CERADA · CERADA – Central European Research And Development Area

Partners in the project represent and focus on the strong industrial sector in the cross-border region of Czech and Slovak Republic nad Poland, which is transport devices sector (automotive and aircraft) with a strong background in material research. The purpose of the project is: - The recognized need of more effective supporting system of the R&D sector, focused on the significant, traditional and developing industrial sector in the Regions, transport devices (automotive and aircraft) and material research available in the CERADA cross-border region. The join needs, capacities and potentials and communication tools have to be institutionalized in an acceptable and effective form, which the submitters concern to be a supporting system for clustering initiatives in R&D. The barriers resulting low involvement of investing industries in the R&D, existing in all sectors – scientific, educational, social and business sectors, have to be pulled down, through the project’s impulse in the addressed Regions. This also applies to the historical barriers in the cross-border region. - The absent communication and coordination among the regions in planning and supporting large investment in new RTD facilities especially with the respect to the effective use of private, national and European Funds, especially Structural Funds available in the particular Countries and Regions.