RSA Europe News

By Marcus Atkinson, Head of Partnerships and Engagement, Regional Studies Association. As part of RSA Europe’s ongoing engagement with EU policy debates, I attended the Committee of the Regions’ High-Level Dialogue on the Future of Cohesion Policy on 18 November. Coming only weeks after the European Week of Regions and Cities, this second experience offered […]

A new report from the University of Strathclyde reveals that Scotland received over £7.7 billion in EU Cohesion Policy funding over the past 50 years, helping to create 235,000 jobs. The study, What has EU Cohesion Policy funding done for us?, produced by Strathclyde’s European Policies Research Centre (EPRC) for the Scottish Government, reviews the […]

By Marcus Atkinson As the newly appointed Head of Partnership & Engagement at the RSA, I went to Brussels for my first European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek), a two-day event with 220 sessions and over 300 speakers, attracting more than 6,000 participants from all over Europe.   Attending with Alan Kinder, in addition to […]

The 22nd European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) took place from the 7-11 October, 2024. The RSA and RSA Europe were, as in previous years, actively involved in the programme and were well represented at the event. EU Regions Week is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. It has grown to […]

Smart specialisation (S3) has been a key driving policy concept of European regional policy since 2014, but as new challenges appear, it needs to evolve to a broader policy framework able to promote place-based innovation and a range of initiatives to advance a wider overall transformation in the EU (within a region and between regions). […]