Project preparation workshop Bringing a transnational project to life Project idea Challenges and...

Project preparation workshop“Bringing a transnational project to life”

Project idea

“Challenges and chances from Climate Change

for regional and local development”(working title)

March 12th and 13th 2008

Office of Vides Projekti, Riga/ Latvia

March 12th 2008 • .... [„living conditions“] .... • .... [Dennis Ehm, ARL] 2

Project preparation Workshop, March 12th/13th Riga

„Living Conditions“


Basic level of knowledge on the

Dennis Ehm, ARL

March 12th 2008 • „Living conditions“ Dennis Ehm, ARL 3



EU Programme

“Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013”

• a mainstream Structural Funds programme for the Baltic Sea Region (Objective 3 programme on Territorial Cooperation)

• built on two preceding Community Initiative programmes (Baltic Sea INTERREG IIC & III B NP)

• addresses issues that call for intervention at transnational level




Focus

Preparation of investments, which can:

– improve the territorial potential of the region,

– minimise the differences in the level of socio-economic development between the western and eastern parts of the region (East-West divide)

– resolve issues of common concern for all the countries around the Baltic Sea




Background and aims

The Programme

• incorporates aspects of socio-economic competitiveness (Lisbon), sustainable management of the natural resources (Gothenburg) and of the “EU Territorial Agenda”

• aims to involve several pan-Baltic networks for better policies towards an integrated development of the Baltic Sea region and for its better identity in Europe




Eligible area

• EU Member States: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and northern parts of Germany

• Norway

• north-west regions of Russia

• Belarus




Financing of the programme

Co-Financing

• 208 MEUR from European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

• 22.6 MEUR from European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI, new)

• 6 MEUR from Norwegian national funding

Total = 236,6 MEUR

Plus project partners‘ contribution (10-50%)!




Co-Financing rate

European Commission and the Government of Norway will cover:

• up to 75 % of eligible project costs generated by partners from Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Finland

• up to 85 % of eligible project costs generated by partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland

• up to 50 % of eligible project costs generated by partners from Norway

• up to 90 % of eligible project costs generated by partners from Russia and Belarus




Programme documents

– Operational Programme (97 p., Dec 21st 2007)

– general programme focus, content, and guideline

– Programme Manual (98 p., Feb 25th 2008)

– for project level and implementation

– Application form (20 p., draft of Feb 25th 2008) plus practical guide and partner declaration– to submit applications– base for approval process– in case of approval part of project‘s Grant Contract– work plan for project implementation– base for checking of progress reports

– Several further guiding and regulating EU documents




Specifics for the project and the partners

In brief– Selection of priority and area of support– activities, work packages, outputs, results and indicators– project phases and duration– contracting and payments




Strategic objectives = PRIORITIES (to be selected from)

1. Fostering innovations

2. External and internal accessibility

3. Baltic Sea as a common resource

4. Attractive and competitive cities and regions

To strengthen the developmenttowards a sustainable,

competitiveand territorially integrated

Baltic Sea Region by connecting potentials

over the borders




Priority 4

“Promoting attractive and competitive cities and regions”

• propagates co-operation of metropolitan regions, cities and rural areas for their better attractiveness for citizens and investors

• features action programmes and policies at the BSR level to make cities and regions more competitive engines for economic development

• strengthens urban-rural partnerships and support a viable economic transformation of BSR areas with smaller and less dense settlements

• special ENPI feature under this priority is joint actions dedicated to the social sphere of regional and city development - exclusively with Russian and Belarusian partners




Priority 4: Areas of support (to be selected from)

1. Strengthening metropolitan regions, cities and urban areas as engines of economic development

2. Strategic support for integrated BSR development and socio-economic and territorial cohesion

3. Strengthening social conditions and impacts of regional and city development




Some definitions

– Activities– Work packages (WP)

– thematically diversified components (or set of activities)– max. 8 (WP 0 preparation; WP 1 „project coordination“; WP 2

„communication and information“)

– Outputs– tangible deliveries

– Results– „effects“ of the project (improved...; raised....; etc.)– shall be measurable (start and target)

– Indicators– to measure described results/ effects




Results and indicators– Common results

– three across all four priorities– at least one must be selected/ addressed by each project

– output indicators for common results– to measure common results (defined to select from in application)

– priority specific results (linked to areas of support)– three or four per priority– at least one must be selected/ addressed by each project

– output indicators for priority specific results– to measure common results (define after approval)

– additional results and their output indicators – can be defined by the projects und must be measurable




Project phases and duration

Project preparation– officially until MC funding decisions– (max. 1 year selected costs eligible prior to application)

Project duration– contracting phase (3 months)

– implementation phase (12-36 months)

– closure phase (3 months)

Post project– 10 years maintenance of accounting documents(PM p. 71) final




Contracting and payments

Contracting– Grant contract between LP and Managing Authority (MA) after

approval– Partnership agreement between partners after approval

Payments– ERDF (and Norwegian) payment

– activities must be 100% pre-financed by the partners– payments after bi-annual reports approved– only ERDF: 5% withhold until ca. 2018

– ENPI payment– bi-annual advance payments to the project

Project preparation workshop“Bringing a transnational project

to life”

Project idea

“Challenges and chances from Climate Change

for regional and local development”(working title)

March 12th and 13th 2008

Office of Vides Projekti, Riga/ Latvia

March 12th 2008 • .... [„Living conditions“] .... • .... [Dennis Ehm] 20



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