Koiné platform brings together social innovators in Med region

A new platform is bringing together innovators in the Mediterranean region by creating a network of individual professionals, organisation, companies and innovation spaces operating 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 opportunities, 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 chairperson and founder Joseph P Sammut said the platform was designed to support and promote a stable system of networking, to encourage the exchange of services and good practices and to stimulate cross-border synergies 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 project ENISIE (Enabling Network-based Innovation through Services and Institutional Engagement), which is supported by the Interreg V-A Italia-Malta 2014-2020 funding programme.