Nordic Council of Ministers Research Call – Regional Development Policies

The Nordic Senior Official’s Committee for Regional Policy (NÄRP) has assigned Nordregio to coordinate the research programme entitled ‘Internationalisation of regional development policies – needs and demands in the Nordic countries’.

The aim of this research programme is to research key issues in need of new knowledge for the benefit of regional development policies and debates in the Nordic countries. The programme has three prioritised themes; ‘Regional governance’, ‘Innovation and regional growth’ and ‘Demography and labour migration’. An overarching challenge for regional development policies in the coming years is the enlargement of the EU. This topic is therefore a cross-cutting theme in the research programme. The wide topic of the three dimensions of sustainable development; social, economic and environmental sustainability is also identified as of cross-cutting character.

The present call is for the first phase of the programme, i.e. projects running from June 2005 to December 2006. Reports must be submitted no later than 31 March 2007.

Deadline for applications is Tuesday 3 May 2005 at 17.00.

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