Smarter Europe: Cohesion Policy for Innovation and Economic Transformation
The Cohesion Policy aims to create a smarter Europe by promoting innovative economic transformation through digitization, enhancing R&I capacities, and supporting the growth and competitiveness of SMEs. It focuses on developing skills, fostering interregional innovation investments, and enabling smart specialization strategies through good governance criteria. The ERDF provides support for infrastructure investments, access to services, productive investments in SMEs, and more as outlined in the policy objectives.
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For internal discussion Policy Objective 1 A smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation Unit G1 DG Regional and Urban Policy September 2019 #CohesionPolicy #EUinmyRegion
Cohesion Policy Objective 1: 2021-27 A smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation Digitisation for citizens, companies and governments Enhancing R&I capacities + uptake of advanced technologies Smart Specialisation Strategies Growth and competetitiveness of SMEs start-up/scale-up Developing skills for S3, industrial transition and entrepreneurship Interregional innovation investments
Enabling condition for smart specialisation Policy objective 1. A smarter Europe by innovative and smart economic transformation Specific objective ERDF: All specific objectives under this policy objectives Name of enabling condition Good governance of national or regional smart specialisation strategy promoting Fulfilment criteria for the enabling condition Smart specialisation strategy(ies) shall be supported by: 1. Up-to-date analysis of bottlenecks for innovation diffusion, including digitalisation 2. Existence of competent regional / national institution or body, responsible for the management of the smart specialisation strategy 3. Monitoring and evaluation tools to measure performance towards the objectives of the strategy 4. Effective functioning of entrepreneurial discovery process 5. Actions necessary to improve national or regional research and innovation systems 6. Actions to manage industrial transition 7. Measures for international collaboration
Scope of support from the ERDF The ERDF shall support: a) investments in infrastructure; b) investments in access to services; c) productive investments in SMEs; d) equipment, software and intangible assets; e) information, communication, exchange of experience and activities involving clusters; f) technical assistance. studies, networking, cooperation, In addition, the ERDF shall also support: productive investments in enterprises other than SMEs when they involve cooperation with SMEs research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies under PO1 Smart Growth (a) (i) training, life-long learning and education activities under PO1 (a) (iv);
The link to relevant materials Regulatory Framework (European Commission Proposal 2018) under negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Council Annex D of European Semester 2019 Country Reports - INVESTMENT GUIDANCE ON COHESION POLICY FUNDING 2021-2027 European Semester 2019 Country Specific Recommendations National Innovation Scoreboard 2019 Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2019