The INNOVAMOS Consortium, operating under the Interreg MAC 2021–2027 Programme, successfully held its second coordination meeting on November 5th and 6th, 2025, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The event took place at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, in the framework of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s (ULPGC) Patents Week, Spain’s leading forum for intellectual property and technology transfer.
The meeting brought together representatives from the project partners — including universities, start-up incubators, and business associations from Gran Canaria, Tenerife, the Azores, and Cabo Verde — to review progress and coordinate upcoming activities for 2026.
Throughout the sessions, partners shared the results of recent technical missions to Macaronesia and reaffirmed their strong commitment to strengthening cooperation between academia and industry. The discussions focused on knowledge transfer, open innovation, entrepreneurship, and researcher–company matchmaking, key pillars for enhancing competitiveness and fostering a sustainable innovation ecosystem across the region.
The meeting also served as a platform to advance the work of the three thematic committees established within the project:
- The Knowledge Transfer and IPR Committee will promote training on intellectual property and technology transfer.
- The Spin-off Promotion Committee will support start-up creation and the valorisation of research results.
- The Researcher–Company Matchmaking Committee will enhance collaboration between research institutions and businesses.
Looking ahead to 2026, the consortium agreed on a set of concrete next steps, including joint training sessions, the creation of shared tools for mapping innovation capacities, and the organization of transnational networking activities.
The Las Palmas meeting marked an important milestone in consolidating the INNOVAMOS partnership, reinforcing the project’s shared goal: to drive an innovative, smart, and sustainable transformation across Macaronesia and West Africa.
