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Setting target values for indicators (1)
EU funds strategy is linked with national strategies
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
EU2020 STRATEGY
Partnership Agreement
(strategy for EU funds
envolvement)
CP funds OP
Rural Development Plan
Thematic objectives
EMFF OP
Financed from
national budget
Co-financed with EU funds
(CSF funds)
Setting target values for indicators (2)
Hierarchy of objectives, results and indicators
Setting target values for indicators (3)
Developing intervetions is devided into 3 stages:
1) The concept of investing EU funds:
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priority axis objectives, results and indicators
preliminary drafts for measures (incl objectives,
results, indicators with targets, needed financing)
2) Selection of interventions, setting target values
for indicators of priority axis, prepairing financial
plan. Government level agreement on achieving
target values for indicators and applying
measures
3) Development of measures (detailed)
Structural funds supporting 'Estonia 2020'
Hierarchy of objectives, results and indicators
Estonian national goals answering to EC funding
priorities
Estonian national goal
EC funding priority
High quality and acessible education
based on the needs of pupils and
society
Skilled labour force, better education,
high employment and inclusive society
High employment rate and quality of
work life
Skilled labour force, better education,
high employment and inclusive society
Knowledge intensive and
internationally competitive high value
added economy
Strengthening private research and
creating an innovation-friendly
business
environment
Clean and diverse natural environment Environment-friendly and resourceand sustainable use of resources
efficient economy
Sustainable connections and
movement possibilities satisfying the
needs of residents and supporting
entrepreneurship
Upgrading infrastructure
Focus: co-financing the achievement of 5 national
goals with EU funds
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High quality and acessible education based on
the needs of pupils and society
High employment rate and quality of work life
Knowledge intensive and internationally
competitive high value added economy
Clean and diverse natural environment and
sustainable use of resources
Sustainable connections and movement
possibilities satisfying the needs of residents
and supporting entrepreneurship
ADDITIONAL SLIDES
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Planning process
Principles for planning process
EU support should be treated as a once-off catalyser
for achieving important changes and shifts,
towards undertaking structural reforms
• focussing on funding the priorities
• long-term positive impact on society and economy
Criteria for choosing national objectives and their
solutions for EU financing
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Consistency with competitiveness strategy Estonia 2020 goals and
objectives
EU level added value and potential for international co-operation
National level (joint) impact
Empowering effect and growth of adjustment for future challenges
Concentration of recources
Avaliablity of alternative financing sources
Process:
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Qualitative analysis in cooperation with ministries
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Priorities proposed by partners
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Discussions with partners, ministries, experts, politicians, followed
by cabinet decision
1. High quality and acessible education based on the needs of
pupils and society
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Consistant and flexible
development of the
educational infrastructure
- rearrangement of the network of gymnasiums
and primary schools
- modernization of infrastructure of high- and
vocational schools and schools for pupils with
special educational needs
Adjustment of teaching to
the needs of the changing
labour market and the needs
of the society
- developing flexible retraining possibilities
- better integration of education and labour market
needs
- raising the qualification of teachers and youth
workers
- modernization of educational technology and
teaching aids
- career and education consultancy, developing
non-formal study and entrepreneurship
Raising international
competitiveness of higher
- developing programmes (in responsibility areas)
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- promoting the transfer of knowledge
2. High employment rate and quality of work life
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Improving employment services
- labour market measures for risk groups corresponding to
the needs of the market
Supporting and taking advantage of - mobility of high skilled labour force
labour mobility
- adjusting to reform program of EURES
- supporting labour mobility inside Estonia and developing
flexible working possibilities
Development of and improving
access to social welfare services
- support system for under engaged target groups
- development of care services and its system for enabling
people with bigger care burden to participate in the labour
market
- improving the quality of welfare services
Ensuring the availability of
high quality health services
- prevention of injuries, minimizing risk behaviour
- improving hospital network
- developing the network of first contact health centres
Decreasing social stratification,
inequality and exclusion, ensuring
equal opportunities and treatment
for all Estonian residents
- supporting the participation of non-integrated groups in
Estonian society
- promoting equal behavior and equal rights for social risk
groups
- services for supporting the adjustment of family and
work-life
3. Knowledge intensive and internationally
competitive high value added economy
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Developing new growth areas,
smart specialisation of RDI
system
- complex development of new growth areas
Increasing international
competitiveness of RD system
- developing high-level science centers
- opening the cooperation and infrastructure of
science centers for business
- increasing the joint usage of science
equipment and infrastructure
Developing and supporting
internationalization of high
growth potential
entrepreneurship
- increasing the added value of export
- developing Estonian-resource based value
chains
- improving access to capital
- vertical and horizontal cooperation in
agriculture and fishery
4. Clean and diverse natural environment and sustainable
use of resources
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Improving resource
efficency
- developing water management infrastructure
- sustainable management of fish resources
- A&D directed to improving natural resources efficiency
- minimizing diffuse and point source pollution and industrial
pollution
Maintaining and restoring
the ecosystem
- green infrastructure
- preservation of forest and agricultural land
with high environmental value
- preservation of traditional landscape and heritage
- ensuring the natural status of surface water bodies
- modernization of environmental monitoring
Mitigation of and adapting
to climate change
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Sustainable energy
consumption, distribution
and production
- diversifying energy portfolio
- integration and reliability of distribution networks
- improving energy efficiency and enhancing the scale of renewable
re-use of landscape
sustainable management of forest
developing green corridors in cities
environmentally sound use of agricultural land
emergency response and enhancing pollution control
5. Sustainable connections and movement possibilities satisfying
the needs of residents and supporting entrepreneurship
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Developing an integrated and
efficent public transport system
taking into account regional
characteristics
- better connecting of different transport and
movement modes
- improvement of sustainable urban transport
- improvement of passenger trains’ connection
speed
- use of sustainable public transport
- upgrading of state and secondary roads
Improving connections with
foreign partners
- better connection of different transport modes
- improvement of quality and smooth
management of passenger and freight transport
- upgrading of multifunctional small ports
Taking the ICT infrastructure to an - development of basic infrastructure and
internationally competitive level
environment for providing e-services
- completion of networks for fast broadband
connection
Supporting solution
Solution
Focus for EU funding
Designing a unified and
efficient governance
- developing inter-sectoral joint management
solutions
- improving regional and local governance
- citizen-based public services
- EU presidency in 2018
Co-financing balanced territorial development
Basic considerations:
1. Planning and implementation of the activities for achieving
the 5 objectives so that they also support balanced regional
development, including:
a) planning the so-called national measures in accordance with
balanced regional development considerations
Example: rearrangement of gymnasium and primary school
network
b) Planning of regional development specific integrated measures
Example: supporting internal labour mobility and promoting
the use of flexible forms of works
Investments will be performed in an integrated way, in accordance
with regional development plans that are based on the updated
regional development strategy
Co-financing balanced territorial development
Basic principles:
2. Make the best use of all regions’ internal potential for
achieving economic growth
… in other words, support efficient use and development of
competencies, traditions and resources available in the
regions.
Example: improving relations between the curricula and
content of study of the region’s vocational education
institutions and colleges with local enterprises and
regional characteristics
Steps ahead
• Nov 2012-Feb 2013 – setting specific objectives and
results to EU funding, developing and choosing
measures, drafting financial plan
• Feb-April 2013 – discussions of EU funds planning
documents together with the National Budget Strategy
and Estonia 2020 updating
• Feb-March 2013 – public consultation
• March-Oct 2012 – development of CP funds measures
continues
• Summer 2013 - finalizing the evaluations, approval of
planning documents. Submitting planning documents to
EC, beginning of formal consultations