DISTRICT - Newsletter

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As a tool to circulate information and ideas, as well as witness its development and growth, the DISTRICT project delivers an English Newsletter twice a year. Each Newsletter reviews past activities and outlines future events in the light of the three Thematic Components of the Project.

Each newsletter contains highlights of major Network events. An added value is provided by in-depth articles on specific themes by renowned international experts (e.g., knowledge economy, foresight, analysis of policies, etc.). Each newsletter also contains a section dedicated to the announcement of future international events.
Copies of the newsletter are distributed at DISTRICT's events among DISTRICT partners and additional copies may be asked for by contacting us.

The electronic version is also available for download.

Anyone – partner or interested actor - wanting to contribute news, links, reports or other material relating to the DISTRICT Project themes is warmly welcome to do so by contacting us. Relevant pieces of information will be evaluated and published on next issues.

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Newsletter n° 1

The first issue features a presentation of the RFO including its origin, main aims, methodology, actions and partnership, with a particular focus on three policy areas: clusters and business networks, SMEs innovation projects, and innovation financial engineering. The second section of the newsletter deals with activities and results in the first six months of the operation.

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Newsletter n° 2

The second issue features an editorial by Claudio Martini, president of Tuscany Region, dealing with DISTRICT and european industrial districts. Details about the interregional Call for Proposals, its procedures and results are provided, together with an overview of the 11 awarded subprojects.

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Newsletter n° 3

This third issue features an editorial by Christer Enerskog on "Innovation: an entirely natural process". The second part deals with a Study Visit in Västra Götaland, focused on regional efforts to increase entrepreneurial activity, the number of technology-based and knowledge-intensive companies and related funding initiatives.

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Newsletter n° 4

The fourth newsletter is opened by an editorial with a dissertation upon the future of Regional Framework Operations in the new programming period. The second section of the newsletter deals with a Study Visit of Incubators, and Research and Technological Centres in Tuscany. Finally the issue relates DISTRICT subprojects' activities and results in the first six months of the subprojects.

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Newsletter n° 5

The fifth issue is opened by an editorial on hot to build international clusters by the West Midlands Secretariat’s with the support of the CLINIC sub-project. The second part deals with two study visits in West Midlands and Saxony, focused on internazionalization and technology transfer respectively. The newsletter ends with a report on the DISTRICT experience at the 2007 CIP Forum in Göteborg.

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Newsletter n° 6

The sixth newsletter features an editorial by Saxony secretariat about the successful experience of DISTRICT subprojects in the region. The second section is dedicated to a study visit in West Midlands about rural and city projects in the frame of new developments towards the knowledge-economy, and to two projects on lifelong learning that spinned out of DISTRICT. The issue is closed by a description of a study visit at the Gothia Science Park and the University of Skövde (Vastra Gotalands Region).

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Newsletter n° 7

This extra newsletter issue relates about the project's capitalisation activities. It features an editorial by Claudio Martini - President of Tuscany Region who opened DISTRICT's Final Conference last April in Brussels - and two reports on final events by West Midlands and Saxony. Four pages are dedicated to a backward survey of the subprojects at the end of the RFO. The last section reports on the project's final events, that is, the concluding Conference and two study visits - in Coventry and Lower Silesia..