scholarly journals A Spatial Analysis of the Achievements, in Terms of Regional Development, Accomplished by the Initial EU-Member Cohesion Fund Beneficiaries Using a Synthetic Indicator

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodríguez Martín ◽  
Martín Martín ◽  
Salinas Fernández ◽  
Zermeño Mejía ◽  
Añaños Bedriñana
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Distance Method ◽  
Single Indicator ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Synthetic Indicator ◽  
Cohesion Fund

This study proposes construction of a synthetic indicator to measure progress toward the objective of economic and social cohesion among the regions of Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal within the framework of European Community Regional Policy and the spatial disparities among these countries. Our aim is to integrate, in a single indicator, a large number of variables defined by the European Commission to monitor improvements in regional development, classified according to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. To achieve this goal, we use the Pena distance method for the year 2013.

scholarly journals REGIONAL DIFFERENCES AND REGIONAL COHESION: CASE STUDY OF BULGARIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita ILIEVA
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Regional Development Strategy ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy

The aim of this research is to study regional differences and regional cohesion in Bulgaria in accordance with “Europe 2020” Strategy. On the basis of analyses and comparisons of selected individual indicators, the existing significant differences in the regional development of the 6 NUTS 2 regions in the country are shown. The paper presents also the goals of regional cohesion according to the National Regional Development Strategy 2012-2022, prepared in order to integrate the goals of “Europe 2020” Strategy and the National Development Programme Bulgaria 2020.

scholarly journals Camouflaged Culture: The ‘Discursive Journey’ of the EU’s Cultural Programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (82) ◽  
pp. 14-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarki Valtysson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Cultural Interventions

Abstract This article inspects discursive shifts in the EU’s cultural policy and how these relate to the four ‘generations’ of EU cultural programmes: Raphaël, Ariane, Kaleidoscope; Culture 2000; Culture 2007; and the current Creative Europe programme. This paper therefore accounts for a ‘discursive journey’ that started in the 1970s and culminated with Article 128 in the Maastricht Treaty, which formally constituted the EU’s cultural policy. The article reveals that there can be detected certain shifts in discourses concerning the EU’s cultural programmes, but these shifts are aligned to older discourses within the cultural sector which, prior to the Maastricht Treaty, applied implicit cultural interventions. These therefore represented ‘camouflaged’ cultural understanding and appliances, which were instrumental and promoted economically and politically induced discourses. The major shift detected in the recent Creative Europe programme is a step away from discourses that facilitate the political construction of a ‘people’s Europe’, thereby utilising further discourses that promote aims which adhere to the Union’s Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

scholarly journals Integration conditions and „new” development and management possibilities of regional structures – the importance of smart specialization

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (146) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Marianna GRETA ◽  
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Jacek OTTO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Member States ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
International Structure ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The main goal of the study is to document and attempt to assess the impact of the latest European Union development strategy, i.e. Europe 2020 Strategy. It is inextricably linked to smart specialization, development and competitive capabilities of regions of EU member states. The partial goals are:  presenting Europe 2020 Strategy in the context of setting goals and management areas for regional policy which is part of multi-level transnational structure management in EU the Europe 2020 Strategy setting goals and management for regional policy and region will be described;  presenting smart specialization as a result of the development of integration conditions and determining new opportunities, challenges, decision-management orders for EU regions. Design/methodology/approach: At work, the authors mainly use source materials of European Commission, as well as foreign language studies which are also based on source material from EU institutions. Sometimes the authors had to use archival materials to take into account the value and sense of the latest integration conditions. Findings: The work mainly shows the links between: Europe 2020 Strategy, regional policy, regions of member states, smart specialization, guidelines for multi-level management in an international structure, and practicalisation of a development strategy. Practical implications: A member country of an integration group (EU) should be viewed in the context of an international structure and multi-level governance (including decision29 making). The consequences of that concern the impact on the member state, on the regions, on other entities in the regions. This is mainly about implementation of knowledge, environmental protection, quality of human capital. Changes (or actually adaptations) also apply to socio32 economic development. Social implications: The analyzes, documentation and authors’ suggestions regarding mutual dependencies and connections carried out here, have an undoubted impact on society. Europe 2020 Strategy has a social dimension in all its assumptions. And they concern intelligent growth, sustainable growth, but also (above all) the growth of social integration.Originality/value: The study has values of originality because it goes beyond the collected materials and their presentation. The collected materials were used to capture relationships and interrelationships. A development strategy and smart specialization were used to present the latest integration conditions. Then, these conditions were presented as guidelines for multi-level governance and, consequently, for the competitiveness of European Union and its regions in the global economy

Education and Human Capital

2017 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Basic Expression

In European Union, human capital along with its basic expression education has been placed high on the policy agenda. This chapter aims to analyze the human capital in Greece, in order to provide an integrated overview on how well Greece is operating its human capital and education targets, under the terms of Europe 2020 strategy. Consequently, the achievement of the relevant ethnic targets is vital, for having a “smart, sustainable, inclusive growth” in Greece.

