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INTERREG IVC
Capitalisation projects
Overview and guidelines
for their preparation
1st Meeting of the partnership
18 November 2009, Brussels
About INTERREG IVC
Main objective
to improve the effectiveness of regional
development policies
 2 calls for proposals so far
 115 approved projects, including 13
capitalisation projects
 65% of available ERDF allocated (=185M€)
=> on average, 1.6M€ ERDF per project
 Next call only for capitalisation projects: deadline
for submission = beginning of March 2010 with
15M€ allocated
Types of projects under INTERREG IVC
1. Regional Initiative Projects
Exchange of experience and good practice, development of
tools and instruments of regional policies
2. Capitalisation Projects, including Fast Track Projects
Capitalisation projects: optimise results achieved, transfer of
good practices identified into mainstream programmes
Fast Track projects: Specific European Commission
assistance and expertise offered to certain capitalisation
projects with reference to the “Regions for Economic Change
(RFEC)” Initiative.
Type 2 ‘Capitalisation Projects’
Fast Track Projects
Focus on Fast Track Projects
• Fast Track projects are Capitalisation Projects which
benefit from additional expertise from the European
Commission in order to contribute to the Regions for
Economic Change initiative. The Commission will
provide this additional expertise at its own costs
• In order to earmark projects for additional
assistance, the Commission will assess the
Capitalisation Project applications according to a
certain number of questions.
• There is no specific applications to Fast Track
Projects (FTP). The approval of projects and their
designation as FTP will be the subject of separate
and independent processes.
Overview of the main characteristics of the two
types of intervention
Regional Initiative Projects
(Type 1)
Purpose
Involvement of MA
/intermediate body
designated to carry out MA
tasks
EC support
Recommend number of
partners
Recommend duration
Recommend budget
Beneficiaries
Exchange, dissemination and transfer of
experience. Possible development of new
approaches if based on the exchange of
experience
Capitalisation Projects
(Type 2)
Transfer of good practices into
mainstream programmes
Not required
Compulsory
No
Yes, for Fast Track Projects
Depends in general on the intensity
of cooperation proposed. Large
partnerships are possible in light networking
projects but a limited number of partners is
recommended for projects with a higher
intensity of cooperation.
In mini-programmes, the number of
partners must not exceed 8.
No recommendation on number
of partners involved but
recommendation in terms of the
number of countries represented in the
project:
Minimum recommended number
of countries represented: 6
Maximum recommended number
of countries represented: 10
36 months
Min ERDF: EUR 500,000
Max ERDF: EUR 5 million
Public authorities and bodies governed by
public law (as defined in section 2.3.3)
24 months
Min ERDF: EUR 300,000
Max ERDF: EUR 3 million
Public authorities and bodies governed
by public law
Co-financing rates
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
75% ERDF
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain,
Sweden, UK
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus,
85% ERDF
Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania,
Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Content - Project activities
• Component 1: Management and coordination
• Component 2: Communication and dissemination
• Component 3: Exchange of experience
NOTA: As Capitalisation projects focus on the transfer of
regional development good practices into mainstream EU
Structural Funds programmes, there will not be an
opportunity for them to add components to the three
already pre-defined components. Therefore, all content
related activities for Capitalisation Projects must be
grouped under component 3.
Guidelines for capitalisation projects
Key features identified by INTERREG IVC
JTS in its brochure published in
November 2009 :
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4)
PARTNERSHIP
GOOD PRACTICE
TRANSFER PROCESS
ACTION PLAN
Key feature n°1
CORE ACTORS – PARTNERSHIP
Managing Authorities are the core actors of
Capitalisation projects as the success of any
policy implementation depends mainly on them
(or the intermediate bodies carrying out some or
all of their tasks).
Often, the partnership will be wider, including
other policy makers such as:
 Relevant members of the monitoring committee
of the regional OP
 Best practices owners.
Key feature n°1
CORE ACTORS – PARTNERSHIP
• Policy-makers and other relevant bodies
responsible for policy delivery, known as ‘deep
delegations’ should naturally be involved in the
project, especially in all events organised at
local, regional and international level.
• Deep delegation refers to the wider stakeholders
that each partner needs to have on board to
ensure successful implementation of the good
practice(s) transferred.
Key feature n°1
CORE ACTORS – PARTNERSHIP
Deep delegation
• Only costs of partners listed in the application form can
be reimbursed.
