In connection with the fact that on 10 November 2015 the Steering Committee accepted the 20th national smart specialisation called Innovative maritime technologies pertaining to specialist vessels, maritime and offshore structures and logistics based on maritime and inland waterway transport, a procedure was launched in the Ministry of Economic Development to create a Working Group in the scope of the above mentioned specialisation.
The tasks of the Working Group will include, among others:
- preparation of the detailed description of specialisation forming the basis of assessment, whether an application for co-financing in the scope of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 suits the selected specialisation,
- preparing a vision of development and measurable expected effects of actions in the scope of a given smart specialisation,
- preparing proposals of changes and supplementations to a given smart specialisation (name or description), as well as formulating the need of introduction of new specialisations,
- analysis of progress in performance of actions and obtaining the goals of NSS,
- cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Development and bodies of persons appointed for the needs of monitoring of the National Smart Specialisation (among others, Economic Observatory, Consulting Group, Working Groups in the scope of other national smart specialisations)
Deadline for submission of an application form: 28 December 2015
Rules of recruitment and works of the NSS working groups
Currently binding description of specialisations
Contact person: Ms. Justyna Gorzoch, justyna.gorzoch@mg.gov.pl, Department of Innovation and Industry
In 2014 the Marshals of Pomorskie and Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeships initiated the process of entrepreneurial discovery in the fields of maritime economy. As a result of analytical works, whose participants were the representatives of 62 enterprises, 21 representatives of higher education institutions and 15 social and economic partners, in May 2015 a document was drawn up entitled Proposal of the National Smart Specialisation "Technologies and solutions for use of resources and potential of maritime and inland waters”, indicating to an innovative and competitive potential of the respective areas of maritime economy.
The issue of extending of the list of national smart specialisations was also the subject matter of the session of the Inter-Departmental Team for Maritime Policy of the Republic of Poland on 30 September 2015 and of numerous work consultations. As a result, the proposers submitted a new proposal of specialisation called "Innovative maritime technologies".
In October 2015 the Ministry of Economy organised a session of the NSS Steering Committee for the purpose of discussion of the above mentioned proposal. As a result of conducted discussion, the Steering Committee accepted creation of the new, 20th specialisation, at the same time preparing its new, more precise name, i.e. Innovative maritime technologies pertaining to specialist vessels, maritime and offshore structures and logistics based on maritime and inland waterway transport.
The new name of the 20th specialisation was accepted by the proposers, which finally completed the process of creating a new national smart specialisation.
