1. Guifré Esquerrà MATEO Project Manager CIDEM – Government of Catalonia Brussels, March 7th 2007

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. General phasing of MATEO activities
January December 2005
Subproject proposal preparation
Regional Foresight Studies
Profiling of organisations through diagnosis visits
January June 2006
Selection and negotiation of subproject proposals
May September 2007
Execution of subprojects
September December 2007
Evaluation of results
Implemenation of results in regional innovation plans

6. 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

7. 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