Budapest, 16-17 June 2014

Hermina GolobHead od Development Policies Division

SLOVENIAPartnership agreement

and Operational programme 2014-2020

2014 – 2020 programming context

• Funds available:• 2007 – 2013:

• 4,1 bn EUR (CF, ERDF, ESF)• 104 mio EUR (ETC)

• 2014 – 2020: • 3 bn EUR (CF, ERDF, ESF)• 160 mio EUR (CEF), 21 mio EUR (FEAD), 63 mio EUR (ETC)

• Slovenia is among the countries that was severely hit by the economic and financial crisis high discrepancy betwenn funds available and the needs

• 2 Cohesion regions

2 Cohesion regions in SI

Slovenia as one region

Cohesion fund (895 mio EUR)

West Cohesion Region ERDF (approx 60 %) ESF (approx 40 %) (847 mio

EUR)

Slovenia as one regionCohesion fund (895 mio EUR)

East Cohesion Region ERDF (approx 70 %) ESF (approx 30 %) (1,26 bn

EUR)

Timeline

• Partnership agreement: formally submitted to EC 10 April 2014EC comments: mid JuneApproval: end August

• Operational programme: formally submitted to EC 12 May 2014EC comments: mid August

•Single document for all three funds (ESF, ERDF, FS) and both cohesion regions (East and West)

•12 priority axes (together with the Technical Assistance)

Operational programme

 Priority axis Investment priorities mio EUR

(1) International competitiveness of research, innovation and technological development in accordance with smart specialisation for enhanced competitiveness and greening the economy

RDI excellence Encouraging corporate investments in RDI synergies

between businesses, research and development centres and higher education…

480

(2) ICT Broadband 50(3) Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises

Promoting entrepreneurship, New business models for SMEs, in particular for

internationalisation550

(4) Sustainable use, energy production and intelligent networks

Energy efficiency and RES in the public sector and households

Renewable energy resources Smart grids Sustainable urban mobility

281

(5) Climate change adaptation Support to investments facilitating climate change

adaptation, including ecosystem-based approaches 83

(6) Improvement of the environment and biodiversity status

Infrastructure in the area of water Infrastructure for waste management Biodiversity Urban environment

406

(7) Infrastructure construction and promotion of sustainable mobility

Rail infrastructure Regional mobility, Investment in TEN-T network

263

 Priority axis Investment priorities mio EUR

(8) Promoting employment and supporting transnational labour mobility

Access to employment Sustainable integration of young people in the labour

market Adaptability of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to

change

287

(8) Social inclusion, reduction of poverty risks, active ageing and health

Active inclusion Enhancing access to affordable, sustainable and high-

quality services Investing in health and social infrastructure Promoting social enterpeneurship

190

(9) Education, skills and lifelong learning to enhance employability

Life Long Learning (target groups primary focus) Responsiveness of education and training systems Quality, efficiency and access to tertiary Developing Education infrastructure

229

(10) Rule of law, enhancing institutional capacity, efficient public administration, support to the development of NGOs and capacity building of social partners

Investment in institutional capacity and efficiency of public administration and public services

Capacity building for all stakeholders 62

Technical Assistance 120

TOTAL 3,000

Challenges ahead

• Further concentration of proposed measures• Improve

• intervention logic, • specific objectives formulation, • in some cases better elaboration of the described measures to

demonstrate contribution to the specific objectives

• Demonstrate more clearly the synergies among the investment priorities

• Sustainable urban development/integrated territorial investments

• Approval of both councils of both cohesion regions

THANK YOUhermina.golob@gov.si