Transcript The Europe 2020 Strategy and the Challenge of an Integrated Territorial Approach Philip McCann University of Groningen Special Adviser to the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes.

The Europe 2020 Strategy and
the Challenge of an Integrated
Territorial Approach
Philip McCann
University of Groningen
Special Adviser to the European
Commissioner for Regional Policy
Johannes Hahn
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: What?
• October 6 2011 Proposals for the New Cohesion
Policy Regulation
• Common Strategic Framework: The European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the
European Social Fund (ESF), the Cohesion
Fund (CF), the European Agricultural Fund for
Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European
Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: What?
• EU regional policy is an investment policy. It
supports job creation, competitiveness,
economic growth, improved quality of life and
sustainable development. These investments
support the delivery of the Europe 2020 strategy.
European Commission Inforegio Website
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: What?
• Europe 2020: A European Strategy for Smart,
Sustainable and Inclusive Growth [COM (2010)
2020] 3.3.2010
• Smart Growth: Improving the conditions for innovation,
research and development; Improving education levels
• Sustainable Growth: Meeting climate change and
energy objectives
• Inclusive Growth: promoting employment; Promoting
social inclusion (in particular through the reduction of
poverty)
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: Why?
• Europe 2020 Agenda: smart growth, sustainable
growth and inclusive growth
• OECD ‘Gold Standard’ Growth: stronger, cleaner
and fairer growth
• US Government growth strategy: sustainable
communities, innovation clusters, revitalizing
neighbourhoods
• Growth and development are always
multidimensional
• Externalities, spillovers, networks, globalisation - we are all interconnected - all part of the
societal challenges and all part of the solutions 5
The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: Why?
• 2009 Report of the “Commission on the
Measurement of Economic Performance and
Social Progress” (Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi)
• OECD-hosted “Global project on measuring
progress”
• December 2010 Report “Monitoring economic
performance, quality of life and sustainability”
jointly produced by the French “Conseil
d’analyse économique” and the German Council
of Economic Experts
• UK case - “Atkinson Review: Final Report,
Measurement of Government Output and
Productivity for the National Accounts”
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: Why?
• Emphasis on a place-based territorial approach
• Social cohesion and territorial cohesion are core
elements of the Treaty
• Alignment of Cohesion Policy with Europe 2020
objectives – smart growth, sustainable growth
and inclusive growth – all these are explicitly
spatial in terms of mechanisms and outcomes
• Cohesion Policy is uniquely positioned to deliver
on all aspects of Europe 2020 – as long as there
is a shift of policy emphasis from actions and
financial means to results/outcomes → real
added value
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: How?
• Integrated place-based approach – provision of
public goods tailored to the regional context
• Local ↔ global and regional ↔ national
• Place-based policies focusing on linkages and
synergies between smart, sustainable and
inclusive growth
• Build on local knowledge, promote stakeholder
engagement, encourage community mobilisation
• Policies have to be place-based to facilitate
partnership and to allow sub-national variation
and tailoring – no “one-size-fits-all” policies
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: How?
• Thematic concentration and a limited set of
priorities
• Results-oriented and performance oriented
• Multi-level governance – vertical and horizontal
partnerships - policy coordination and delivery
across jurisdictions and institutional ‘silos’
• Smart specialisation → results indicators →
governance opportunities and challenges →
CSF
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: In What Way?
• Smart specialisation – a methodology for
choosing
• Prioritisation is essential both because of the
need for concentration of resources – and also
budget constraints
• Smart specialisation provides a lens through
which to identify potential and needs, to focus on
challenges and opportunities, and to look for
new linkages, new dynamics, new possibilities
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: In What Way?
• Use of results indicators makes policy intentions
explicit
• Results indicators can be quantitative and/or
qualitative
• Use of results indicators is not because the
results/outcomes are known in advance but in
order to drive the policy process correctly
(Rodrik 2004)
• Help steer and adjust policy as necessary
• Evaluation, monitoring, sharing → policy
learning
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: In What Way?
• Smart specialisation and results indicators are
designed to change behaviour – a change of
mindset
• Proposed regulations, CSF, European Code of
Conduct on Partnership – and elements such as
Joint Action Plans, Community-Led Local
Development, Integrated Territorial Investments are all designed to provide the framework and
the means to facilitate and act on these changes
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The Europe 2020 Strategy and the
Challenge of an Integrated Territorial
Approach: In What Way?
• Beneficiaries are communities, institutions,
economies and environments
• Local, regional and EU-wide capacity-building
and experience are fostered
• Policy innovation is facilitated
• Institutional reform and multi-level governance
are encouraged
• Wider growth and development agenda is driven
across the EU and all dimensions of growth
• Europe 2020 looks towards 2030 and 2040
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