EU PROJECT TERA

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EU PROJECT TERALocal Development in a European
PerspectiveFerrara, October 18th-19th 2007

• The TERA project
• an overview after two years
• Anna Soci
• University of Bologna
• Coordinator of the TERA project

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FIRST STEP

• 1) To delineate the subject
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• STUDY-AREA SELECTION
• to specify criteria for the selection of the
  projects study areas
• to identify these study areas

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STUDY-AREAS

• 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 a NUTS 3 level
  area. It is adjacent to the urban centre of
  Joensuu.
• Greece the Municipality of Archanes. It is a
  NUTS 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 Rezekne and Daugavpils.
• Czech Republic the District Bruntál. It is a
  NUTS 4 area. Its urban centre is Ostrava.

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FIRST STEP

• 2) To envisage a scientific thesis
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• MODELS

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THESIS

• 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.

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MODELS

• CGE Model
• NEG Model
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• ? NNEG Model

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FIRST STEP

• 3) To test the thesis
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• WORK-METHODOLOGY

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Collection of model information

• 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

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FIRST STEP

• 4) To get an outcome
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• RESULTS

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Objective 2 of the Project

• 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.

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SECOND STEP

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

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Objective 3 of the Project

• 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.

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THIRD STEP

• 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