Eurada News nº397 - February 2020 Peer Learning of Innovation Agencies Last January 30th, EURADA held its first event of the year, the Brokerage Event for Innovation Agencies. Its main purpose was help participants find potential partners for their project ideas, all very promising. The topic the event touched the most was Peer Learning of Innovation [...]
Eurada News nº397 - February 2020 2020 Commission Work Programme Check the plans of the European Commission in the short term as published in the work programme for the year 2020. Most of the initiatives have to do with the green deal and digitalisation The publication of the Work Programme at the beginning of each year [...]
Braga was the Portuguese city chosen to hold the XPRESS Project workshop, with the title “Green Companies for Green Regions and Green Cities”. The event aimed to gather the relevant actors of the local ecosystem such as public authorities, SMEs, and researchers in order to find out what barriers and problems they have to face [...]
Eurada News nº397 - February 2020 Early Milestones Achieved in the TeRRItoria Project The completion of several mapping and evaluation schemes under the analytical strand of the TeRRItoria project has contributed with momentum in the implementation of the transformative experiments in 5 selected territories. The transformative experiments covered under the TeRRItoria project in 4 regions (Central [...]
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) [...]
