Eurada News nº397 - February 2020 The EU Launches Financial Actions to Back the Green Deal At the beginning of this month, the EU Commission and the European Investment Fund launched the 75 million equity BlueInvest Fund, dedicated to finance the innovative blue economy. We use this announcement as an opportunity to outline the views of [...]
The Local Economic Development (LED) forum started in 2011 with a major big event in Seville, Spain. It was created with the aim of establishing a platform where the dialogue on the key aspects of sustainable development could take a central role. For this purpose, since the beginning, it’s gathering a large number of leaders [...]
The Brokerage Event for Innovation Agencies 2020 organised by EURADA took place on January 30th, 2020. The event was divided in four different sessions: An ‘Opportunities for Innovation Agencies’ session where Janos Schmied (DG GROW) had the kindness of explaining the European Commission’s calls and initiatives, such as those included in the Horizon 2020 Work [...]
Eurada News nº396 - January 2020 Brokerage Event for Innovation Agencies 2020 The Brokerage Event for Innovation Agencies has proved to be a successful one. In the past, several synergies from participants have emerged, presenting proposals and some of them being funded. EURADA has been organising it for 5 years, with regard to the call [...]
Eurada News nº396 - January 2020 Thank you Mr. Mevlut Özen! EURADA’s Vice-President Mevlut Özen goes into retirement at the end of February 2020. Mr. Özen founded OKA at the end of 2008 and is the longest serving General Secretary of Turkish Regional Development Agencies. Mevlut Özen, General Secretary of the Development Agency Orta Karadeniz [...]
Eurada News nº396 - January 2020 Promote Your Activities with the EER Awards The label "European Entrepreneurial Region" recognises local and regional authorities with outstanding strategies to support SMEs. Getting it is a great achievement because it gives promotion of your territory and your public policies for regional economic growth. The European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) [...]
Eurada News nº396 - January 2020 European Social Innovation Competition 2020 A few days ago, the Commission opened the applications for the 2020 European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC). The Competition acts as a beacon for social innovators in Europe, employing a proven methodology for supporting early-stage ideas and facilitating a network of radical innovators shaping [...]
Eurada News nº395 - December 2019 European Delegation in the IEDC's Annual Conference Last October our president Roberta Dall'Olio and our colleague Estefanía López, along with representatives of RDAs from our network, travelled in representation of EURADA to the IEDC's Annual Conference that was held in Indianapolis. In this article you can know about their experience [...]
Eurada News nº395 - December 2019 European SME Strategy Following the announcement of President von der Leyen, a new SME strategy will be enacted to ensure an efficient regulation for small and medium enterprises, reducing red tape and improving their access to market. The European Commission is finalising the industrial and SME strategies for the College [...]
Eurada News nº395 - December 2019 Randomised Control Trials Randomised control trials have been broadly used in medicine and biology, but it is a quite new methodology in policy making. They are little by little being used in the field of innovation and business support. With this article we will try be to try to make [...]
