Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
The 2021-2027 S3 in Grand Est could be defined as 3D-Matrix, gathering three main dimensions:1) Industry, Health, and Bioeconomy;2) Industrial, digital, and energetic-environmental-social transition and Social innovation, responsible innovation, relocation companies, and development of local supply chains (transversal to dimensions 1&2). The implementation of the S3 for dimension 2 (transition) will be coordinated by different GET (Grand Est Transformation regional networks of competencies - digital, green, industry). S3 is used to define the priorities that will be funded by the new ERDF program (2021-2027), specifically under objective 1.1 (innovation, SMEs, and digital transformation).
The objective of a GET is to be “a one-stop-shop” to accelerate the transformation of companies (mainly SMEs) and territories. The first Grand Est transformation launched in 2022 is focused on digital. It covers classical support actions (evaluation of the digital maturity, identification of the state of the art technology or services or training, finding the right funding scheme) but also transversal activities such as ethics and inclusion. GET Digital gathers all the competencies needed by a company to succeed in its digital transformation. The issue of open data(OD) is one of the activities covered by GET Digital. The aim is to use OD to feed the development of new applications and services by SMEs in various sectors: environment, mobility, culture, and health.
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The Integration Programme (2021-2024; in Finnish: Kotoutumisen edistämisen suunnitelma) is the city’s renewed service provision plan for immigrants. The programme considers up to date research and statistics, expert consultations and the experiences of immigrants. The city gathered 30 personal narratives from immigrants and comments from the NGO -sector. Four distinct entities were identified, which are the basis for the current programme’s actions and objectives:
- Challenges and lack of opportunities to study and learn the Finnish language
- Immigrants‘ interface into working life
- Sense of community and people relations
- Increasing attractiveness and retaining habitants
The objectives for the years 2021-2024 include diverse opportunities for Finnish language learning, increasing opportunities to engage in the labour market, increase the attractiveness and retaining ability of the City of Jyväskylä and advance community-spirit and good people relations locally.
Specific priority or measure addressed: 9This project would emphasise learning from best practices and experiences of project partners with emphasis on language competence. A key challenge in recent years has been learning sufficient Finnish language competences to match requirements of local job opportunities. The actions consist of critically assessing job market requirements, peer- and on-the-job learning opportunities and enabling local language training for students alongside their degree studies.
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The policy instrument, belongs to the 1st pillar ‘Improving the competitiveness of the local economy’ of Region’s OP “Operational Programme 2014-2020” approx.70 m. € aiming to boost economic development and create job opportunities in East Macedonia & Thrace and contributing to achieving Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, in line with RIS2. RIS3 is a Strategic approach for economic development based on supporting R&I.
There are 9 Intervention Axis(IA) including entrepreneurship and support actions, Transformation of Agro-food sector and Supporting the Growth of emerging sectors (tourism, marble, electronic equipment, materials, energy).
The RDF participation in the project aims to enrich and strengthen our knowledge and strategy in IA1. “Institutional capacity of the Innovation Regional System” and IA3. “Dissemination of knowledge and innovations & networking”
IA1/ Logic: More effective governance system for upgrading the institutional capacity of the 3Helix actors and the development of win-win exchange, collaboration and communication channels between them.
IA3/ Logic: Dissemination of knowledge exchange, innovations, links & networking among the 3helix actors in order the local production system search for special knowledge from local academic and research institutions & Academic institutions have clear policies for the transfer of innovation and provide incentives for their staff in this direction.
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It is a local medium-term (up to 7 years) development planning document, which is closely related to Liepaja city long-term planning documents - Liepaja city sustainable development strategy until 2035 and Liepaja city spatial plan and the newly formed municipalities of South Kurzeme (Aizpute, Durbe, Grobina, Nica, Pavilosta, Priekule, Rucava, Vainode counties) planning documents.
The development planning documents of Liepāja State City and South Kurzeme Region for 2022–2027 are being finalized ensuring high-quality development planning of Liepāja city and the newly established South Kurzeme region, to identify the territory, development and cooperation project between Liepāja and the newly established South Kurzeme region, linking them with the Latvian National Development Plan 2021–2027. as well as to prepare projects for the grants from European Union funds.
This policy document consists of analysis of the current situation, action and investment plan (variable section) and environmental impact assessment.
