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Smart Specialisation and Climate Adaptation | Martin Eichler | TiCCA4DANU
🎥 Speaker Martin Eichler Division Manager, Economic Expert in the field of environment, climate, and energy INFRAS (Switzerland) 🌍 About this video In this interview, Martin Eichler explains how smart specialisation can support climate adaptation by helping regions develop strategies that are tailored to their specific economic, social, and environmental conditions. He describes smart specialisation as an innovation policy approach that enables structural change, strengthens regional competitiveness, and supports regions in moving towards more resilient and productive futures. Martin also highlights why this approach is highly relevant for climate adaptation. Since adaptation requires transformation not only in the economy, but also in society, combining smart specialisation with climate policy can help regions identify practical, place-based solutions. Through TiCCA4DANU, this methodology is being applied in close cooperation with cities, regions, and local stakeholders to co-create adaptation strategies that reflect local challenges, capacities, and resources — and that can be realistically implemented in practice. 🧭 Key themes discussed 🔹 What smart specialisation means in a regional policy context 🔹 Why climate adaptation requires structural and societal change 🔹 How place-based innovation strategies can support regional resilience 🔹 The value of the Open Discovery Process with regional stakeholders 🔹 Why local capacities and resources matter for implementation 🔹 How lessons from four Danube regions can inspire other regions across Europe 🌱 About TiCCA4DANU TiCCA4DANU – Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region – is a Horizon Europe project supporting transformative innovation and place-based climate adaptation across the Danube Region. 📲 Follow TiCCA4DANU LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ticca4danu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TiCCA4DANU X (Twitter): https://x.com/TiCCA4DANU YouTube: @TiCCA4DANU Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/ticca4danu.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Funding Acknowledgement This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. #TiCCA4DANU #ClimateAdaptation #SmartSpecialisation #InnovationPolicy #DanubeRegion #HorizonEurope #PlaceBasedInnovation #ClimateResilience
