Research & Advisory Projects
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2022-2025 |
Economic, Social and Spatial Inequalities in Europe in the Era of Global Mega-trends (ESSPIN) |
HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-03, Lead Partner |
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2022-2024 |
Regional inequalities, political discontent and the anatomy of integration and disintegration in Europe (DISINREG) |
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Leader |
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2021-2022 |
The structure of the external trade of Greece and possibilities for a green growth strategy, Institute of Labor |
Operational Program EPANEK 2014-20, Leader |
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2021 |
Advisory services to the Managing Authority of Thessaly for the design the Regional Operational Program of the Programming Period 2021-27 |
Region of Thessaly |
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2021 |
Study for the design of policies in the Mediterranean Basin for the improvement of the territorial governance of the INTERREG MED Program in the next Programming Period |
Managing Authority of the PANORAMED Program |
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2021 |
Support to the lignite dependent municipalities of Western Macedonia and Megalopolis in evaluating the impact of the Just Transition Mechanism Program and the submission of policy proposals for a smooth transition to the post-lignite period and the development of a sustainable production model |
Union of Energy dependent Municipalities |
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2021 |
ESPON |
The main objective of the project is to analyze the interdependencies between EU regions, by a) examining the interregional flows (in terms of goods and services, people, capital and knowledge) b) revealing the determinants driving these interdependencies and c) explore their association with exogenous shocks (such as BREXIT and COVID-19). The final aim of the project is to inform and improve regional policy through a better understanding of interregional relations in the EU. |
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2019-2022 |
ERASMUS |
The project enables citizens of rural and remote areas to become real agents in improving social and natural living conditions in their areas. One of the most important ways to strengthen citizen participation is through education and knowledge transfer. Therefore, the project’s outcome is the creation of an educational tool for teaching people and local stakeholders the forms and methods of active participation. |
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2019-2022 |
EU EASME |
The SEEDPlus2 project seeks to contribute to the objectives of the Erasmus program for young entrepreneurs: to promote the exchange and growth of European entrepreneurs, to promote mutual learning and to help SMEs across Europe to become more open to the international market and competitive. |
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2020-2021 |
Linking Academic Performance and Regional Performance: Creating, Empowering and Maintaining a Comparative Advantage |
ERDF |
The project intends to highlight the relationship between the operation of Universities and Regional Development |
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2019-2021 |
Contract for Intellectual Services Relative to Territorial Review of Greece with a Special Focus on the Impact of EU Cohesion Policy |
OECD |
The project aims at a detailed review of the Greek territory with a special emphasis on the Cohesion Policy’s joint invitations. |
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2019 |
EU HORIZON 2020 |
MED-GOLD will demonstrate the proof-of-concept for climate services in the agricultural sector by developing case studies for three hallmarks of the Mediterranean food system: grapes, olives and durum wheat. This specific set of crops and related food products is of utmost climatic, ecological, economic, and cultural relevance to the Mediterranean region. Because olive oil, wine and pasta are not only hallmarks of the Mediterranean diet but also food commodities with access to the global market, there is considerable potential for developing climate services with high added-value for olive, grape, and durum wheat. A key challenge is to co-design prototype pilot service applications involving both suppliers and users in the three major traditional Mediterranean crop systems in order to demonstrate the added-value of data/information-driven responses to changes in the climate system. |
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2019-2022 |
EMPOWER – Empowering Transatlantic Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research |
EU HORIZON 2020 |
EMPOWER aims to accelerate the joint development between the EU and the US on advanced wireless platforms targeting the new connectivity frontiers beyond 5G. EMPOWER targets the creation of a joint EU-US advanced wireless ecosystem for (i) bridging the relevant EU-US Wireless communities and stakeholders, such as scientific researchers, platform engineers, standardization experts, regulators, and product incubators; and (ii) developing a strategic EU-US collaboration agenda and supporting its execution ahead of worldwide competition for beyond 5G connectivity standards. EMPOWER foresees twinning with the best researchers and practitioners involved in projects funded by the USA, especially with entities participating in the PAWR programme researchers by making/simplifying access to platform tools and data exchange. |
