For every partner region there is one Regional Steering Committee that represents the most important innovation actors and organisations. Public administration, regional policy-makers, chambers of commerce, key-enterprises, high level players from research organisations and technology centres, universities, representatives from business support organisations, technology transfer agencies and providers of subsidies and risk capital.

This Regional Steering Committee supervises the project development process in its region and prepares the grounds for integrating its results into its region mainstream policy. Involvement of actors encourages the regional interactions and promotes regional cooperation. Exchange of experience and transfer of best practise take place. This will facilitate policy-making to stimulate successful measurement and good practise.

The Regional Steering Committee for every partner region meets at the release of a relevant project deliverable (7-14 times). The regional project manager of the Regional Management Unit will report to the Regional Steering Committee.

The Regional Management Unit consists of the regional project manager, task force leaders of Regional Working Groups and assistant(s). This ensures that adequate management support is in place with an experienced staff assigned throughout the project.

According to the methodology and directives of the Trans-regional Project Management Committee, Regional Management Units will set-up Regional Working Groups. The regional project manager plans and controls the elaboration of workpackages and underlying activities and tasks.

Every two to three weeks, there is a meeting of the Regional Management Unit to control work progress and specifically to give preliminary approval to the deliverables and results according to the accepted framework directives and standards to be sure that achievements are in line with pre-defined project objectives.

Task force leader and advisors of the Regional Working Group elaborate tasks and activities related to the workpackage. They design, develop and build the instruments according to the defined methodology. MS Office tools will be used. In the implementation and analysis stage, they carry out desk-research and field-work to run and test the instruments.

Conclusions are made and are used for preparation for regional deployment (policy recommendation plan, dissemination plan).

They are involved in the roll-out of the inter-regional benchmarking for their own region and for carrying out explanatory analysis, using the STATISTICA software tool in order to prepare recommendations for inter-regional deployment. Standardisation of the instruments is also within the scope of the working group activities. Regional Working Groups are temporary task forces to develop and elaborate specific work content. The task force leader reports to the Regional Management Unit every two weeks throughout the project.