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Enhancing the regional competences in strategic management of innovation policies (KNOW-HUB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

KNOW-HUB addresses a crucial problem of insufficient competence in European regions in strategic management of innovation policies, which negatively impacts the effectiveness of the Structural Funds operations. Even though there had been good strategies developed in Europe, few were fully, if at all, implemented. There are little instruments that effectively eliminate the stumbling blocks of knowl ...
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Developing Senior Tourism in Remote Regions (TOURAGE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Tourism is one of the fastest growing and among three biggest industries in Europe. Relatively remote regions have a lot of unexploited development potential on this sector. However, accelerating unfavourable demographic changes bring new challenges for many regions to stay competitive and create growth and new jobs. Regions also face challenges of securing universal right for all to be complete p ...
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Smart strategies to create innovation-based jobs in regions of Europe (SMART EUROPE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Continued and coordinated efforts by the European Commission, the Member States and EU regions have led to a steady increase in employment levels in many parts of Europe over the years. The recent economic crisis however broke this trend, resulting in significant job loss in all EU countries. While being faced with reductions of funding available to them, EU regions now need to step up their effor ...
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Regional policy instruments and approaches for improving access to finance and speeding up investments in sustainable energy. (Regions4GreenGrowth (R4GG))

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The EU, its Member States and EU regions have defined ambitious energy strategies, setting firm targets for an increased share of renewable energy sources, more energy efficiency and less carbon emissions in order to make Europes energy supply sustainable and future proof.An important obstacle for wide-spread introduction of renewable energy production capacity and energy efficiency measures is th ...
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New innovative solutions to adapt governance and management of public infrastructure and services to demographic change in shrinking regions and cities of CE (ADAPT2DC)

Start date: Oct 31, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Shrinking regions and cities are becoming a more and more relevant issue in central Europe. Especially former border regions (Iron curtain) are particularly affected by demographic and social change. On the other hand these regions have large potentials which have to be explored and used. The consequences of demographic change and increasing scarcity of public resources thus require a fundamental ...
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ECOREGIONS

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

ECOREGIONS was born from a common need of regional authorities from the Rur@ct European network: Limousin, Jämtland, Kainuu Regions, joined little by little by other public organizations: Picardie Region (Fr) -exporting partner in Rur@ct and today ECOREGIONS Lead Partner (LP)-, District of Forcheim (De), State Development Coporation of Thuringia (De), Regional Agency for Energy of Eszak Alfold (Hu ...
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FROM MARGINAL TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SITES Recovering marginal territories, making them regain their lost value by pursuing sustainable development programs (M2RES)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The EU territory has an enormous under-valorised natural asset: marginal terrains (exhausted landfills, mines & quarries, brownfields & contaminated terrains, former military sites, etc). The project aims at re-qualifying marginal areas through investments programmes that focus on the installation of RES (PV, Wind, Biomass, geothermal, biogas, etc) that will contribute to a significant amount of r ...
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INNOvation TRAINing IT Central Europe (INNOTRAIN IT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

Information technologies are regarded as key drivers of innovation in SMEs. However, many SMEs, particularly in the production sector, still have difficulties in utilizing these new technologies efficiently in order to foster process and product innovation. This is partly due to the fact that many SMEs dont use IT Service Management and waste many (financial and personal) resources in running basi ...
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artnership on European Regional Innovation Agencies (PERIA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

PERIA is a co-operation project between Regional Innovation Agencies and Regional Authorities in Europe with the aims of: • sharing experience and methodologies on innovation services and policies• learning from each other in the management of regional innovation systems.PERIA focuses on regional innovation policy and on the tools used for implementing innovation: the Regional Innovation Agency (R ...
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INTRODUCTION OF WATER FOOTPRINT (WFTP) APPROACH IN URBAN AREA TO MONITOR, EVALUATE AND IMPROVE THE WATER USE. (URBAN_WFTP)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

Climate change, a growing world population, and industrial pollution are only some of the factors leading to an increased debate on the availability of fresh water for our future. The European Union recognised water to be a key resource for the sustainable development of its countries and is setting specific measures and directives to support the diffusion of eco-friendly technologies and practice ...
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Geothermal energy to address energy performance strategies in residential and industrial buildings (GEO.POWER)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2012,

Geothermal Energy (the energy extracted from heat stored in the earth) is one of the most environmental-friendly and cost-effective energy resources in use and has the potential to help mitigate global warming if widely deployed in place of fossil fuel. Recent technological progress, the variability of the cost, the difficult of oil and gas supply, the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels to cut ...
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Future Laboratory for the Diffusion and Application of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering (FLAME)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

Materials sciences and engineering (MS&E) are significant innovation drivers within the Central European area and thus crucial for competitiveness and economic growth. The MS&E sector has its particularities like: frequent introduction of new material technologies, existing requirements and specifications frequently do not fit the unique features of advanced material and the sectors complexity req ...
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Reviews for Sustainable Eco-Regions via Europe (PRESERVE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

In order to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, the European Union relies on the harmonious and sustainable development of its Member States, but also of their Regions. Being particularly close to the citizens, and best aware of their strengths and needs, Regions are indeed key actors in the overall EU strategy for more growth and better jobs. In addition ...
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Creative Growth

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The Creative Growth project was initiated by the Östergötland region (SE) and is based on previous experiences and needs among the partners for successful cluster development of the creative sector.The aim of the project is to contribute to European competitiveness and accelerate regional economic growth through the development of the creative sector as a new business sector and influence policy d ...
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Networking for Enterprises in the Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The project has grown out from the Network of Eastern External Border Regions, from a wide European initiative aiming at the collaboration of regions from 11 European countries on the external borders of the European Union, who decided to work more closely together and to ellaborate joint actions for their common challenges. The partnership of the project includes the regional authorities/bodies ...
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Mainstreaming INnovative Instruments for SME development in Europe (MINI EUROPE)

Start date: Sep 10, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) make an important contribution to regional economic performance by creating jobs, supporting innovation and delivering economic growth. MINI EUROPE aims to exchange and develop regional policies in SME development, focussing on the main theme of providing a transparant infrastructure for innovation to SMEs. MINI EUROPE partners will improve existing instrum ...
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REGIONAL ACTION PLANS for INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AND ENTERPRISE (RAPIDE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Nov 29, 2010,

RAPIDE is a propsal for a capitalisation network involving 13 partners from 11 Member States. Its aim is to implement good practice relating to the role of the public sector in stimulating innovation in partner regions, in particular helping businesses (primarily SMEs) to bring innovative products and services to market more quickly. The long term objective of the project is to stimulate innovatio ...
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