So… do trade barriers really fuel innovation? This episode explores the real impact of tariffs on innovation funding in Europe. If you're working on EU funded projects, this conversation is for you.
This week on InnovEU – The EU Project Chronicles, we dive deep into a crucial and misunderstood issue in innovation funding: are trade barriers really protecting local R&D — or silently hurting EU funded projects?
🔍 What’s Inside:
✅ Why autarky and economic isolation (remember Cold War Albania?) never lead to innovation
✅ How today's innovation funding system depends on cross-border collaboration and not national protection
✅ A powerful interview with Alissa Zaccaria, sharing a real-world technology transfer success story in Kilometro Rosso, Italy
✅ How to take advantage of the new €220M CEF Transport call for green infrastructure
✅ Why you should try SmartProposalAI — the GPT-based tool that simulates how evaluators read your EU project proposals
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Guest Links - Alissa Zaccaria:
📧 Contact: info@intellimech.it | +39 035 0690366
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