EU Structural funds and employment policy performance in Greece: impact and reform during the fiscal austerity years

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Sifis Plimakis ◽  
Georgios Maris ◽  
Andreas Masouras ◽  
Georgios Galanos ◽  
Georgios Karachalios
Keyword(s):  
Employment Policy ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Policy Performance ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Fiscal Austerity

Academic engagement with small business and entrepreneurship: Towards a landscape of practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110344
Author(s):  
Oswald Jones
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Academic engagement with small business and entrepreneurship was facilitated by the availability of European Union (EU) funding, which also stimulated the emergence of a small business and entrepreneurship (SBE) ‘community of practice’. Gradually, the SBE community developed into a ‘landscape of practice’ as small business research moved towards maturity. Furthermore, the SBE landscape of practice has coalesced around three core concepts: entrepreneurial learning, social networks and social capital. EU funding was the catalyst for many SBE academics in the UK to engage with practitioners involved with starting and managing their own businesses. The UK’s exit from the EU will inevitably mean that universities will no longer have access to EU Structural Funds. This has major implications for the UK SBE community’s engagement with practice as well as for entrepreneurs and business owners who have benefitted from a range of programmes designed to improve the performance of smaller firms.

scholarly journals Financing of Smart Growth in Less Developed Regions on the Example of Poland

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Murzyn
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe aim of this paper is twofold. First, the smart growth concept is examined with a focus on challenges associated with applying this concept in the less developed regions. Second, the impact of EU structural funds on smart growth in Poland is analyzed at the regional level with a view to contributing to the debate on public intervention in this area. The research questions are as follows: “Is the concept of smart growth, as postulated by the European Union, well suited to the less developed regions?” and “Whether and to what extent do EU funds contribute to achieving smart growth in Poland?”Smart growth has accelerated after 2007, which could suggest a significant impact of EU structural funds, whose allocation to measures supporting innovative activity rose markedly after 2007. However, among the various factors influencing regional development processes, the impact of structural funds was not as strong as might be expected, which was confirmed by further analysis.

scholarly journals OPPORTUNITIES FOR FINANCING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC GRAPES AND ORGANIC WINE THROUGH THE RATIONAL USE OF EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS AND FUNDS FROM THE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE WINE SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 591-598
Author(s):  
A. Miteva
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
National Program ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Wine Sector ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Organic Wine ◽  
Certified Organic

Over the last ten years, there has been a global steady increase in the production and consumption of organic products, in particular wines produced from certified organic raw materials. The purpose of this article is to present the regulatory framework for the production of organic grapes and organic wine and the possibilities for developing their production through the use of EU structural funds and funds from the National Program for the Development of the Wine Sector

scholarly journals DANE Mechanizm i obszary wsparcia rozwoju współpracy transgranicznej oraz ochrony dziedzictwa i krajobrazu kulturowego w ramach programu „Interreg Polska – Słowacja”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020(41) (3) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Jan Pochwała ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Border Effect ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Common ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

In order to support the development of Polish and Slovak border regions, after the accession of both countries to the EU, the “Interreg Poland – Slovakia” Program was implemented. One of the priorities of the Program is the protection and use of the common Polish-Slovak cultural and natural heritage for the development of cross-border cooperation. As part of Interreg since 2004, EU-Structural Funds have co-financed joint Polish-Slovak projects implemented in selected counties/poviat located in the following voivodeships/provinces: Śląskie, Małopolskie, Podkarpackie (on the Polish side) and Žilinskom kraji, Prešovskom kraji and Košickým kraji (on the Slovak side). The next editions of Interreg are becoming increasingly popular in Poland and Slovakia including its recognition by experts as well as the implementation of a cross-border effect.

scholarly journals From smart specialisation to smart experimentation

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Benner
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Entrepreneurial Discovery ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Relational Economic Geography

AbstractThe idea of smart specialisation has gained high prominence in the discourse about the regional policy of the European Union (EU). In the coming program period from 2014 to 2020 it is expected to be a major pillar of EU structural funds. The notion of smart specialisation incorporates some basic principles of evolutionary economics and centers on the idea of an entrepreneurial discovery process of new trajectories on the regional level. It does not, however, sufficiently take into account the relevance of individual agents, their actions, and their relations with each other in the identification, creation, development, and destruction of technological and economic trajectories. For this, a focus on micro-level dynamics is needed that provides the base for experimentation. Therefore, this paper proposes the new concept of smart experimentation. This notion aims to complement smart specialisation. It is anchored not only in evolutionary economics, but also in relational economic geography.

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