eu funding opportunities for smart city projects

EU Funding opportunities for Smart City Projects

Office for EU Programmes and Projects

09. svibnja 2019.

Content

• Smart city

• Strategic smart city framework (EU level, national level, local level)

• EU funding opportunities:

- The European structural and investment funds

- EU programmes and Initiatives

- Financial instruments

Smart city

Place where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies for the benefit of its inhabitants and business.

• smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings

• more interactive and responsive city administration• safer public spaces and meeting the needs of an ageing population

Does Smart city really matter?

• Urban centers as engines of economic growth and opportunity

• Continued concentration of population in cities

challenge for cities to provide environmental sustainability and

ensure the physical security and safety of residents

urban challenges requires SMART approach EU funds as a

tool to evolve in the SMART CITY journey

Smart cities DO matter because cities are important !

Strategic framework_EU level• EUROPE 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

(2010)

• EIP-SCC - European Innovation Partnership on Smart cities and Communities:

- Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP)

- Operational Implementation Plan (OIP)

• Urban Agenda for the EU: Pact of Amsterdam

• Establishing an INfrastructure for SPatial Information in the European Community- INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC)

• A Digital Agenda for Europe

• Connectivity for a European Gigabit Society

• Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment

• White paper - Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system

Strategic framework – national level

• Strategy of Smart Specialization (2016–2020)

• Action Plan for the Implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy (2016- 2017)

• The Transport Development Strategy (2017-2030)

• National Program for the Development and Implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems in Road Traffic (2014 – 2018)

• e-Croatia 2020 Strategy

• National Operational Programes (measures and activities to besupported from the ESI funds) (2014-2020)

Strategic framework – local level

• Development Strategy of the City of Zagreb (2020)

• Zagreb Urban Aglomeration Dvelopment Strategy (2020)

• Energy Sustainable Development Action Plan of the City of Zagreb

• Energy efficiency plan of the City of Zagreb (2017 – 2019)

• Zagreb Smart City framework strategy (2030)

Smart Cities – EU funding opportunities

• Operational programmesOP Competitiveness and Cohesion (EFRD i CF)

OP Efficient human resources (ESF)

OP Fishery and Maritime (EMFF)

Rural development programme (EAFRD)

• Territorial cooperation programmesCrossborder cooperation programmes

Interregional programes

Transnational Cooperation Programmes

Smart Cities – EU funding opportunities

• EU programmes and Initiatives

Horizon 2020

Urban Innovative Actions (UIA),

CEF, etc.

• Financial instruments

EIB products for financing smart city investments (i.e. blending with EU grants)

EIF, etc.

Smart Cities – EU funding opportunities

ESIF allocation 2014-2020 : 10,676 billion euros

• 8,397 billion euros - cohesion policy objectives

• 2,026 billion euros - agriculture and rural development

• 253 million euros - fishery development

The European structural and investment funds (ESIF) - major role in financing innovative Smart Cities projects during the current period until 2020

OP Competitiveness and Cohesion (EFRD i CF) Priority axis Allocation (euros)

1 - Strengthening the economy by applying research and innovation 664.792.165

2 - Information and communication technology 307.952.676

3 - Business competitiveness 970.000.000

4 - Promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources 531.810.805

5 - Climate change and risk management 245.396.147

6 - Environmental protection and resource sustainability 1.987.360.608

7 - Mobility 1.260.415.428,008 - Social Inclusion and health 356.500.000

9 - Education, skills and lifelong learning 270.914.791

10 - Technical assistance 236.112.612

Total 6.831.255.232,00

European territorial cooperation

INTERACT III 2014-2020INTERREG VC 2014-

2020ESPON 2014-2020

URBACT III 2014–2020

Interregional cooperation

INTERREG V-A Italy-Croatia2014-2020

INTERREG V-A Hungary – Croatia2014-2020

INTERREG V-A Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020

INTERREG IPA Croatia – BiH –Montenegro 2014-2020

INTERREG IPA Croatia – Serbia2014-2020

Cross-border cooperation

INTERREG V-B MED 2014-2020

INTERREG V-B DANUBE 2014-2020

INTERREG V-B ADRION 2014-2020

INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE 2014-2020

Transnational cooperation

European territorial cooperation (2)Interreg - Danube Transnational programme• Program area: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany - Baden-

Württemberg and Bavaria-, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia andHerzegovina, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine - fourprovinces).

