CODIL

COVID-Disrupted Regional Innovation Ecosystems

Duration: 1st phase 1.3.2023–1.3.2026 and 2nd phase 1.3.2026–1.3.2027
Project webpage
Lead Partner: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Partners:
- Údarás na Gaeltachta (Ireland)
- West Romania Regional Development Agency (Romania)
- Regional Government of Cantabria (Spain)
- Laval Mayenne Technopole (France)
- the Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia (Finland)
Funding programme: Interreg Europe 2021-2027
Total budget: 1.41 million euros
Regional Stakeholder Group:
- Into Seinäjoki Business Development
- Järvi-Pohjanmaan Yrityspalvelu
- Leader Kuudestaan
- Leader Liiveri
- Leader Suupohja
- Sedu Vocational School
- Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
- South Ostrobothnia Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
- South Ostrobothnia Chamber of Commerce
- South Ostrobothnia Work Integration for Immigrants Service (WIISE)
- University Consortium of Seinäjoki
- University of Vaasa

The Project in Short

The goal of the CODIL project is to help regions update their innovation policy tools after the Corona virus, so that they successfully support emerging innovation in decentralized teams and its key factor, skilled and mobile knowledge workers.

The main product of the project will be analyses on the regions, in the topics of:

The region’s competence to utilize new technologies, such as artificial intelligence or cyber security
Location-based and social factors
Financial incentives for knowledge workers and companies
Targeted support for innovation activities in non-knowledge-intensive sectors

Project meetings

Santander, Spain 5-7.11.2024. The theme of the project meeting was “The role of social innovation in regional innovation ecosystems”.

Timisoara, Romania 11-13.06.2024 The theme of the partners’ meeting was incentives and innovation services to attract skilled labour.

*In the framework of the CODIL project, we met in Galway, Ireland on 19-21 March 2024 to discuss topics such as operating in innovation ecosystems and business hubs.*

Project Partners meeting at Seinäjoki in November 2023, to learn about innovating in distributed teams

Representatives from partners at the project kick-off meeting in Ljubljana, 16.5.2023

Project news

Here we gather news from the project’s progress:

Good practice video. – A video featuring an actor/organisation from each partner country that has been identified as good practice for the project.
06/ 24 The latest CODIL project newsletter. Summary of project announcements and content of partner meetings
09/23 The first CODIL project video is now released
11/23 CODIL Interregional Knowledge Transfer Event hosted at South Ostrobothnia
11/23 Article on the second Project Partner meeting at Seinäjoki, published in the “Greetings from South Ostrobothnia” -newsletter

Documents produced by the project

Here you can find summaries of the documents produced by the project. You can request the full document from us by email.

Interregional report on regional context analysis – published 10/2024 – produced by West Romania Regional Development Agency