New Delhi, Sep 22 (KNN) According to the European Union's envoy, an EU-India innovation platform that seeks to bring together innovators, start-ups and incubators from both sides for interaction would be launched on October 10.

To take the EU-India partnership forward, Ambassador of the EU to India Tomasz Kozlowski also said that policy dialogues and engagement must go beyond government level.

He added, "We need to take all stakeholders along, the government, the states, businesses and NGOs."

The envoy also recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Brussels in 2016 for the EU-India summit, have agreed on EU-India clean energy and climate partnership.

Kozlowski mentioned that there are various areas in which the two sides have collaborated or are working to form partnerships.

," Kozlowski said, "The other partnership we are working on is resource efficiency or circular economy. In December 2017, our commissioner with transport (EU's Mobility and Transport Commissioner) met (Union transport minister) Nitin Gadkari.”

Then smart grid, energy storage, e-vehicles, are working together on that, he said.

He added,“over-arching objective or over-arching instrument is there and we are looking forward for science and technology and innovation partnership.”

The envoy said, "In three week time, we will launch another instrument, EU-India innovation platform, looking to bring together, EU and India's start-ups and incubators, an important part of our collaboration."

The ambassador said the EU-India ties have gone beyond the level of a political declaration, and now both sides are working on having practical solutions in areas of collaboration.

With all stakeholders involved, the envoy said, the partnership "will pay off and it is paying off".

He added, "As a representative of the European Union, I will be proud to tell EU leaders in the near future again, that what we were tasked to do, we have implemented, and going forward with practical collaboration."