EUROPEAN REGIONALDEVELOPMENT FUND
State of Play and Perspectives
Michel LAMBLIN | Programme Director
Bergen – 14 June 2011
1. Programme rationale
2. State of play
3. Results and achievements
4. The future of interregional cooperation
Overview
EU Cohesion and Regional Policy
Objective 1: Convergence
€ 282.8 billion
Objective 2: Regional Competitiveness
and Employment
€ 55 billion
Objective 3: European Territorial Cooperation
(including INTERREG IVC)
€ 8.7 billion
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ERDF funding: €302M (out of a €321M total budget)
Subsidy rate : 75% - 85%
Eligible area:EU 27 & Switzerland & Norway
Governance:
• 1 Monitoring Committee
• 1 Joint Technical
Secretariat
• 4 Information Points
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Overall Objective: Learning by sharing
Improve the effectiveness of regional development policies
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Enabling exchange of experiences and knowledge
Matching less experienced and more advanced regions
Transfering good practices into mainstream programmes
in the fields of
Innovation and the knowledge economy
Environment and risk prevention
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APPLICATION STAGE : four calls for proposals:
Two open calls for proposals carried out (2008 & 2009) (almost 1,000 = 2 x 500 applications received)
Third call dedicated to Capitalisation projects (2010) (29 applications received)
Fourth call dedicated to Regional Initiative Projects (2011) (365 applications received)
Total number of applications received: 1,394 involving about 14 000 partners.
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A total of 122 projects, involving 1,332 partners (average of 11 partners per project)
82% of the EU 27 NUTS 2 regions represented (i.e. 223 out of 271)
Budget of EUR 202M out of EUR 302M ERDF already committed
RUNNING PROJECTS
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Approved projects by sub-theme (1-3 Call)
Sub-themes of Priority 1 Sub-themes of Priority 2
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Characteristics of the fourth call: 355 applications, involving 3,821 partner organisations
56% of applications in Priority 144% of applications in Priority 2
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Basis for analysis: 41 first call projectsBasis for analysis: 41 first call projects
Good practices identified Good practices transferred
6400 1650
Policy instruments addressed Policy instruments improved
2100 860
Reminder of INTERREG IIIC results (2002/2006 – 264 projects – 2634 Cities and Regions involved)
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Indicators All projects Priority 1: Innovation
Priority 2: Environment
N° of good practices identified
1,121 639 482
Good practices successfully transferred
29 15 14
A. Identification/sharing & transfer of good practices
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A. Identification/sharing & transfer of good practices
Projects Examples on transfer of good practices
Priority 1: MINI EUROPE (Mainstreaming INnovative Instruments for SME development)
• Flevoland (NL) and North West England (UK) set-up the “summer entrepreneurship” initiative based on the experience of the Mid Sweden (SE)
• Maramures County (RO) set-up its first cluster in mechanical industries based on the knowledge of the partners in HU, IT and UK
Priority 2: FLIPPER (Flexible Transport Services and ICT platform for Eco-Mobility in urban and rural European areas)
The municipality of Purbach (AT) directly used the survey methodology about citizen’s needs developed by Livorno Transport Operator (IT) to identify users requirements that are useful to improve transport service design.
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B. Exchange experience/improvement of knowledge/match less with more experienced regions
Indicators All projects Priority 1: Innovation
Priority 2: Environment
N° of interregional events organised to exchange and disseminate experience (average 11 events/project)
449 269 180
N° of participants in these events 10,529 6,399 4,130
N° of staff members with increased capacities (average 40 people/project)
1,639 1,025 614
N° of ‘spin-off’ activities resulting from the exchange of experience
23 22 1
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B. Exchange experience/improvement of knowledge/match less with more experienced regions
Projects Examples of ‘spin off’ activities
Priority 1: ERIK ACTION (Upgrading the innovation capacity of existing firms)
• Banská Bystrica Region (SK) and Western Macedonia (EL) submitted a common proposal on research driven clusters in the wood sector to the FP7
• The ‘Fabrica Ethica’ transfer group within the project and 7 further regions developed a new cooperation on raising awareness to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among SMEs
Priority 2: POWER Project partners decided to implement a new carbon reduction tool, through a CO2 calculator, in order to improve their energy saving during the cooperation.
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C. Improvement of regional and local policies
Indicators All projects Priority 1: Innovation
Priority 2: Environment
N° of national/ regional/ local policies improved
50 42 8
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C. Improvement of regional and local policies
Projects Examples
Priority 1: NEEBOR (Networking for Enterprises in the Eastern External Border Regions)
The Regional Council of North Karelia (FI) included a part on the development of cross-border tourism in its Regional Development Plan 2030, inspired by the Agency for Regional Development and Innovation in Bourgas (BG).
Priority 2: GRaBS (Green and Blue Space Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns)
The Regional Environment Centre for Eastern Europe (SK) succeeded in improving Bratislava’s Strategic Development Plan 2010-2020 by integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation issues and on creating an Adaptation Plan for the city.
1st call Capitalisation Projects: financial commitment
Provisional results achieved
ProjectsIVC ERDF spent
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Amount dedicated to the implementation of practices
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B3 Regions 1.526 million x 307 = 468.6 million
ERIK ACTION 1.418 million x 17 = 24.5 million
ESF6 CIA 0.936 million x 55 = 51.3 million
ICHNOS 0.734 million x 0.9 = 0.688 million
RAPIDE 1.195 million x 18 = 21.2 million
PIKE 1.146 million X 6 = 7.2 million
TOTAL 6.955 million x 82 = 573.6 million
3. Results and achievements 3. Results and achievements
The INTERREG IVC Secretariat is working on the following ideas:
- at short notice (INTERREG IVC):
• simplification (administrative costs) – from 4th Call• thematic capitalisation at programme level (tbc) (2012/2015)
- next programming period (INTERREG VC?):
• improving INTERREG IVCo (s) type of projecto (s) target groupo priorities
• developping IRC among EU Regions • supporting Regional OPs with several tools developped under IVC• further projects:
o monitoring IRC beyond the programming periodo develop the exchange between MAs on a few horizontal matters
4. The future of cooperation4. The future of cooperation
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PART 1- Cooperation (1–2 yrs):• Coordination (incl.
Monitoring of PART 2)
• Exchange of experience
• Transfer of good practice
• Action plan for implementation
PART 2 – Implementation (2-3 yrs)
• Implementation of
good practise identifiedROP ROP ROP ROP ROP
InterregionalCooperation Programme
InterregionalCooperation Programme
RegionalOperationalProgramme(ERDF, ESF, national or regional funds)
RegionalOperationalProgramme(ERDF, ESF, national or regional funds)
• finances PART 1• monitors PART 1• monitors PART 2
• finances PART 2• monitors PART 2
INTERREG C Project
Regional Partner
A few words about EGTC:• when thinking of using EGTC to run a project, or a programme,
take care of the following aspects:
flexibility (labour laws)
reactivity (payment)
fiscality (VAT recovered? Tax on salaries?...)
=> which status applies in the country?
• an EGTC to invest together (waste or sewage treatment, tram, swimming pool, hospital or school…) YES !
• an EGTC as Managing Authority of EU programmes, beautiful !
• an EGTC to bear an international team or Secretariat, this has to be seriously examined in details…