Podkarpackie RegionSmart specialization and food

Prof. Leszek Woźniak | Maciej Chrzanowski, MSc

"So - as in the case of education or health care - high quality food is a public good"

Briefly about Podkarpackie Region

PODKARPACKIE IN NUMBERS

•Number of inhabitants: 2.1 million•Area: 17 844 km2

•Population density: 118 people/1 km2•Capital city: Rzeszów•Students: 70 000•Enterprises: more than 160 000•Unemployment rate: 14%•Average monthly gross salary: about 780 €

Entrepreneurial (and scientific) discovery process

1. Updating the Regional Innovation Strategy for 2005-2013 for Podkarpackie Voivodeship.

2. Podkarpackie Innovation Forums – XXI and XXII (organised in 2013) were focused on smart specialisation.

3. Podkarpackie Innovation Council – meetings in 2012-2014 focused especially on smart specialisation.

4. Cooperation with clusters in Region, especially with leading ones: Aviation Valley, Podkarpackie Countru, Cluster IT.

5. Cooperation with univeristies.6. Seven guides were written to suport implementation of smart

specialisation concept. The fields of them are: smart specialisation, food economy, water management, green economy, smart cities, and the development directions for Podkarpackie Voivodeship.

7. Systematic presence of RIS3 creators in national and international conferences, seminars, workshops concerning S3, green growth, ecoinnovation and connected concepts.

Looking beyond our region boundaries

Podkarpackie Region belongs to the group of regions with

a moderate degree of innovation.

Smart specialisation and food

Strategic objectives for food production, processing and consumption in Podkarpackie Voivodeship, as part of the quality of life leading smart specialization:food security and sovereignty priority for organic, regional and traditional food GMO-free region - an absolute ban on the use of GMOs in food production and processingprohibition of the use of the Roundup herbicide as suggested by WHOpriority for organic, regional and traditional food in agro-tourism and ecotourismorganic, regional and traditional food in schools, kindergartens, nurseries and homes for the elderly

"Food sovereignty means that the inhabitants of a country, region, city or village can design their own food system so that they all have access to sufficient quantities of healthy food and that it can be grown in an environmentally sound manner. The idea of food sovereignty thus includes both democratic decision-making and action in harmony with nature. It is based on true democracy in which every person has the right to decide on matters of their community. When residents of the local community come together to determine how to grow food, and deliver it to the city, at what price, and how processed and packed. This is democracy. When setting these policies they do not need to follow the rules that without their participation are determined by international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, it is sovereignty."

Eco-innovative food economy of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship

being GMO-free, environment-, farmer- and consumer- friendly,

is a vision of leadership in the creation of eco-innovation in the

Podkarpackie Voivodeship.

The vision of food without GMOs gives the ecoinnovative

picture of the highest biological and health quality. This is a

picture of food sovereignty. It is still possible picture of the

future of our agriculture and our food.

Very often, eco-innovation in food industry will return to the

best solutions that nature has offered and which we have

forgotten, or which have been eliminated as a result of the

technocratic understanding of the environment. It will also

make use of biomimetics. Nor can we forget that scientific

progress also, and perhaps especially, consists in the study of

phenomena occurring in the environment and in living

organisms in order to optimize and secure their use.

Vision of the Podkarpackie Region and mission of the RIS3

Eenvironmentally and socially sustainable, innovative and competitive economy - a leader in the creation of eco-innovation. Region of the highest quality of life.

Supporting the development of innovative and competitive economy of the region, focusing on social welfare and protection of the ecosystem as the basis of society and the economy. Support for smart specialization, intelligent activity areas, priority actions and technology.

Main objectives for Podkarpackie RIS3 strategy

Aviation and cosmonauticsdevelopment of the region as a leading center in Poland for innovative aerospace and communication technology

Quality of life

development of the region as a region with the highest quality of life

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

widespread use and development of information and communication technologies

Priorities of Podkarpackie RIS3 strategy

Main priority: Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Priority actions and technologies for the areas of support:

Mobility: Technologies and products of the aerospace industry. Multimodal, sustainable transport.

Climate and energy: Renewable energy sources and technologies associated with them. Balanced and intelligent construction (buildings, neighborhoods, cities). Biodegradable plastics. Electrical machinery industry.

Sustainable tourism: Cognitive tourism. Leisure tourism, eco-tourism, rural tourism. Adventure tourism. Health tourism. Business tourism. Culinary Tourism Religious tourism.

Health, food, nutrition: Organic, regional and traditional food. Healthy, optimized, non-GMO diet. Preventive medicine. Care for the elderly.

ICT: High speed Internet access.

Qulity of life – innovative smart specialisation

Leading smart specialization quality of life for Podkarpackie Region is a complex activity areas and solutions, interrelated, aimed at creating a new, sustainable model of society and the ecosystem, including mobility - multimodal transport, climate and energy, highest biological and health quality food, energy efficient construction, sustainable tourism, information and communication technologies (ICT). It is not a sector, but complex solutions designed to meet EU requirements and at the same time guaranteeing the intelligent development of the entire of the Region, according to a new economic and social paradigm of the European Union.

Our smart specialisations

„Quality of life” sectorAviation and cosmonautics

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Measuring progress

Every smart specialisation have its own Action Plan in which creators have identified (context, output, product, result) indicators corelated to it.

Examples of indicators especially correlated to smart specialisations:

Aviation and cosmonautics

Dynamics of production sold in sectors related to the aviation industry Polish Statistical Classification of Products by Activity.

Quality of life Percentage of passive, zero-energy and energy plus house; the share of renewable energy in total energy production; life expectancy.

ICT

Dynamics of production sold in sectors related to the ICT industry Polish Statistical Classification of Products by Activity; percentage of households with access to broadband Internet; percentage of enterprises that have access to the Internet

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