Overall Aims and Approach
The
promotion of regional and social cohesion as well as of environmental
protection and sustainability are among the most important Community
objectives. REGIONET will contribute knowledge that helps to better
integrate environmental issues in regional development plans and management
(also now needed for Structural Funds proposals) and to integrate
environmental protection with economic development and social policy. The
project explicitly addresses these issues by organising four workshops which
will bring together different stakeholders, i.e. policy-makers, researchers,
business/industry, and users/consumers.
Specific
Objectives
The
thematic network REGIONET has the following specific objectives:
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The
improved integration of sustainability issues in the regional
development plans put forward to the EU structural funds.
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An
understanding of the relationship between the implementation of regional
sustainable development and issues
of regional and multi-level governance.
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An
integrated framework for evaluating regional sustainable development (methods
and tools) at the European, national and regional levels.
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The
cross-fertilisation of sustainable development research and the
establishment of regional partnerships.
Outputs
The
outputs of REGIONET will be:
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Four
workshops to bring together various stakeholders and elaborate on
regional sustainable development.
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Edited
books and other academic publications to contribute to the scientific
discourse on regional sustainable development.
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'Recommendations
+' as a practical policy guide for regional sustainable development in
Europe.
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A
project website to provide information on upcoming events, network
members and experts, information on other relevant projects, download
reports.