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EU Funds in
Current and Future Budgets
James Sharples, MBO
15 May 2012
Contents
• A word on the MBO
• Trans-national projects – general
principles
• Current budget: remaining TN
opportunities
• Finding partners
• Next budget:
– Regional policy
– Trans-national
The
MBO
Sectoral v regional
EU budget 2007-13
EU budget 2014-20
Sectoral/
trans-national funds
Regional funds
TN funding
• Awarded by EC, arms-length secretariats or national bodies
• Applications are in response to regular calls for proposals
• Typical project types: demonstration/innovative projects;
information campaigns and dissemination; research studies;
exchanges staff and best practice; conferences/seminars.
• Trans-national requirement (except…): trans-national in
nature; shared priority of trans-national partnership with
genuine interaction and transferable result
• Typically minimum 3 MS; unofficially often larger; some
partners small involvement
• If unsure of fit – ask. Commission wants new ideas and
applicants.
• Lead or follower?
• Growing Merseyside and North West good practice
Youth in Action
• EUR 885m 2007-13.
• Age group 13-30; non-formal, learning by doing, disadvantaged
groups
• Exchanges, voluntary work, youth workers, innovation, small youth
projects (devised by young people), youth information campaigns,
youth-policy maker dialogue, large innovative projects
• Grants: budget ceiling, % co-financing OR flat rates and lump
sums (can be aggregated); EUR low 10s k to 100k; 65-100% costs
supported
• Partners not necessarily needed
• 5 calls per year! To British council. 1 Feb, 1 Apr, 1 June, 1 Sept, 1
Nov every year
• Detailed MBO report – July 2011
Project examples
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Youth exchange: "Slainte agus An Oige" project in Omagh, Northern
Ireland, involving 40 young people from Ireland, Lithuania, Poland and the
United Kingdom. The exchange aimed at providing young people with a
framework for a healthy lifestyle by focusing on the benefits of participating
in outdoor activities. The programme was a combination of practical
activities where young people worked in teams trying out different sports,
complemented with a number of workshops centred on the debate around
the advantages of sport on the body. The project also allowed for each
country group of participants to make a presentation on their country’s
culture and history. The emphasis of the programme was to build selfesteem and acceptance of other people, open their minds, learn about other
cultures and value different countries.
Youth initiative: twelve young people from Turkey developed a project
aimed at giving basic computer skills to children who are obliged to work in
the streets. The group cooperated with a local NGO that works regularly
with these children. Based on discussion with the children, the group
learned about their situation and asked them what they would like to do; the
idea of the computer training was born there. The training in computers
lasted three months and the project reached 70 children.
LIFE+
• Dedicated environment fund
• LIFE + Environment Policy and Governance
– any innovative or demonstration environmental
project
– 12 sub-themes: climate change, water, air, soil, the
urban environment, noise, chemicals, the
environment and health, waste and natural resources,
forests, innovation and strategic approaches.
– cleaning up of various media, waste management,
life-cycle thinking
LIFE+
• LIFE + Nature and Biodiversity – management of Natura
sites, habitats and species
• LIFE + Information and Communication - spreading
information about environmental issues
• Annual UK ringfence (EUR 21.6m 2012) – not being
spent!
• No partners needed
• EUR 200k to EUR 7m, average EUR 1m; 50% cofinancing
• Project duration 2-5 years. Current call: deadline 26
Sept. Next call spring 2011
Project examples
• ‘LiveWell for LIFE’ project. UK-NGO lead; trans-national project. To
reduce GHG emissions from the EU food supply chain by
demonstrating country-specific sustainable diets for partner states,
promoting a supportive policy environment, developing pathways for
the implementation of sustainable diets, and disseminating this
knowledge widely across the EU. Cost-benefit analysis reports
produced for these diets to highlight the social and economic
impacts.
• UK NGO lead (ECT Group); UK-only project. Providing a
sustainable economic framework for the responsible disposal of
dead fluorescent lamps. Engaging with organisations for whom the
safe disposal of such waste would normally be economically
unfeasible. The the part-used lamps to be distributed to local
schools. Economic and education benefits to those schools and
community groups participating in the project.
Education and training
• Lifelong Learning Programme
• Four programmes on school education
(Comenius), higher education (Erasmus),
vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci) and adult
education (Grundtvig)
• Next calls mainly autumn 2012 with likely
deadline February 2013
• Bids to ECOTEC generally
Leonardo
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EUR 1.75 bn
Innovative vocational training
Vocational training placements abroad
Transfer of knowledge on vocational training
Recognition of qualifications and competences gained
EUR 1.75 bn for 2007-13.
