Partnership on European Regional Innovation Agencies
PERIA is a co-operation project between Regional Innovation Agencies and Regional Authorities in Europe with the aims of: 
• sharing experience and methodologies on innovation services and policies
• learning from each other in the management of regional innovation systems.
PERIA focuses on regional innovation policy and on the tools used for implementing innovation: the Regional Innovation Agency (RIA)
A Regional Innovation Agency is an organization in close cooperation and connection with the regional authority (government) with the following public assignments:
- support the growth of enterprises through innovative projects,
- develop an innovation-friendly environment, notably with operational partnerships with universities, research laboratories or technical centres,
- improve the region's knowledge base, encourage the knowledge spreading,
- develop and improve the region's innovation services and strengthen the region's innovation network.
Whatever its official name, any organism with the above assignments will be considered as a Regional Innovation Agency (RIA).

The objectives of PERIA are to develop within regions with a common interest their proficiency in regional innovation policy, in innovation management techniques and in fostering of Research-Development-Innovation relationships: 
- to meet and jointly identify practices of regional innovation support
- to select good practices, especially those which impact positively on the SMEs innovation potential
- experimentally transfer these practices to the Regional authority and RIA based on a feasibility study
- and disseminate this knowledge of practices and transfer to other European Regional authority, RIAs and relevant actors in the field of innovation. This particularly to the regions that are currently in the process of developing their innovation policy through the implementation of specific regional tools such as RIA.
Beyond these exchanges, the improvement of regional innovation policy and regional innovation support tools is the goal of PERIA in order to offer greater support to SMEs in developing their innovation projects. 

To achieve its objectives, PERIA will focus on the political level and on the operational level and ensure a connection between these two by having specific Working Groups that will in the second half of the project come together to work on the transfer of three selected good practices. Throughout the project, several events at regional, national and European level will be organised to familiarise innovation stakeholders and actors at these respective levels on this initiative and encourage the transfer of good practices inside and outside the partnership.