insight into interregional cooperation elena ferrario | project officer
DESCRIPTION
Insight into interregional cooperation Elena Ferrario | Project Officer Joint Technical Secretariat FLIPPER final conference 21October 2011, Almada. Summary 1. Programme context 2. Programme state of play 3. Results and achievements 4. The FLIPPER project. 1. Programme context. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EUROPEAN REGIONALDEVELOPMENT FUND
Insight into interregional cooperation
Elena Ferrario| Project Officer
Joint Technical Secretariat
FLIPPER final conference
21October 2011, Almada
2 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Summary
1. Programme context
2. Programme state of play
3. Results and achievements
4. The FLIPPER project
3 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
1. Programme context
4 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 20114 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
1. Programme context1. Programme context
EU Cohesion and Regional Policy
Objective 1: Convergence
€ 282.8 billion
Objective 2: Regional Competitiveness
and Employment
€ 55 billion
Objective 3: European Territorial
Cooperation (including INTERREG IVC)
€ 8.7 billion
RE
GIO
NA
L / N
AT
ION
AL
PR
OG
RA
MM
ES
influence
5 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
1. Programme context1. Programme context
EU Cohesion and Regional Policy
Reducing disparities
6 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 20116 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
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
1. Programme context1. Programme context
7 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 20117 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
1. Programme context1. Programme context
in a nutshell
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”
8 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
2. Programme state of play
9 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Programme implementation – 2011
Three calls for proposals (2008 – 2009 - 2010)
Around 1,000 applications received
Fourth call 2011
Deadline 1 April 2011: around 350 applications received
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
10 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Programme implementation – 2011
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
11 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Applicants per country – all calls
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
12 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Project partners per country – 3 calls
13 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
1: Innovation and the knowledge economy
2: Environment and risk prevention
71 projects
51 projects
14 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
INTERREG IVC projects related to
Energy and Sustainable transport
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
19 projects
226partners
15 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
2. Programme state of play2. Programme state of play
Capitalisation at programme level
to better exploit the knowledge resulting from projects working on a similar topic
up to 12 topics covered
renewable energy
cultural industries
entrepreneurship
ageing population
climate change
Sustainabletransport
16 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
3. First programme achievements
17 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Good practices transferred
1,121 good practices identified
3. First programme achievements3. First programme achievements
(Data from the 41 first call projects)
29 successfully transferred
18 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
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:
3. First programme achievements3. First programme achievements
19 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
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
3. First programme achievements3. First programme achievements
20 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Programme overall objective: “Improvement of regional and local policies”
Already 50 national/regional/local policies improved:
• 42 policies improved under Priority 1
• 8 policies improved under Priority 2
3. First programme achievements3. First programme achievements
21 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
Examples of policy improvement
3. First programme achievements3. First programme achievements
Sub-theme: Information Society
Project: PIKE
Partner concerned: Bologna Municipality (IT)
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 & technological risks; Climate Change
Project: GRaBS
Partner concerned: London Borough of Sutton (UK)
Policy improved: Revision of the ‘Sutton’s Adaptation Action Plan’ which now integrates GRaBS findings on community and stakeholders engagement into Climate Change policies
22 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
4. About FLIPPER4. About FLIPPER
23 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
4. About FLIPPER4. About FLIPPER
Intense good practice transfers
Promising actions to improve regional/national policies
Successful pilots
...one of our best projects, taken as example to illustrate the
successfulness of INTERREG IVC projects to the EU
Commission and EU Member States
Concrete and relevant results
24 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011
www.interreg4c.eu