The activities described in this policy brief were undertaken as part of a European Parliament Preparatory Action, which ran between September 2014 and November 2015.
DG Connect and DG JRC have been supporting MSs and regions in fostering the ICT dimension of planned investments under ESIF. As part of this activity, assistance has been given to seven EU regions. This paper provides a systematic summary of the experts’ findings and discusses critical issues...
The European Parliament Preparatory Action: "Actual and desired state of the economic potential in regions outside the Greek capital Athens" has provided "hands-on" support to the refinement and implementation of the RIS3 strategy in the Greek Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (REMTh), as...
Due to an important gap in the knowledge on the complementarity of the Danube countries' R&I strengths, the S3P Danube team's 2014-15 activities were aimed primarily at identification of the national and regional smart specialisation (S3) or simply R&I (for the non-EU countries) priorities of the...
This report details a methodology for performing a cost-benefit analysis identifying the most resource and cost-efficient solutions to meet heating and cooling demands for a given country or region in accordance with Article 14(3) and taking in account the Energy Efficiency Directive.
This Working Paper explores Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) in Sparsely Populated Areas (SPA). The paper discusses the most significant elements of Smart Specialisation (S3) in SPA focusing on its theoretical background as well as on the empirical processes...
The event held in Xanthi on the 21st of October 2015 was the first of two concluding events envisaged for the European Parliament Preparatory Action on the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The second one has been scheduled to take place in Brussels on the 18th of November 2015. The primary...
This policy document builds on the RIS3 Guide and the Digital Agenda Toolbox and provides useful guidance for analysing different innovation areas in transport by giving specific examples and roadmaps how they can be implemented.
