Description
FOUNDATION is an Interreg Europe-funded SME competitiveness project that brings together nine partners in a consortium led by Cork Institute of Technology.
The project is focused on supporting regions pre and post economic shocks and closures of anchor tenants in their industrial ecosystems.
In the wake of COVID-19, the FOUNDATION partnership aims to share international good practices with external stakeholders and regions across Europe to support them in accessing information, empirical insights and practices to plan for the future.
In this online workshop titled ‘The Role of the Individual Firm in Economic Resilience’, each of the project's partner regions will have an opportunity to share a policy, initiative or programme which is helping to support economic resilience in their region. This workshop will endeavor to provide stimulating insights that offer a plan ‘B’ or ‘C’ scenario for industrial structural change, such as:
- ‘Out of times of crisis, comes opportunity’ and the FOUNDATION partnership identify hands-on solutions to such economic shocks and business closures
- Increased collaboration and shared trust can nurture regional resilience once the key stakeholders work together for the betterment of the regions
- Strategic plans must be developed for resistance and recovery as inevitably, change awaits us all. Furthermore, education and government policies must keep up with industry demands as the fast pace evolution of technological IN4.0 and network speed (5G-6G) advancements are perpetual
- The creation of clear solutions to critical junctures can enable the development of regional economies that are experiencing challenges of large-scale job losses.
Find out more and register here.