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Introducing the 3rd SEE Call: a strategic
approach
SEE Programme: the new Calls
Ljubljana, 20 April 2011
Ivan Curzolo – SEE Joint Technical Secretariat
What is this presentation about?
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The South East Europe Transnational Cooperation
Programme
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The 3rd Call: a strategic approach
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The 3rd Call: the main elements
The Programme Area
EU Member States:
Austria, Bulgaria, Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Romania
Non-EU-member States:
Albania, BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia,
former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia,
Serbia, Montenegro,
Republic of Moldova,
Ukraine
(Italy and Ukraine do not
participate with its
whole territory)
The Programme Strategy
SEE S.W.O.T.
Analysis
Cohesion Policy
GLOBAL
PROGRAMM
E
OBJECTIVE
Territorial
Cooperation
The Programme Strategy
Global objective
Improvement of the territorial,
economic and social
integration process and
contribution to cohesion,
stability and competitiveness
through the development of
transnational partnerships and
joint actions on matters of
strategic importance
Specific objectives
Facilitation of innovation,
entrepreneurship, knowledge economy
and information society by concrete
cooperation action and visible results
Improvement of the attractiveness of
regions and cities taking into account
sustainable development, physical and
knowledge accessibility and environmental
quality by integrated approaches and
concrete cooperation action and visible
results
Foster integration by supporting balanced
capacities for transnational territorial
cooperation at all levels
Promotion of
sustainable
development
Promotion of equal
opportunities and non
discrimination
application of EU principles
Priority Axes
P1: Facilitation of innovation and
entrepreneurship
P2: Protection and improvement of the
environment
P3: Improvement of the accessibility
P4: Development of transnational
synergies for sustainable growth areas
P5: Technical assistance to support
implementation and capacity building
Visible and concrete cooperation projects; guarantee of qualitative
partnerships; active project development beyond open call procedure
implementation principles
The Programme budget
Description
ERDF
original
Approved
(I)
Approved
(II)
Rate
Remaining
ERDF
Remaining
IPA
1. Innovation
44,051,157
18,751,050
8,340,512
61.50%
16,959,596
3,317,553
2. Environment
53,739,828
27,696,440
11,170,690
72.32%
14,872,698
4,107,447
3. Accessibility
55,160,834
9,231,427
8,791,827
32.67%
37,137,581
4,265,426
4. Sustainable
Growth Areas
41,338,329
20,949,939
15,547,063
88.29%
4,841,327
3,159,574
194,290,148
76,628,855
43,850,091
62.01%
73,811,202
14,850,000
ENPI available 2.000.000!
The 1st Call for proposal
The SEE Programme until today
Open Call – Bottom-up approach – 76M€
820 Expressions of Interest (EoI)
40 Projects finally approved
The 2nd Call for proposal
Targeted restricted – GAP filling – 43M€
900 Project Partners!
550 EoIs
26 Projects approved
3rd CfP: some general considerations…
SEE: heterogeneous and wide area
Needs for inclusion (CC, PC, NC) as a key element
Partially effective key stakeholders involvement by bottom up
Need for a strategic approach
IPA integration
Strategic projects
3rd CfP: some general considerations…
Strategic Call
Main elements of the strategic projects
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can not be generated by a conventional call for proposals
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are directly contributing to the implementation of key European
policy objectives
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generate incisive technical/sectoral impacts
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are politically relevant and sustained
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are significant for the entire co-operation area (or a large part of
it)
The 3rd Call for Proposal
Strategic Call
5 Terms of reference are defined to steer the generation of high level
transnational projects:
ToR 1: Policy Learning Mechanisms in Support of Cluster Development
ToR 2: Climate Change Adaptation: assessing vulnerabilities and risks and translating them to
implementation actions at the regional and local levels
ToR 3.1: Network of (Hub) cities for an increased access and mobility of people in the SEE region
ToR 3.2: Efficient access to a SEE coordinated multimodal freight network between ports and
landlocked countries
ToR 4: Managing Demographic Change in SEE - Migration and Human Capital as key for sustainable
economic growth
The 3rd Call for Proposal
the Strategic Call
Preparation of ToRs has involved main stakeholders at national and
transnational level (questionnaires, strategic seminars, workshops,…)
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Launch of the CfP: last week of April (open 7 weeks)
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2-Step coached AF
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Budget allocated:30M€ ERDF + 7M€IPA + 2M€ENPI
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Specific Eligibility rules and quality criteria developed to ensure participation
of competent bodies at a higher level
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Update information find on SEE Programme website: http://www.southeasteurope.net/en/downloads_section/calls/third_call/
IPA INTEGRATION
(the new management model)
Main principles:
 Provide the same possibilities and responsibilities to the Partners from the Member
States and partner States
 Fully integrate the external partners into the transnational partnerships
 Not hamper the implementation of the overall program and the already contracted
projects (MC agreement)
 Has required the modification of the SEE Operational Programme
 16.5M€ is the allocation foreseen to the integration of IPA countries for the future calls for
proposals
 Requires prefinancing by the involved IPA partners
 LP principle applies towards IPA PPs as well.
ENPI scheme (modified OP)
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At the programme level, rules as ERDF and IPA (program level decision making,
project selection, communication…) will be valid
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At project level, rules of the external funding will be followed
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3rd&4th CfP allocation is ca. 2M€ - min budget/partner►100T€
Moreover:
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ENPI partners will sign a separate contract with the MA/JTS
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Relation between the ERDF LP and the ENPI PPs is established by the Partnership
Agreement
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Reporting obligations according to the ENPI grant contract towards the MA (JTS) and the
LP