Policy Focus
- Agriculture & Fisheries
- Economic Affairs
- Energy & Transport
- Enlargement
- Environment
- EU Politics
- Europe's Regions
- Foreign Affairs
- Health
- Justice & Rights
- Science & Research
FUTURREG
The FUTURREG project
is designed to have significant long-term impacts for regionaldevelopment policies throughout the European Union, by ensuringthat policies ? and regional development organisations ? areinformed by high-quality Futures tools and participatoryprocesses.
It addresses such critical questions as
- What are the main trends and issues that will affect theprospects of the regions?
- What is their capacity to deal with those trends?
- How can they build the necessary regional partnerships to facecurrent and future challenges?
- What concrete actions can be undertaken?
FUTURREG promotes the effective use of Futures tools for
- Strategy and policy development
- Innovation, research and technology sector-basedwork/clusters
- Rural development
- Sustainability
- Futures clubs/networks
- Knowledge and technology transfer from universities andcolleges to SMEs
FUTURREG Partners & Regions
- The Observatory of Innovation, Cardiff Business School, CardiffUniversity ? Wales, UK (Lead Partner)
- URENIO, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - CentralMacedonia, Greece
- The Destree Institute ? Wallonia, Belgium
- La Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de La Rioja (ADER) - LaRioja, Spain
- Malta Council for Science & Technology - Malta
- Finland Futures Research Centre - Southwest Finland
- Border, Midland and Western Regional Assembly -Ireland
