Transcript Reducing disparities Strengthening relations

EEA and
Norway Grants
Reducing
disparities
Strengthening
bilateral relations
Tom Jurin
Financial Mechanism Office,
May 2013
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EEA Agreement
• Promoting trade and economic relations
between the EU and Norway, Iceland and
Liechtenstein
• European internal market with free
movement of:
- Goods
- Persons
- Services
- Capital
• Common rules
• Equal framework conditions
The History of the Grants
• Since the existence of the EEA Agreement
• 1994-1998, 1999-2003, 2004-2009 and
2009-2014
• New EU members in 2004
• About 25 billion NOK from 1994 to 2014
or just above € 3 billion
2009-2014
• Reduce social and economic disparities in
Europe
• Strengthened bilateral relations between 3
donor states and the 15 beneficiary states
• EUR 1.79 billion from 2009 to 2014
• Norway contributes 97% of the total
Timeline
2009
2010
2012
2011
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Agreements
Policy framework:
Regulation, programme
areas, MoUs
Establishing
programmes
Programmes
Grants to projects
Project
implementation
Final reporting
EEA and Norway Grants
2009-2014
Programmes
OVERALL
OBJECTIVES
Reduction of
economic and
social disparities
in the European
Economic Area (EEA)
Strengthen
bilateral relations
between
the donor countries and
the beneficiary countries
EEA Norway Grants 2009-14
finances
147 programmes
composed of
projects
Organisational structure
Donor States
FMO
Embassies
National
Focal Points
Programme
Operator
Donor
Programme
Partner
Project
Promoter
Project
Partner
Norway Grants 2009-2014
Who can get involved?
• National and local authorities
• NGOs and civil society organisations
• Private and public enterprises, and publicprivate pertnerships
• Educational and research institutions
• Students and educational staff
• Similar entities from the donor countries
can become partners in projects
Focus areas –
Public health programmes
• Universal access to safe, high-quality, efficient
healthcare services with particular attention to
the needs of vulnerable groups.
• Strengthen cooperation between social and
healthcare services.
• Effective public health policies to prevent noncommunicable diseases.
Focus areas –
Public health programmes
• Improved health surveillance and information
systems, such as data registries to track and
monitor population health.
• Improve mental health services, such as
development of strategies to enable communitybased treatment of patients with mental
disorders.
• Awareness-raising campaigns for healthy
lifestyles in the population generally and amoung
young people in particular.
Country
Reduced
inequalities
between
user groups
Bulgaria
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Cyprus
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Prevent
and
reduce
lifestyle
diseases
Improve Prevent Improve
mental HIV/
access
health
to and
AIDS &
quality
TB
of health
services
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Hungary
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Lithuania
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Improve
DPP Grant
health
amount
governance
(€
million)
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Poland
13.4
1,2
Czech R.
Estonia
National
health
registries
/ health
informati
on
systems
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19.2
▪
8.9
▪
16.6
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6
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▪
18
▪
58
10
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Portugal
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Romania
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Slovenia
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8.1
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10.2
Bilateral cooperation
• Partnerships with public entities from Iceland,
Liechtenstein and Norway in more than half of the
programmes
• Cooperation in projects
• Bilateral funds
• International organisations
• Council of Europe
• Transparency International
Bilateral Fund
Programme level
Measure
Measure
a)
b)
Seed money
Networking
Match-making
Exchange of
know-how
National bilaterale fond
Country
EUR
Priority Sector
Implementation
Poland
2,890,500 All sectors
Predefined
activities
Romania
1,529,750 Justice and home affairs, Health, Culture,
Environment, Children and youth at risk,
Anti-discrimination
Open call and
predefined
activities
Hungary
766,500 European fundamental values, Social
welfare and gender, Environment
Open call
Czech
Republic
659,000 All sectors
Open call
launched
Bulgaria
633,000 Combating drugs and organized crime,
Children and youth at risk, European values
Open call
National bilaterale fond
Country
EUR
Priority sector
Implementation
Lithuania
420,000 Good governance, Social inclusion,
Academic cooperation, Cultural exchange,
EU presidency 2013
Open call and
predefined
activities
Slovakia
403,750 Culture, Environment, Social welfare
Open call and
predefined
activities
Latvia
364,750 Riga Cultural Capital 2014, EU presidency
2015, Justice and home affairs
Predefined
activities
Greece
317,000 TBD
Portugal
289,750 Social exclusion in urban areas, Good
governance, Climate change, Antidiscrimination
On-going Open
call and
predefined
activities
Estland
243,000 Democratic values, Children and youth,
Municipality cooperation
Predefined
activities
National bilaterale fond
Country
EUR
Priority sector
Implementation
Spain
229,250 Renewable energy, Gender, Culture , Civil
society, Scholarship
Predefined
activities, possibly
open calls
Slovenia
134,500 Gender, Health, European integration
Predefined activities
Kypros
39,250 TBD
Malta
22,500 Conference for diplomats
Predefined activity
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