Transcript ESF Title

Key elements of the Commission proposal
for the future ESF 2014-2020
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The ESF:
an essential part of Cohesion Policy
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Expression of European solidarity
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Essential for delivering on 2020
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Direct contribution to 3 out of 5 headline targets
Investment in Human Capital
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Reaching some 10 million people per year
Investing in people and systems
OECD: most important for medium term growth
And yet in 20 years ESF share in CP from 40% to 22%
MFF: Minimum share ESF in cohesion envelope (at least 25%)
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Guiding political principles
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Concentration on Europe 2020 strategy and stronger focus on the most
vulnerable groups and people
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Better involvement of social partners, local authorities & NGOs
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Reaffirming gender equality and non discrimination at the core of ESF
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Strengthening the ESF added value through transnationality and social
innovation
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Reinforcing the territorial dimension of the ESF and ensuring better
coordination between the funds
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Simplification and improving accessibility of funding specially for small
beneficiaries
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New possibilities to use financial instruments
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A scope in line with Europe 2020
18 Investment priorities
in 4 thematic objectives
ESF contribution to the other
thematic objectives notably:
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Promoting employment and
supporting labour mobility
1. Supporting an environmentally
sustainable economy (low
carbon…)
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Promoting social inclusion
and combating poverty
2. Enhancing the accessibility, use
and quality of ICT
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Investing in education, skills
and lifelong learning
3. Strengthening research and
innovation
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Enhancing institutional and
administrative capacities
4. Enhancing the competitiveness
of small and medium-sized
enterprises
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Promoting employment and supporting
labour mobility
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Access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people; including local
employment initiatives and support for labour mobility;
Sustainable integration of young people not in employment, education or
training into the labour market;
Self-employment, entrepreneurship and business creation;
Equality between men and women and reconciliation between work and
private life;
Adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change;
Active and healthy ageing;
Modernisation and strengthening of labour market institutions, including
actions to enhance transnational labour mobility.
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Investing in education, skills
and life-long learning
 Reducing early school-leaving and promoting equal access
to good quality early-childhood, primary and secondary
education
 Improving the quality, efficiency and openness of tertiary and
equivalent education with a view to increasing participation
and attainment levels
 Enhancing access to lifelong learning, upgrading the skills
and competences of the workforce and increasing the labour
market relevance of education and training systems
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Promoting social inclusion
and combating poverty
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Active inclusion
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Integration of marginalised communities such as the Roma;
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Combating discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or
belief, disability, age or sexual orientation
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Enhancing access to affordable, sustainable and high-quality services,
including health care and social services of general interest
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Promoting the social economy and social enterprises
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Community-led local development strategies
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Enhancing institutional capacity and
efficient public administration
 Investment in institutional capacity and in the efficiency of
public administrations and public services with a view to
reforms, better regulation and good governance
Eligible only in Member States, which have at least one less
developed region or Cohesion countries
 Capacity building for stakeholders delivering employment,
education and social policies and sectoral and territorial pacts
to mobilise for reform at national, regional and local level
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Thematic concentration
Focus on the challenges identified in the Council Recommendations
LESS
DEVELOPED
REGIONS
TRANSITION
REGIONS
MORE
DEVELOPED
REGIONS
60% OP budget
on 4 investment
priorities
70% OP budget
on 4 investment
priorities
80% OP budget
on 4 investment
priorities
20% ESF budget on Social Inclusion / poverty reduction
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Ensuring a strong involvement of social
partners and NGOs
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Reinforced provisions on partnership in the General Regulation
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Specific provisions in the ESF regulation
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Possibility to involve social partners and NGOs through global
grants
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In the less developed regions or in the MS eligible for the
Cohesion Fund:
 appropriate amount of ESF resources to be allocated to
capacity-building activities and to activities jointly undertaken by
social partners
 appropriate amount of ESF resources to be allocated to
capacity-building of NGOs
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Gender equality and non discrimination
at the core of the ESF
In the general regulation
 Mainstreaming the principle for equality between men
and women and non discrimination
In the ESF regulation
 Obligation to plan specific targeted actions for equality
between men and women and non discrimination
(dedicated investment priorities)
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More added value through transnationality and
social Innovation
 A clear requirement for Member States
 The ESF shall promote social innovation
 MS shall support transnational cooperation
 A large range of freedom for Member States in the
choice of themes
 Strengthening the role of the Commission as facilitator
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Reinforcing the territorial approach
 Possibility to continue ESF support to local employment initiatives,
territorial employment pacts…
 Integrated approach to community-led local development
 Integrated approach and common rules = can be financed
jointly from ERDF, ESF, EAFRD and EMFF
 Possible ESF support to sustainable urban development
strategies
 The ESF may complement the ERDF for the actions falling
under its scope
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Simplification
 ESF front runner for simplification
 New simplified cost options a success but:
 Need for more legal security for MS/beneficiaries
 Need for higher thresholds to expand use
 Very ambitious proposals
 « Simplified cost options » obligatory for small projects
 Higher threshold for lump sums
 More legal security provided
 Introduction of «Joint Action Plan» (General Regulation, but
essential for ESF)
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