[PDF] Top 20 What next for EU cohesion policy? Policy and research challenges

... the EU territory and 40% of the total inhabitants (NUTS-3), but also by the financial support given through EU funds to establish and reinforce the process of territorial cooperation in the ...the EU ... See full document

... Cohesion policy is an apt policy area to take not only because of its importance but also because over the next two-to-three years EU institutions, member state governments, regional ... See full document

... ‘Open Cohesion’ data initiative for regional policy, an initiative that has gathered and released data on more than 450,000 regional development ...operational challenges, including the ... See full document

... the EU – the programmes that are part of the IQ-Net knowledge exchange network - with the fulfilment of the new monitoring ...source research and fieldwork interviews carried out in all the IQ-Net partner ... See full document

... Ethnographic research on the ‘everyday life narratives’ of ordinary citizens living in border areas where cross-border interactions are common found an absence of European and EU identity markers, even when ... See full document

... this policy can play a significant role in promoting structural adjustment and maintaining viable rural ...major challenges, namely climate change, renewable energy, water resources, biodiversity, ... See full document

... of policy t argeting in t he next programme, concent rat ing expendit ure on t hose policy areas t hat address EU policy priorities most efficient ly by drawing on t he lessons learnt ... See full document

... recent policy directions in national regional policies over the past ...the EU was thought to be insufficiently developed for effectively aggregating and representing local preferences in strategic ...a ... See full document

... the EU across policy do- mains, especially in redistribution, has been de- bated for many ...an EU public good since it fosters convergence, creating major benefits for the rest of Europe in the form ... See full document

... weak research system) and the efficiency of the capital ...of research and innovation for competitiveness; (iii) environmental protection, health and a sustainable and efficient use of environmental ... See full document

... the EU goal of territorial cohesion, by supporting enhanced cooperation between Member States and the balanced and sustainable development of the European ...territorial cohesion as a regional ... See full document

... of Cohesion Policy indirectly through the use of EU-funded project images (Armbruster et ...of EU-funded cross-border infrastructure investments ...the EU plaque) were shown to the ... See full document

... period, EU-funded interventions led directly to the creation of over 152 000 jobs, over 29,000 of them in SMEs and ...in research. Additional investment supported through EU funding was estimated to ... See full document

... regional policy has been primarily regional and local economic development aimed at improving national economic ...regional policy is also underpinned by a constitutional obligation for government to ... See full document

... on Cohesion policy and beyond ...Programme; EU Cohesion Policy 2014+; Governance of regional ...and challenges, such as the Commission’s Regions 2020 report on demography, ... See full document

... in research activity; this can reduce the ‘room for manoeuvre’ in, for example, the promotion of collaborative ...and research organisations aimed at setting out the circumstances in which such bodies are ... See full document

... Implementing policy labs entails adopting three key components: (1) a new framework for designing public policy interventions, (2) space for safe, collaborative learning from implementing experimental ... See full document

... the EU, deductions will need to be made in payment claims before the final date of eligible ...tech research and innovation centres), any net revenue generated within five years of completion of the project ... See full document

... of cohesion was presented by the Commission as the sine qua non of this ambitious integration drive in recognition of the potentially damaging effects of the 1992 Programme on the more fragile economies of the ... See full document

... The first and very obvious criterion is the duration of cohesion intervention. On the one hand, there is a group of older cohesion countries benefiting from ECP support over a longer period (starting from ... See full document