EEA GRANTS
1
Kurt HaugenFinancial Mechanism OfficeBucharest, 7 June 2011
EEA Grants 2004 – 2009
Summing up of results and lessons learned
Reducing disparities Strengthening relations
EEA Grants
2
Agenda Funds Allocation Committed funding Partnerships Disbursement rates Preliminary results Information
EEA Grants
3
Country allocations of EEA and Norway Grants
From the total amount of EEA and Norway Grants (1,183,770,000 EUR) 4 % has been allocated to Romania
Poland45%
Spain4%
Cyprus0%
Bulgaria2%
Slovenia1%Slovakia
6%Romania
4%
Portugal3%
Czech Republic9%
Estonia3%
Greece3%
Hungary11%
Latvia4%
Lithuania5%
Malta0%
EEA Grants
4
Committed funding (EEA and NRW Grants) in all Beneficiary states (by Priority sector)
The EEA Grants represent 54 % (624.347.152 EUR) of the total committed amount of EEA Grants and Norway Grants (1,151,736,049 EUR)
Human resource development 123,752,071 (11%)
Implementing Schengen / strengthening the judiciary
121,031,326 (11%)
NGO fund85,347,695 (7%)
Promotion of sustainable development
38,281,418 (3%)
Protection of environment 217,240,938 (19%)
Technical assistance acquis communitaire
3,870,664 (0%)
Technical assistance for grant management
20,259,794 (2%)
Regional policy 25,824,152 (2%)
Seed money facility 3,969,229 (0%)
Academic research 80,467,154 (7%)
Conservation of European cultural heritage
251,022,746 (23%)
Cross-border activities 15,825,648 (1%)
Health and childcare 164,843,214 (14%)
EEA Grants
5
Romania – committed funding (by Priority sector) The total committed funds equal to 46.300.812 EUR in Romania
40 individual projects (85 % of total committed amount in Romania) 2 Funds (13 % of total committed amount in Romania) 1 Technical Assistance for Grant Management (2 % of total committed amount in Romania)
NGO fund5,098,189 (11%) Human resource
development6,104,429 (13%)
Promotion of sustainable development264,688 (1%)
Protection of environment
8,433,115 (18%)
Technical assistance for grant management
910,350 (2%)
Regional policy255,003 (1%)
Academic research3,356,438 (7%)
Conservation of European cultural
heritage8,092,337 (17%)
Health and childcare13,786,263 (30%)
EEA Grants
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Partnerships in all Beneficiary states (by Priority Sector, in EUR and number of projects)
56
56,639,019
38
61,683,001
3
944,21732
21,700,381
45
49,840,797
14
35,486,646
12
13,393,527
45
33,183,735
14
7,677,396
Academicresearch
Conservation ofEuropeanculturalheritage
Cross-borderactivities
Health andchildcare
Humanresource
development
ImplementingSchengen /
strengtheningthe judiciary
Promotion ofsustainabledevelopment
Protection ofenvironment
Regional policy
22 % out of 1181 projects/funds in all Beneficiary states notified partnership cooperation (including both source of Funding EEA and NRW Grants)
EEA Grants
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Romania – Partnerships (by Priority Sector, in EUR and number of projects)
23% out of 40 projects in Romania notified Partnership cooperation
1
1,776,573
3
4,527,846
1
680,0004
2,463,746
Academic research Conservation ofEuropean cultural
heritage
Health and childcare Human resourcedevelopment
EEA Grants
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Committed funding (in EUR) versus disbursement rate (in % as of 31 May 2011) for all Beneficiary states
The current average disbursement rate reached 67 % (including both source of funding EEA and NRW Grants)
Romania achieved level 41% (of the total committed amount in Romania)
19,423,88247.27%
4,352,56273.90%
104,579,57081.91%
30,388,04487.13%
30,885,8385.41%
42,949,58438.46%
122,647,79647.51%
63,200,29246.84%50,176,24567.53%
3,387,88461.63%
526,221,07081.75%
29,502,77949.69%
46,797,88841.29%
17,370,92578.89%
59,851,69076.01%
BG
CY
CZ
EE
EL
ES
HU
LT
LV
MT
PL
PT
RO
SI
SK
EEA Grants
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Results Out of 43 projects in Romania
33 projects with the eligibility deadline April 2011
7 projects with the extended eligibility deadline April 2012
2 projects are likely to be completed under the reserve of FM 09-14
1 terminated
Too early for final result – assessment of PCRs needed
Decision by the Donors – transformation from project-based to programme-based approach and application of results based management in FM 2009-2014