• In order to cover the expenses of the deep delegations, it
is highly recommended to include the organisations
involved as partners in the application form (AF). This
allows them to receive ERDF funding.
• If they are not officially listed in the AF, it means that:
 either they participate at their own costs
 or are involved and budgeted as “external experts” with
the condition that their costs will be fully paid and thus
definitively borne by one of the official partners.
Key feature n°1
CORE ACTORS – PARTNERSHIP
Wide geographical coverage is essential.
Necessity to have a good mix of less and
more advanced regions. Especially the
involvement of new MS should be carefully
considered.
It is also very important to carefully select
partners that share an interest or expertise
in a precise field of competence.
Key feature n°2
GOOD PRACTICE
The starting point of every Capitalisation
project is a pool of good practices, which
have already been identified and
successfully tested by the partners.
The good practices can result from any
successful policy experience at the local,
regional, national or even European level.
Key feature n°2
GOOD PRACTICE
• What is a good practice? => an initiative
(e.g. methodologies, projects, processes,
techniques) undertaken in one of the
programme’s thematic priorities which has
already proved successful and which has
the potential to be transferred to a different
geographic area.
Key feature n°2
GOOD PRACTICE
• Towards TRANSFERABILITY
=> It is crucial when selecting good
practices to check as early as possible
whether they can feasibly be transferred to
the partner’s regional OP.
Key feature n°3
MAIN ACTIVITY => TRANSFER
As the good practices are already identified in
the regions, the focus of Capitalisation project
activities will be on preparing their transfer into
regional OPs, BUT implemention stage is not
financed by INTERREG IVC.
The projects use typical tools for exchange of
experience such as seminars, study visits,
workshops, staff exchange, and so on.
It is also important to disseminate the findings
widely beyond the partnership of the project.
Key feature n°3
MAIN ACTIVITY => TRANSFER
•
The transfer process usually consists of
three key milestones:
1) selection,
2) adaptation,
3) commitment.
Key feature n°3
MAIN ACTIVITY => TRANSFER
1) Selection
Regions have to express their interest on
which good practices they would like to
see implemented in their territory. Ideally
this first step should be initiated already
during the project’s preparation.
• Method: Organisation of a meeting
where each region presents its good
practices.
Key feature n°3
MAIN ACTIVITY => TRANSFER
2) Adaptation
The proposed practices need to be analysed to see
why it was successful in a specific context and how it
should be adapted to fit within the context of the
recipient region(s) = ‘transfer roadmap’.
Method :
 A smaller working group is created within the project
between the donor region and the recipient region(s).
 The involvement of experts and practitioners are often
necessary to ensure the successful transfer.
 Study visits are generally a decisive step in order to
gain firsthand experience on the good practice and to
discuss relevant issues with the staff involved in the
implementation.
Key feature n°3
MAIN ACTIVITY => TRANSFER
3) Commitment
Endorsement of the transferred practices by
the recipient region(s). This is carried out
through the finalisation of a binding action plan
by the recipient region, specifying how these
good practices will be implemented under its
OP.
=> Necessity to ensure the commitment of the
local relevant stakeholders: e.g., they can be
invited to the main interregional events. A
number of local feedback meetings may be
also necessary to raise their awareness.
Key feature n°4
MAIN RESULT – ACTION PLAN
The main result of Capitalisation projects
is considered to be the development of an
’action plan’ for all participating regions.
These plans specify how the good
practices will be transferred and
implemented under the regional OPs.
Each action plan will be signed by the
respective Managing Authority and
relevant regional stakeholders.
Key feature n°4
MAIN RESULT – ACTION PLAN
• The action plan is the main result of the project and
should be signed by the Managing Authority.
• Minimum content of this strategic document:
 Definition and description of good practice(s) to be
transferred; what form they will take and how their
implementation will be evaluated.
 Names and roles of the main stakeholders in the region
that will need to be involved in the implementation
process.
 Identification of the relevant priority and measure
concerned in the regional operational programme, along
with the budget required to fund the implementation.
 Details on how the implementation will take place.
Key feature n°4
MAIN RESULT – ACTION PLAN
NOTA:
It should also be noted that the action
plan does not guarantee implementation of
a practice within a particular region.
It will be subject to the rules governing
allocation of the regional funds, such as
calls for projects or decision by a
monitoring committee.
Thank you for your attention
PASCAL CHAZAUD - Consultant
External assistance
to NIVERLAN