Press Release: RegioStars 2013: Commission awards flagship projects

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Series Details IP/13/71 (31.01.13)
Publication Date 31/01/2013
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Innovative projects which will contribute to creating jobs for the future will take centre stage as Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn presents the RegioStars 2013 Awards on 31 January 2013. With the President of the Jury, Luc Van den Brande, Commissioner Hahn will award prizes in five categories for projects from Portugal, the UK, Poland, Germany and Lithuania which demonstrate good practice in regional development.

The annual RegioStars Awards are open to all EU regions to submit projects which have received investment through EU Regional Policy since 1st January 2000. In the last five years the greatest number of applications have been received from Austria, Belgium, the Baltic countries and Wales.

The five Award categories for 2013 were:

SMART GROWTH: Connecting universities to regional growth

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: Supporting resource efficiency in SMEs

INCLUSIVE GROWTH: Social innovation: creative responses to societal challenges

CITYSTAR: Integrated approaches to sustainable urban development

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION: Promoting EU Regional policy with short videos

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