EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 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

1. Programme rationale

EU Cohesion and Regional Policy Objective 1: Convergence € billion Objective 2: Regional Competitiveness and Employment € 55 billion Objective 3: European Territorial Cooperation (including INTERREG IVC) € 8.7 billion REGIONAL / NATIONAL PROGRAMMES influence 1. Programme rationale

5 Acronym final conference – Date Month Year 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 1. Programme rationale

Overall Objective: Learning by sharing  Improve the effectiveness of regional development policies by  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 1. Programme rationale

2. Programme state of play

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 partners. 2. Programme state of play

 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 2. Programme state of play

Characteristics of the fourth call: 355 applications, involving 3,821 partner organisations 56% of applications in Priority 1 44% of applications in Priority 2

3. Results and achievements 3. Results and achievements Basis for analysis: 41 first call projects

Good practices identifiedGood practices transferred Policy instruments addressedPolicy instruments improved Reminder of INTERREG IIIC results (2002/2006 – 264 projects – 2634 Cities and Regions involved)

3. Results and achievements IndicatorsAll projectsPriority 1: Innovation Priority 2: Environment N° of good practices identified 1, Good practices successfully transferred A. Identification/sharing & transfer of good practices

3. Results and achievements A. Identification/sharing & transfer of good practices ProjectsExamples 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.

3. Results and achievements B. Exchange experience/improvement of knowledge/match less with more experienced regions IndicatorsAll projectsPriority 1: Innovation Priority 2: Environment N° of interregional events organised to exchange and disseminate experience (average 11 events/project) N° of participants in these events10,5296,3994,130 N° of staff members with increased capacities (average 40 people/project) 1,6391, N° of ‘spin-off’ activities resulting from the exchange of experience 23221

3. Results and achievements B. Exchange experience/improvement of knowledge/match less with more experienced regions ProjectsExamples 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: POWERProject partners decided to implement a new carbon reduction tool, through a CO 2 calculator, in order to improve their energy saving during the cooperation.

3. Results and achievements C. Improvement of regional and local policies IndicatorsAll projectsPriority 1: Innovation Priority 2: Environment N° of national/ regional/ local policies improved 50428

3. Results and achievements C. Improvement of regional and local policies ProjectsExamples 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 by integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation issues and on creating an Adaptation Plan for the city.

1 st call Capitalisation Projects: financial commitment Provisional results achieved Projects IVC ERDF spent (EUR) Leverage effect Amount dedicated to the implementation of practices (EUR) B3 Regions1.526 millionx 307= million ERIK ACTION1.418 millionx 17= 24.5 million ESF6 CIA0.936 millionx 55= 51.3 million ICHNOS0.734 millionx 0.9= million RAPIDE1.195 millionx 18= 21.2 million PIKE1.146 millionX 6= 7.2 million TOTAL6.955 millionx 82= million 3. Results and achievements

4. The future of cooperation

The INTERREG IVC Secretariat is working on the following ideas: - at short notice (INTERREG IVC): simplification (administrative costs) – from 4 th Call thematic capitalisation at programme level (tbc) (2012/2015) - next programming period (INTERREG VC?): improving INTERREG IVC o (s) type of project o (s) target group o priorities developping IRC among EU Regions supporting Regional OPs with several tools developped under IVC further projects: o monitoring IRC beyond the programming period o develop the exchange between MAs on a few horizontal matters

4. The future of cooperation RP RP(LP) RP 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 identified ROP Interregional Cooperation Programme Interregional Cooperation Programme Regional Operational Programme (ERDF, ESF, national or regional funds) Regional Operational Programme (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

4. The future of cooperation

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…

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