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The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth. This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the varying degrees of innovation promotion by the EU from one region to another. Since regional-policy strategies should have been subject to a new orientation towards more innovation promotion, we are particularly interested in whether the EU's co-financing policy of innovation projects changed for the 2007-2013 program period compared with the 2000-2006 period. According to our empirical analysis, which controls for various determinants of innovation promotion, there has been no significant change in the EU's regional policy strategy in general. We confirm this result when focusing on less-developed Objective 1 regions, where we would have expected the new policy strategy to show up more pronounced in particular.

pt. 1. Lisbon strategy and European integration -- part 2. Reform dynamics in old Europe -- part 3. Eastern enlargement and European social model -- part 4. European integration and social policy transformation in Turkey -- part 5. European integration, social policy and the Lisbon strategy.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and possible developments in EU education law and policy. It covers the innovations brought about by the Lisbon Treaty as well as the Lisbon/EU 2020 Strategy and its implications for education and training and analyses the EU programme Erasmus+. Moreover, it takes a close look at the right to education as contained in the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights of the European Union and outlines the main trends in European Court of Justice case law. Finally, it focuses on cohesion policy measures and assesses the education initiatives undertaken by macro-regional strategies and the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino

In 2000, the European Council set its sights on becoming the world's top knowledge-based economy. To that end, they aimed to achieve a goal of spending 3% of GDP on research and development by 2010. Their Lisbon Strategy recommended a number of efforts on the European Union and national levels, including encouragement of public-private collaboration. Examination at the regional level indicates the need for R&D and innovation policy to help stimulate growth. Current theory turns attention to the effect of system failure in the regions. The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research developed a typology for the regions of the European Union. Using performance results, this paper identifies US states that correlate to the typology. Comparative analysis of these states based on key industries and actors, major programs and instruments, successes, failures, impact of federal programs, and best practices then informs discussion of the implications on policymaking. If regional variances represent the most important factor influencing the development of an appropriate policy mix, local specializations, along with regionalized institutional factors, must be considered when codifying the main objectives for policymakers, such as stimulating the efficiency of the system, encouraging dynamic connection among the actors, and reducing the risk of lock-in. This, in turn, affects selection of the instruments that may or may not benefit the region and the indicators with which the impact of public action may be measured. Considering this, particularly challenging for the EU is the need to balance decentralization of action in the regions and coordination at the Union level.

This book is an analysis that aims to assess how a diverse set of theoretical perspectives in the field of social policy can contribute towards understanding different dimensions of European social policy. It evaluates the impact of European integration on social policy development since the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon strategy discussing the challenges posed by the still unfolding global economic crisis of 2007-2009 and looming recession.

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "About the Authors" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "References" -- "Part I: Policy" -- "Chapter 2: General Issues of European Policy" -- "Introduction" -- "Delegation Theories" -- "Differentiated Integration in Europe" -- "Hard Law Versus Soft Law" -- "The Community Method and Agency Loss" -- "The Open Method of Coordination" -- " National Action Plans" -- " Benchmarks" -- " Indicators" -- "Conclusions" -- "Note" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: European Higher Education Policies" -- "Introduction" -- "European Institutions and Higher Education" -- "Brief Historical Perspective" -- "Jurisprudence and the Transfer of Power to the European Court of Justice" -- "The Services Directive: The Erosion of National Competence in Higher Education Through Regulation" -- "European Commission's Communications: Discourse as a Policy Instrument" -- "The Bologna Process at the Service of the Lisbon Strategy" -- "Conclusions" -- "Note" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: Bologna Process Implementation Problems" -- "Introduction" -- "Is Implementation a Problem?" -- "What is the Meaning of Implementation?" -- "The Lisbon Strategy and the Adoption of OMC in the Bologna Process" -- "Education Policies: Soft Law and Coordination Problems" -- "Conclusions" -- "Note" -- "References" -- "Chapter 5: Bologna Objectives and Their Fulfilment" -- " Introduction" -- "Setting the Bologna Objectives and the EHEA" -- "Fulfilling Bologna Objectives and the EHEA" -- "Mobility" -- "Employability" -- "Attractiveness" -- "Conclusions" -- "References" -- "Part II: Practice: The Achievement of Bologna Objectives in Portugal" -- "Chapter 6: National Legislation and Conditions for Implementation" -- "Introduction" -- "Peculiar Characteristics of the Portuguese State".

This chapter illustrates the contribution which could be made to realising the Lisbon Strategy of the European Union for growth and jobs by innovative healthcare policy favouring a preventive orientation of healthcare. The prevention and control of risk factors for chronic diseases, as well as their potential impact on the quality of human capital as a union of health and education, are discussed. Human capital refers to health and education both of the individual, and of the population as a whole.

Increasingly, policies and laws commonly agreed within the EU shape the political and economic scenarios of nation states in Europe. However, the same European context is radically changing, essentially due to three major recent developments: the adoption of the euro, EU enlargement to the east and the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy of structural reforms for growth and competitiveness. The book presents a thorough economic analysis of these three events and of their implications for both existing and potential EU policies and objectives

"This book provides profound insights into contemporary EU decision-making in the field of external action and makes a highly valuable contribution to the debate on the new intergovernmentalism as a framework for understanding the post-Lisbon EU." Uwe Puetter, Central European University, Hungary "The most detailed, empirically informed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies and a valuable contribution to the shifting dynamics of EU foreign policy after the Lisbon Treaty. This book will be of great interest to practitioners and experts alike." Javier Solana, President, ESADEgeo, Spain, and former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy "Pol Morillas provides a compelling account of strategy-making in the Union. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the intricacies of EU foreign policy." Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, and Special Adviser to EU HR/VP Federica Mogherini This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action. It uses the European Security Strategy and the EU Global Strategy to assess their policy-making dynamics both before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Inter-institutional relations in strategy-making are put into the context of current debates in European integration, questioning the assumption that the EU is a body increasingly ruled by intergovernmentalism - as reflected by the new intergovernmentalism literature. By looking at the shifting policy-making dynamics from foreign and security policy to external action, the author sheds light on the current shape of EU integration. The book also provides a categorisation of EU strategies and considers them as policy-inspiration documents, acting as frameworks for policy-making. This reading of strategies lies behind the analysis of the policy-making processes of the ESS and the EUGS, unpacked into four phases: agenda-setting, policy formulation, policy output and implementation. Pol Morillas is Deputy Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow in European affairs at CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. He is also associate lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.--