Guifré Esquerrà MATEO Project Manager CIDEM – Government of Catalonia Brussels, March 7th 2007
A Regional Framework Operation (RFO) in Interreg IIIC programme What is MATEO? A Regional Framework Operation (RFO) in Interreg IIIC programme The Interreg IIIC Programme promotes cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation The overall objective is to improve the effectiveness of policies and instruments for regional development through large-scale information exchange and sharing of experience Interreg is financed by ERDF, as part of the Structural Funds, and co-financed by national project partners and participants An RFO is a self-supporting mini-programme aimed at executing sub-projects involving entities from the participating regions
What is the goal of MATEO? To stimulate regional innovation by: developing new knowledge-intensive industrial activities stimulating the knowledge-intensiveness of existing ones. How to achieve it? through close cooperation between entities from four European regions: Catalonia (Spain; represented by CIDEM) Noord-Brabant (the Netherlands; represented by the Province of North Brabant, N.V. BOM and Syntens) Lombardy (Italy; represented by Regione Lombardia and supported by CESTEC) South-West Bohemia (Czech Republic; represented by RERA)
MATEO’s thematic area’s Regions In this framework MATEO executes: Catalonia Regional Foresight Studies Diagnosis visits Matching using experts Subprojects Lombardia Noord-Brabant South-West Bohemia Sectors Biotech Advanced materials Phamra & medical technology Renewable energy Aerospace Mechatronics Food Process & production technology Technologies
General phasing of MATEO activities January 2005 - December 2005 Subproject proposal preparation Regional Foresight Studies Profiling of organisations through diagnosis visits January 2006 - June 2006 Selection and negotiation of subproject proposals May 2006 - September 2007 Execution of subprojects September 2007 - December 2007 Evaluation of results Implemenation of results in regional innovation plans
Key MATEO deliverables 8 Regional Foresight Studies 240 diagnoses of individual organisations Interregional database with organisation profiles 5 Brokerage sessions 100 interregional contacts 8-16 Subprojects (SP’s) Participation in definition of Regional Innovation Strategies Intensive interchange on methodologies / best practices 4 Conferences to disseminate success cases Creation and maintenance of Web Portal
Subproject preparation - three lines of activity - thematic experts - ideas database - pre-proposals proposals MATEO deliverables: 100 matches 40 incubator <-> technostarter 40 between technostarters 20 technology transfer 8-16 subprojects Matching activities thematic experts existing regional data questionnaires - targeted mailing - diagnosis forms - IRC database Regional Foresight Studies Profiling through diagnosis visits MATEO deliverables: - 8 regional foresight studies MATEO deliverables: - 240 diagnosis visits Each line of activities follows its own schedule - one should not delay others Each region should aim for maximum synthesis between lines