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  The SILA conference will discuss policies and legislations that can help to attract human capital and foreign investments to Croatia,  stimulate economic grow and development of smart islands and regions programs, contribute to sustainable tourism and to develop prosperous modern knowledge based society able to face globalisation challenges and to preserve its national traditions and religious values addressing  at the same time key societal priorities and wellbeing needs of local population.  
  The conference will provide discussion platform for companies, public authorities, universities, NGOs , investors and ordinary people on polices, legislations and concreate projects that they  expect to be implemented in the future to improve businesses, economics, wellbeing, tourism and other sectors by digitalisation and smart technologies.   It will discuss the implementation Smart Island Lab for Socio-Technological Innovation and Digitalization (SILI)  for comprehensive & sustainable living and tourism as concrete practical step that will follow the conference.
The conference will be an international meeting place to discuss new projects and partnerships for future research programmes and other topics below  This international conference organized by EAI (European Alliance of Innovation) in cooperation with MIPRO will be held as a side event of SDEWES conference.
The conference bring together islands communities, scientific and innovation communities, projects and international networks to present scientific research results, to discuss common interest and new opportunities to work together as well as to build new projects and partnerships.
SILA conference aims and objectives:
  • to discuss innovative financing models for Smart Islands, Smart Cities and Regions projects
  • to demonstrate to local islands communities what options they might have in developing of their islands
  • to stimulate international clusters cooperation in the domains of smart green energy, smart tourism and health, environment, transport, social cohesion and wellbeing aiming to prepare for the next long-term EU budget for development and innovation 2012-2017 to be ready for calls  and to start preparing of several project proposal
  • to start and to provide a discussion platform on Dalmatian island for continuous international dialog on these topics.  
One of the main focus areas are Smart Islands and Regions Labs for Socio-Technological innovation with the participation of academia, local communities and people aiming to improve life, wellbeing and social cohesion.
This topic is very relevant for Croatia, Mediterranean region and several Scandinavian-Baltic countries such as Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Norway and Denmark.
One of the central ideas of this strategy is to develop a multidisciplinary collaboration between key stakeholders and research community (nationally and internationally) to help solving complex problems and challenges of smart regions and islands. It includes regional development, economic growth, infrastructure and services, environment, social cohesion, immigration and the sustainable tourism.
Target audience:
  • Local islands and regions communities 
  • Public authorities and innovation agencies interested to present visions of smart islands, regions and cities developments, interests in cooperation, ongoing projects and initiatives.     
  • Universities and scientists presenting research results, demonstrating applicability and potential of multidisciplinary research in smart solutions developments, providing systematic, holistic, open and ethical approaches.
  • Companies to present strategies, smart solution and to discuss implementation and piloting for concrete topics and regional development priorities challenges    
   The conference invites free participation of representatives of local islands communities’ and NGOs interested to present challenges of islands, their visions of what and how improvements could be made and to participate in discussions.

You are invited to join us as an author of the paper or a regular attendee with no paper.  Check the details at https://www.smartislandregion.com/registration.html and hurry up with your registration.

Useful links:
https://www.smartislandregion.com/
http://www.dubrovnik2019.sdewes.org/events.php
http://www.mipro.hr/SILA2019/ELink.aspx

Conference topics: 
The conference topics include but are not limited to:
  • legislation and policies to stimulate foreign investments and companies  relocation to Croatia as an attractive destination for IT and other sectors (similar cases to California, US and Cote de Azure in France)
  • policies and legislations to encourage and to support moving and reallocation of foreign professionals, artists, SMEs to Croatia  
          The major challenges include:
- companies and organisations have to use low national salaries grid. It require new legislation to allow more flexible approaches  
- quality of basic public services    
- often happened that funding and funding instruments are available but human resources are not

The other topics:
  • policies, programmes and legislations to increase the role of ICT and digitalisation in creation of new jobs and companies, health and wellbeing, education and societal cohesion
  • smart tourism and the role of ICT sector  
  • new opportunities for creating of new business and work workplaces on Croatian islands and coastal areas provided by ICT
  • Living Labs, Smart Cities, Villages and Islands as a Labs. Experiences and best practices  
  • International cooperation between Croatian Nordic countries national clusters. Challenges, complementarities, best practices and legislations.
  • Universities cooperation to help to solve complex socio-economic problems of Smart regions and Islands    

The one of the central ideas of this strategy is to develop a multidisciplinary collaboration between key stakeholders and research community (nationally and internationally)  to help to solve complex problems and challenges of smart regions and islands.

