Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
The Regional Strategy, including Regional Programme 2022-2025, was approved by the Regional Assembly in December 2021. Decisions on EDRF and ESF project funding in the region are expected to be in line with these themes, objectives, and activities.
In the document health and wellbeing technology are important topics in section “4.2.3. The Wellbeing and Experience Economy” where it is stated that steps forward include:
Developing and capitalising on new technological health and wellbeing products, innovations, and applications.
Developing new services that promote health and wellbeing.
The Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia accounts for about half of the ERDF funding. Most of this should be allocated to projects aimed at improving research and innovation capacity and the introduction of advanced technologies. In South Ostrobothnia, the second half of the ERDF funding was allocated to the Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment (ELY Centre) in Central Finland, the main use of which is the growth and internationalization of SMEs. ESF+ funding for South Ostrobothnia is granted to projects entirely through the Central Finland ELY Centre. ESF+ development projects are mainly related to new ways of promoting employment, skills, and inclusion.
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The SRDEII aims at strengthening the support dedicated to the economic partners within a region, start-ups and universities alike. The current SDREII program has identified 7 main domains of activity:
Mobilities, Health-nutrition, Bioeconomy, Culture&creative industries, Materials, Energy, Digital
Those domains will help identify the needs of local enterprises and define the orientation that the Hauts-de-France will adopt regarding entrepreneurs’ support. They are also aligned on the priorities of the S3 policy, defined by 8 total axes:
Maritime Ambition, Sustainable biorefineries and bioresources, Images, contents and interactive medias, Circular economy and new functionalities of materials, Decarbonized energy efficiency, Embedded artificial intelligence, Precision health and civilization diseases, Societal transition and risk management.
Amongst those 8 axes, the 7. , dedicated to health and civilization diseases, is arguably the most important for the NOTRE project: ageing is a challenge related to health, thus putting it on the front scene as an important issue to tackle, during the next few years.
As partner, increase support for senior and retired citizens,it can directly prevent phenomena of desocialization, loss of independence or mental health degradation.
All of those elements, as well as the project’s orientation towards digital and green solutions to current societal problems, justify the SDREII’s relevance for the Silver Economy domain.
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The policy instrument is focused on 4 priorities, out of the 1st is the one addressed by CNA ER intervention: Research, innovation and competitiveness.
- The priority 1 is addressing 4 specific objectives:
1- Develop and strengthen research and innovation capacities and the introduction of advanced technologies;
2- Enable citizens, businesses, research organizations and public authorities to reap the benefits of digitization;
3- Strengthen the sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and the creation of jobs in SMEs, also thanks to productive investments;
4- Developing skills for smart specialization, industrial transition and entrepreneurship.
The project aims at improving the adoption of the related policies and funding procedures of the specific objective 1.2, within the action addressed to support the digitalization of businesses, including digital system actions (act. 1.2.3), and promote the digital transformation of the productive sectors, services, professions and the third sector, helping to accelerate the on-going processes.
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In order to deploy the city’s strategy, Fomento San Sebastián (FSS), as economic development and Innovation agency for the city of San Sebastián, is the responsible for launching and implementing the yearly Economic Development Stimulus Plans. It includes numerous measures aimed at promoting local innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurship, boosting employment and helping the companies and different sectors to be competitive.
This tool is aimed at: Supporting for the development of business projects and strengthening the business ecosystem in R+D and health industry. Supporting the development of human capital, as a key element and cornerstone for the development of the territory. Supporting the development of an ecosystem of collaboration between different agents. Among the existing developments and infrastructures for economic activities in San Sebastian promoted by the public administration, various business centres and specialised business parks can be highlighted, which closely cooperates with technological, research&innovation centres and Universities, in particular in the identification of and support to start-ups.
Main lines of the strategy are:
- Strengthen a health/biotech Innovation Pole with the main local actors
- Development of STEAM skills
- Contribute to the entrepreneurship among researchers , with focus on women
- Accelerate new innovative business projects and increase support for new start ups in the health sector
- Strengthen international ecosystems
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Within Regional Operational Program (ROP), the Policy Objective 1.A Smarter Europe is addressed, aiming for a more competitive and smarter region by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity.
The project is addressing ROP Specific Objective (ii) – increasing the use of digitisation for the benefit of citizens, companies and research organisations and public authorities by: digital transformation of SMEs; the digitisation of SMEs will target both the organisation and planning of production and administrative activities of firms and the digitisation of technological processes (automation); other Initiatives are targeted to strengthen the digital culture within companies, transform and improve the user/consumer experience, support data-driven analysis and decision making or lead to more efficient operations.
All these interventions support the Regional Development Plan 2021-2027, Objective 1.4 Promotion and development of digital technologies.
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The Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plus (EDIOP Plus) is a multifund OP covering all the regions of Hungary. In the context of NOTRE project the Priority 1 (SME Competitiveness) and Priority 2 (R&D) are the relevant areas.
In Priority 1 calls for proposals were launched to stimulate the digitalisation process of SMEs linked to their technical modernisation and supports will be provided to SMEs operating in cutting edge technologies, having high growth potential or projects where digitalization is linked to technology modernization.
Regarding the R&D priority of EDIOP will targeting the stimulation, development and innovation activities related to businesses, thus contributing to the creation of technologies and services with significant intellectual added value. Thus, in this priority a large number of projects were supported which was stressing the digital transformation of Hungary.
In addition to the above mentioned objectives it is of particular importance to us to gather ideas from high-tech companies and research sector on what incentives could be introduced in order to ensure that Hungarian high growth potential enterprises get to know more about the digital transformation approach. For that purpose Prime Minister's Office intends to launch several programmes in the 2021-27 period through EDIOP Plus and encourage enterprises to consider the use of digital technologies and processes.