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Regional Innovation Performance Grows of 8.5% Since 2016

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Region Hovedstaden, Denmark
The European Innovation Scoreboard 2023 highlights a substantial improvement of innovation performance of 25 countries. 20 Member States experienced a significant rise in their innovation capabilities, while only seven observed a decline. Nevertheless, countries with less strong innovation systems tend to improve less rapidly than the EU average.
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Regional policy is the EU’s main investment policy on the EU cohesion. It supports job creation, competitiveness, economic growth, improved quality of life and sustainable development. Cohesion Policy is delivered through specific funds: the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Cohesion Fund (CF), the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), the Just Transition Fund (JTF) to support the regions most affected by the transition towards climate neutrality.
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​EU Legislative Activity

All EU Legislation in force and under discussion. Know the Members of  the European Parliament, their Staff and all working documents. Follow the meetings of the committees and of the EP Plenary. In streaming or the recording. All EU Council decisions as well.

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2021-2027

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  • About the Fund
  • Funding opportunities
  • Impact and performance
  • Fund features
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Cities and urban development

EU works with cities to ensure a good quality of life.
See how the Commission helps cities to grow sustainably through sharing of knowledge, funding, and other urban policies and initiatives. 

Climate change and risk prevention

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The recent acceleration of climate change can only have devastating consequences for life and for society itself. For this reason, the EU helps the Regions of Europe to find solutions for their own development that are compatible with the preservation of the environment in which they live.
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Competition

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Each EU member state can contribute to the development of its own Regions, but on condition that the competition rules are not altered, without which state aid can create "far west" systems, where the Regions compete unfairly. to collaborate.​
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Culture

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Culture is one of the unique and richest heritages that Europe has. It performs very important functions, from social to economic ones. European culture also has regional specificities and connotations that are almost unique to the rest of the world, as the eventful history of the European continent has also shaped and been shaped by culture in all its expressions. The EU is therefore careful to safeguard the cultural identity of each individual region, including through its promotion.​
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Education and training

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The true wealth of each Region: Education and training, European social fund for better education, skills and career development. Latest news, project information. 
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Efficient public administration

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The interest of the EU is to have Regions with administrative capacities such as to guarantee optimal management of the European funds made available to them. For this reason there are programs and initiatives to support the Regions in this effort of responsibility.
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Employment and labour market

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The interest of the EU is to have Regions with high employment rates, less and less dependent on public aid and more and more attractive for investors. All for the benefit of citizens.​
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Energy networks

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Energy has always been the engine that accompanies the development of our society. But energy can be scarce, it can pollute, it can create social distortions, etc. The EU has launched a strategy of connecting national energy networks and their digitization, in order to have an efficient, effective system for dealing with risk situations and which can reach any citizen. And of course by helping countries towards the energy transition.​
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EU enlargement candidate countries

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The EU has made various programs and financial instruments available to the candidate countries. EU intervenes a lot at the local level, to have an immediate positive impact.
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Environment and resource efficiency

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Since it is the Regions that have a fundamental role in the growth and environmental preservation of their territory, the EU has various policies to act directly at the local level: from agriculture, to environmental protection, to the management of natural resources.​
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Europe's outermost regions

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The EU has many peripheral and ultra-peripheral regions. They are characterized by different climates, by very specific social traditions, by territories with very different economic realities. For this reason, particular attention is paid to which regions and their inhabitants.
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