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Who’s Done What So Far?

Region Regional Information

DemonstrationAnalysis

List ofPolicies

Sweden √ √

France √ √

Slovenia √ √

Italy (Cogne) √ Dialogue

Italy (Perugia) √ √

Spain √ √

Bulgaria √ √

Poland (Part) √ √ √

Wales (Powys) √ √ √

Portugal

Poland (Warmia-Mazury)

Responses Received After 30/4/10

Responses Not Yet Received

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Partner Profiles

What have they told us?

• Lots from SWOTs

Trends and Common Themes

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SME Development

Strengths

• High Value/Skilled Workforce• Agriculture/Forestry

Weaknesses

• Agriculture – low income/ aging workforce

• IT infrastructure – poor Internet/communications

Opportunities

• Tourism – integration into establish “tourist” routes

• Improve infrastructure

Threats

• Competition• Lack of business support

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Strengths

• Natural & Cultural Heritage• Good Geographic Location: close to

either other tourist attractions or towns/cities

• Good Quality of Living• Seasonality

Weaknesses

• Poor local coordination/ integration between providers

• Poor infrastructure• Lack of investment

• Seasonality

Opportunities

• Promotion of local produce indigenous to the region

• Improved tourist provision

Threats

• Competition• Low cost travel to other destinations

Tourism Activity

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Natural Environment

Strengths

• Actual natural environment & it’s uniqueness

• Protected status

Weaknesses

• Lack of awareness/knowledge• Fragility of environment

Opportunities

• Improve public policy• Alternative energy production

Threats

• Environmental disaster• Mass tourism

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Built Heritage

Strengths

• Good variety & unique properties• High property value

Weaknesses

• Lack of investment• Poor marketing/advertising

coordination

Opportunities

• Improve awareness• Promote properties

• Investment and restoration

Threats

• Deterioration through lack of interest/investment

• Preservation orders

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How Could We Use This?

Find the policy links:

Are Strengths supported by strong policy?

Are Weaknesses a sign of poor/no policy?

Does policy exist to develop Opportunities?

Is Policy responsible for Threats?

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Priority SWOTs

Please use Section 1 of table to rank the importance of SWOT “trends”

Because these are “trends” your own wording may not appear, but there could be something similar. If there is something very important to you please list it in Section 2

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Other Things to Think About?

Use the Partner Profiles to undertake a comparative analysis of partners

For example:

By Geographic Size

By Population

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Powys Contacts for B2N

Filippo CompagniEuropean Policy & External Funding Managerfilippo.compagni@powys.gov.uk

Tracy WilliamsRegeneration Officertracy.williams@powys.gov.uk

Vanessa GarwoodRegneration Managervanessa.garwood@powys.gov.uk