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February 13 2009 

The Competitiveness and Innovation Programme:forthcoming calls for proposals and Project Café

This information and market place session has been jointly organized between  the Lisbon Regions Network and ERRIN ICT Working Group.    Together these two networks cover over 50 regions inEurope.

Find out more about the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme and the current call on ICT and the future Intelligent Energy call from speakers from the European Commission as well as advance information on the future calls on Eco-innovation and Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. Develop future contacts and present your project ideas and find your future partners.

  

 

February 12 2009 

Bridging regional policy and spatial development

On October 6th the European Commission published the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion and launched the official public debate on territorial cohesion. The goal of the consultation is to come to a better and shared understanding of territorial cohesion and its implications for policy. The Green Paper argues that the territorial diversity of the EU is a vital asset that can contribute to the sustainable development of the EU as whole. To turn this diversity into strength, we have to address territorial cohesion through focus on new themes, new sets of relationships binding EU territories at different levels and new forms of cooperation, coordination and partnerships. 

The LRN intends to contribute to the current discussion about the Territorial Cohesion, stressing the link with the Lisbon Strategy, focusing on potentials of the territories and on the capacity to promote Growth and Jobs at local level.

 

 

 

  

November 26 2008 

LRN Board Meeting

Lisbon Regions Network Board meeting will be held in Brussels on the 26th of November, gathering political representatives from the member regions.
  

  

November 25 2008 

Round table on "National Reform Programme and the regional participation"

This Roundtable is the third initiative organized by the LRN on the participation of Regions in the elaboration of their respective NRPs. The main philosophy behind this cycle of seminars is to map the different levels of participation and governance structures that have been put in place at national level within the Renewed Lisbon Agenda. The aim is to stimulate an open discussion with strategic EU actors involved in the Lisbon Process and to promote a cooperative dialogue about the future with a “lessons learnt” approach.

 

  

October 21 2008 

LRN Training session on external Cooperation

The training session on Territorial Cooperation was held last 21th of October by Manoelle Wasseige at Brussels Europe liaison Office.  

  

October 9 2008  

Lisbon Regions Network Informal General Assembly

Lisbon Regions Network General Assembly was held inBrusselson the 9th of October, gathering political representatives and civil servants from all member regions.  

  

October 2 2008 

LRN Training session on FP7

The training session on the seventh Framework Programme was held last 2nd of October by Luis Ballester at SBRA office.

  

July 3-4 2008  

Lisbon Regions Network General Conference

The conference intends to underline the links between the EU political Agenda for Jobs and Growth and Regional Policy, stressing the fundamental role that regions can play in contributing to the achievements of concrete results and improvements for the future ofEurope.  

The Lisbon Strategy is coming into its last cycle and the European Regions are ready to be part of the debate, bringing their own dimension for the post-2010 Agenda. The conference wishes to give Regions the opportunity to promote their ideas on a stronger European Union, able to face future challenges with a multilevel governance approach.

  

June 19 2008  

Lisbon Regions Network General Assembly

  

Lisbon Regions Network General Assembly was held in Brussels on the 19th of June, gathering political representatives from all member regions.

As the current Chairmanship was coming to an end ,elected new Chair for the network was Flavio Delbono , Vice President of Emilia-Romagna will now take over the secretariat and the leadership for one year. Elected Vice Chair was Rinske Kruisinga, Member of the Executive Board of Noord-Holland.

Two new members were elected: Bratislava Self Governing REgion and Aquitaine Region, which means the network has now reached the number of 15 member regions

May 15 2008  

Round Table discussion with members of the Lisbon Regions Network and the Board of Sörmland regional Council

 

The ambition with this Round Table discussion was to gain insight into where the EU stands today in terms of the Lisbon Strategy and gather force and momentum to meet the most fundamental challenges of today. During the Interactive Round Table discussion led by Ann Mettler from the Lisbon Council, the role of the regions was further discussed. Focus was on how regions implement the Lisbon Strategy, how regions can work together and in which projects, and how to involve the citizens.

 

May 15 2008  

"Europe on the move: opportunities and challenges for social Lisbon"

 

This conference examined the findings of recent research on how to maximise the benefits of intra-EU migrants and at the same time ensure that mobile EU workers have the support they require to integrate into the wider community.

 

 

April 29 2008  

"Lisbon Strategy 2008-2010" - A strategy for Growth & Jobs in the Regions?

 

The Lisbon Regions Network organised this seminar to have a joint reflection with EU actors on the new cycle of the Lisbon strategy in view of seeing what is the real impact from a regional perspective.

The seminar also aimed to tackle the cross-cutting aspect of the Lisbon strategy and its impact on other EU matters. In that framework, some regions presented their experience to show how they tend to a better lisbonisation of their local strategies.

 

 

March 10 2008  

"Lisbon Action Plan Workshop" 


The Lisbon Action Plan is a tool developed by Lisbon Regions Network in order to translate the Integrated guidelines into concrete regional activities. It can be a model to monitor regional policy areas and outline which instruments regions can use to reach the Lisbon Goals.

           

This workshop showed a methodology to evaluate regional policies within the context of the Lisbon Strategy, based on the results of the pilot study carried out by Regione Emilia-Romagna and Regio Randstad.

 

 

June 7-9 2007

Lisbon Regions Network General Assembly and Conference "From Reaction to Action"

Stockholm Region and Sörmland Regional Council hosted the Lisbon Regions Network General Assembly and Conference in Stockholm Region 7-9 June 2007. Invited to the Conference were also other politicians and civil servants interested in discussing the regional role in the Lisbon Strategy.

The title of the Conference wanted to stress the importance of having active regions, which are not just reacting at the challenges today, but also acting as those important facilitators for better development, growth, employment and competitiveness, as regions are. To ensure the effective implementation of the Lisbon Strategy it is important that the regional and local dimension is involved, but up until now, the Lisbon Strategy suffers from a lack of delivery at a grass roots level.

The main objective with the Conference was therefore to discuss common challenges for regions in implementing the Lisbon Strategy, with the aim to go further and put good intentions into practice.

During the General Assembly, Ms Lotta Finstrop, Chief Commissioner, Sörmland Councty Council, was elected the new Chair of Lisbon Regions Network and is since then leading the network for one year together with the Stockholm Region Representation in Brussels.