4.4 Priority Objectives

This Operational Programme will seek to support competitiveness and entrepreneurship, learning and knowledge, develop world-class infrastructure, and support a sustainable environment. This is based on delivery of the following priorities:

  • To enhance the research, innovation and ICT infrastructure and capacity of the BMW Region, to promote entrepreneurship and enterprise development and to support collaboration and technology transfer between research institutions and the business sector, that responds to the economic development needs of the region;

  • To contribute to the sustainable development of rural areas and the protection and enhancement of the rural environment by protecting surface and groundwater from pollution. The priority will also stimulate energy efficiency, renewable energy deployment and the integration of sustainable energy practices into public policies;

  • To strengthen the spatial structuring of the BMW Region by investing in integrated sustainable initiatives in order to enhance the competitiveness, accessibility and social cohesion of the region’s growth centres and to modernise the region’s transport infrastructure.

FIGURE 4.1: LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE OP

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