Introducing the 3Introducing the 3rdrd SEE Call: a strategic SEE Call: a strategic approach approach

SEE Programme: the new Calls

Ljubljana, 20 April 2011

Ivan Curzolo – SEE Joint Technical Secretariat

• The South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme

• The 3rd Call: a strategic approach

• The 3rd Call: the main elements

What is this presentation about?What is this presentation about?

EU Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania

Non-EU-member States: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine

(Italy and Ukraine do not participate with its whole territory)

The Programme AreaThe Programme Area

GLOBAL PROGRAM

ME OBJECTIVE

Cohesion Policy

The Programme StrategyThe Programme Strategy

SEE S.W.O.T. Analysis

Territorial Cooperation

Global objective

Improvement of the territorial, economic and social integration process

and contribution to cohesion, stability and

competitiveness through the development of

transnational partnerships and joint actions on matters of strategic

importance

Specific objectives

Facilitation of innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge

economy and information society by concrete cooperation action and

visible results

Improvement of the attractiveness of regions and cities taking into account

sustainable development, physical and knowledge accessibility and

environmental quality by integrated approaches and concrete

cooperation action and visible results

Foster integration by supporting balanced capacities for transnational

territorial cooperation at all levels

Priority Axes

P1: Facilitation of innovation and entrepreneurship

P2: Protection and improvement of the environment

P3: Improvement of the accessibility

P4: Development of transnational synergies for sustainable growth

areasP5: Technical assistance to support

implementation and capacity building

Promotion of

sustainable developme

nt

Promotion of equal opportunities and non

discrimination

application of EU principles

Visible and concrete cooperation projects; guarantee of qualitative partnerships; active project development beyond

open call procedure

implementation principles

The Programme StrategyThe Programme Strategy

The Programme budgetThe Programme budget

DescriptionERDF

originalApproved

(I)Approved

(II)Rate

Remaining ERDF

Remaining IPA

1. Innovation 44,051,157 18,751,050 8,340,512 61.50% 16,959,596 3,317,553

2. Environment

53,739,828 27,696,440 11,170,690 72.32% 14,872,698 4,107,447

3. Accessibility

55,160,834 9,231,427 8,791,827 32.67% 37,137,581 4,265,426

4. Sustainable

Growth Areas41,338,329 20,949,939 15,547,063 88.29% 4,841,327 3,159,574

  194,290,14194,290,1488

76,628,8576,628,8555

43,850,0943,850,0911

62.01%62.01% 73,811,2073,811,2022

14,850,0014,850,0000

ENPI available 2.000.000!ENPI available 2.000.000!

The 1st Call for proposal

Open Call – Bottom-up approach – 76M€

820 Expressions of Interest (EoI)

40 Projects finally approved

The 2nd Call for proposal

Targeted restricted – GAP filling – 43M€

550 EoIs

26 Projects approved

The SEE Programme until today

900 Project Partners!

Needs for inclusion (CC, PC, NC) as a key element

Need for a strategic approach

SEE: heterogeneous and wide area

Partially effective key stakeholders involvement by bottom up

IPA integration Strategic projects

33rdrd CfP: some general CfP: some general considerations…considerations…

Strategic Call Main elements of the strategic projects

• can not be generated by a conventional call for proposals

• are directly contributing to the implementation of key European policy objectives

• generate incisive technical/sectoral impacts

• are politically relevant and sustained

• are significant for the entire co-operation area (or a large part of it)

33rdrd CfP: some general CfP: some general considerations…considerations…

The 3rd Call for Proposal

Strategic Call 5 Terms of reference are defined to steer the generation of high

level transnational projects:

ToR 1: Policy Learning Mechanisms in Support of Cluster Development

ToR 2: Climate Change Adaptation: assessing vulnerabilities and risks and translating them to implementation actions at the regional and local levels

ToR 3.1: Network of (Hub) cities for an increased access and mobility of people in the SEE region

ToR 3.2: Efficient access to a SEE coordinated multimodal freight network between ports and landlocked countries

ToR 4: Managing Demographic Change in SEE - Migration and Human Capital as key for sustainable economic growth

The 3rd Call for Proposal the Strategic Call

Preparation of ToRs has involved main stakeholders at national and transnational level (questionnaires, strategic seminars,

workshops,…)

• Launch of the CfP: last week of April (open 7 weeks)

• 2-Step coached AF

• Budget allocated:30M€ ERDF + 7M€IPA + 2M€ENPI

• Specific Eligibility rules and quality criteria developed to ensure participation of competent bodies at a higher level

• Update information find on SEE Programme website: http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/downloads_section/calls/third_call/

IPA INTEGRATION(the new management model)

Main principles:

Provide the same possibilities and responsibilities to the Partners from the Member States and partner States

Fully integrate the external partners into the transnational partnerships

Not hamper the implementation of the overall program and the already contracted projects (MC agreement)

Has required the modification of the SEE Operational Programme

16.5M€ is the allocation foreseen to the integration of IPA countries for the future calls for proposals

Requires prefinancing by the involved IPA partners

LP principle applies towards IPA PPs as well.

ENPI scheme (modified OP)

• At the programme level, rules as ERDF and IPA (program level decision making, project selection, communication…) will be valid

• At project level, rules of the external funding will be followed

• 3rd&4th CfP allocation is ca. 2M€ - min budget/partner►100T€

Moreover:

– ENPI partners will sign a separate contract with the MA/JTS

– Relation between the ERDF LP and the ENPI PPs is established by the Partnership Agreement

– Reporting obligations according to the ENPI grant contract towards the MA (JTS) and the LP