Publications

The work, commissioned by Scotland Europa, presents the findings of the Scottish Stakeholder Discussion on the Future of European Collaboration, held on 29 September 2017 in Edinburgh organised by Scotland Europa, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise. The aims of the Conference were to stimulate participation in current EU programmes and wider EU collaboration as ‘investment in the future’, and to gather views to feed into Brexit discussions at Scottish and UK levels. The primary focus was on competitive EU funding programmes, in particular Horizon 2020 and INTERREG, but the debate also included the role of, and synergies, with the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), and other forms of EU project-based funding.

Regional development is one of the main EU spending priorities through its Cohesion Policy. Brexit is among several influences on the future of the policy, whose evolution is part of a wider reshaping of the principles and practice of regional policy in Europe. A new paper by John Bachtler of EPRC and Iain Begg of LSE in Papers in Regional Science examines the emerging policy challenges for regional development and recent contributions to the regional literature policy. Drawing partly on EPRC research conducted under the EoRPA programme, it highlights innovation, human capital and effective institutions as three crucial dimensions of future policy. The paper argues that a shift in regional policy priorities, governance and territorial focus is underway – partly influenced by place‐based policy thinking ‐ at EU level under Cohesion Policy as well as under national regional policies in the EU27 and 

European Structural and Investment Funds Journal (ESTiF) 2017 Vol 5, Issue 3, pp. 235-244  

European Structural and Investment Funds Journal (ESTiF) 2017 Vol 5, Issue 3, pp. 175-177

European Policy Research Paper, No. 100, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

in Gänzle, S and Kern K.(eds) A Macro-Regional Europe in the Making: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence Palgrave, pp. 47-72

Simona Piattoni, Laura Polverari, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016

ISBN1784715670, 9781784715670 - 584 pages

Final Report to Scottish Government and Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation

Final Report to the County Administrative Board of Västerbotten, EPRC, University of Strathclyde

Final Report to the Managing Authority of the 2014-2020 North Sea Region Programme, EPRC, University of Strathclyde