Projects
In 2017 the City, working alongside the Moravian-Silesian Region and Ostrava’s universities, established a new organization – the Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre (MSIC), which offers services supporting innovation, community programmes and new business clusters. As part of the In Focus project (URBACT), the MSIC is preparing an Integrated Action Plan for 2017–2019 coordinating talent attraction management activities; the plan contains projects supporting start-ups and small businesses via an eco-technologies incubator. The aim is to boost environment-focused innovations in the Region, generating new jobs and addressing environmental issues and challenges. Currently the budget for these activities is 1,2 million EUR (to fund the MSIC directly) and 3 million EUR (from the Regional Innovation Strategy RIS3 – Smart Accelerator).