On 17 December EURADA held a presentation at its premises about a highly relevant topic for regional development practitioners: The cases of Spanish and Portuguese Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). The EURADA Project Officer Alberto Soria carried out an extensive research on the state of the art of development agencies in the Iberian Peninsula. Alberto dedicated [...]
EURADA in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre organised a workshop to discuss how to update Smart Specialisation Strategies for the next multiannual financial period. Building on the experience of Northern Netherlands Provinces, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Flanders, Wielkopolska, Valencian Community and Andalusia; we talked about the development of closer to reality indicators than the [...]
SAVE THE DATE We are glad to announce you that the new edition of the Brokerage Event for Innovation Agencies will take place at EURADA premises on January 30th 2020. Like every year, the event aims to gather relevant experts on the field of the innovation from both the public and private sector. It will [...]
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 [...]
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 allow the consolidation of a close cooperation to boost economic and sustainable development [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
