Effectiveness, added value and future of EU cohesion policy

The RSA Research Network on Effectiveness, added value and future of EU cohesion policy intends to bring together academics investigating the issues of effectiveness, impacts, and added value of EU cohesion policy, as well as practitioners working with this policy. This will allow for promoting dialogue and synergies between the two communities, exploring new exciting research avenues and contributing to the policy debate. The network addresses the following key issues for EU cohesion policy:

• Governance and partnership for delivering effective place-based interventions,
• Territorial cooperation and macro-regional approaches,
• Delivering a more results-oriented policy, which considers issues such as conditionalities, enhancing programming and evaluation practice,
• EU cohesion policy and its role in achieving the aims of Europe 2020 strategy,
• Budgetary politics in the wake of a new programming period 2014-2020,
• New financial instruments.

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Organisers:

• Dr. Marcin Dąbrowski, Institute for European Integration Research (EIF),
  Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Prof. John Bachtler, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
• Prof. François Bafoil, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po Paris, CoesioNet

Future Events:

• Title: "New territorial development model: macro-regions and cross-border cooperation"
  Date: 15 March 2012
  Location: CERI - Sciences Po, Paris, France
  Deadline for submission of abstracts: 05 January 2012
  Call for Papers
  
  
• Title: Third Workshop on "Delivering a more results-oriented EU Cohesion policy"
  Date: Autumn 2012
  Location: European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  
  

Past Events:

• Title: First Workshop on "Multi-level governance and partnership
  in EU cohesion policy"
  Date: 29th - 30th November 2011
  Location:Institute for European Integration Research (EIF), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  Call for Papers
  Programme
  Presentations
  Synthesis of Debates
  Workshop Report