• Areas of intervention: innovation, environment and culture, transport and energy, governance

• Programme beneficiaries:

-national, regional and local authorities

-private institutions, including private companies, having legal personality;

-international organizations

Home page: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/

European territorial cooperation (3)

Interreg – Central Europe• Program area: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and

Slovenia, as well as eight Länder from Germany and nine regions from Italy

• Intervention areas: Innovation, Low carbon, Nature and Culture, Transport,

• Programme beneficiaries:

-national, regional and local authorities

-private institutions, including private companies, having legal personality;

-international organizations

Home page: www.interreg-central.eu

EU programmes and initiativesHEALTH

COSME 2014.-2020.LIFE

Hercule IIIConsumer Programme 2014.-2020.

The Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme2014.–2020.The Customs Programme 2020.The Fiscalis 2020 Programme

Civil Protection MechanismCreative Europe Programme

Europe for citizens ProgrammeHorizon 2020

Erasmus + the Union programme for education, training, youth and sportEU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)

Justice Programme 2014-2020Urban Innovative Actions (UIA)

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF),....

EU programme - HORIZON 2020…the European Union's research and innovation program

• Programe beneficiariesResearch centres, Local and Regional authorities, Corporations, Federations Unions, Administrations States, SMEs, Universities, International Organisation (legal entities established in any country and international organizations)

• Program areaEuropean Union, Candidate countries, New Independant States, Mediterranean countries, Switzerland, Developing countries

* Special attention to SMEs whoo can cooperate as a part of consortuim and getfunding through the specially designed instrument developed for the highlyinnovative smaller companies

Urban innovative actions (UIA)

Budget: 372 million EUR for period 2014.-2020.

Beneficiaries: Cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants • The project must involve a wide range of stakeholders, including the city, non-

governmental organisations, the private sector, research institutions, the citizens themselves, etc.

5th Call for Proposals should open in September 2019. It will be the last call of the current funding cycle (2014-2020).

Areas of intervention: air quality, circular economy, culture and cultural heritage anddemographic change

• UIA co-finances 80% of project’s activities

• In total, UIA can provide you with up to 5 million EUR

Initiative of the European Union that provides urban areas throughout Europe with resources to test new and unproven solutions to address urban challenges.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)

• key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted infrastructure investment

• financial support to projects through innovative financial instruments such as guarantees and project bonds

• Budget: 30.4 billion EUR

Financial instruments

• Financial instruments represent a resource-efficient way of deploying cohesion policy resources in pursuit of the

Europe 2020 Strategy objectives. • Support for investments by way of loans, guarantees,

equity and other risk-bearing mechanisms, possibly combined with technical support, interest rate subsidies or

guarantee fee subsidies within the same operation.

Financial instruments

The European Investment Bank

• Lending arm of EU – the world’s largest multilateral lender and the biggest provider ofclimate finance

• two parts: the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund. The EIF specialises in finance for small businesses and mid-caps.

• Priorities: Innovation and skills, Small businesses, Infrastructure, Climate and environment

• All the projects must be bankable• What they offer? lending blending advising

Financial instruments - BlendingInnovFin - EU Finance for innovators

• aims to facilitate and accelerate access to finance for innovative businesses and other innovative entities in Europe

• in Croatia InnovFin cooperates with HBOR

ESIF Financial Instruments

• EU resources under the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are transformed into financial products such as loans, guarantees, equity and other risk-bearing mechanisms. These are then used to support economically viable projects which promote EU policy objectives.

• The EU Member States who receive funding under the ESIF have a national body known as the Managing Authority (MA) which oversees the use of the available resources. MAs use ESIF allocations and place them in FIs through a Fund of Funds or a financial intermediary from which eligible projects can be financed.

Financial instruments - Advising• JASPERS (Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions)- technical

assistance to member countries in the development of energy efficiency projectsthat compete for funding from EU funds

* the focus is on projects worth over 25mill euros (environmental protection)

• ELENA (European Local Energy Assistance) - all kinds of technical support needed for the preparation, implementation and financing of the investment program

Thank you for your attention!

Ines Franov Beoković

CITY OF ZAGREB

Office for EU Programmes and Projects

e-mail: Ines.FranovBeokovic@zagreb.hr