Eurada News nº393 - October 2019 Looking back to the past 8 years: How EURADA helped members & partners in EU projects Between 2011 and 2019 EURADA helped members and partners successfully apply for EU projects for an overall value of €51 million . This article illustrates a few examples of EU projects EURADA contributed with [...]
Eurada News nº393 - October 2019 Providing effective support to social enterprises Three development agencies have concluded that it is important to promote social entrepreneurship by facilitating the creation of a network of contacts, increasing the funding allocated to social entrepreneurship and giving social character to all kind of entrepreneurship projects. Economic developers agree over the [...]
Eurada News nº393 - October 2019 Innovation associate in SMEs: INNOSUP-02-2019-2020 SMEs often can provide innovative ideas to implement. The problem arises when they do not have the means to do so. Innovation is one of the key topics for projects, and one of the fields EURADA and its members have an interest in. Keep reading [...]
Eurada News nº393 - October 2019 Building Scotland’s Future: EURADA’s and Scotland Europa’s side event on the EWRC It is not uncommon for RDAs to merge, collaborate with each other, modify their structure or purposes… but the creation from scratch of an RDA does not usually happen. In this side event of the EWRC, one [...]
Eurada News nº393 - October 2019 SME Initiative Romania From now on, Romanian small and medium-sized enterprises will have the opportunity to access to a better financial leverage, thanks to the increase in the budget of the Regional Operational Programmes’ SME Initiative, after the Government decided to transfer €150 additional million from the national Cohesion Fund [...]
Eurada News nº392 - September 2019 Industry 4.0 and the Next Programming Period Last 17th of September, the city of Gabrovo in Bulgaria hosted an international conference on "Industry 4.0 and the Next Programming Period". This event was organised within the framework of the European Union inter-institutional Knowledge Exchange Platform (KEP) by DG RTD and the [...]
Eurada News nº392 - September 2019 Save the date! Infoday on Sustainable Transport Big changes are being undergone in the transport sector through the H2020 programme. Transport represents a high percentage of the greenhouse gas emissions nowadays and measures are being taken to introduce sustainable tourism. With such big changes, security and other aspects cannot be [...]
Eurada News nº392 - September 2019 EU and National Funding Opportunities for Defence Technologies The European Defence Fund will provide a key contribution to Europe’s strategic autonomy, protecting and defending its citizens. It will promote defence cooperation among companies and between EU countries to foster innovation and develop state-of-the-art defence technology and products. As part [...]
Eurada News nº392 - September 2019 Eastern Twins: Upgrading regional development in Romania and Moldova Taking regional development to a new level: regional development agencies are becoming relevant actors with greater influence at regional level. With so many opportunities which vary from agriculture to tourism, innovation and technology, RDAs represent indispensable actors for economic development. After [...]
Eurada News nº392 - September 2019 Save the Date 30.10.2019 – Attend EU conference on Industry 4.0 at EURADA’s premises! The final conference of the Erasmus+ IN4WOOD project pursues a clear mission: to take up the challenge of the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) by gathering in one place entrepreneurs, researchers, technology experts and regional and EU officers. [...]