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Innovation Circus στη Ρήγα

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Innovation Circus στη Ρήγα

Innovation Circus In Riga –Wide Communication withYoung People onScience and Technologies

Baltic Event of “INNOVATION CIRCUS”Riga, September, 9-15, 2007

Innovation Circus In Riga –Wide Communication withYoung People onScience and Technologies

Baltic Event of “INNOVATION CIRCUS”Riga, September, 9-15, 2007

Setting up tasks for Baltic Event

The regional INNOVATION CIRCUS activities will take place in a real circus tent functioning as

a market place where all participants meet. The idea is to create an encouraging environment

that urge creativity and allows funny ideas and crazy constellations in order to unveil all the

innovative power of the participants and new initiatives and methodologies to be born.

The Innovation Day is a day where everybody thinks innovation, where all schools,

companies and public sectors focus on innovation and celebrate the immense power of the

creative mind: A State of the Art Innovation Day with all areas of our society participating; a

day where everyone can showcase their ideas on innovative products, services and concepts; a

day to present frontier technologies and research results. A day where everybody meets to

design our future, to create a new way of thinking, start ideas and make them move across

borders and between regions. Generations will work together in order to use the best of all ages

to change the lives and future of our children and grandchildren

Science and technology in the Baltic event

Exhibition

Thematic days of Innovation week

Serious and magic performances on the stage

Wall of Growth (wall of Ideas)

Science cafes

“Machine of Genes” plays&discussions

Games, quizzes, competitions

Baltic brokerage event for companies

participants of the exhibition

Governed by the “Innovation Dogma Principles”:Provocation, inspiration, creativity, know-how, fun, passion:Governed by the “Innovation Dogma Principles”:Provocation, inspiration, creativity, know-how, fun, passion:

Contest of robots “Robotica 2007”

• 2 categories: Cars, “sumo” fighters

65 participants,

• 22 teams from 11 institutions

(faculties of technical universities,

colleges, municipal technical hobby

groups ...)

from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania

Contest of robots “Robotica 2007”

• 2 categories: Cars, “sumo” fighters

65 participants,

• 22 teams from 11 institutions

(faculties of technical universities,

colleges, municipal technical hobby

groups ...)

from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania

Exibition at IC tent - Participants

84 institutions, including 18 from Estonia and 4 from Lithuania

14 universities or research institutes;

25 public institutions;

13 Innovation support institutions (science parks) and industrial associations, clusters, networks.

45 companies.

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Number of exhibitors and tent staff (permanently) – 90-110

Number of visitors > 9200

Baltic Event: ’’Youth and Innovation’’

Competition on Innovative Ideas for school children, 3 levels; Latvian, Lithuanian contests, > 20 schools, 105 participants Winners were invited to IC tent for awarding

Annual Latvian contest “Cup of Ideas, 2007” realized in collaboration with LIDA and Riga municipality Task: presenting an idea

and working out business plan 250 Participants - students, young entrepreneurs till age 33, Youth Conference to finalize results with 10 speakers and 150 participants On September 15, 2007 3 Awards – money (EUR 5000-15000) for creating a company to realise their business plan

Bringing Innovation to regions and schools (grass root events all around Baltics ~ 20 events in Latvia, ~5 in Lithuania and Estonia) A half day interactive educational seminars explaining innovation

Event workshop – part of International conference “Baltic Dynamics 2007

September 13-15, 2007, Riga “Reval Hotel, Latvia”

“International partnership for innovation: challenges and opportunities”.

2 plenary sessions

8 parallel sessions

70 speakers from >20 countries

410 participants from > 30 countries

The final plenary session was the Regional Workshop of “Innovation Circus”

11 presentations from 10 countries

410 registered participants

Evaluation of IC event: approach, social impact

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