1. Teodora Brandmuller Unit E4
Urban Audit grants
Teodora Brandmuller
Unit E4
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NUAC meeting

2. 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
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3. Financing Decision
Eurostat and DG REGIO intend to spend 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
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4. Eurostat’s grant policy - Substantial reduction of number of small grants
In order to develop projects of European size, grants below € 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 €
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5. 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.
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6. Results
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7. Planned timing Launch the call for proposals End of July
NSIs prepare proposals Mid Sept
Evaluation Mid Nov
Signature of agreements Mid Dec
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8. Work programme will include
Exhaustive data collection
Annual data collection
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9. 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
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10. 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
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11. 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
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12. 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
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13. Thank you for your attention!
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