Our pillars
Smart Governance
In order to create a future-ready regional environment, with the critical infrastructure and intelligent, efficient and interconnected online services.
Smart Business
It is important to enable businesses to stay connected, with each other and the rest of the world, and to benefit from the deployment of smart technologies.
Smart Sustainably
It is important for our Smart Region to ensure that such growth is sustainable, both economically and environmentally.
Smart Communities
Economic activities are steadily growing by harnessing digital technologies with attention to environmental costs and impacts of the initiatives.
Smart Business
Businesses nowadays have to become smart businesses, able to exploit data about not only their own activities but also about their environment, other stakeholders in the region.
The Western Region In Numbers
1/3 of our
population under 25
(youngest population
in the EU)
2/5 3rd level
educated
(highest rate
in western world)
Direct access
to EU and US Markets
2 International Airports
3 Ports
Internationally
recognised
business
location
Low cost
of Living
High Quality
of Life