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Regional Policy – Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Cohesion policy investments
2014-2020
Reka Rozsavolgyi
Policy Analyst
Regional Policy Directorate General
Innovation unit D.2.
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu./comm/regional_policy
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Budget for Cohesion Policy post 2013
billion EUR (2011 prices)
Cohesion Fund*
68.7
Less developed regions
162.6
Transition regions
39.0
More developed regions
53.1
Territorial Cooperation
11.7
Extra allocation for outermost and northern regions
TOTAL
Connecting Europe facility for transport, energy and ICT
TOTAL
0.9
336.0
40.0
376.0
*Cohesion Fund will ringfence 10 billion EUR for the new Connecting Europe Facility
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Geographical coverage of support
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Three categories of regions
– Less developed regions (GDP per capita < 75% of EU average)
– Transition regions (GDP per capita between 75% and 90%)
– More developed regions (GDP per capita > 90%)
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The new category of transition regions replaces the current statistical
phasing-out and phasing-in regions
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Why a new category for transition regions?
– Fairer system for regions with similar level of economic development
– Helps to soften the transition between less and more developed
regions
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Safety net for regions whose GDP per capita is below 75% of the EU
average in 2007-2013
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Enhancing the European
Added-Value of Cohesion
policy
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Strong link to Europe 2020
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Need to increase the EU added value
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European Council Conclusions of June 2010
All common policies, including the CAP and cohesion policy, will need to support the Europe
2020 Strategy
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11 thematic objectives for the CSF Funds linked to the Europe 2020 Strategy
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All thematic objectives can be supported by the ERDF
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The regulation includes, for every thematic objective: a definitive list of
investment priorities which set the aims for intervention by the Fund
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Thematic concentration
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Thematic Objectives to Deliver Europe 2020
1) Strengthening research, technological development and innovation
2) Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, information and communication
technologies including broadband deployment and the roll-out of high-speed networks;
developing ICT products and services, e-commerce and enhancing demand for ICT;
strengthening ICT applications for e-government, e-learning, e-inclusion and e-health
3) Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, the agricultural
sector (for the EAFRD) and the fisheries and aquaculture sector (for the EMFF)
4) Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors
5) Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management
6) Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency which includes protecting,
promoting and developing cultural heritage
7) Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network
infrastructures
8) Promoting employment and supporting labour mobility
9) Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
10) Investing in education, skills and lifelong learning
11) Enhancing institutional capacity and an efficient public administration
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Concentration of ERDF investments
Energy efficiency & renewable energy
Research & innovation
Competitiveness of SMEs
6%
60%
20%
More developed &
transitional regions
44%
Less developed regions
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European Territorial Cooperation (1)
• More resources for cooperation - Proposed
budget for the period 2014-2020 – 11.7 billion
EUR (2011 prices)
• The division of funding between the different
cooperation components:
– 73,24 % (i.e., a total of EUR 8 569 000 003) for crossborder cooperation
– 20,78 % (i.e., a total of EUR 2 431 000 001) for
transnational cooperation
– 5,98 % (i.e., a total of EUR 700 000 000) for interregional
cooperation
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European Territorial Cooperation (2)
Under the European territorial cooperation goal, the ERDF shall support:
Interregional cooperation to reinforce the effectiveness of cohesion policy by
promoting:
(a) exchange of experience on thematic objectives among partners throughout the
Union on the identification and dissemination of good practice with a view to its
transfer to operational programmes under the Investment for growth and jobs
goal;
(b) exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination
of good practice on sustainable urban and rural development;
(c) exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination
of good practice and innovative approaches in relation to actions concerning
territorial cooperation and to the use of EGTCs;
(d) analysis of development trends in relation to the aims of territorial cohesion and
harmonious development of the European territory through studies, data
collection and other measures.
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Thematic ex-ante conditionalities
Thematic objectives
1. Strengthening
research,
technological
development and
innovation (R&D
target)
(referred to in Article
9(1) )
Ex ante conditionality
1.1. Research and innovation: The
existence of a national or regional
research and innovation strategy for
smart specialisation in line with the
National Reform Program, to leverage
private research and innovation
expenditure, which complies with the
features of well-performing national
or regional research and innovation
systems.
Criteria for fulfilment
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A national or regional research and innovation
strategy for smart specialisation is in place
that:
is based on a SWOT analysis to concentrate
resources on a limited set of research and
innovation priorities;
outlines measures to stimulate private RTD
investment;
contains a monitoring and review system.
A Member State has adopted a framework
outlining available budgetary resources for
research and innovation;
A Member State has adopted a multi-annual
plan for budgeting and prioritization of
investments linked to EU priorities (European
Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures ESFRI).
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Innovation Strategies for Smart
Specialisation – RIS³
An economic transformation agenda based on 4Cs:
• (Tough) Choices: select few priorities on the basis of international
specialisation and integration on international value chains – avoid
duplication and fragmentation in ERA
• Competitive (Constructed) Advantage:
mobilize talent by
matching RTD + i and business needs & capacities – entrepreneurial
discovery process
• Critical Mass/Clusters:
develop world class excellence clusters and
provide arenas for related variety/cross-sectorial links which drive
specialised technological diversification
• Collaborative Leadership:
efficient innovation systems as a
collective endeavour based on public-private partnership (quadruple helix)
– experimental platform – give voice to un-usual suspects
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What is Smart Specialisation ?
http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/publication_en.cfm
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‘Knowledge for Growth’ expert group (DG RTD)
launched concept in the framework of ERA;
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Problem: fragmentation/imitation/duplication of
public R&D investments;
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Stresses role for all regions in the knowledge
economy, if they can identify comparative
advantages in specific R &I domains/clusters (not
just winning sectors);
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Challenges: Smart specialisation has to embrace
the concept of open innovation, not only
investment in (basic) research or manufacturing
sector alone.
“Most advanced regions invest in the invention of general purpose technologies, others invest
in the co-invention of applications of the generic technology in one or several important
domains of the regional economy”
Dominique Foray 2010
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RIS3 Platform
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/research-andinnovation/s3platform.cfm
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The platform is established at the Joint Research Centre (IPTS) in
Seville and covers a three-year period.
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It will act as a facilitator in bringing together the relevant policy support
activities in research, regional, enterprise, innovation, information society,
education and sustainable policies.
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Will inform and communicate on related funding opportunities under the
relevant EU funding programmes.
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It will include the facilities to provide direct feed-back and information to
regions, Member States and its intermediate bodies.
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Provides methodological support, expert advice, training, information on
good practice, etc.
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http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/research-and-innovation/documents/listofmembersofMG.pdf
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Thank you!
On INFOREGIO …
Projects examples:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/indexes/project_examples_en.cfm
Future policy:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/index_en.cfm
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