Day: June 23, 2021

The CoR and the Joint Research Centre step up their cooperation to pilot Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability in EU regions

The EU’s pilot initiative “Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability” (S4) was launched in Seville today by the President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and the Director for Growth and Innovation of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Mikel Landabaso. The initiative represents a voluntary

Cohesion policy: cities and regions warn against delays and trends towards centralisation as a result of the pandemic

The full respect of the “partnership principle” and its implementation under the new instruments financed by Next Generation EU, such as the Just Transition Fund and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, are among the main requests included in the opinion adopted today by the members of the European Committee of