BrAIn Final Event – Closing Conference

The BrAIn Final Event represents the project’s concluding milestone. It  will bring together project partners, stakeholders, SMEs, and experts in the AI field to review key achievements, validate results, and ensure the sustainability of project outcomes.

Taking place on 22–23 April 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany, the BrAIn Final Event event will serve as a strategic platform to position the project results within the broader Danube Region innovation ecosystem, foster knowledge exchange and enable transnational collaboration. By bringing together policy actors, innovation intermediaries, SMEs, and research-driven organisations, the event will support the alignment of AI-driven solutions with regional smart specialisation priorities and European innovation objectives.

The first day will be dedicated to a peer review meeting of selected demo cases, highlighting AI-based solutions in the healthcare, manufacturing, and agri-food sectors. These cases will be assessed by an expert panel, followed by structured discussions focusing on their sustainability, transferability, and practical applicability. Technical exchanges on cross-country testing opportunities and intellectual property rights within co-creation and open innovation frameworks will further be tackeled, followed by a study visit to the AI Factory. Beyond showcasing technical achievements, the event emphasises long-term impact. Discussions and peer reviews are framed around scalability, market uptake, and institutional embedding of BrAIn solutions, ensuring that validated demo cases and methodologies can be adopted across-regions beyond the project lifetime.

The second day will focus mainly on capitalization and dissemination activities, including the presentation of key project results, lessons learned, flagship initiatives, and developed demo cases to a broader audience of relevant actors from the Danube Regions, representatives from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism from Baden-Württemberg, representatives from the WG I&TT as well as relevant actors from the Priority Area 7 and 9.

A central component of the event is the transnational start-up competition and SME pitching session, during which stakeholders from the BrAIn training programme will present their solutions to an expert jury, culminating in an award ceremony.

Throughout both days, participants will benefit from structured and informal networking opportunities designed to stimulate new partnerships, encourage follow-up collaborations between SMEs, technology providers, and public authorities and strengthen transnational innovation pathways across the Danube Region.

The BrAIn Final Event will conclude with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding among key actors from the project, formalising their commitment to support knowledge and technology transfer in the Danube Region after project’s closure.