RegioStars Awards
The objective of the RegioStars Awards is to identify good practices in regional development and to highlight original and innovative projects which could be attractive and inspiring to other regions. The RegioStars awards form part of the Commission's Regions for Economic Change initiative, which aims to highlight good practice in urban and regional development.
RegioStars 2014
The application process for the 2014 RegioStars Awards is now open.
Applications should be sent by 19 April 2013 to the electronic address REGIO-STARS@ec.europa.eu . The selected finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their projects before an independent jury during the eleventh annual European Week of Regions and Cities - OPEN DAYS 2013. The Award ceremony itself will take place in Brussels in early 2014.
RegioStars 2013
European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn, and Luc Van den Brande have announced the winners of the prestigious RegioStars Awards 2013 to Europe’s most innovative and inspiring projects. The 6th annual edition of the Awards attracted a record 149 applications, with 27 highly commended finalists. But 5 of them have outshined the competition: flagship projects of innovation in Porto, the North West of England, Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Berlin and Lithuania have this year been honoured with the Awards and taken centre stage in Brussels.
See the winners:
Category 1: “UPTEC – Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade do Porto” and Portrait
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Category 2: ENWORKS Resource Efficiency Support and Portrait
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Category 3: Individual Employment Paths and Portrait
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Category 4: Neighbourhood Management Berlin and Portrait
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Category 5: Towards Work – development of mediation services in recruiting people with hearing disabilities
Previous years
The RegioStars Awards have been organised by the European Commission since 2008.
See project descriptions and videos of past finalists and winners :
| RegioStars 2014 | RegioStars 2013 | RegioStars 2012 | RegioStars 2011 |
| RegioStars 2010 | RegioStars 2009 | RegioStars 2008 |