EU PROJECT TERA “ Local Development in a European Perspective ” Ferrara, October 18th-19th 2007

1. The TERA project: an overview after two years Anna Soci University of Bologna Coordinator of the TERA project EU PROJECT TERA“Local Development in a European Perspective”Ferrara, October 18th-19th 2007

2. 1) To delineate the subject  STUDY-AREA SELECTION to specify criteria for the selection of the project’s study areas to identify these study areas FIRST STEP

3. Italy: the Po Plain Area. This area is built on a NUTS 5 basis. It is adjacent to the urban centre of Ferrara (and also Ravenna). UK: the East Highlands. It is a NUTS 3 level area. It is adjacent to the urban centre of Inverness. Finland: North Karelia. It is aNUTS 3 level area. It is adjacent to the urban centre of Joensuu. Greece: the Municipality of Archanes. It is aNUTS 5 level area, located in the North Central part of the Prefecture of Heraklion (NUTS 3) in the Northern Crete Island. Its urban centre is Heraklion. Latvian Republic: the Latgale Region. It is a NUTS 5 area, and consists of 6 districts. It has two urban centres: Rēzekne and Daugavpils. Czech Republic: the District Bruntál. It is aNUTS 4 area. Its urban centre is Ostrava. STUDY-AREAS

4. 2) To envisage a scientific thesis  MODELS FIRST STEP

5. territorial economic factors labour pooling, backward linkages, forward linkages and the development of infrastructures growth promoting factors state of human capital and the degree of technical knowledge provide the main determinants for the creation and survival of enterprises in rural areas. THESIS

6. CGE Model NEG Model  NNEG Model MODELS

7. 3) To test the thesis  WORK-METHODOLOGY FIRST STEP

8. Field-work First hand data was gathered through the interviewing of the main subjects: firms and households. Finalization of data collection issue harmonization of data coming from different sources Construction of SAMs for the 6 study-areas analysis of the data collection results for both categories of models, and balancing of the SAMs Collection of model information

9. 4) To get an outcome  RESULTS FIRST STEP

10. Assessing the extent to which current and recent EU, national and regional development policies, programmes and projects take account of these “territorial” factors. This appraisal would concern itself in particular with parallel support policies such as CAP direct payments and national social welfare support systems. We will compare the weight of these factors, as measured by our empirical results, with the effective relevance they have (if any) in the actual policies. Objective 2 of the Project

11. To review extensively the existing policies at a international (i.e. EU) level national level local level SECOND STEP

12. The assessment of the extent to which current and recent EU, national and regional development policies, programmes and projects take account of these “territorial” factors would allow to specify new policy interventions which can better promote the development of European remote rural areas. Objective 3 of the Project

13. To confront these existing policies with the policies (if any) “implied” by our results in order to see whether (and how much) they overlap or diverge To suggest new policies, if necessary, for the local development of marginal areas THIRD STEP