OpenAlps, a three-year project funded under the territorial cooperation programme Alpine Space, is launching its activities through a public Conference which will take place in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, on April, the 24th 2012.
OpenAlps brings together 10 partners from 6 European countries of the Alpine area and is working to a set of actions aimed to increase the innovativity and the competitiveness of the local SMEs, by using the OI-Open Innovation approach. Among the planned actions: a transnational platform to collect the innovation requests and solutions will be made available, local support centers will be created to facilitate the access to the research facilities , and local Open Innovation labs will be set up. A prize competition will award the three best OI projects.
