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Improving Regional Policies promoting and motivating non-technological Innovation in SMEs (InnoMot)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Innovation in SMEs is one of the big challenges of the European economy to compete in the global markets. Even if different policies and programmes have been put in place in different Regions to push SMEs in this line, the lack of motivation to innovate in SMEs has been identified by all the actors involved in the innovation system.And for the major part of the European SMEs, the non-technological ...
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Developing Senior Tourism in Remote Regions (TOURAGE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
... that combines beach, environment, gastronomy and tradition together (East Macedonia and Thrace), will respond efficiently to the needs of all tourists, but also to the needs of ageing travellers. In North Karelia, wellbeing sector has long tradition on developing welfare services for elderly people which could be often exploited in tourism sector as well. In spite of many innovations and good pr ...
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Improving Innovation Capacity in European Chemical Clusters (ChemClust)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
...ness of the chemical industry in Europe, chaired by the Vice-President of the European Commission Günter Verheugen. The partners are regional authorities and development agencies from Saxony-Anhalt, North Rhine Westphalia, Asturias, Masovia, Usti,Cheshire, Novara, Limburg, Teesside and Schleswig-Holstein responsible for the establishment and support of clusters and the implementation of regional i ...
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Entrepreneurial Inspiration for the European Union (ENSPIRE EU)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
Economic organisations and governments all across the EU are talking about the need to develop the EU into a strong 'entrepreneurial economy', since this is the key to Europe’s competitiveness and continues modernisation. A lot has been done on a regional, national and European level to support the development of an entrepreneurial economy. However, the 2007 Eurobarometer Entrepreneurship Survey r ...
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Declining, Ageing and Regional Transformation (DART)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
Declining, Ageing and Regional Transformation (DART), demographic and economic change is a great challenge for about 30% of EU regions and this amount will increase up to 50% in 2030. Until 2030 every 3rd person in the EU will be 60+. Together with the low fertility rate and the outflow of human capital the regional effects are a declining population density with great difficulties in ensuring the ...
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The Cross Border Knowledge Bridge in the Renewable Energy Sources Cluster in the Eastern Slovakia and North Hungary (KNOWBRIDGE)
Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
Objective of the KNOWBRIDGE project is to increase the capacity and to strengthen the research potential of two cross border and convergence regions (Košice self-governing region in Slovakia and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén region in Hungary) by supporting the development of new innovative cross border research-driven cluster in the area of Renewable Energy Sources and associating research entities, enter ...
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Cooperating 2 Foster Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CO2FREE)
Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,
...al context, and 5 of the CO2FREE partners (ERNACT EEIG, Donegal, Derry, ALAV and ARDI) had successfully implemented a previous Capitalisation project -PIKE-. The remaining 5 partners (San Sebastián, North Karelia, Carinthia, West Romania and Avila) all have important good practices to share in the energy efficiency and sustainable transport themes and have previously worked with some of the ERNACT ...
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European Research NEtwork on Sustainable Tourism (ERNEST)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,
"The ERNEST “European Research Network on Sustainable Tourism” project will address the issue of sustainable development in tourism through coordination and collaboration among regional research programmes. ERNEST will be a horizontal ERA NET action, not directly linked to one specific cooperation theme but with much European added value. The overall objective is to develop and strengthen a framew ...
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Agencies Supporting Value of Innovation systems in regional and LOCal economies (AsviLoc plus)
Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,
AsviLoc + grows up of AsviLoc project (ANNP CBC)results and of experience of Regions in the RPIA 2000-06. Acting for innovation systems is a long-term effort supported by successive experimentations. Successful regions commit to long-term policies which put in place the elements which encourage a common vision of innovation as a factor or regional development. RDAs can act as facilitator linking a ...
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Cradle to Cradle Network (C2CN)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
Cradle to Cradle (C2C) (metaphor, antagonism cradle to grave) approach on waste, waste = food, offers a breakthrough in waste prevention and production in closed loops. The Cradle to Cradle concept envisages a challenging future, where the emphasis is on creating eco-effective solutions. The power of C2C lies in its ability to mobilise and inspire.The Cradle to Cradle Network (C2CN) is a capitalis ...
