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| Newsletter 8 November 2003 Download Archive |
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SAIL is a newly established network, which helps its members exchange experience about academic and industrial cooperation across Europe.
Fifteen members, covering many countries in the European Community and associated states, form the core of the network. By bringing together representatives from a diverse spread of regions, SAIL aims to improve cross-region working and promote the development of transnational partnerships.
SAIL is part of the European Commission backed Innovating Regions of Europe initiative which aims to enable regions to access new tools and schemes for innovation promotion and to create an inter-regional learning process. It also seeks to put innovation at the top of the regional policy agenda and supports a range of targeted networks under its banner.
The SAIL network will raise awareness of regional innovation at a strategic level and enhance transnational partnerships by offering a number of intensive expertise exchange activities. Bilateral senior level secondments and regional study tours will involve the key ‘movers and shakers’ of innovation from at least 14 regions of Europe
The West Midlands region of the UK acts as the network coordinator, implementing the work of the SAIL network. In practical terms this will involve administering and managing the project, developing a practical and proactive work programme, organising network events, providing a communications hub to collect and disseminate information and ensuring that the members will undergo a learning process. In doing this the West Midlands will pro-actively animate, promote and lead the SAIL network, ensuring that all objectives and deliverables are met. A dedicated project team has recently been established in the West Midlands to carry out these tasks and to be the point of contact for all network members and interested parties.
Participating Regions include:
· West Midlands, UK
· Vaestra Goetaland, Sweden
· North-East, Romania
· Nicosia, Cyprus
· North West, Ireland
· Bucharest, Romania
· South-East, Ireland
· Cracow, Poland
· Crete, Greece
· Iceland
· Lower Silesia, Poland
· Stuttgart, Germany
· Madrid, Spain
· Israel
If you would like to know more about SAIL please contact us or alternatively take a look at our SAIL Presentation