Paradigms in EU social policy: a critical account of Europe 2020

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Daly
Keyword(s):  
Social Goals ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Third ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Orientation ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
Similar Basis

This article offers a critical account of the ‘social’ in the Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the new poverty target and the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The article reaches three main conclusions. First, while poverty is given a prominent place in the strategy and the recourse to targets is intended to harden up Member State and EU coordination in the field, the poverty target is loose and risks being rendered ineffective as an EU-wide target. Secondly, the social goals and philosophy of Europe 2020 are under-elaborated. While it is important that the poverty-related measures are treated on a similar basis to the other elements of Europe 2020, it is not made clear how growth will bring about the planned reduction in poverty. ‘Inclusive growth’ has little meaning in itself. This leads to the third conclusion which is that Europe 2020 lacks a coherent model of social development. Philosophically, it draws mainly from social investment and liberal approaches, neither of which has a strong orientation to addressing poverty.

scholarly journals WHAT IS NEW IN THE EU COHESION POLICY?

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Natalia Kondratieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Supranational Regulation ◽  
European Regional Policy ◽  
The Eu

Based on the review of regulations and press releases of EU institutions, the content of changes in the cohesion policy in 2021–2027 was revealed in comparison with the period 2014– 2020. The conclusion is made about the preservation of a significant role of the cohesion policy in the EU’s activities and high volume of its allocations from the EU Budget. The author sees an element of novelty in the synthesis of well-known methods and principles of supranational regulation of the socio-economic development of the EU territories – the budget method, the principle of financial conditionality and the open method of coordination. Particular attention is paid to the decision to reorient a third of the allocations of European regional policy funds for programs of transition to a circular and climate-neutral economy in 2021–2027. The explanation of such strong link between the goals of regional policy and the ecological and climatic goals of the EU is proposed. Namely, the success of the «Europe 2020» Strategy only in terms of climate benchmarks, according to the author, gives to the official Brussels a reason to see the potential to increase the effectiveness of regional policy.

scholarly journals Trends in regional development in Slovenia in the light of the goals of sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Katja Vintar MALLY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Synthetic Indicator ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development ◽  
Synthetic Assessment

Applying sustainable development into practice is an important national and regional policy goal in Slovenia; in addition, the country’s membership in the European Union further commits it to the goals of sustainable development. The research presented in this article is based on the use of a set of 32 economic, social and environmental indicators of sustainable development and the calculation of a synthetic indicator of sustainable regional development for all twelve Slovenian NUTS-3 regions in the period 2015–2019. In the final step, a synthetic assessment of the possibilities for implementing sustainable development in individual Slovenian regions is given, in which regions are classified into four different types. A comparison with the previous five-year period showed that Slovenia achieved progress in most of the socio-economic aspects of sustainable development analyzed, while the situation deteriorated with respect to environmental aspects. The largest differences among Slovenian regions were calculated in the economic area, and the smallest in the environmental area, which is also in line with the findings of previous research. There continues to be a development divide between the more prosperous western part of the country and the eastern part, which lags behind and for the most part also has poorer prospects for sustainable development. This trend is unfavorable for the balanced as well as sustainable development of Slovenian regions.

Future Strategies In Human Resources. Study Case: Romania

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 569-572
Author(s):  
Radu Stoika ◽  
Madlena Nen
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Human Resources Strategies ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

AbstractWithin this article we intend to make an overview of the situation of human resources training in Romanian companies. Taking into account that nowadays the entire world is suffering from the effects of the global economic and financial crisis, each country has different approaches related to the measures that have to be implemented to counter its effects. By taking into account the targets set by the European Commission in the “Europe 2020 strategy” for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth the importance of human resources management and the way it can be involved to prepare a better response to a very turbulent market is emphasized more than ever. A new design of the human resources strategies is impetuously imposing itself as mandatory in this context. In the final part of this article, we will make a set of recommendations related to the future decisions in human resource management.

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