EURADA had the pleasure to organise a study visit to Brussels for a Bulgarian delegation led by Plamen Panchev CEO at Trakia Economic Zone, Vyara Pancheva Project Manager at Trakia Economic Zone and Desislava Koleva Head of Economic Development Department at Municipality of Gabrovo. The study visit took place on the 4th and 5th of [...]
From left to right: Rui Barroso, Luis Cavaco and André Espenica. Last week, a delegation from Alentejo (Portugal) visited Brussels with the purpose of looking for ideas regarding services and contents for their future projects. There were initial plans to set-up a new framework to foster innovation and local digital transformation, that could [...]
Last Monday 25th of November our colleagues Alexandre Arcos and Estefanía López attended, along with Rui Barroso (member of the Executive Committee of EURADA), the A robust innovation ecosystem for the future of Europe workshop, an event organised by DG RTD with the collaboration of EURADA, ERRIN (the European Regions Research & Innovation Network) and SERN [...]
The application period to submit proposals for EURADA Awards has closed on November 25th. EURADA organises every year since 2015 a call for good practices among both member and non-member development agencies. The aim is to get to know each other’s practices, actions and implemented tools. Up to today, many good practices have been presented [...]
Eurada News nº394 - November 2019 The Future of the Smart Specialisation Strategies Smart Specialisation Strategies have evolved from a pioneer economic policy to one of the most popular when talking about regional development in Europe. According to many researchers, 4 will be the major challenges that policy makers will face in the next S3 generation: [...]
Eurada News nº394 - November 2019 Outlining Responsible Research and Innovation Smart specialisation strategies would be better with improved governance, public engagement, open access or gender inclusiveness. These are topics that would be included in the revision of the smart specialization strategies for the period 2021-2027. Regional development agencies are using the tools of responsible research [...]
Eurada News nº394 - November 2019 Societal Challenges in the H2020 Programme Europe is facing an important socio-economic and cultural change, since there are new forms of interaction between humans and technology, as well as increased migration flows and new developments in European, national and global governance. Societal challenges are still of big importance in Europe, [...]
Eurada News nº394 - November 2019 Spanish RDAs: An Approximation Due to the peculiarities of the Spanish administrative and territorial model, RDAs stand as useful tools to promote the development in the different regions from a closer point of view, respecting and understanding the specialities of the regions where they work. The Spanish administrative and territorial [...]
The Smart Regions 3.0 Conference took place in Brussels last November on two days, 14th and 15th, during the course of which diverse workshops, lectures and presentations were given by some of the most important experts, stakeholders, policy-makers and public authorities in the field. This year’s edition was oriented at the transformation of our societies [...]
EURADA took part in the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project (KA2) titled U-ECO at the co-working space STPLN in Malmö (Sweden) on 7th and 8th of November 2019. The project consortium includes partners from Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Poland and Romania, namely: EURADA, SwIdeas, DEFOIN, CPIP, BIOAZUL and ARID. U-ECO aims to foster transition from [...]
