The rural regions of Europe will undergo radical change over the next two decades.Successful rural are as will achieve a sustainable balance between economic, social and environ mental aspects of development on the basis of a fully diversified knowledge based rural economy that includes...

The TRANSVISION blueprint is part of a set of five blueprints addressing five different regional contexts developed by the expert group "Blueprints for Foresight actions in the Regions". It provides a practical framework designed to build cross-regional strategic visions and guide decision...

The FOR-RIS blueprint is part of a set of five blueprints addressing five different regional contexts developed by the expert group "Blueprints for Foresight actions in the Regions". The POR-RIS blueprint outlines how to combine the more short term regional innovation strategies (RIS/RITTS)...

The region or local area is too often felt to be the focus of every kind of conservatism, folklore and vote-catching. At this Agora, we questioned this image of the region and re-examined and redefined what was actually meant by region. The region, in our notion of the learning region, has a...

On 20 October 2004 the Commission adopted the convergence report 2004, which re-assessed the conditions for adopting the euro in Sweden. This re-examination was seized as an opportunity to analyze also the situation in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,...