The Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"The Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"The Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020" published on by Oxford University Press.
In the context of increasing globalization, global competition and rapid change the EU sees innovation and its commercialization as an effective way to build long-term global competitive advantage. Innovation policy is a link between research and technological development policy and industrial policy and makes it possible to create conditions conducive to bringing ideas to the market. It is also closely linked to other EU policies regarding e.g. employment, competitiveness, environment, industry and energy. This paper presents the evolution, conditions and objectives of the innovation policy of the European, and describes the main assumptions of the Lisbon and Europe 2020 strategies. Additionally it indicates possible ways of assessing the measures undertaken within the above-mentioned policies and of determining the tools necessary to implement the strategies.
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In: Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: History. International Relations, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 223-231
In the context of increasing globalization, global competition and rapid change the EU sees innovation and its commercialization as an effective way to build long-term global competitive advantage. Innovation policy is a link between research and technological development policy and industrial policy and makes it possible to create conditions conducive to bringing ideas to the market. It is also closely linked to other EU policies regarding e.g. employment, competitiveness, environment, industry and energy. This paper presents the evolution, conditions and objectives of the innovation policy of the European, and describes the main assumptions of the Lisbon and Europe 2020 strategies. Additionally it indicates possible ways of assessing the measures undertaken within the above-mentioned policies and of determining the tools necessary to implement the strategies. ; W warunkach postępującej globalizacji, światowej konkurencji, szybko zachodzących zmian, rozwój innowacji oraz ich komercjalizacja są tym, w czym Unia Europejska upatruje skutecznego rozwiązania dla budowy długoterminowej, globalnej przewagi konkurencyjnej. Polityka innowacyjności stanowi łącznik pomiędzy polityką dotyczącą badań i rozwoju technologicznego a polityką przemysłową oraz umożliwia stworzenie warunków sprzyjających wprowadzaniu pomysłów na rynek. Jest ona również ściśle powiązana z innymi politykami UE, np. dotyczącymi zatrudnienia, konkurencyjności, środowiska, przemysłu i energii. W artykule przedstawiono ewolucję, uwarunkowania oraz cele polityki innowacyjnej Unii Europejskiej. Opisano również założenia głównych strategii, tj. Lizbońskiej oraz Europa 2020. Ponadto wskazano możliwości oceny podjętych działań w zakresie ww. polityki.
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The aim of this PhD thesis was to illustrate the modernisation of Swedish and British welfare policies during the time of the EU's Lisbon Agenda which aimed at reconciling social protection with labour market integration. Specifically it should be illustrated if both countries managed to cope with the weaknesses and shortcomings that European policy recommendations identified in relation to unemployment benefits, social assistance schemes, parental leave systems and childcare subsidies. The attempt to grasp which role (European) 'ideas' were able to play in national welfare modernisation processes between 1998-2008 constituted a key consideration in this regard. By using a case-study design it is worked out that Sweden and Great Britain followed their European recommendations; not completely but significantly. Yet, causal connections can hardly be established and the overall development doesn't constitute a 'top-down' implementation of EU recommendations. In both cases a discourse analysis reveals that the realization of European ideas rather depends on party-political preferences and the arrangement of national discourses. It is shown that ideas become powerful in puzzling situations when existing discourses are challenged and in line with the work of authors like Jørgen Goul Anderssen or Vivien A. Schmidt this thesis confirms the importance of an actor-centred perspective for explaining welfare policies. Considering Sweden as a socialdemocratic and Great Britain as a liberal welfare regime the PhD thesis aims as well at contributing to a better understanding of how policy reforms affected these two differing regime types. For the time during the Lisbon Agenda it holds that they moved 'closer' to each other and that welfare modernisation can be described as an exercise of making the social democratic welfare regime a better social democratic welfare regime and of making the liberal welfare regime a better liberal welfare regime. Yet, in 2008 the international financial crisis hit the EU and two years later the Lisbon Strategy was replaced by the EU 2020 Strategy. The PhD thesis takes these developments into account, illustrates the major changes in Swedish and British welfare policies and compares them to the research period. Rather untypical developments in Sweden lead to the conclusion that there might be a certain 'carousel-effect' which seems to kind of reallocate 'problems' and 'solutions' between the different welfare regimes. For Great Britain the conclusion is drawn, that the conservative coalition government triggered a transformation process which wasn't first and foremost caused by the international financial crisis but represented more of a political choice to make the liberal welfare regime more liberal.
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The Commission's Proposal to the Gothenburg European Council - "A Sustainable Europę for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development" was prepared and published in 2001 to complete the Lisbon Strategy. The generał goal - to become the most competitiue, knowledge-based economy in the world market - has been supplemented by the dimension of sustainable development. Due to this, the Lisbon Strategy aims at economic growth and more effective job creation, as well as providing people with a better standard of living in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. In the long-term, growth and social cohesion must go hand in hand with environmental protection. The purposes of this paper are: - Identification of the ecological aspects of the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development which are connected with agriculture; - describing the implications for Poland in the context of current policy.
