[PDF] Top 20 Sixth progress report on economic and social cohesion. Creative and innovative regions

... the social, cultural or economic sphere. Social innovation can create better models of childcare, improve healthcare delivery at home and promote sustainable ...Many regions have witnessed a ... See full document

... The education and the health and social work sector, however, both share the characteristic that their performance cannot be determined from GVA or employment shares or growth. The main goal of these sectors is to ... See full document

... and economic and social restructuring are relevant in all Member ...of regions lagging behind, especially in new Member ...1 regions should be abandoned entirely by the Union and ... See full document

... particular progress needs to be made in the following key areas: concentrating resources on the Europe 2020 objectives and targets; committing Member States to implementing the reforms needed for the policy to be ... See full document

... A fourth recommendation was that a reduction in the general level of state aid should be accompanied by its redeployment in favour of certain horizontal objectives such as research, innovation, an inclusive information ... See full document

... A portrait of the weaker regions and Member States In 1986, the year of the accession to the EU of Spain and Portugal, the four Cohesion countries had a combined GOP per head, in PPS ter[r] ... See full document

... territorial cohesion to a small number of geographical features which may influence ...and regions to provide appropriate policy responses, and therefore do not require specific treatment, let alone ...that ... See full document

... that cohesion policy guides and fosters growth across Europe; promotes investments that would not have been undertaken otherwise; supports competitiveness in the most vulnerable regions; enhances ... See full document

... The Europe 2020 strategy aims to increase the employment rate of people aged 20 to 64 to 75% by 2020. In the EU, the rate was 69% in 2010. Increasing the employment rate will help to reduce poverty and exclusion. It will ... See full document

... 70 regions in parallel with Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS), under the for- mer Article 10 of the ERDF, in 30 ...help regions develop a strategy which en- courages firms, mainly SMEs, to be more ... See full document

... Portuguese regions and some regions in Greece, Italy and ...convergence regions score better than the other regions, with almost half respecting this target compared to only one in four for ... See full document

... higher economic growth in the ...the economic development and it is an indication of high innovation capacity, high education level, good governance and so ... See full document

... Union’s cohesion policies are the key instrument for ensuring that the integration process is both as smooth and as successful as pos- ...the Cohesion Fund by the European Council in Copenhagen last ... See full document

... of cohesion policy is the reduction of economic and social disparities between the levels of development of European ...Lagging regions must thus remain the focus of the ...that ... See full document

... As a result of the crisis, foreign direct investment (FDI) dropped rapidly. Many foreign investors directed available resources back to ‘mother’ companies. Joining the EU made it easier for the Central and Eastern Member ... See full document

... RCE regions, but only in one out of 84 convergence regions and not in a single transition ...convergence regions is only 0.9 % of their GDP (see table 1). The RCE regions exceeding the Europe ... See full document

... towards innovative ways of combining grants and ...and regions to make a more extended use of such instruments in the ...within Cohesion Policy, a number of measures could be ... See full document

... of innovative services and create unforeseen ...in innovative approaches to serving low income customers, as well as how these incentives might be affected by ... See full document

... At individual level, a positive impact was observed on both staff and learners who broadened their skills (including language proficiency), deepened their knowledge, developed a strong sense of networking across national ... See full document

... prioritise economic growth and job creation over the next seven ...to economic development that are deeply important for agricultural productivity, health, education, and other key ... See full document