How the city of Sabadell

is working to benefit from the

RIS3 European Policy

Workshop: Medium sized cities: An opportunity for sustainable inward investment and enterprise growth in a global economy

European Week of Regions and CitiesBrussels, 12 October 2016

A Sabadell outlook

How Sabadell is workingSabadell is a 208.000 people city only 20 Km from Barcelona at the heart of the most industrial area of Catalonia

• An old textile and metallurgy industrial tradition

• Huge increase in services from the 70's

• Several important educational and R+D+i institutions

• Associated with some smaller surrounding municipalities with big industrial states

• A wide number of civil society organisations

Curs en Gestió Aplicada de l’Estratègia de Recerca i Innovació per a

l’Especialització Intel·ligent (RIS3)

The previous Sabadell opportunities map

+ Barberà + St. Quirze + Castellar del Vallès

Sabadell

Health

Sustainable Mobility

Cultural and Sports Industries

Design

Packaging and auxiliary services

Applications of Unmaned Aerial

Vehicles

Industrial Systems

Dresses Technical Design

Food industry

Energy and Ressources

Energy efficiency applied to the

industrial sector

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Smart City

Cultural Societies (Òpera,...)

- Metallurgy- Automotive

RIS3CAT

RIS3: EC policy for European Regions

Catalonia decided to replicate the model locally

They defined the catalan RIS3 strategy through 2 tools:● RIS3 Communities, for companies and innovation centers

(healthy food, low emissions, mobility,.....)● PECTs (Territorial Specialization and Competitivity Projects)

aimed at cities and counties

Innovation and Design for European Industry(Sabadell Smart Specialization Strategy)

Design ES i

and innovation In industrial

systems

Design

Sustainability and User’s experience

(packaging)

Sustainability and and security in industrial

Environment

Industrial Systems

Sustainability and User’s

experience

In fashion textile design -

Industrial design for the

Active and Healthy aging

ICT applied to industry

Expected results

• To get a true shared territorial strategy

• To become a reference area in industrial design in southern Europe

• To attract foreign private industrial investments to the area

• To attract public investments often oriented to Barcelona city

Curs en Gestió Aplicada de l’Estratègia de Recerca i Innovació per a

l’Especialització Intel·ligent (RIS3)

Thank you very much