South Great Plain Regional Development Agency

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• South Great Plain Regional Development Agency
• /SGPRDA/
• Mr. Antal Ördögh
• Project manager
• Szeged, 16th of April 2007

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SGPRDA- About the Agency I. -

• The Agency
• has been founded in 1997
• is the labour organisation of the Council
• is cooperating in the management of operative
  regional tasks
• is cooperating in the management of regional
  funded and Structural Fund based tender procedure

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SGPRDA- About the Agency II. -

• Activities
• Development of the human and economic resources,
  as well as the environmental state of the South
  Great Plain with the synthesis of the regional
  development tasks
• Promoting the cooperation between the actors
  interested in regional development, while finding
  the common interests and tasks
• Learning the European best practices in regional
  development, with special emphasis on the wide
  use of the regional development policies
• Concentrating more significant national and
  European resources on regional development,
  raising the territorial effectiveness of the
  investments
• With the promotion of the cross border
  cooperations accelerating the regional
  development
• With the support of the cooperation of the three
  component counties (Bács-Kiskun, Csongrád and
  Békés), harmonising, and promoting the regional
  development policies.
• With the help of our project organising role,
  supporting the organisations actively
  participating in regional economic development
  (Chambers, Enterprise Promotion Foundations, ITDH
  etc.)
• Organising and coordinating regional marketing
  activities in order to influence the regional
  recognition and image.

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SGPRDA - INTERREG experiences -

• Running projects
• TOWER RFO INTERREG III C
• AFP sub-project of TOWER INTERREG III C
• INNOCOOPESS INTERREG III A
• Future projects
• RELOAD INTERREG III A
• CANIDEKT INTERREG III A
• TOWER II INTERREG IV (?)

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TOWER- Towards Sustainable Excellence by
Innovating Regions -

• The main goal of this regional framework
  operation involving five European regions is to
  bring together innovative actions and tools which
  have already been tested on a national level and
  let these be tested in a European context. By
  these actions it supports sustainability of
  economic growth in regions, technology transfer
  to SMEs, setting up competitive and
  knowledge-based entrepreneurship in the regions.
• INTERREG IIIC project
• Partners Östra Mellansverige (Sweden), North
  West England (UK), Gelderland (the Netherlands),
  Rhone-Alpes (France)
• Main activities regional coordination, managing
  sub-projects, conferences, seminars, meetings,
  preparation of website, brochures

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AFP - Analysis, Forecasting, Planning -

• This is one of twelve sub-projects running in the
  frame of TOWER RFO. The sub-project has all the
  five regions of TOWER as partners. The
  sub-project follows the whole process of regional
  planning in the five regions. The overall goal of
  it is to collect and compare best practices of
  partner regions in regional visioning, planning
  and implementation.
• Partners Östra Mellansverige (Sweden), North
  West England (UK), Gelderland (the Netherlands),
  Rhone-Alpes (France)
• Main activities seminars, conferences, surveys,
  collection of best practices, making a
  best-practice guide

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INNOCOOPESS - Innovative cross-border
cooperation in economy Subotica-Szeged -

• Supporting SMEs of the two border-regions and
  facilitating cross-border business connections
  (South Great Plain and Backa) through
  cross-border cooperation. Organising mutual
  business trips, educational programmes,
  facilitate economic cooperation between
  institutions of two neighbour countries.
• INTERREG III A project
• Partners Regional Center for the Development of
  Small and Medium Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
  - Subotica, LLC Subotica,
• Main activities study tours, partnership
  building meetings, trainings

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Future projects
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RELOAD - Regional Elements in Logistics
Opportunities Assessment and Development -

• Within the framework of the project the
  cooperation of the South Great Plain Region and
  Vojvodina Region is carried out in the field of
  logistics. The activities of the project are
  aiming at familiarizing with and harmonizing of
  the logisitics concept of the two regions. The
  cooperating experts will be harmonizing the two
  regions logistics concept by preparing a joint
  logistics strategy.
• INTERREG IIIA project
• Partners Open University LLc Subotica Regional
  Center for the Development of Small and Medium
  Enterprises and Entrepreneurship - Subotica, LLC
  Subotica Regional Agency for the Development of
  Small and Medium Enterprises ALMA MONS, Ltd. Novi
  Sad Provincial Secretary of Economy
• Main activities seminars, conferences, surveys,
  study trips

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CANIDEKT - Crossborder Agencies Network for
Innovative Development and Knowledge Transfer -

• The proposed action is aimed at strengthening the
  business and innovation support infrastructure
  and business co-operation through the
  establishment of two Innovation Agencies. This
  will contribute to the improvement of
  cross-border co-operation of innovative
  businesses and the development of a cross-border
  Innovation Support Network with the Hungarian
  partners DARFT and consortium BIOPOLIS. RCSMEED
  Subotica intends to establish an Innovation
  Agency and form a network of innovation support
  organisations in Vojvodina that will link
  together with the Hungarian cross-border
  innovation consortium.
• INTERREG IIIA project
• Partners Regional Center for the Development of
  Small and Medium Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
  - Subotica, LLC Subotica,
• Regional Agency for the Development of Small and
  Medium Enterprises ALMA MONS, Ltd. Novi Sad,
• Faculty of Technical Sciences- Novi Sad
• Main activities seminars, conferences, surveys,
  trainings, advising

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TOWER II - the new TOWER -

• Existing partnership
• All partners are involved and interested
• Main topics innovation, regional economy
  development, supporting technology transfer, SME
  development
• In the framework of INTERREG IV (?)

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• Thank you for your kind attention!
• Mr. Antal Ördögh
• South Great Plain Regional Development Agency
• 6720 Szeged, Oroszlán u. 2.
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail ordogh_at_del-alfold.hu
• Website www.del-alfold.hu