The richness of Veneto Region is coming even from this physical variety: ambient, traditions and culture richness. From an historical point of view, Veneto Region is a border region, a crossing point of the European big communication lines from West to East and from North to South. Veneto Region is an important 'door' to East Europe and, at the same time, a South terminal grace to its harbour to the Adriatic Sea, one of the most important European communication axes. In bloom during the pluri-secular Venetian Republic, Veneto Region knew dark times after losing its independence in the last years of eighteenth century. It was a territory of poverty and emigration until thirty years ago when, due to its inhabitants tenacity as also to an original entrepreneurial formula, has registered a high and large welfare becoming from an emigration territory a territory of immigration and a model for economic development.

From a political and administrative point of view, Veneto Region is divided in seven provinces and in five hundred Communes at a lower administrative level. It is characterised by a polycentric urban structure with small cities of large dimensions and many cities of smaller or less smaller dimensions. Just three chief towns - Venice, Padua and Verona - exceed 200.000 inhabitants. Among the other provinces - Belluno, Rovigo, Treviso and Vicenza - only the last one exceeds the threshold of 100.000 inhabitants. The remaining part of the territory is a thick texture of cities, which often bear the traces of an ancient and glorious past.

Railroads too are well developed. The region has well equipped ports on Adriatic sea. Veneto is one of the three Italian regions endowed with first level intermodal structures. There are in fact three inter-ports: two top levels, located in Padua and Verona and a third one in Venice, with transfer to the railway and road transfer, connected to the main national and UE harbours. The Port of Venice is the third port in Northern Italy: it handles almost 10% of the traffic registered in Italian ports.

The industrial sector is well developed with a lot of small and medium-sized firms that form the region's industrial base (typical industrial sectors in Veneto are clothing sector and furniture industry). With infrastructure evenly distributed throughout the territory and a good road network, it has been possible to avoid over-concentration of industry. The Region Veneto counts a number of small-medium enterprises, often born with characteristics of family management enterprise, but more and more oriented towards a new “group” organisation.

• Safe Commerce - Speed up the integrated development of garanty and fidelity instruments in on-line services in particular in electronic commerce by internet; (RPIA 1)

• Veneto Net ELTW - development of Telework capacity in the Veneto Region through the constitution of a network of E-Learning laboratories for Telework; (RPIA 1)

• My Portal - stimulate relations between citizens and Local Public Administration through the activation of a Personalized Portal; (RPIA 1)

• Net Globo -development, throught experimentation and training, of structural and organizing conditions for the development of a new profession, the “Glob Movers - Glocal business movers - “ connecting local interests and international business opportunities; (RPIA 1)

• Viven Open Net - design, development and experimentation of a dynamic platform model for the connection and the on-line management of the cultural heritage of Veneto Villas and of the cultural, social and economic enterprising realized around them; (RPIA 2)

• E-cluster - testing of how small high-tech enterprises-guide can connect with service and supply enterprises in crisis because of delocalization, and lead them to new opportunities of cooperation for project and supply management towards new far clients and by using modern technologies; (RPIA 2)

• Citizens iTV - about development and experimentation of a new connecting channel with citizens, which is the Interactive Television, in the context of the E-Government. (RPIA 2)