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2018-2021 |
Small Business Clinic |
Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation ERDF 2014-20 |
The purpose of the “Clinic” is to provide a web-based, online support service for small businesses, located mainly in the Greek periphery, to address critical operational problems and improve their efficiency in business decision-making using “big data” and innovative business analytics. |
| 2018-2019 | RELOCAL – Resituating the Local in Cohesion and Territorial Development | EU HORIZON 2020 | The project identified factors that condition local accessibility of European policies, local abilities to articulate needs and equality claims and local capacities for exploiting European opportunity structures. It was based on case studies of local contexts (cities and their regions) that exemplified development challenges in terms of spatial justice. Case study locations were chosen to allow for a balanced representation of different institutional contexts. |
| 2013-2016 | INACT – An Integrated Approach for Promoting Cross-Border Business and development | INTERREG IIIB Greece-Albania 2007-2013 | The project aimed at developing tools and synergies in order to facilitate and enhance cross-border partnerships among institutional policy, economic and social actors in the border regions of Albania and Greece that would activate and coordinate local resources in a long-term and bottom-up cooperation strategy. |
| 2011-2014 | SEARCH – Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods | FP 7 | The project aimed at improving the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). The project focused on some areas that had been neglected in the analysis of the ENP impact, but which are of central interest to the cohesion literature. |
| 2011-2015 | EUBORDERREGIONS – European Regions, EU External Borders and the Immediate Neighbours. Analysing Regional Development Options through Policies and Practices of Cross-Border Co-operation | FP 7 | EUBORDERREGIONS investigated the potential consequences of increasing cross-border interaction for the development of regions at the EU’s external borders and, in this way, contribute to scientific and policy debate on the future of economic, social and territorial cohesion within the EU. The project focused on regions at the EU‟s external borders that extend from the Barents Sea Region in the far North to the Mediterranean in the South. |
| 2010-2012 | TERCO – European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality of Life | ESPON | The main research targets of the projects were: – The assessment of the adequacy of existing territorial cooperation areas for meeting current challenges of territorial development (e.g. global competitiveness, cohesion, climate change, demographic change) and a proposal of potentially more meaningful new cooperation areas throughout Europe. – The analysis of the appropriate scale for different domains of transnational territorial cooperation. The identification of the most favourable framework conditions and good governance models for territorial cooperation to be realised and to succeed. – The study of the role of infrastructure investment in cooperation programmes – The implementation of case studies to analyse in greater detail how mechanisms for decision making are established in different territorial cooperation areas and to assess experiences made as well as the potential transferability of cases of good practice. |
| 2009-2012 | PROMISE – Municipal Property Management in South Eastern Cities | INTERREG – SOUTH EAST EUROPE | University of Thessaly was the Lead partner of the project. The object of PROMISE was the development of integrative tools and methods and the implementation of a comprehensive system for the efficient municipal property management. The project outputs and results supported cities in developing tools, elaborating on strategies and policies in responding to urban challenges and opportunities offered by the new operational programmes of the Structural Funds and new European initiatives, in the fields of action and investment in urban regeneration, urban infrastructure, public services provision, built environment improvement and investments in social inclusion. |
| 2007-2008 | TELEACCESS – Creation of Telecenters to Support Learning, Entrepreneurship and Access to IS, in Isolated Areas | INTERREG III-B | TELEACCESS fostered digital culture among rural citizens by demonstrating ways to bridge the digital divide through advanced broadband telecommunications (satellite, wireless) providing remote areas with access to the Info- Society. Existing local establishments were turned into pilot telecentres functioning as a hub, which provided the local labor force and citizens of all ages with fast Internet access to opportunities for lifelong learning creativity and development. |
