Groningen

The purpose of the Accord, which was created in late 2018, is to guarantee that Groningen develops into the premiere knowledge and innovation city and region in the Netherlands and beyond with a clear vision and joint strategic agenda. The accord's key themes are energy, healthy ageing and digitalisation. The city of Groningen is working to solve the biggest questions facing our world in the 21st century through collaboration among the Accord partners and working together with regional businesses. These partnerships take the form of developing the know-how to empower these research fields to continue growing through innovative entrepreneurship and job creation. The ultimate goal of the Accord is to give an economic boost to the region and the wider Netherlands by creating more knowledge-based activity and work in Groningen. Education, research and innovation are the generators of Groningen's knowledge economy, each of which plays a role in solving society's greatest challenges. Researchers, policy makers, students, instructors and business managers have been working together much more closely in recent years, but putting knowledge to use does not happen automatically. Strategic coordination between the largest regional knowledge institutions and local managers is necessary in order to maximize how much we can all benefit from the know-how that Groningen possesses. Ambition