Regional Development

18 March 2020, 16.00:17.00 GMT The World Built Environment Forum webinar will look at the principles underpinning city clusters, with a focus on the link between infrastructure, connectivity, access to talent pools, improved circulation of goods and services, increased support for supply chains and...

Local capabilities are regarded a key pillar of Smart Specialization policy in the EU. Regions should build on existing capabilities to develop new activities. This makes it crucial to understand how to capture and measure regional capabilities. Studies often rely on one type of capabilities, like...

Deadline: 12 March 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time Call ID:TRANSFORMATIONS-04-2019-2020 Types of action: Innovation action | Programme: Horizon 2020 The aim of the call is to address the challenges linked to the compounded socioeconomic and cultural origins and effects in Europe of the fourth industrial...

Changes in climate, technology, and demography are transforming our societies and way of life. Europe must lead the transition to a healthy planet and a new digital world. The Smart Regions conference will be a good occasion to strengthen the links between people, nations, and institutions. Between...

The "Clusters as drivers of regional innovation, SME competitiveness and interregional cooperation" workshop was organized by the Policy Learning Platform of the Interreg Europe programme at the Flemish Administrative Centre in Leuven, Belgium on June 20, 2018. The Interreg Europe Policy Learning...

Call for Applications for European Regions Deadline: 19 January 2018 The European Commission is now calling on regions undergoing a period of transition to express their interest in receiving tailor-made support from Europe in order to build robust economies and modernise their industries. On...

On 18th July, the European Commission adopted the Communication "Strengthening innovation in Europe's regions: towards resilient, inclusive and sustainable territorial growth strategies" (COM(2017)376 final), in the frame of which the Commission proposed launching two pilot actions by the end of...

The 2nd edition of the 'Grow your region' conference will take place in Valencia, Spain, on 8 and 9 November. Save the date! The event is co-organised by the European Commission's Directorate-Generals for 'Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs' and for 'Regional and Urban Policy', in...

The Regional Studies Association open access Journal, Region Studies, Regional Science, has published a recent paper on "Basque Country cluster policy: the road of 25 years" written by Anastasiia Konstantynova, researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness. The paper looks at how...

RegioStars Awards identify good practices in regional development and highlight original and innovative projects that are attractive and inspiring to other regions. Think your project deserves to be known and rewarded? Then, submit it! After being selected by an independent jury, representatives...

The Second Call for Proposals for the 2014-2020 period is open for two thematic priorities of the Programme with an ERDF Budget of € 25 million, distributed as follows: Priority axis 1: Research and innovation - EUR 16 million Beneficiaries: Universities, research centres, technological centres...