31.10.19
TRENDSETTERS
A new platform is bringing togeth-
er innovators in the Mediterranean
region by creating a network of in-
dividual professionals, organisation,
companies and innovation spaces op-
erating in the field.
Koiné, an innovation platform
launched at the Malta Innovation
Summit 2019 in October, aims to
bring social innovations together by
creating a bridge between all fields of
innovation and social innovation in
the Mediterranean.
Available in English and Italian, the
new platform is striving to serve as
a hub for the innovator community,
providing a place where innovators
can sell or buy products and services,
expand their network, find new op-
portunities, exchange expertise and
best practices with different types of
stakeholders.
Registration is free of charge and
gives access for those in the sector to
a myriad of online resources including
experimental innovations services,
social innovation best practices and
innovation tools.
Announcing the platform at the
Summit, Malta Life Sciences chair-
person and founder Joseph P Sam-
mut said the platform was designed to
support and promote a stable system
of networking, to encourage the ex-
change of services and good practices
and to stimulate cross-border syner-
gies in the EU-Mediterranean region.
"Besides providing a potential basis
for business growth, a key component
of this project is to accelerate social
innovation in crucial areas such as
food, digital health and sustainable
tourism," Sammut said.
Koiné was launched by the EU's pro-
ject ENISIE (Enabling Network-based
Innovation through Services and In-
stitutional Engagement), which is sup-
ported by the Interreg V-A Italia-Mal-
ta 2014-2020 funding programme.
Koiné platform brings together
social innovators in Med region
