Higher education institutions as promoters of human resource development – conclusions of a European Union project HEFOP/3.3.1-2004-06-0033/1.0

The present paper aims at making a succinct overview of the EU regional development policies and strategies taking into consideration the deductive method, i.e. presenting these policies from the global/European level through the national-regional/county level up to the institutional one and having them exemplified by a concrete EU project implemented in the field of human resource development – as we are a higher education institution mainly interested in developing labour force. We are not only presenting the aims of the regional policies, but also some of their implementation forms, so that everybody could have a clearer picture of what and how can be done in order to develop a certain area, and what the short term and long term consequences of these development projects are.