It includes regional development, economic growth, infrastructure and services, environment, social cohesion, immigration and the sustainable tourism is one of them.
 
The topics of the conference scientific sessions
Horizontal topics:
- Cities and Villages as a Lab, experimental platforms, digitalization, smart islands, smart regions, living labs, smart solutions, social and technological innovation and labs
-  ICT and AI, HPC, open data and analytics for smart solutions of smart settelemetns -islands, villages, cities   
Domain topics:
- smart solutions, ICT and digitalization for:  
economic growth, green energy, smart tourism, social development and innovation, environmental protection and national parks, transport, immigration, public health, prevention of radicalization, smart buildings and others complex topics requiring input from scientific community  

Location
The unique location on Mljet island in Saplunara with the best beaches in Croatia and among few best beaches in the world , surrounded by green forest provides opportunity to work and to relax in private atmosphere. The conference organized in unique entirely friendly sustainable setting in a small private hotel which just  few meters from the sea. It provides accommodation in apartments near the sea and attractive recreation opportunities for sports, cultural, environmental and gastro tourism.  
Saplunara, Mljet Island, Croatia - 3 Days
Where science and innovation meet stakeholders and community  to build partnerships and projects for International Smart Island Lab for social and technological innovation
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Opening message from Ms. Dubravka Šuica, (HDZ) Member of the European Parliament from Croatia, Enlargement Commissioner in Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission

Ova međunarodna konferencija koju organizira EAI (European Alliance of Innovation) u suradnji s MIPROm i SDEWES-om održat će se u okviru konferencije SDEWES.

Svrha konferencije je okupiti znanstvene i inovacijske zajednice, projekte i međunarodne mreže kako bi se predstavili rezultati znanstvenih istraživanja, razmotrili zajednički interesi i nove mogućnosti za zajednički rad na izgradnji novih projekata i partnerstva za pametne otoke i regije.

Ciljevi konferencije SILA:
  • raspravljati o inovativnim modelima financiranja projekata pametnih otoka, pametnih gradova i regija
  • pokazati lokalnim otočkim zajednicama kakve bi mogućnosti mogle imati razvojem svojih otoka
  • poticati suradnju međunarodnih klastera u područjima pametne zelene energije, pametnog turizma i zdravlja, zatim okoliša, prometa, socijalne kohezije i blagostanja s ciljem pripreme za sljedeći dugoročni proračun EU-a za razvoj i inovacije 2012.-2017. kako bi se bilo spremno za pozive i pripremu nekoliko prijedloga projekata
  • započeti i pružati platformu za raspravu na jednom od dalmatinskih otoka za kontinuirani međunarodni dijalog o tim temama.

Ova je tema vrlo važna za Hrvatsku, regiju Mediterana i nekoliko skandinavsko-baltičkih zemalja, poput Finske, Švedske, Estonije, Norveške i Danske.

Otok Mljet kao jedinstvena lokacija uz vrijeme održavanja same konferencije pružit će vam užitak u netaknutoj prirodi jednog od najljepših mediteranskih otoka.
Conference scope
 
  The conference addresses complex challenges and problems of Smart Islands and Regions where multidisciplinary scientific cooperation, digitalization could provide input to practical implementations of smart socio-technological solutions aiming to solve these problems.  

  The conference addresses challenges of sustainability, economic development and growth, digitalization, environment, smart energy,  smart tourism development, immigration, social cohesion.
 
  It provides a discussions platform for representatives of different clusters and ecosystems involved in smart islands and regions development across of Europe (Balkan, Nordic, Central Europe) to meet and to discuss new cooperation opportunities.
 
  We are putting forward the scientific systematic approach, extensive use of Smart ICT, socio-technological integration, the use of advanced innovation methods and tools such as Living Labs.

  The conference will start dialog on establishing projects and partnership for SILI . 
 
Who should attend and invited?
 
   Island Communities to presetn their challenges visions and expectations

   Public authorities and innovation agencies inetrested to present visons of smart islands, regions and cities developments, interests in cooperation, ongoing projects and initiatives.     

    Universities and scientists presenting research results , demonstrating applicability and potential of multidisciplinary research in smart solitons developments, providing systematic, holistic, open and ethical approaches.

   Companies to present strategies, smart solution and to discuss implementation and piloting for concreate topics and regional development priorities challenges    
   
   The conference invites free participation of representatives of local islands communities’ and NGOs interested to present challenges of islands, their visions of what and how improvements could be made and to participate in discussions




RSVP.
 See you there!