Deividas Vijeikis, Marius Ramanauskas

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RIS LITHUANIA-INNPULSE Highlights of Actions

• Deividas Vijeikis, Marius Ramanauskas

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ACTIONS TAKEN
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PLANS (next 4 months)

• Further forming of WG, their formal establishment
• 4 Thematic international workshops for concrete
  target group (science, business support
  infrastructure, governmental institutions,
  business)
• 2 study visits to partner regions
• Promotional activities
• Demand Analysis (questionnaire, distribution,
  collection)
• Overview (studies) of business sectors, regional,
  technologies development tendencies in the
  region
• Comparative analysis with partner regions

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CHALLENGES

• Involvement of the media (especially national
  level)
• Different perception of the RIS process form the
  stakeholders
• Differences between sub-regions (counties)
• Major cities vs. peripheral municipalities
• experience
• resources (human, financial)
• infrastructure
• Forming and fruitful work of WG
• Need to fit into SF 2007-2013 period, Lisbon
  strategy implementation process

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• Thank you for your attention!