The main project activity is the installation of a Knowledge and Information Manager (KIM). In order to implement a KIM in a region, in a first step a survey on regional/national/international themes and actors, etc. will be conducted in order to be able to determine the future fields of action of the KIM, a certain kind of networker. Then a pilot application of the KIM will be installed in four regions, the partners from the other regions will have consulting tasks.

After the elaboration of joint action plans the managers will start their work for six months. The tasks of a KIM shall be to prepare regional/national/international themes for the public, to assist institutions in forming networks or enter into networks, to learn and inform on changes in European structural funds, to be involved in actual daily work of regional development units, to get experienced through interregional activities in terms of cultural understanding and multilateral learning and much more to be defined in the project.

Towards the end of application phase 1 a training tool based on the needs of the managers will be elaborated, tested by the managers and reported. Then new action plans will be developed and application phase 2 (again six months) will take place. Both phases will be accompanied by an interim and a final evaluation. After termination of application phase 2 a manual on the “Implementation of a KIM in a region” will be elaborated and distributed via website, by means of a final conference, etc.