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ARC Fund Hosted a Round Table on Innovation and Regional Development on July 1st, 2005

On July 1, 2005 ARC Fund and the Center for the Study of Democracy, jointly with the Council of Europe, organized a round table on political and economic priorities in local and regional development. ARC Fund presented for the first time publicly its latest project on developing the regional innovation strategy for the Southwest Planning Region of Bulgaria. The Strategy will prepare the region for the management of the EU structural and Cohesion funds over the period 2007-2013.

The project Regional Innovation Strategy for the Southwest Planning Region is part of the Innovating Regions in Europe Network. It is the second such project that ARC Fund undertakes after a pilot RIS for Bulgaria in the South-Central Planning Region, which was completed in 2004. All other Bulgarian regions have also launched RIS projects in 2005.

Programme
The Regional Innovation Strategy for the South-Central Planning Region
Innovating Regions in Europe Network