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 [...]
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 [...]