The second meeting for the EU Interreg RATIO (Regional Actions to Innovate Operational Programmes (RATIO) Project, which Cork Chamber is a partner on, recently took place in Cork and was attended by representatives from organisations from across the region. The project involves 9 project partners from across 8 European countries and facilitates the opportunity for regions with similar characteristics and geographies to learn from each other for the betterment of the innovation landscape across all regions and to the benefit of SMEs based in rural locations, which face a different set of challenges to research development and innovation than those in urban locations.

The recent meeting outlined learnings from the Latvia Exchange of Experiences study visit; European partner regions’ barriers to innovation; European partners’ good practices and the Action Plan which is to be developed during the course of the project.

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