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    • Regional development
    • EU Cohesion policy
    • EU Competition policy
    • European territorial cooperation
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    ESPON – Territorial Evidence Support for ETC Programmes

    Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020: Impact Evaluation

    Financial instruments and territorial cohesion

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    Conference ‘Regional policy in Scotland after Brexit’ – 7 February 2020,

    The 47th IQ-Net conference (Delft): Preparing for 2021-27 - Programming,

    TRACER: Research and Innovation project meeting on coal regions in transition

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    • Regional development
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    Macro-regions and the European Union: The Role of Cohesion Policy

    EU Cohesion Policy in Practice: What Does it Achieve?

    The Visibility and Communication of Cohesion Policy in Online Media

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Webinar on Universities’ Role in Structural Funds’ Implementation

How, and how well, does State aid transparency work?

Webinar on Regional Spatial Justice

BLOG & REPORT: Will Cohesion Policy Recover from COVID?

Webinar on Narrative Policies about Rurality

Webinar on Narrative Policies about Rurality

Webinar on Smart Specialisation and Regional Industrial Structures

Webinar on Smart Specialisation and Regional Industrial Structures

Featured projects

Bio-based strategies and roadmaps for enhanced rural and regional development in the EU (BE-Rural)

2019 - 2022

Smart strategies for the transition in coal-intensive regions (TRACER)

2019 - 2022

Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020: Impact Evaluation

2018 - 2019

ESPON – Territorial Evidence Support for ETC Programmes

2018 - 2019

The Use of Technical Assistance for Administrative Capacity Building During the 2014-2020 Period

2018 - 2019

Synergies among EU Funds in research and innovation in agriculture

2018 - 2019

Events

40th Anniversary EoRPA Conference

15 October 2019

The 40th anniversary EoRPA conference took place in Scotland House, Brussels on the 9th of October, 2019. Several guest speakers presented talks on regional policy in the current day and the some of the challenges it faces.

IQ-Net is a network of regional and national partners across the EU whose aim is to improve the quality of Structural Funds programme management through exchange of experience. The network involves a structured programme of applied research and debate; network partners meet twice a year, with conferences being hosted by the partners on a rotation basis.

IQ-Net was launched in 1996 and is managed by the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Partner organisations are mainly regional or national European Structural and Investment Funds managing authorities or programme secretariats.

IQ-Net enables programme managers and their partnerships to exchange experience and share good practice on specific themes relating to the design, delivery, management and evaluation of the Structural Funds programmes. Briefing papers are prepared by EPRC as the basis for discussion at each meeting, bringing together comparative experience from across the EU. In addition to regular progress updates on the programmes, thematic papers are also discussed at each conference. Recent papers have covered: the results-orientation in 2014-20 programmes in terms of project generation and selection approaches; youth unemployment; the performance turn in EU Cohesion policy; innovation and 'Smart Specialisation' in Cohesion policy programmes; the use of financial instruments in Cohesion policy programmes; the evaluation and monitoring of 2014-2020 programmes; and, the simplification of Cohesion policy delivery. For more information on the network or to express interest in joining it see the IQ-Net website.

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The EoRPA Consortium is a group of government ministries and agencies from eleven European countries which fund a research programme on regional policy developments in the EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland. The research includes an ongoing comparative assessment of changes in regional policy, set in the context of the EU Regional Aid Guidelines and the EU Structural and Investment Funds. The Consortium also funds thematic studies on selected regional policy issues.

It was established in October 1978 when government departments responsible for regional policy in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom decided to fund a comparative study of regional incentive policy in the European Community. The focus of the research was on policy change and the reasons for change over time, with the aim of gaining comparative policy lessons. In addition, an annual meeting of senior policymakers from the sponsoring countries was held to facilitate the exchange of views on policy developments in an informed yet informal atmosphere.

The first annual meeting was held in January 1980; the 2018 meeting will be the 39th annual meeting.

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