Publication date: 
2017/03/23
Czech Technical University in Prague, along with a dozen foreign partners become part of the European project DA-SPACE. It secures conditions for implementin of new ideas and innovation. The aim of the DA-SPACE project (Open Innovation to Raise Entrepreneurship Skills and Public Private Partnership in the Danube Region), namely the Danube Transnational Interreg Program, is the creation of open innovation labs to support young innovators and their ideas set within the Danube river region.

The first meeting of the international team of partners of DA-SPACE project, which took place under the direction of CTU, was held on 16 and 17 March and culminated by a conference at the National Technical Library. There, participants become familiar with the aims and objectives of the project. Selected innovators, led by experts from industry and mentors, will find support to focus on transforming of ideas into actual innovations in an open experimental space that will be created in the CTU InQbay incubator. For example, part of this process will be business model testing, education and individual training.

Topics to be solved will be delivered by industry enterprises, ministries, associations, technology and innovation centers, technology agencies and other professional bodies. The DA-SPACE project will contribute to strengthening transnational and interdisciplinary cooperation between universities, business incubators, SMEs and public institutions in the region.