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KNOWLEDGE CITIES (KNOWCITIES)
Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2011,
The aim of the project is to carry out a methodology to facilitate the access and transition to a knowledge economy, as a way to achieve cooperation on transnational issues related to common urban development as a factor of attraction and marketing in urban Atlantic Cities medium size ...
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Networking for Enterprises in the Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR)
Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,
...rs. The specific objective of identifying good practices was also fulfilled, by collecting 30 good practices at project level. The experience exchange started through the study visits at Lapland, North-Karelia, Vidzeme, Presov and Észak-Alföld. All important actions needed for project implementation were done duly on time. Partners managed to establish channels of good cooperation which is base of ...
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Sustainable and Equipped Productive Areas (SEPA)
Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: Jul 30, 2011,
SEPA promotes the concept of sustainable production area defined as a Community of manufacturing firms and services that, within a territory and through cooperation, plan to improve their environmental, economic and social performances, acquiring specific organizational tools, management and infrastructure. Its most innovative aspect is to move the focus from the activity of individual public inst ...
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Increased Mutual Understanding & Trade (MISCO²)
Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 28, 2010,
Objectif général :Le projet MISCO2 vise à développer une meilleure compréhension du langage économique et de la culture dentreprise du Royaume-Uni et de la France afin de faciliter les activités internationales des PME des régions de lEast Anglia et du Trégor en Bretagne. Le projet propose ainsi de créer un réseau transfrontalier pour la formation des entreprises en langue et culture afin daider l ...
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Health Cluster Network: engaging the health sectorr more effectively in regional economic and social policy and development (HealthClusterNet)
Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
HealthClusterNET believes that the health sector is a resource to be used more effectively for developing economic competitiveness at regional level. As such, the project aims to encourage efforts within and between the partner regions to engage the publicly-funded health sector in defining and delivering regional development priorities, thus contributing to better social and economic cohesion. ...
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Industrial Change Network (ICN)
Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,
The primary objective of ICN is the sustainable improvement of regional development and social cohesion both within and between regions in the enlarged Europe. By sharing experience and knowledge, the project partners will look for innovative solutions to assist in solving the challenges of industrial regions in change. The partnership also aims to ensure that new EU Member States benefit from exp ...
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European Union Regions Benchmarking, Economic Strategy and Transfer (EURBEST)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,
The objective of EURBEST is to benchmark best practice in the area of business support at regional and sub-regional levels. Following on from this is the need to create tools and mechanisms that will transfer this best practice from one of the exemplar regions to another in the project. The project builds on a previous project conducted under the auspices of EURADA that involved 14 regions across ...
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Integrated Coastal Zone Development in the Baltic Sea Region / BALTCOAST (BALTCOAST )
Start date: Jun 30, 2002, End date: Sep 29, 2005,
The main objective was to solve concrete local ICZD problems and to generalise experience acquired in this process into pan-Baltic actions such as changes of national legislation, elaboration of best practices and recommendations. The goal of the project was to accompany the implementation process by different international experts in the field of ICZD and to develop a common strategy based on the ...
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Best Practice in Managing Regional Managements (MAREMA)
Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2005,
The operation "MAREMA: Best Practice in Managing Regional Management" aims to identify good practices in the governance of regional development with the final objective of improving regional organisational structures and processes. In this context, the project focuses on the special needs of three types of regions: 1. Cross-border regions; 2. Regions with dominant restrictions, e.g. large protecte ...
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The project provided assistance in forming the bases for a spatial developmentpartnership network in the Hungarian-Romanian cross-border region, which canserve as an intellectual and professional basis for future cross-border cooperation.As a result of the project, a database was produced from strategic developmentdocuments and plans available in the Hungarian and Romanian regions. Followinga revi ...
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SMARTinMED aims at increasing Mediterranean SMEs innovation capacities with a specific focus on renewable energies and energy efficiency. The project capitalises on the results achieved in previous European projects and specifically on IC-MED project, so to help SMEs in better facing local, national and international competition by increasing their market shares, by supporting their capacities to ...
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Big Foot. Crossing generations, crossing mountains
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
Common constraints of the mountain areas are featured by SOCIO-CULTURAL MARGINALISATION of the elderly population, who has lost its role and authority as mediator in cultural transmission; as well as ECONOMIC UNBALANCE due to the interruption in the transmission of elderly knowledge concerning a wise use of limited resources in marginal geographical environments.Big Foot proposes the development o ...
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