Insatser för ökad kompetens i Norra Mellansverige

This funding opportunity seeks project ideas aimed at helping the business sector work more strategically with competence supply within and between the region's priority areas. Financing can also be sought for ideas that contribute to increased competence in the business and innovation support system regarding the method for smart specialization. The call is targeted at actors operating in Dalarna, Värmland, and Gävleborg counties in Sweden. The overarching goal of the Regional Development Fund program for Northern Central Sweden is to make the region more sustainable. The program should strengthen innovation capacity for sustainable transition, develop skills for smart specialization, structural transformation and entrepreneurship, and contribute to development for a circular and sustainable transition. This involves creating working methods that involve relevant actors from business, academia, public sector and civil society, and that address societal challenges. Projects should work with the goal that small and medium-sized enterprises become more sustainable, innovative and competitive through working methods with smart specialization in Northern Central Sweden.