Mobility visits: 2 MSs, flat rates and unit costs
Small co-operation projects (partnership visits): 3 MSs, lump
sum based on person-visits (up to EUR 25k)
• Large transfer of innovation projects: 3 MSs, 75% costs
supported up to EUR 150k annually
• 2 years’ maximum duration
• Funded preparatory visits
Grundtvig and Comenius
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mobility of people in education
cooperation between education providers
development and transfer of innovative practices
teaching approaches
European dimension of teacher training (Comenius)
learning of a second foreign language (Comenius)
access to adult education for vulnerable social groups
and/or without basic qualifications (Gruntvig)
• EUR 25k per project and 75% costs supported
• EUR 280m (Grundtvig) and EUR 0.91 bn
(Comenius) for 2007-13
Project example – Merseyside
Police
• 2008 call. European Policing Exchange
• Staff exchange programme with other EU police
forces.
• EUR 49k. Merseyside exchanges with forces in
Norway, Sweden, Holland, Poland, France and
Turkey.
• Exposing staff to innovative good practices that
could be replicated in Merseyside.
• 36 staff members; 1 week with each host.
Internal call for participants
• Mobility project strand of Leonardo
Crime prevention
• Prevention and fight against crime
• EUR 605m 07-13; year-on-year increase
• Law enforcement, crime prevention and criminology,
protection witnesses and victims
• (Non-)organised, trans-national and local
• Juvenile, urban and environmental crimes; restorative
justice
• 90% co-financing; average grant EUR 300k
• National and trans-national
• Undersubscribed!
• Main 2012/2013 combined call final quarter 2012
Project example – Merseyside
Police
• International prisoner debriefing programme.
• 2008 call. EUR 300k grant.
• Working with Polish police to get intelligence
from Polish criminals in Merseyside prisons
convicted of serious organised crime or
terrorism offences.
• Gathering intelligence on international criminal
activity and organised crime networks.
Other JHA funds
• European Refugee Fund and European Integration Fund
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National (UKBA) and « Community Actions » (EC)
Reception and integration: social, civic, cultural, employment
80%/50% co-financing, grant EUR 40-400k
2 remaining ERF and EIF CA calls: next late summer 2012?
UKBA EIF call closes tomorrow.
• Daphne
– Preventing and combating of violence against children, young
people and women; protecting victims and at-risk groups
– 1-2 years, €75k to €300k, 80%, 2 MS
– Very competitive
– 2012 call closed April; one final call remaining
Project example – Merseyside Fire
and Rescue Service
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2010 call.
FAIR - Fire Awareness and Integration for Refugees
Improving fire safety and awareness of all refugees
Integration activities, including work placements in MF+RS’s
Community Safety Department
Increase accessibility of services to refugees
Improve suitability of housing offered to refugees
Ensuring a reasonable physical standard of housing offered by
private landlords
Providing fire safety equipment to refugee occupiers
Reducing barriers to communication between refugee, community
and statutory organisations
₤70k grant; ₤141k overall project size
Europe for Citizens
• EUR 215m 07-13
• Town twinning (networks, citizens’ meetings),
citizen participation in the EU, civil society
organisations’ operating grants and projects,
communicating Europe, European remembrance
projects
• EUR 5k-150k, flat rates or % of actuals (60-80%)
• Various deadlines each year depending on
strand
Public Health Programme
• €321.5 m 2007-13
• 3 strands: health security, health
promotion, health information
• 60% grant, €500k-1.5m per project,
minimum 3 MSs
• Different funding mechanisms:
– Projects, joint actions, tenders, conferences
• Next call: 1st qr 2013
Difficult or finished funds
• Seventh Framework Programme for R&D
– Security, socio-economic sciences
– 2013 calls summer 2012
• PROGRESS
– 1. Employment, 2. social inclusion and protection, 3.
working conditions, 4. non-discrimination, 5. gender
equality
– 2012 no open calls for 3-5, limited for 1-2. 2013 WP
March 2013?
• Finished: Interregs
Finding partners
• ERLAI
• ENSA
• 200+ regional Brussels offices, sectoral
representations
• UKREP
MBO and other support
• Information service
• Promoting awareness: inputing to existing
network meetings; running bespoke funding
seminars
• Liaison with secretariats, EC
• Second opinion on bids
• Attending EU events and network meetings
• MBO most TN funds; NWHBO Public Health
Programme specialism
• NW European Co-operation Group
2014-2020 – general
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EC proposal (June 2011)
Current spend 1% of EU GNI. Next MFF 5-11% higher
Overall budget EUR 1,025 bn across 5 headlines
Many existing funds continued, but some merged or
adapted
All funding areas covered today ↑
Asylum and migration funds merged; youth and
education funds merged – no loss of priorities or budget
Continuity plus new possibilities
Next steps – overall budget and individual instruments
2014-2020 – general
• Results, conditionality (cohesion, agriculture),
simplification
• More innovative financial instruments. Rationalising and
rolling out current “experimental” instruments.
• More resources to infrastructure, R&I, education and
culture, environmental protection and climate change,
external policy
• More executive agencies and delegated funding to MSs
• Certain funds grouped together under common
frameworks: R&I; cohesion, rural and fisheries
2014-2020: sectors
• Regional policy (EUR 376 bn)…
• Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation:
FP and innovation part of CIP merged. EUR 80bn. Boosting the
science base, tackling societal challenges, creating industrial
leadership and boosting competitiveness.
