Teodora Brandmuller Unit E4 Urban Audit grants Teodora Brandmuller Unit E4 28-June-2011 NUAC meeting

The most important steps of the grant procedure Financing Decision Call for proposals Evaluation Decision Ex post publicity Payments Ex post control Audit by other Community organisations 27-June-2011

Financing Decision Eurostat and DG REGIO intend to spend 1200000 EUR on co-financing the actions related to Urban Audit in the 27 Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway The Swiss Federal Statistical Office will also be invited to participate in that action but will not be entitled to receive financial support from Eurostat The EU shall contribute a maximum of 70% of the total eligible costs 27-June-2011

Eurostat’s grant policy - Substantial reduction of number of small grants In order to develop projects of European size, grants below 50.000€ will not be awarded. In this respect, with regard to contents of projects, high priority should be given to broad projects which will contribute to Eurostat's strategy for the "Re-engineering of the Production Systems of European Statistics", i.e. projects aiming at developing common tools (methodology, IT infrastructure, databases) with the ESS and using cooperation between members of the ESS In 2009, 13 out of the 21 Urban Audit grants awarded were below € 50 000. 27-June-2011 4

Options examined multi-beneficiary grant agreements instead of the individual grant agreements involving more than one Member State. "block grants", meaning grouping different actions in a single grant agreement use of procurement (i.e. buying a service). In this case, Eurostat launches a call for tender instead of a call for proposals Eurostat would like to encourage the use of multi-beneficiary grant agreements instead of the individual grant agreements involving more than one Member State. These collaborative actions would reinforce broad projects with a European added value and would pass the minimum threshold of € 50 000. Another possibility is the "block grants", meaning grouping different actions in a single grant agreement for a given beneficiary, which may be appropriate in particular for NSIs in the smaller Member States. Another possibility proposed by the budgetary unit is the use of procurement (i.e. buying a service). In this case, Eurostat launches a call for tender instead of a call for proposals. 27-June-2011

Results 27-June-2011

Planned timing Launch the call for proposals End of July NSIs prepare proposals Mid Sept Evaluation Mid Nov Signature of agreements Mid Dec 27-June-2011

Work programme will include Exhaustive data collection Annual data collection 27-June-2011

Proposed list of annual variables - Demography Total Resident Population by gender and by age groups Residents who are Nationals Residents who are Nationals of other EU Member State Residents who are not EU Nationals Residents by country of birth Total Number of Households Total Resident Population living in households One person households Lone parent households Lone pensioner households Households with children 27-June-2011

Economic aspects Economically Active Population by gender and age groups Residents Unemployed by gender Number of jobless households with children Number of jobless households without children Persons employed by gender and age groups Total employment / jobs (work place based) Median disposable annual household income Average disposable annual household income Persons living in households with very low work intensity Persons at risk of poverty after social transfers Severely materially deprived persons 27-June-2011

Social aspects Number of conventional dwellings Average price for buying accomodation Infant Mortality per year Number of live births per year Total deaths per year by gender Number of murders and violent deaths 27-June-2011

Education, transport, tourism Number of children 0-4 in day care or school Early leavers from education and training by gender Students in higher education (ISCED level 5-6) Number of residents (aged 20-64) by the highest level of education Cost of a combined monthly ticket (all modes of public transport) for 5-10 km in the central zone Number of private cars registered Number of deaths in road accidents Total annual tourist overnight stays in registered accommodation Number of available beds 27-June-2011

Thank you for your attention! 27-June-2011