RKMnet/Réseau Européen pour la Gestion des Connaissances au niveau régional

DESCRIPTION:

RKMnet encourages regional and interregional development based on technology, innovation and knowledge. RKMnet uses innovative instruments to create the network, and fosters activities to help each region move quicker towards a knowledge based economy. This objective was established during the Lisbon European Summit. RKMnet acts to incite public powers to take advantage of the possibilities offered by Knowledge Management for the development of local, regional and interregional domains.

The project implements a methodology based on participation to add value to cooperation and information.

OBJECTIVES:

RKMnet has succeeded in establishing a sustainable network for Knowledge Management in the areas of Science, Technology and Regional Innovation, and in creating areas which can produce permanent intraregional and interregional learning processes. The main innovation lies in the fact that Knowledge Management is the central theme of the operation, since it has an increasing impact on economic growth and can lead to structural changes.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

RKMnet´s partners work in the right direction in order to make the most of cooperation activities, which mainly aim to exchange experiences and knowledge in a structured way. Such activities are developed in close collaboration with regional governments. Par tners assure a consolidated network, contribution to sustainable regional development and added value to regional policy by creating a multilingual web portal, a database for knowledge management at regional level, monographies describing the main characteristics of each region´s knowledge of science, technology and innovation, training sessions and regional and interregional events where the network has allowed best practices to be implemented.

TIME: April 2004 - June 2006

LEAD PARTNER :

Gobierno Vasco

Donostia- San Sebastian s/n.

1010

SPAIN

Contact Leadpartner:

Ms. Ana Dudkiewicz

Tel: 00 34 945018220

Fax: 00 34 945018253

Email: dti-ind@ej-gv.es

PARTNERS: 

Fondation LABEIN, Bilbao

Firenze Tecnologia- Agence Spéciale de la Chambre de Commerce de Florence, Firenze

Université d'Aveiro, Aveiro

Université Aristotle de Salonique, Thessaloniki

PROFESSIA, Tampere

Agence Publique de la république de la Slovénie, LJUBLJANA

Institut de Nouvelle Economie, Vilnius

Advantage West Midlands-Agence de Développement Régionale de West Midlands, Birmingham

Centre de technologie trafic et transport S.A.R.L. Hennigsdorf, Hennigsdorf

Réseau d'innovation régionale Oberhavel, Hennigsdorf

Total budget / Budget total (EUR): 1.323.872

ERDF contribution / Contribution FEDER (EUR): 798.371