HORIZON-EIC-2023-iCapitalPrize - The European Capital of Innovation Awards
EU Prizes: Application form (prizes) The European Capital of Innovation Awards: V1.0 – 08.03.2023
society by enabling better decision-making. The research centre supports researchers across areas such as the Fundamentals of Data Science, Sensing and Actuation, Scaling Algorithms, Model Building, Multi Modal Analysis, Data Engineering and Governance, Decision Making and Trustworthy AI.
Their research can be applied across four broad areas:
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Augmented Human
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Smart Enterprise
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Smart Communities
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Sustainability
VistaMilk
VistaMilk is a world leading SFI Research Centre for innovative precision pasture- based dairying. Leading the Agri-Food technology sector through innovation and enhanced sustainability across the dairy supply chain. The Vistamilk SFI Research Centre represents a unique collaboration between agri-food and ICT Research Institutes and leading Irish/Multinational food and ICT
companies and is funded by SFI and the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine. Cork based VistaMilk partners include Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority (TEAGASC) and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF).
Award criterion 4, Expanding – acting as a role model for other cities by supporting the dissemination and replication of tested solutions that boost the local innovation ecosystem; by promoting mutual learning, knowledge transfer and capacity building; and by enhancing cooperation and synergies between cities that are front-runners in driving the local innovation ecosystem, and those that are still exploring and testing their role as innovation enablers. In this criterion, among others, the applicant should consider answering to the following questions: e.g. What are the activities and initiatives for which the city can be considered a role model for others? How is the city sharing its knowledge with other cities? Is the city cooperating with other cities in the areas of this competition? The applicant is expected to provide details on concrete results of the showcased initiatives
LEARNING FROM EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL LEADERS
Cork City has participated in many European projects and is often the first or only Irish city to partake in these projects paving the way for the learnings and knowledge to be disseminated with other Irish Cities. Cork is twinned with several cities, namely, Cologne, Rennes, Swansea, San Francisco, Shanghai and Coventry. Through this network Cork City Council has engaged in knowledge sharing. One example of this collaboration is where Cork City has engaged with its twin city Shanghai, world leaders in innovation to share knowledge, learn and understand international best practices.
Cork and Shanghai – Innovating Together
Cork City is twinned with Shanghai since 2005 and collaborates with them on several areas including Local Government, Education, Health, Art & Culture and Innovation and Enterprise, the latter being included specifically as a theme in the renewed Memorandum of Understanding in 2017. In 2018 Cork City Council engaged in a benchmarking exercise with Shanghai Municipal Government and its agency, the Shanghai Institute for Science of Sciences (SISS), to exchange innovation best practices. This culminated in a report which compared the two cities (and Ireland) along several innovation criteria, and which was presented to the prestigious international Pujiang Innovation Forum in Shanghai in 2018 where cites from all over the globe presented on innovation initiatives in their cities. This report was the first time the city attempted to measure its innovation. The research paper was to be based on a report produced by SISS – the Shanghai Science & Technology Innovation Center Index Report. In this report, SISS used five main criteria taken from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report Competitive Cities in the Global Economy to create a model against which to measure the Shanghai innovation ecosystem. Our research team utilised the same criteria and, where applicable, add additional ecosystem measurement criteria. The approaches to innovation-driven policies, initiatives and endeavours across both jurisdictions differ fundamentally. All cities in China are ranked according to well-understood innovation criteria and Shanghai is no exception. The research paper took the SISS 2016 category framework and applied it to Cork. Despite significant differences in the innovative landscape between the
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