STARS EU Partner Regions

The partner HEIs teachers’ and researchers’ communities focus on three common priority areas, through joint research and educational activities. Each partner HEI is located in a non-capital European region, and contributes to implementation of the regional smart specialization strategy (S3).The nine regions under consideration are: Västra Götaland, Portugal Norte, Noord-Nederland, Bremen, Malopolskie,Canarias, Moravian-Silesian, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,  Albania. STARS EU aims to capitalize on the partner regional strengths, but also to identify needs for academic support to skills and knowledge development, as well as opportunities for innovation regarding regional transitions, through a cross-sectoral interregional approach, building on the partner HEIs’ strengths. Starting from the S3 as place-based approaches, the STARS EU partners build on the assets and resources available in each partner region and on their specific socio-economic challenges, in order to focus on the opportunities for cross-sectoral and inter regional approaches to address the STARS EU priority areas and efficiently connect. An in-depth assessment of the S3 of the partners’ hosting regions has been carried out and can be found at here

Regional identities compared

The twelve STARS EU territories, located and profiled. Each figure is written out; the marker on every scale shows where that territory sits within the range covered by the group.

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Canarias — same map, own scale

  • Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory
  • Other level shown for the same partner

Range of each scale across the twelve territories

Area km²
420 — 48 062 logarithmic scale
Population
84 253 — 3 587 882 logarithmic scale
Population per km²
15,2 — 1610,6 logarithmic scale
GDP million EUR
1 332 — 81 711 logarithmic scale
GDP per capita EUR
4 023 — 63 200
Employment rate % age 15–64
59,1 — 80,0

Sources: Eurostat or S3 CoP Observatory + regional statistic services or input from partners. Figures reproduced as supplied; “n/d” marks a value not available in the source table.

Territory 1: Västra Götaland

NUTS 3

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
28 778
Population
1 744 859
Population per km²
60,6
GDP million EUR
50 214
GDP per capita EUR
28 778
Employment rate % age 15–64
69,0

employment rate for ages 15–74

Territory 2: Terras de Trás-os-Montes

NUTS 3

Contained in Portugal Norte

Area km²
5 543
Population
84 253
Population per km²
15,2
GDP million EUR
1 332
GDP per capita EUR
15 810
Employment rate % age 15–64
n/d

Territory 3: Portugal Norte

NUTS 2

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
21 287
Population
3 587 882
Population per km²
168,5
GDP million EUR
64 709
GDP per capita EUR
21 200
Employment rate % age 15–64
70,7

Territory 4: Groningen

NUTS 2

Contained in Noord-Nederland

Area km²
2 960
Population
596 000
Population per km²
201,3
GDP million EUR
25 636
GDP per capita EUR
37 500
Employment rate % age 15–64
80,0

Territory 5: Noord-Nederland

NUTS 1

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
9 082
Population
1 741 932
Population per km²
191,8
GDP million EUR
64 656
GDP per capita EUR
63 200
Employment rate % age 15–64
n/d

Territory 6: Bremen

NUTS 1

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
420
Population
676 463
Population per km²
1 610,6
GDP million EUR
34 369
GDP per capita EUR
46 469
Employment rate % age 15–64
70,2

figures according to the S3 CoP Observatory

Territory 7: Malopolskie

NUTS 2

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
n/d
Population
3 430 370
Population per km²
227,0
GDP million EUR
47 231
GDP per capita EUR
23 000
Employment rate % age 15–64
68,8

area reads “15 .08” in the source table

Territory 8: Canarias

NUTS 2

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
7 447
Population
2 252 237
Population per km²
302,4
GDP million EUR
42 656
GDP per capita EUR
20 100
Employment rate % age 15–64
59,1

Territory 9: Moravian-Silesian

NUTS 2

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
5 427
Population
1 189 674
Population per km²
219,2
GDP million EUR
21 184
GDP per capita EUR
23 600
Employment rate % age 15–64
72,9

area and population from Wikipedia

Territory 10: Franche-Comté

NUTS 2

Contained in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Area km²
16 202
Population
1 179 601
Population per km²
72,8
GDP million EUR
32 524
GDP per capita EUR
25 300
Employment rate % age 15–64
70,6

Territory 11: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

NUTS 1

Level reported into the S3 CoP Observatory

Area km²
48 062
Population
2 800 000
Population per km²
58,2
GDP million EUR
81 711
GDP per capita EUR
29 258
Employment rate % age 15–64
n/d

Territory 12: Albania

Country
Area km²
28 748
Population
2 761 785
Population per km²
96,1
GDP million EUR
17 500
GDP per capita EUR
4 023
Employment rate % age 15–64
67,1

UAMD + Instat Albania; GDP flagged as uncertain in the source

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