South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)

Five European High Growth regions and one common goal – to achieve balanced, sustainable and economic growth

The Grow project is a €7.5 million InterregIIIC programme and runs from June 2005 to December 2007.

The joint programme covers a network of five high growths regions:

• Emilia-Romagna in Italy
• Andalucia in Spain
• Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands
• Malopolska in Poland
• South East of England

Sixteen projects were approved; they all aim to support strategic co-operations in areas of:

Green Growth

• Sustainable Construction
• Brownfield Regeneration
• Flood Risk Management
• Resource management

Business Growth

• Incubation
• Technology Transfer
• Trading
• Cluster
• Culture of Enterpreneurship

Inclusive Growth

• Social Inclusion
• Human Resource Management

The partner regions intend to establish a strategic long term partnership, which will continue beyond the Interreg IIIC funding opening new avenues for sustainable development in high growth regions.

For more information on the Grow programme, visit www.grow3c.com.