Financing possibilities: different solutions

1. Financing possibilities for implementation of European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: different solutions Ms. Baiba Liepa, INTERACT Point Turku 9 June 2010 | Riga, Latvia

2. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What do we know about the EUSBSR? • It is not in itself a funding instrument • Actions should be funded from existing sources • Cooperation is crucial to achieve the desired result • