Challenges Overview – Toolbase x-Inno Radar

How to Develop Soft Skills in Your Industrial Region

In x-Inno Radar, we have worked on four typical challenges. Choose below the one that you want to tackle!

Enhancing Industrial Inspiration and Resilience

Many industrial regions have built their strength on hard skills and technological excellence. But the current transformations require a fundamentally different kind of agility: The ability to think across sectors, collaborate beyond established boundaries, and navigate uncertainty with creativity and empathy. Soft skill development plays a major role here.

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Super Power of Industrial Regions

Integrating Maker Skills in Innovation Ecosystems

Industrial regions carry a remarkable hidden asset: Generations of tinkerers, hobbyists, and garage inventors who have cultivated a very particular set of soft skills - improvisation, explorative learning, and resourcefulness. They represent a living culture of hands-on innovation, but are rarely acknowledged in institutional ecosystems.

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Society as Seedbed

Reviving the Pioneer Spirit

Industrial regions were once known for their spirit of openness, boldness, and entrepreneurship. Deindustrialisation and post-socialist transformations caused many communities to lose touch with these capacities. x-Inno Radar finds they should not be treated as cultural heritage only - but deliberately and structurally re-developed.

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Cities and Hinterlands

Shaping the Skill Agenda Together

Non-metropolitan industrial regions face a structural disadvantage: Their capacity for skill development is inherently limited by geography and scale. Territorial cooperation - across administrative borders - could compensate, yet in practice remains far below its potential. Rethinking whom to better join forces with is long overdue.

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Project manager: Franziska Görmar
IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
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This project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
Find more information about the x-Inno Radar project on the Interreg CE projectwebsite.

x-Inno Radar is a project of: Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria Gmbh, The Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Karlovy Vary Region, Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture, Creative Industry Košice, n. o., BSC, Business support centre, ltd., Kranj, Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała, Stebo Competence Centre Community Developmentm, Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Chemnitz and Region (Creative Chemnitz), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – Germany, Otelo Cooperative