Digital Agenda Funding

DIGITAL AGENDA PROJECTS

Promoting Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

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PIKE = Promoting Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
"Fastracking" the transfer of broadband and e-public services best practice between Europe's Regions for Economic Change.

Project Status:

Completed

Project Leader:

Jose Manuel San Emeterio

Funding Programme:

INTERREG IV C

Project Budget:

€1,665,523

Start Date:

Jul, 2008

Finish Date:

Jun, 2010

Project Website:

The aim of the project is to:

Improve regional innovation and knowledge economy policies by transferring broadband and e-public services best practice between European regions and into local Regional Operational Programmes.

Specific objectives are to:

Transfer e-government and wireless broadband best practice knowledge between a group of European regions with different degrees of experience.
Develop an Action Plan to incorporate the transferred knowledge into the mainstream Structural Funds Programmes of ALL the regions participating in the project.
Disseminate information about the project to a large audience, including policy and decision makers at local, regional, Member State and EU level.

Region	Organisation / Role
Central Greece Region Greece	Region of Sterea Ellada Contribution to Work Groups
City of Bologna Italy	Comune di Bologna Contribution to Work Groups
Derry & Strabane United Kingdom	Derry City & Strabane District Council Contribution to Work Groups
Donegal Ireland	Donegal County Council Contribution to Work Groups
Donegal Ireland	ERNACT Lead Partner for the project, with overall resp. for delivering the project within budget and liaison with EU
Galway County Ireland	Galway County Council Contribution to Work Groups
Olomouc Region Czech Republic	Olomouc Regional Government Contribution to Work Groups
South East Bulgaria Region Bulgaria	ARDI Contribution to Work Groups
Västernorrlands Sweden	Association of Local Authorities in Västernorrland Overall responsibility for communications within the PIKE project

Best Practice Handbooks - Documentation of the broadband and e-public services best practice in preparation for transfer to other regions.
Regional Action Plan and Roadmap - Detailed plan for transferring and incorporating each Best Practice into the Operation Programmes (OP) of the nine participating regions.
Transfer Events - A series of transfer events including two conferences, interregional and local workshops, study visits and staff exchanges.
Best Practice Implementation - Each Best Practice successfully developed and funded in the regions receiving the best practice.

The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

Region	Organisation / Service
Cantabria	EMCANTA eLocal Phase II	View
South East Bulgaria Region	ARDI Wireless City Burgas based on Derry's wireless city model	View
Galway County	Galway County Council Knowledge Community in Galway based on Derry's Wireless City model	View
City of Bologna	Comune di Bologna Wireless City Bologna based on Derry's Wireless City model	View
Olomouc Region	Olomouc Regional Government Development of eGovernment in Olomouc Region	View
Donegal	Donegal County Council Sustainable Strategies Model - eAdministration based on Cantabria's eLocal model	View
Västernorrlands	Association of Local Authorities in Västernorrland eServices development in Vasternorrland based on Donegal Online Planning Services model	View
Central Greece Region	Region of Sterea Ellada eServices in Sterea Ellada based on Donegal's Online Planning model	View

Region	Organisation / Service
Donegal	Donegal County Council Donegal Online Planning Services	View
Cantabria	EMCANTA Integrated Aid System (IAS)	View
Derry & Strabane	Derry City & Strabane District Council Wireless City	View
Cantabria	EMCANTA eLocal	View

Integration of eGovernment and Wireless Broadband good practices into the Convergence and Regional Competitiveness and Employment policies of all the participating regions. In order to do so ALL 9 participating regions will develop an Action Plan to transfer the good practices into the mainstream Structural Funds programmes. Apart from project coordination and dissemination, PIKE's main activities will consist of Documenting and presenting the good practices, transferring the good practices and ensuring implementation under the regional OPs (Local workshops, presentations to regional OP Monitoring Committees, regional Action Plan launches).