Last update: 28 Apr 2025

Owen Douglas

Regional Planner

Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly

Planning and Economic Development

Ireland

(Eastern and Midland)

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Dr Owen Douglas is a Regional Planner at the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly in Ireland. He holds a PhD and Masters Degree in Regional and Urban Planning from University College Dublin and a primary degree in economic and social studies from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He is an experienced project manager and urban planner with substantial experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Interreg Europe projects including PROGRESS, Next2Met and ORIGINN.

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2 projects

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ORIGINN

ORIGINN aims at improving public policies to foster innovation in rural areas with the emphasis on agrifood to address societal and economic challenges.

Ongoing

Skills for S3 and industrial transition

2014 - 2020

Next2Met

Next2Met aims to boost the attractiveness of lesser-known regions, which compete for skills and jobs with a nearby metropolis, by harnessing the potential of digitalisation as a development tool.

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Digitisation

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Good practices (7)

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Food Vision 2030: Ireland’s integrated systems approach for a sustainable agri-food sector

Food Vision 2030 is a stakeholder-led, mission-oriented strategy which recognises the interconnectedness of policies for food, health, climate and environment.

25 Aug 2023 | By project ORIGINN

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Environmental Sensitivity Mapping (ESM) Webtool

The ESM Webtool is a novel decision-support tool for evidence-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and plan-making, applicable to multiple sectors.

05 Nov 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

The 'Natural Capital Ireland' Framework

Natural Capital Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation which, through a robust organisational framework, leads the conversation on natural capital in Ireland.

01 Sep 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Protecting Farmland Pollinators (PFP)

Protecting Farmland Pollinators is a pollinator scoring & results-based payment method for improving management practices for enhanced biodiversity on farms.

06 May 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Dublin Mountains Makeover (DMM)

The DMM involves the implementation of a stakeholder-driven, multi-generational forest management model across nine forests (910 ha) at the edge of Dublin City.

04 Jan 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Service Mapping Pilot for a Suite of Prioritised Services

The NEES Mapping Pilot demonstrates a mapping approach for ecosystem services at the national scale with datasets prioritised through stakeholder consultation.

04 Jan 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (AIPP) Framework

The AIPP and its framework provides targeted and actionable information resources for wide-ranging stakeholders to reverse declines in pollinating insects.

04 Jan 2021 | By project PROGRESS

Expert approved

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Past events (4)

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Crowd watches stage at Europe, let's cooperate 2024

19 - 20 Mar 2025

Hybrid

Krakow

Europe, let's cooperate! 2025

The 11th edition of Europe, let's cooperate interregional cooperation forum (#europecooperates) will take place on 19-20 March 2025 in Krakow, Poland. Join us to celebrate cooperation, the 10th anniversary of the Policy Learning Platform!

By Joint secretariat

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Forest

Online

Boosting forest ecosystems

This online workshop has ended. You can watch the recording, access the presentations and discover the key learnings in this follow-up article.

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Online

Webinar about Interreg Europe Portal - partners' reporting

We organised a webinar on 27 June 2023 about the Interreg Europe Portal 's functionalities for reporting on projects' progress ( partner reporting and control modules ). This online session was targeted at lead partners, project partners and controllers of Interreg Europe projects from the first

By Joint secretariat

Event

Online

Info session on Interreg Europe

We teamed up with the European Committee of the Regions for an online info session on Interreg Europe on 22 February 2023 (10:00-11:30 CET).

By Joint secretariat

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