The general objective of this project is to diffuse the EU regional policy experience and good practices and to develop further cooperation between regional authorities and specialized agencies on innovation policy decision making and governance from EU and Latin American border regions. This will be done through the establishment of a mechanism/platform for knowledge exchange and transfer of good practices among participating (EU and Latin American) border regions on specific thematic areas.

Specific objectives of the project will be to facilitate the sharing of information and lessons learned on promoting cross-border regional innovation systems, policy setting, implementation and management with respect to clusters and SME innovation inducing policies in domains of common interest, in order to contribute to a learning process based on concrete examples and best practices, as well as the identification and development of strategies, action plans and concrete projects or programmes for the development of cross-border value chains, that each participating Latin American border region can implement in the short term.

The new Latin American border areas to be covered by the project will be:

— Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay,

— Bolivia-Peru,

— Ecuador-Peru.