ITN RegPol2 Information

The ITN RegPol2 - Socio-economic and Political Responses to Regional Polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe - centres on new patterns of regional disparities between metropolised regions and the remaining parts of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. ITN RegPol2 trains 16 young researchers for careers in academia, public administration, NGOs and the private sector. Research training is organised in 3 work packages comprising individual, albeit strongly interconnected research projects, including intersectoral secondments strengthening the interface between academia and the private sector. Local training will be supplemented by network-wide events enabling strong collaboration between the partners. Training includes transferable skills as well as theoretical and methodological units. The network draws on expertise from academia and private sector specialists from 7 different countries and 8 scientific disciplines used to working in interdisciplinary and multinational contexts. Next to new training capacities at European level and an increased employability of ITN fellows, the project aims at improving regional policy instruments by raising capacities of politicians, public and private sector policy makers related to issues of regional polarisation. ITN RegPol² has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement n° 607022.