Transcript Building a Rural Power Pack together

Interreg IV B
North Sea Project
Vital Rural Area
An overview
www.vitalruralarea.eu
Project organisation
13 partner regions from 6 North Sea countries
(N, NL, B, DK, D, UK)
Lead partner: Region Northeast Fryslan (NL)
Scientific team and scientific group
University of South Denmark (DK)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL)
University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)
Project management
Peter Laan / Wietse Hermanns
Project finances
Budget (2009-2014)
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Total funding
ERDF funding
Cofinancing partners
€ 7,7 Mio
€ 3,85 Mio
€ 3,85 Mio
Scope of the project and
content basis
To find strategies to fortify rural areas by:
1) Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs
by empowerment of SME’s towards new economical
prospects and innovations
2) Improving the overall perception of the region
by branding towards a professional exposure of regions
3) Delivering more and better services
by optimizing services, towards more and better
accessible services and amenities
Outcome of the project
43 ‘best practice’ project cases
Fitting into one of the
7 Vital themes
The Rural Power Pack
Based on the project results and scientific knowledge
the Rural Power Pack was developed:
o A general working method/standard for tackling rural
problems commonly encountered in rural areas
o Tested transnationally on its transferability to other regions
o Offering tools and instruments to be used in other regions
The Rural Power Pack
Example Rural Power Pack
methodology
Dissemination of project results
Dissemination of results (2013-2014) over a
web-based structure by:
o appealing presentation of results (uniform project
format, “story telling” form)
o connecting to networks and projects throughout EU 27
o aiming for interactive growth of knowledge by sharing
project results and experiences
o adding results from other projects and programmes
Dissemination in UK
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Vital partner Norfolk County Council connecting to other
UK regions (i.a. Suffolk) and other EU regions
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UK Country page on Vital website
Themes: SME Empowerment and Education
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Output:
- addition of new projects, new partners, new insights
into themes chosen plus new themes to be developed
- by Master classes, webinars, conferences, events
- presentation of Vital dissemination results on Annual
Conference Interreg North Sea of 25-26 June 2014
Dissemination as precursor of
new programming and theme
development
o Combining themes into a new theme ->
Healthy Ageing, Welfare and Lifestyle
o Searching for new partnerships using the existing ones
o Heading for a new project either within the Interreg
North Sea programme 2014-2020 or another program
Welfare, lifestyle and ‘healthy
ageing’ project themes
Obese
Physical
activity
Poverty
Nutrition and
mal-nutrition
Food quality and life style
Prevention of care
Workforce
Personel and offer
to market demand
Employment young-old
Social cohesion / exclusion,
Community building and
Good governance
Care: organization
and financing
Technology
Smart medicines, domotics
and ICT-applications
Care and housing,
multifunctional use