• Agriculture. Now spread across 5 headlines of MFF budget. 2 pillar
CP structure maintained. Direct payments (EUR 281.8 bn): 30%
conditional on “greening”; some convergence of payment levels per
hectare across MSs; capping direct payments for large holdings.
Rural development (EUR 89.9bn): now to be in Common Strategic
Frameworks. Separate budgets for food safety, food support for
deprived populations, agriculture sector crises. Share of R&I and
EGF budgets.
• Education Europe: Lifelong Learning and Youth in Action merged.
LEONARDO element boosted. EUR 15.2 bn.
2014-2020: sectors
• Migration and Asylum Fund (EUR 3.4 bn): merges ERF,
Integration Fund and Return Fund. Internal Security Fund (EUR
4.1 bn): merges home affairs programmes (crime prevention,
terrorism, Daphne?). More delegation of funds to MSs; multi-annual
programming; external dimension.
• Climate action and the environment: x-cutting all funds (especially
CEF, cohesion, R&I, CAP direct payments); dedicated fund. LIFE+:
biodiversity, environment and governance strands; greater climate
action emphasis (mitigation, adaptation, governance and
awareness). New “integrated” projects (dovetailed with other funds)
as well as classic projects. EUR 800m.
• Integrated Policy for Employment, Social Policy and Inclusion.
Successor to PROGRESS: employment, social protection, social
inclusion, fighting poverty, working conditions – but bigger projects
and multi-annual programming. EUR 850m.
• Europe for Citizens. No real change in priorities. EUR 203m.
Adopting next budget
• Council can ament, Parliament only assent
• Negotiating box
– Danish EU presidency working doc
– Progressively filled in for June and December heads
of state meeting
– Many MSs calling for austerity; opposed views on
detail
• EP willing to refuse: post-90s competency
growth not matched by budget
• Revised EC proposal due – new GDP figs
Regional policy: transition regions
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“Transition Regions”: €39bn
Less Developed Regions €163bn, More Developed €53bn
75-90% GDP, sliding scale, safety net
Reference period 07-09: Merseyside 80.2%, Cumbria 89.47%,
Lancashire 84.86%, GM 98.39%, Cheshire 117.1%
• Visual aid
• Budget
– < € 30bn cut – transition stays
– > € 50bn – it goes; plan B (greater GDP weighting for more developed
regions?) needed
• MBO lobbying:
– To date: meetings with EC, key MEPs, UKREP
– EP event week 24 Sept or 8 Oct; REGI chair, budget vice-chair,
rapporteurs; 2 roundtables (analysis of challenges and interventions
needed)
Regional policy: levels
• Levels of programming:
Common Strategic Framework, fund regulations
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Partnership agreement
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Operational programmes
• Level of delivery/OPs: functional economic area (LEP), national,
thematic, other, mix?
• Multi-fund programmes and instruments, shared management
authorities and/or monitoring committees across funds, multi-fund
one-stop-shops and IT platforms
• Macro-regions (Atlantic)
• Interreg €12bn: 73% A, 20% B, 6% C. Thematic concentration for A
and B. Geographic areas for B undecided.
Regional policy: themes
• 11 Europe 2020 themes
• ERDF:
– Infrastructure, business services, support for businesses,
innovation, ICT, research, energy, online services, education,
health, social and research infrastructures, accessibility, quality
of the environment
– Some regional restrictions
– Thematic concentration: 80% nationally on clean energy,
innovation and SME competitiveness
• ESF:
– Employment and labour mobility; educaiton , skills and LLL;
promoting social inclusion and combating poverty (20%
minimum nationally)
Regional policy: other
• Local authorities as critical partners
• Urban: 5% ringfencing plus calls for innovative actions
• Conditionality: ex-ante (in place before funds disbursed),
performance indicators for release of additional funds,
macro-economic (especially deficits and inbalances)
• 5% mid-term performance reserve
• ESF share: 25% less developed, 40% transition, 52%
more developed
• Co-financing: 85% less developed, 60% transition, 50%
more developed
• More financial instruments
• Simplication: outputs and results (rather than spend)
based; more flat rates, lump sums and standard scales
Regional policy and negotiating box
• Regional policy one of least developed parts.
Unknowns:
– % of budget to each category of region
– Whether transition will exist or how it will be defined
– ESF share and cofinancing rate for each category of
region
– How much to Interreg and each of sub-strands (A,B
and C)
– Criteria for regional allocations within each category
(indicators)
Regional policy: timetable
• 2011: EC proposed budget and regulations for
individual funds
• Early 2012: EC released CSF, BIS consulted on
CSF and future English partnership agreement
• Ongoing till year end: MFF in Council
• Ongoing and into 2013: individual regulations in
EP and Council (EP 1st reading REGI July,
plenary Sept?)
• Early 2013: draft English partnership agreement
and formal BIS consultation
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