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Baltic Sea Region Programme

2007-2013Evaluation Criteria and Practices

METNET Workshop, Hämeenlinna 13.1.2009Vice Executive Director Matti Lipsanen, Regional Council of Häme

EU financing for territorial

co-operation

• Territorial co-operation ”Interreg”, objective 3 of the EU

structural policy

• Competitiveness and sustainability

• 7,75 billion euro ERDF financing

• Cross border co-operation ”Interreg A”

• Transnational co-operation ”Interreg B”

• Interregional ”Interreg C”

Eligible area

•EU Member States: Denmark,

Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania,

Poland, Sweden and northern parts

of Germany

•Norway

•North-west regions of Russia

•Belarus

Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013

Financing available

total221.5 MEUR

Norway5.7 MEUR

ENPI20.3 MEUR

ERDF195.5 MEUR


Programme co-financing rates

• up to 75% of costs generated by partners from Denmark,

Germany, Sweden and Finland

• up to 85% for partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and

Poland

• up to 50% for partners from Norway

• up to 90% for partners from Russia and Belarus

+ own contribution of the project partners


Baltic Sea Region Programme – new

profile

• Focus on fewer themes inside the four priorities

• Implement goals of Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas

• Emphasis on investments: preparation or implementation

• More effort on information and communication

• Possibility to be approved as a strategic project.


Strategic objectives and priorities

To make the

Baltic Sea region an attractive place

to invest, work and live in

1. Fostering innovations

2. External and

internal accessibility

3. Baltic Sea as a common

resource

4. Attractive and competitive

cities and regions


Project strategy in the application

form

• Problem => objective

=> results

=> outputs (means developed and used to reach the objective)

• Horizontal issues

• Durability and transferability

• Work plan


• Relevance of the proposal to the programme

• Coherence of the proposal and quality of the approach

undertaken

• Durability, transferability and dissemination

• Partnership

• Management

• Budget

Selection criteria used to assess the

project strategy


• Investments

• Private partners

• Partners from Russia and Belarus

• Experience in EU Projects

• Focus on geographical disparities in the BSR


Additional selection criteria used to

assess the project strategy

First application round

• Closing date 30.5.2008

• Financing decisions 24.10.2008

• 110 applications

• 24 projects approved

• 59 Meuro financing committed


First application round


METNET BSR

Category 2b: Proposals that should not be approved

Relevance: 3

Coherence: 2

Durability: 2

Partnership: 3

Management: 2

Budget: 3

Additional quality features

• Active RU/BY partners

Outcome of the assessment


METNET BSR

“The project has not quality enough to be approved. Themain strong feature is that the project idea andobjectives as such match well to the selected priority.The public sector, research sector and public businessadvisors are well incorporated into the project in eachparticipating region either as financing partners or asassociated organisations. The weakest point is lack offocus regarding the activities to be carried out and theresults that the project would like to achieve as well asthe lack of incorporating the SMEs directly into theproject partnership. In addition, some costs are clearlyover-budgeted.

Recommendation: Please note that the project partner 9 (Association of Technology and Innovation) is ineligible according to the programme rules.”

Outcome of the assessment


Second application round

• 19.1.-31.3.2009

• More info at http://eu.baltic.net


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