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The innovative actions of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are laboratories of ideas for disadvantaged regions. As the opportunities for experimentation are often limited under the main support of the Structural Funds, the innovative actions provide regional actors with the "risk space" needed to respond to the challenges set by the new economy.

During the period 2002-06, the programmes comprise measures relating to one or more of the following three strategic themes:

• knowledge-based regional economies and technological innovation;
• e-EuropeRegio: the information society and regional development;
• regional identity and sustainable development.

The new generation of innovative actions rests on three pillars:

• regional programmes of innovative actions and the subsequent pilot projects;
• support measures for experience-sharing and the establishment of interregional networks;
• competitions to identify and develop the best projects.

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