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On January 13th 2021, the organization Research and Development Network for Southern Europe Sparsely Populated Areas, with the acronym RDENSESPA, was registered in the European Union Transparency Register in the category of "Think Tanks, research and academic institutions".

RDENSESPA is constituted with the fundamental objective of developing the article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), aimed at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions. Specifically, it will focus on rural areas with severe natural or demographic disadvantages, with a low population density, and island and mountain regions from southern Europe.

For this, RDENSESPA is aimed at developing academic and technical tools to strengthen European policy regarding the situation of disadvantaged areas (small islands, rural, mountainous and sparsely populated areas) of Southern Europe, with special regard the European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Cohesion Fund (CF) and Just Transition Fund (JTF) programs.

RDENSESPA has been promoted by the "Instituto de la Ingeniería de España" and the "Asociación Instituto de Investigación Serranía Celtibérica" and has been joined by 9 institutions from the rest of the southern European countries belonging to the European Union: Portugal, France, Italy, Croatia and Greece. In particular the "Universidade de Évora", the "Università di Corsica", the "Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria", the "Fondazione MEDES per lo Sviluppo Sostenible del Mediterraneo", the "University of Zadar", the "Agricultural University of Athens", the "University of Aegean", the "Associação Ordem dos Engenherios de Portugal" and the "Société des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France".

RDENSESPA represents the largest sum of highly qualified personnel, researchers and engineers, made available to European structural and cohesion policy. Universities and research centres provide a total of 3,378 teachers and researchers, 59,159 students and 1,409 administrative staff. But the largest number comes from the engineering field, where Spain contributes 75,000, Portugal 56,500 and France, whose engineering society was recognised as a public utility in 1860, has the largest representation with 1,079,134 engineers distributed in 180 associations of graduates and alumni and 25 regional units.

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