Integrated approach allows us to bind together various policy areas and initiatives and at the same time to find the necessary balance among economic, social, urban, environmental development.
One of the actions is defined to Facilitate the availability of open data for data centralization and processing.
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Szombathely City’s vision is to contribute to the improvement of the standard of living in Szombathely and its region by focusing on education and R and D by promoting industrial transformation and focusing on green, digital and resilient economy. This transformation is not possible without strengthening the availability and usability of Open Data by public and private entities both for tackling entrepreneurship and also urban challenges.
Szombathely has a strong vision and strategy to promote higher added value production. To achieve this goal, a holistic, ecosystem development approach has been launched to integrate local actors with national and international level competencies, linking them with relevant international actors. Exploitation of existing Open Data to promote innovative public and private services, particularly focusing on the health, mobility and environmental sectors is a key action to be completed in Programme.
The core objective of the activities is to proactively facilitate Szombathely's shift towards higher value-added production while mitigating the job-cutting effects of mass production caused by increasing automation and digitalisation, and contributing to the increased resilience of the city's economy to the crisis. Where the availability and the exploitation of Open Data in each policy objectives of the Programme play a key role for enhancing knowledge and competence.
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The Regional Innovation Strategy for Mazovia until 2030 (RIS3) is an official document, adopted on 16/03/2021, which complements the Development Strategy for the Mazowieckie Voivodeship until 2030 in the scope of increasing the competitiveness and innovation of the region. It defines a strategic framework for the regional innovation ecosystem aimed at creating an environment conducive to increasing the innovative activity of enterprises.
The aim of RIS3: Mazowieckie voivodship as a macroregion of a seized opportunity - to become one of the innovation leaders in Central and Eastern Europe by 2030.
RIS3 identifies two main elements of the policy:
A. Strategic directions of innovation development (4 main goals):
1. Increasing innovative activity (6 sub-goals);
2. Strong and effective value chains connecting companies (5 sub-goals);
3. Effective ecosystem of creating and supporting innovation (9 sub-goals);
4. Increase of internationalization of the Mazovian innovation ecosystem (4 sub-goals).
B. Smart specialization - a concept of economic transformation based on growth poles:
1. Safe food;
2. Intelligent systems in industry and infrastructure;
3. Modern business ecosystem;
4. High quality of life.
The document defines the implementation tools that support process of stimulating the innovative activity of regional institutions and companies, and includes:
1. Implementation Programs (2-3 years)
2. Specifying the areas of smart specialization
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The Smart Specialization Strategy for the Sustainability of Andalusia 2021-2027 (S4 Andalucía Strategy) will continue the current RIS3 Andalucía.
The purpose of the Smart Specialization Strategy for the Sustainability of Andalusia 2021-2027, S4 Andalucía, will be to become the basic instrument for planning, execution, development and evaluation of public actions that are developed in the field of Research, Innovation and Industrial Transition, with a transversal perspective of fight against Climate Change, in the European Cohesion Framework 2021-2027, in coordination, where appropriate, with the specific strategies relating to these matters and in response to the requirements required by the Enabling Condition of Objective 1 of the Andalusia Operational Programme of the European Regional Development Fund, following the guidelines of the European Commission and the ERDF Management Authority of the Kingdom of Spain, and designating the Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities as the competent regional department, in charge of the smart specialization strategy that is required in the second criterion of the Enabling Condition.
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Approved by Šilutė District Municipal Council, 2014 January 30, decision no. T-1041.
The aim of this policy is achieve the goals set in the legislation with the least possible time and financial costs.
Prepare or modify (if necessary) electronic application forms for all administrative services and ensure their public availability.
Review the technical system capability of accepting documents with a secure electronic signature online. Open data must be provided in computer-readable formats, and computer processing must be possible.
Open data must be accessible to the widest possible range of users using the data for a wide variety of purposes. The data must be easy to use and easily accessible online. Charging for open data should not exceed marginal costs. The use of open data must not be restricted, the data can be used and reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes without any restrictions.
Repeal, reduce or improve the existing legal regulation on reducing the administrative burden by preparing appropriate draft legal acts, providing for simplification of the process, exchange of available information and data between institutions, structural units of the Municipal Administration, refusal to submit redundant documents, etc