EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Insight into interregional cooperation Irma Astrauskaitė| Communication Officer Benoît Dalbert| Project Officer Joint.

EUROPEAN REGIONALDEVELOPMENT FUND

Insight into interregional cooperation

Irma Astrauskaitė| Communication Officer

Benoît Dalbert| Project Officer

Joint Technical Secretariat

POWER final conference

21 September 2011, Brussels

2 POWER Final conference – 21 September 2011

Summary

1. Reminder on the programme’s context

2. Programme state of play

3. First programme achievements

4. Concluding words on the POWER project


1. Programme context


1. Programme context1. Programme context

EU Cohesion and Regional Policy

Reducing disparities

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EU Cohesion and Regional Policy

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ES Objective 1:

Convergence

81.54%€ 282.8 billion

Objective 2: Regional Competitiveness and

Employment

15.95% € 55 billion

Objective 3: European Territorial Cooperation

2.52% € 8.7 billion


Objective 3: European Territorial Cooperation

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Cross-border

transnational

interregional

networking

53 programmes

13 programmes

1 programme

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3 programmes

INTERREG IVC

€ 6.5 billion

€ 1.8 billion

€ 321M

€ 134M

1. Programme context1. Programme contextIN

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INTERREG: 3 strands and 67 different programmes


INTERREG IVC main features

ERDF funding: € 300 m

Eligible area:

- EU 27

- Switzerland & Norway

2 priorities - Innovation & knowledge economy

- Environment and risk prevention

2 types of interventions- Regional Initiative Project

- Capitalisation Project




Programme rationale

INTERREG IVC allows local and regional policy-makers to access the experience of others in Europe facing similar issues in order to renew their practices / strategies / policies

Mainly dedicated to local and regional authorities

Core focus on the exchange of experience

“Learning by sharing”


2. Programme state of play


4 calls for proposals

organised

2007 20132008 2009 2010 2011 2012

1st Call 2nd Call 3rd Call 4th Call

Regional Initiative Projects

Capitalisation Projects

Both types of

Projects

Both types of

Projects

1002 (+29) applications

492 applications



Launch of the

Programme

TOTAL:

~14 000 project partners

2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play


Applicants per country – all calls



Approved Projects

122 projects

1 332 partners

71 projects in priority 1

51 projects in priority 2

82% of EU NUTS 2

regions represented

BUDGET, EUR

committed remaining



• 19 approved projects:

- 6 Climate change- 5 Energy efficiency- 5 Sustainable public transport- 3 Other

For a total of 226 partners coming from all EU

Member States, also Switzerland and Norway

INTERREG IVC projects related to

Energy and Sustainable transport



Programme new development


‘Capitalisation at programme level’

to better exploit the knowledge resulting from projects working on a similar topic

Approved in June 2011 by the Monitoring Committee with a start planned in 2012

up to 12 topics covered

renewable energy

cultural industries

entrepreneurship

ageing population

climate change

sustainable transport


3. First programme achievements


2. Results and achievements2. Results and achievements

Outputs of the 41 first call projects

Exchange of experience / match experiences

35Regional Initiative projects

6Capitalisation

projects

1,121 good practices

identified

Average of

32per project

Exchange of experience results in

23 ‘spin off’ activities

1,639 staff members with increased

capacity

Average of

40per project

29 sucesfully transfered


Examples of transfer under Priority 1

From: Mid Sweden regionTo: Flevoland region (NL)

‘Summer entrepreneur’ – Stimulate entrepreneurial mindset among young people through the creation of their own business during summer vacation

Practice: Project:

3. Programme achievements3. Programme achievements


- 1 practice transferred (‘mainstreamed’) (2 other transfers planned in North West England and Veneto)

- Participation of 38 young people

- Creation of one business

MINI-EUROPE example: main results



Examples of transfer under Priority 2

From: Borrough of Bromley (UK)

To: Frankfurt am Main (DE)

Practice:

‘Walk to school’ – Encourage school children to walk to school rather than travel by car

Project:



Results: - 1 practice transferred (partly financed by IVC)

- 15 schools and 3,000 pupils involved

- 40 tonnes CO2 (and 19,200 litres of oil) saved

PIMMS TRANSFER example




Improvement of regional and local policies

Outputs of the 41 first call projects

50national/regional/local

policies improved

42Priority I

INNOVATION

8Priority II

ENVIRONMENT

12%of policies addressed are already improved

(50 out of 423)

66%of policies addressed

in Capitalisation projects are improved

(34 out of 56)



Sub-theme: Information society

Example of policy improvements (INNOVATION)

Project:

Bologna Municipality (IT)

Partner concerned: Policy improved:

Revision of the Emilia Romagna Regional Telematic Plan 2011-2013 which now includes the ‘Guidelines for Local Wireless Communities’ coming from PIKE



Sub-theme: Natural and technological risks, climate change

Example of policy improvements (ENVIRONMENT)

Regional Environment Centre for Eastern Europe (SK)

Project: Partner concerned: Policy improved:

Revision of the Emilia Romagna Regional Telematic Plan 2011-2013 which now includes the ‘Guidelines for Local Wireless Communities’ coming from PIKE


1st call Capitalisation Projects: financial commitment

Achievements of the first call Capitalisation Projects

Projects IVC ERDF spent (EUR)

Leverage effect

Amount dedicated to the implementation of

practices (EUR)

B3 Regions 1,525,947 x 307 = 468,612,500

ERIK ACTION 1,418,440 x 17 = 24,561,200

ESF6 CIA 935,661 x 55 = 51,300,000

ICHNOS PLUS 734,183 x 0.9 = 687,800

PIKE 1,146,295 x 6 = 7,272,900

RAPIDE 1,194,558 x 18 = 21,210,460

TOTAL 6,955,084 x 82 573,644,800

TOTAL (without B3

Regions)5,429,137 x 19 105,032,300



4. POWER project


Project strength : clear relevance to INTERREG IVC

4. POWER4. POWER

• European added-value of the issue tackled: low carbon economy in the context of climate change

• A focus on the exchange of experience at policy level which is also reflected at sub-project level

• Quality of partnership:• A majority of partners are public authorities

• Good geographical coverage: 7 partners from all 4 corners of Europe, including 2 new MS


4. POWER4. POWER

Project strength : quality of approach and deliverables

• Efficient communication strategy (e.g. video)

• 9 approved sub-projects of high quality

• Exchange of experience also between partners with 1 policy improved (IT) and other results expected soon

• First results:

69 staff members with increased capacity

4 spin-off activities incl. CO2 calculator


Thank you for your attention!

EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Insight into interregional cooperation Irma Astrauskaitė| Communication Officer Benoît Dalbert| Project Officer Joint.

Documents

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programme context slide

programme achievements

programme state of play

programme total

programme urbact

programme level

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