In the March 2009 edition of the European Commission’s magazine Research FOCUS entitled "A competitive Europe: Research regionally, develop globally", three of INNOVA’s projects have been selected as Success Stories of the Regions of Knowledge and Food Cluster initiatives:
- NovaRegio: Innovative network for coordinated actions on RTD policies at regional level;
- StarNet-Regio project: STARing a transnational NETwork of REGIOnal research-driven marine clusters;
- RAF-Regions project: Bringing research benefits to Agro-Food SMEs in Pazardzhik, Central Macedonia and Puglia Regions.