Regional Smart Specializations and Sustainability: The Challenges of the European Green Deal
Regional Smart Specializations and Sustainability: The Challenges of the European Green Deal

Summary/Abstract: The announcement of the European Green Deal in 2019 was an important milestone in the European Union in terms of implementing the basic principles of sustainable development. Since then, most strategic documents in the community, but also in countries and regions, have referred to the concept. An important development from the previous Europe 2020 strategy, announced in 2010, was the reliance on place-based policy, which was reflected in the establishment of smart specializations at national and regional levels. Although the previous strategy had also referred to sustainable development, the specializations did not explicitly address this concept. The purpose of the article is to review the Regional Smart Specializations (RS3) in the Polish regions in the context of the concept of sustainable development and recommendations for modifying these specializations to bring them in line with the basic areas indicated in the European Green Deal. The article uses an analysis of relevant data, provides a review of the literature on the subject, and refers to key strategic documents of the European Union.

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