| 2006-2008 | FRONTIERS – Successful Interreg Project Planning and Implementation – The Case of Remote Areas | INTERACT | The project targeted at: – Improving the access of remote European areas to sound and appropriate information in order to support their familiarization with the Community Initiative Interreg and improve their cooperation with other areas in terms of common planning and joint implementation of successful projects within all strands of the Community Initiative Interreg. – Increasing the capacities of certain groups of final beneficiaries in European remote areas on accessing ERDF funds, developing innovative approaches and managing interregional, transnational and cross-border development projects of the Community Initiative Interreg. – Increasing the effectiveness of regional development projects in European remote areas where a clearly identified potential exists, in order to promote the balanced development and cohesion of the European space, focusing also on the countries of the New Neighbourhood. |
| 2006-2007 | RePlan project- Re assessing planning instruments | Progresdec – Interreg IIIC | The project intended to create a common methodology for the implementation of the principles of the project which according to the European Spatial Development Perspective, bringing added value to rural landscape plans and policies. |
| 2006-2008 | DYNREG – Dynamic regions in a knowledge-driven global economy: lessons and policy implications for the EU | FP6-CITIZENS | The objective of the DYNREG project was to identify factors underlying the growth performance of emerging dynamic regions and the role of these regions in a knowledge-driven world economy so as to draw lessons and policy implications for the EU. In particular, this project provided: – a theoretical and methodological research framework on the role of knowledge and innovation in fostering growth, competitive advantages and competitiveness and the role of public policy in fostering innovation and growth; – a comparative analysis of the factors underlying the growth performance of dynamic regions and the role of knowledge and innovation in fostering growth at firm, industry, region and country levels; – assessing the role of shifting comparative advantages in new growth regions and the impact of current trends in dynamic regions on patterns of world growth, development, competitiveness, inequalities and convergence; – an analysis of public policies in shaping the dynamic economic performance of firms, industries, regions and countries with the aim to draw lessons and policy implications for the EU. |
| 2006-2009 | EUDIMENSIONS – Local Dimensions of a Wider European Neighbourhood: Developing Political Community through Practices and Discourses of Cross-Border Co-operation | FP6-CITIZENS | With the concept generally known as “Wider Europe”, the European Union has mapped out an ambitious vision of regional “Neighbourhood” that “goes beyond co-operation to involve a significant measure of integration”. Furthermore, the EU sees this new quality of regional interaction and partnership as bringing “enormous gains to all involved in terms of increased stability, security and well-being”. EUDIMENSIONS sought to understand the implications of these emerging geopolitical contexts for cross-border co-operation and political relationships at the local level. More specifically, the project scrutinized the development of a “Wider European” political community as manifested by co-operation initiatives and changing political discourses that relate communities and groups to each other across national and EU borders. |
| 2006-2008 | FUTOURISM – Integrated and Sustainable Development of Tourism Regions. | INTERREG III-C | The project focused on the exchange of good experiences and best practices among the involved areas in order to develop new common working methods for sustainable tourism development. The project included five areas and each area was responsible for implementing a mini project. |
| 2006-2008 | Migra-Value – Steering Economic and Social Cohesion in the CADSES Space: Valuing Migration as a Development Tool | INTERREG III-B | The project implemented an effective management of migration flows, which is a key element for an integrated economic and social development plan in the host regions and countries of origin. Moreover, it supported the spatial cohesion of the regions involved in the project, enhancing the value of the human and economic capital of migrants. |
| 2003-2005 | RIMED – Regional Integration and Metropolitan Development in Southeast Europe | Interreg III B – CADSES | University of Thessaly was the Lead Partner of the project. The aim of the project was to build a development strategy for Southeast Europe based on transnational cooperation networks and by promoting polycentric urban development with a broad impact on the hinterland of large cities. |
| 2002-2005 | EURECO – The Impact of European Integration and Enlargement on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion | FP 5 | This research project aimed at identifying and explaining the impact of European integration and enlargement on regional structural change and cohesion. It also analyzed the role of foreign direct investment in promoting economic activity and regional structural change. The survey was conducted in 15 countries. |