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This website is partly funded by the European Union, European Regional Development Fund
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Under the Objective 2 programme, each project seeking a grant must address three themes. These are called horizontal themes because they go across all of the priority areas.
The Horizontal Themes are:
Innovation
Innovation is defined as "the successful exploitation of ideas by individuals or businesses", and the eventual aim of this theme is to embed an innovation culture in the West Midlands, changing the behaviour of individuals within organisations and organisations themselves.
The GOWM Contact for further details is:
Further useful guidance and information can be found at:
Advantage
The Regional Innovation Strategy
Innovating Regions in
The IRE Network offers a framework for collaboration and exchange of experiences between regions that can demonstrate good practice in the development and promotion of innovation policies Innovation in Practice CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service) Innovation policies throughout Europe. Environmental Sustainability
The two main aims of this theme are:
This theme draws on European, national and regional environmental policy and has three key issues. These are creating a positive urban environment by minimising noise and waste, protecting the landscape through wildlife management etc, and safeguarding the air, soil and water quality.
Specific environmental outputs and targets exist that must be met, and the environmental impact of the programme will be closely monitored: all applications will be required to complete an environmental checklist.
The GOWM Contact for further details is:
Further useful guidance and information can be found at: UK Government’s Sustainable Development website Including the UK Sustainable Development strategy Government department responsible for the environment The EC Directorate responsible for the environment Sixth Environmental Action Plan The current EU strategy for the environment EU Sustainable Development Strategy The European Commission's proposal for a European Union Sustainable Development Strategy was adopted by the Commission on the 15th May. It contains a number of concrete proposals for how the European Union can improve its policy making to make it more coherent and focussed on the long term, as well as a number of specific headline objectives and the measures needed to achieve them. West Midlands Regional Sustainable Development Action Framework The current regional sustainable development strategy
Equality of Opportunity
The GOWM Contact for further details is:
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