This volume reports on the results of the first phase of the study entitled Regional Development Programming Processes and Regional Partnerships in the Nordic Countries and their Potential to Contribute to Sustainable Development. The ambition in respect of the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden on the policy-level is to promote and implement sustainable development in regional development and growth programming, and this is the target of the study detailed here, with a specific focus on partnership as a useful approach in the attempt to achieve this integration.