Northern Greece is turning into an innovation hub

Northern Greece aspires to play a starring relation successful the tract of innovation, with a bid of Technology Parks, Innovation Zones and related bodies that are present entering the implementation phase, utilizing mostly resources from the Recovery and Resilience Fund arsenic well arsenic backstage capital.

The “flagship” task is “Thess INTEC”, the 4th procreation Technology Park that was precocious afloat licensed with a applicable Joint Ministerial Decree and, according to its administration, gathering permits are expected to person been issued by the extremity of 2025, so that operation tin statesman successful aboriginal 2026. The purpose is to person the infrastructure projects (water, electricity, flood control, roads, etc.) completed within 2026 and for the Park to beryllium operational by the extremity of 2027.

The Alexander Innovation Zone, besides successful eastbound Thessaloniki, is proceeding with the instauration of 1 of the astir important nationwide agri-technology hubs – the Thess InnoFood Hub. Its absorption estimates that the archetypal Agri-Food Innovation Incubator of the Digital Innovation Center for Agri-Food (ThessInnoFoodHub) will beryllium operational by 2025.

The International Nanotechnology Hub Thessaloniki (INTH) is processing into a planetary halfway of innovation and nanotechnology, supported by important institutions and companies such arsenic Organic Electronic Technologies with a starring relation connected the planetary stage, while the COPE Nano Center of Excellence and the European Flex2Energy programme are creating the world’s archetypal wide accumulation mill for 3rd procreation photovoltaics successful the region.

The total fund is astir 51 cardinal euros. The archetypal portion of the factory’s accumulation enactment will beryllium completed σύντομα – successful mid-October this year, and the process for the 2nd portion will statesman towards the extremity of the year.