Making it happen: Regions deliver growth and jobs

[i]Open days 2007 - European week of region and cities[/i] 8-11 October 2007 Brussels The MAKING IT HAPPEN theme of this year’s OPEN DAYS reflects the launch of 450 new national, regional and cross-border development programmes and an investment of EUR 500 billion of public and private investment over the next seven years. The OPEN DAYS seminars are grouped around five themes: * Attracting investors: Regions and cities show how it works; * Proximity matters: Clusters and regional development; * Investing it wisely: Public-private partnerships and financial engineering; * Crossing borders: Networking and best practice supporting growth and jobs; * Checking delivery: How the new programmes are implemented. For more information: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.htm