviewing.