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European Week of Regions and Cities

Bernadett Petri

  • Director-General, MFOI - Hungarian Development Promotion Office
  • As Director-General of the Hungarian Development Promotion Office - MFOI (operating under the Ministry of Public Administration and Regional Development), Ms. Petri will hold a 30 minutes-long Ted Talk, a concise speeches about the innovation gap - as a crucial challenge of competitiveness - within the EU and also identify best practices and project initiatives that can help us to bridge the existing gaps between member states. MFOI aims to interconnect the Hungarian social and economic ecosystem and the directly managed European funding programmes. For this aim, the organisation supports domestic stakeholders in joining EU-funded project initiatives by providing them with direct technical support and in expressing their interests in future EU policy objectives.