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I am grateful for the support given by my doctoral supervisor, Profa. Mariana Gaio Alves, and for NOVA Lisbon University support. ; Since the implementation of the Bologna process and the Lisbon strategy, there has been an increase of the interest in higher education and in doctoral education in Europe. This political process aims to create not only a European area of higher education, but also research European area. Doctoral education is considered to be one of the keys to innovation and to the development of societies. The implementation of the proposals that emerged from the meetings of the ministers responsible for higher education (MMHE) and the European association universities (EUA), brought a new look to the third cycle (Dublin descriptor, 2004; Bergen framework of qualifications, 2005), and to the Doctoral education and supervision (ten principles of Salzburg, 2005). Within this context elements such as doctorate completion time, student's profile, skills and competence acquired in that period and mobility between institution assumed a greater importance (London Communique, 2007; Leuven Communique, 2009). In Portugal, it was only during the last decade that researchers began to publish papers whose object study is doctoral education, the quality of supervision of doctoral research, supervisor and student profile and relationship. In this context, these research article pretend to characterize and analyse how the two aspects of doctoral education, monitoring and evaluation, are institutionally implemented in the third cycle at NOVA Lisbon University (UNL) and what implications may have on the success rate and completion time. The regulations of the third cycle in the nine schools that constitute the UNL and public annual reports will be analyses enabling to highlight some data. ; publishersversion ; published
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In: European journal of social security, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 253-271
ISSN: 2399-2948
A number of studies suggest that the Europeanisation process is having a profound impact on national labour market policies. Nevertheless, rather little research has been devoted to the development of social assistance schemes across countries and over time. Relying on two new indicators, benefit levels and replacement rates, we examined the relationship between the Lisbon Strategy and changes in national social assistance benefits. We found no robust results for the first years of the Lisbon Strategy. However, after its re-launch in 2005, there was a positive association between the Lisbon Strategy and social assistance benefit levels. In addition to the Lisbon Strategy, domestic political, institutional and several economic factors were significantly associated with social assistance benefits.
The Lisbon Strategy was initiated by the European Union in 2000 in order to turn the European Union into the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. The Lisbon Strategy recognized the open method of co-ordination (OMC) as the EU-level governance tool. In the presence of the failure of the 2010 strategy the EU Member States adopted a new one as Europe 2020. Headline targets of the new strategy include an increase of the employment level, encouraging Research and Development, ensuring sustainable development and reducing social exclusion. The aim of this article is the development of the OMC practice by offering new procedures namely a system of structural indicators and the application of a multi-objective evaluation method. Being suitable for international comparisons, the multi-objective method MULTIMOORA is applied for analyzing a system of structural indicators and for covering headline targets of the strategy Europe 2020. The data cover the period 2005–2008 enabling to identify the progress of the EU Member States before adoption of the strategy Europe 2020. According to ranks given by MULTIMOORA, the Member States are classified into three groups: high performance, medium performance, and low performance states.
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Cohesion Policy is one of the most important policies of the European Union and historically one of the most financially significant. Over the past four decades, the focus, strategies and goals of Cohesion Policy have experienced significant changes. With the increased importance of economic growth and job creation in the 2000's, supported by the Lisbon Strategy, cohesion started losing importance and the initial objectives of promoting regional development and reducing disparities between regions have been progressively replaced by others, such as promoting growth and employment. Based on the Portuguese experience in the design and programming of its operational programs, the study emphasizes the connections, divergences and dilemmas between Cohesion Policy and the Europe 2020 Strategy objectives and presents some contributions to the debate about the future of Cohesion Policy and Europe 2020 Strategy in order to minimize the risks of evolving from a place-based approach to a more blind territorial logic.
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After the relaunchment of the Lisbon strategy, the cohesion policy of the EU concentrates even stronger on the establishment of the knowledge based economy, on R&D activities and innovations. In the first chapter I demonstrate the funds division of the convergence and regional competitiveness targets in the financial perspective between 2007–2013. The first sheet shows unambiguously that the new member states from Middle-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries spend their funds on convergence and cohesion issues. The situation is contrary in the highly developed Western-European countries, in the core regions, where decisive part of the funds are spent on competitiveness issues. In the second chapter of the study I present the Europe 2020 strategy of the EU, that is a crucial paradigm change in the European strategy-making. While the Lisbon strategy focused on the social cohesion of the European Union, the Europe 2020 strategy strives the fostering of the European competitiveness. In the third part of the study I make a comparison how the funds-allocation altered during the two financial perspectives.
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In: Sustainability ; Volume 11 ; Issue 8
This study proposes construction of a synthetic indicator to measure progress toward the objective of economic and social cohesion among the regions of Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal within the framework of European Community Regional Policy and the spatial disparities among these countries. Our aim is to integrate, in a single indicator, a large number of variables defined by the European Commission to monitor improvements in regional development, classified according to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. To achieve this goal, we use the Pena distance method for the year 2013.
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This study proposes construction of a synthetic indicator to measure progress toward the objective of economic and social cohesion among the regions of Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal within the framework of European Community Regional Policy and the spatial disparities among these countries. Our aim is to integrate, in a single indicator, a large number of variables defined by the European Commission to monitor improvements in regional development, classified according to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. To achieve this goal, we use the Pena distance method for the year 2013. ; Financial support provided by the following institutions: the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, the State Research Agency (SRA) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (project reference ECO2017-86822-R).
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Innovation and innovation performance is gaining increasing importance in European policy, as the targets determined by the Lisbon priorities related to innovation seem to be still far away from the reality in some European countries and at EU level as well. Although the economic crisis determined the priorities of economic development and made it more complicated to dedicate more budget of Research and Development, one of the five ambitious objectives of the EU's growth strategy for the coming decade: Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is still focusing on innovation. As the Lisbon Strategy determined the paths for national targets in the given areas, Europe 2020 will be adopted as well by the Member States.In this context, the current work would like to give a short overview how Lisbon Strategy effected the national and regional innovation system in Hungary and will analyze its impact on Észak-Alföld's region Research, Development and Innovation performance in the recent years and the transition of regional innovation governance system.
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