MINDSET will enhance the innovation capacity in the NPA regions by exploring Mission Oriented Innovation (MOI) approaches. The instruments and efforts currently used in the EU show that MOI approaches are increasingly promoted and tested. Similarly, the EU member states have made their own interpretations and developed unique MOI models. Many of these efforts will transform the ways of identifying and resolving societal challenges. They require extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration, engagement of relevant stakeholders and coordination of multiple projects.
While MOI approaches are being promoted and tested in the European Union, they have had limited impact at the local or regional level. There is a need to adapt MOI approaches to suit NPA regions and develop an operational model tailored to their specific conditions and challenges. MINDSET will investigate existing MOI-models and recommend an appropriate MOI suitable for transnational NPA collaboration.
MINDSET’s overall objective is to jointly develop a main project proposal to apply mission-oriented innovation (MOI) as the way to address major challenges of NPA regions by assessing suitable MOI approaches and enabling conditions, involving the relevant stakeholders from the participant and other NPA regions to define the scenarios to be addressed by the implementation of the concrete missions in the main project. The target groups that will benefit from this work are local and regional public authorities from the 3 participating and other NPA regions, sectoral agencies, universities and research organisations and international organisations such as EEIG.
MINDSET involves three partners from the NPA-region: ERNACT (Ireland), Umeå University (Sweden) and University of Helsinki, Ruralia Institute (Finland).