Studies
Date: 08 dec 2017
Theme: Business support, Culture, Energy, Environment, EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EU Strategy for the Danube Region, Rural development, Tourism, Transport, Urban development, Research and innnovation, Research & Development, Territorial cohesion, EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, Social inclusion, Jobs, Education and Training, Structural Funds management and Governance, EU Strategy for the Alpine Region
Languages: en
The study ‘Macro-regional strategies and their links with cohesion policy’, contracted by Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and conducted by a consortium led by COWI company, aims first at describing the main features of each macro-region (Baltic, Danube, Adriatic and Ionian, and Alpine) through a range of macroeconomic, competitiveness, integration and governance indicators. It assesses to what extent the strategies contribute to coordination and synergies between European Structural and Investment Funds and other EU policies and instruments. The study also takes stock of strategies' main achievements and appraises their socio-economic impact. It also identifies the barriers to overcome and the drivers to use in order to make them more efficient and finally looks at the potential of the macro-regional approach to contribute to the future cohesion policy.
This comprehensive study is based on the analysis of existing literature, desk research, interpretation of hundreds of data, and a survey sent to more than six thousands macro-regional stakeholders. The report is composed of five documents: one core report summarising the main findings of the study and one annex per strategy compiling data and findings concerning each of them.