2. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Grant allocation Status and Experience Sofia, 28 May 2009 Dr Tore Lasse By Programme director Norwegian Cooperation Programme

3. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Innovation Norway Statutory company owned by Ministry of Trade and Industry 750 employees in offices distributed throughout all of Norway’s counties and in 30 countries. The Head Office is located in Oslo.

4. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Innovation Norway Innovation Norway’s objective is to promote private- and socio-economic profitable business development and to release the commercial opportunities of the districts and regions by encouraging innovation, internationalisation and profile-building.

5. Innovation Norway team Bulgaria Commercial Counsellor Anne Lise Rognlidalen Programme officer Venceslava Yanchovska Programme Assistant Galina Vassileva Programme Director Tore Lasse By

7. Norwegian Cooperation Programme Project selection Application IN pre- assessment NFP opinion IN full assessment EU screening IN decision

8. NORWEGIAN CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 3 0 April 200 9 Programme Statistics as per April 30th, 2009

9. NORWEGIAN CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 3 0 April 200 9 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW IN FIGURES (EUR) TOTAL PROGRAMME ALLOCATION20.000.000 TOTAL ALLOCATION FOR PROJECTS (after deduction of mgmt costs) 18.300.000 TOTAL IPs APPROVED (of which into NGO projects) 17. 983. 354 3.277. 900 TOTAL SEED MONEY APPROVED 303. 180 TOTAL TRAVEL SUPPORT APPROVED 13.466 N ot allocated 0.00

10. NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 30 April 2009

15. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Survey results 85 respondents answered the survey before May 25th (+ 50 % response rate).

16. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Questions related to project management

17. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Questions related to projects’ expected impact

18. Project management Averages

19. Project management Averages

20. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Cross cutting issues

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22. Cross cutting issues

24. Averages per country for ‘Energy efficiency …’

25. Averages per country for ‘… sustainable production…’

26. Questions related to programme implementation and Innovation Norway quality of service

27. Averages related to communication with Innovation Norway

28. Questions related to application preparation and partner search

29. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Project implementation related questions

30. Average answers related to understanding of documentation needed during implementation

31. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria Partnership Experiences Public-Public NGO-NGO Private-Private Mixed partners

32. Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria