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Europe 2020 Strategy and New Policies for Marginal Areas
2014
Marginality should be seen as an a asset rather than a liability for a region or a community. Marginality reflects a strategy of economic development, and this paper also seeks institutional means for championing marginality over conformity.
Social exclusion and poverty in the European Union
2016
La política social siempre ha sido un pilar fundamental de la Unión Europea. La exclusión social y la pobreza son dos problemas interrelacionados cuyos efectos se pretenden reducir mediante la toma de medidas impulsadas por la Estrategia 2020. El estudio de los distintos factores que condicionan estas dinámicas y de las particularidades del territorio en cuestión permitirá evaluar los resultados obtenidos hasta el momento y realizar un balance de las medidas llevadas a cabo por la UE en sus Estados miembros. Social policy has always been a fundamental pillar of the European Union. Social exclusion and poverty are two problems interrelated whose effects are intended to be reduced by the Euro…
Territorial dissimilarities in energy and climate change
2013
This paper examines regional differences between EU Member States on climate change, green economy and energy in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy, based on current work undertaken for the ESPON SIESTA project . The strategy is a new key policy based on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth to help EU-27 facing global economic crisis and meeting the new environmental challenges such as energy efficiency, climate change, energy security and green economy. Drawing on the key findings and policy recommendations pointed out in the section “Sustainable growth” of the SIESTA project, this paper presents empirical data demonstrating the regional variations across Europe on a range of selec…
EUROPE 2020 SI-LAB: A New Center for Economic and Social Development in Sicily
2014
The debate on the determinants of regional and local development has been stimulated recently by the European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth defined as Europe 2020. We present the objectives and structure of a new laboratory (SI-LAB) for the development of Sicilian economy promoted by the University of Palermo. In particular, we highlight the fundamental issues related to the incoming functioning of the Lab as a new oganization devoted to analyzing public policy issues, and fostering new ways of entrepreurship at the local level.
Romania and the Big Challenge of Implementing the Europe 2020 Strategy
2017
Abstract The evolution and evolvement of the Europe 2020 strategy in each country are subjects, which should interest all European citizens. The investigation on this subject stems from two issues: firstly, the importance of knowing the direction in which Europe is going in the future, and, secondly the wish to assess whether this is the right direction. Unfortunately, due to several possible obstacles, such as level of development, not all countries have the ability to achieve performance in all fields. Romania, just like many other countries, is one example. Being one of the least developed countries, reaching success in implementing the Europe 2020 strategy is, for Romania, a difficult m…
Spatial Indicators for a Europe 2020 Strategy Territorial Analysis – SIESTA
2014
Il contributo descrive la situazione del contesto territoriale italiano a partire dai risultati del progetto ESPON SIESTA in riferimento agli indicatori spaziali per la strategia Europe 2020.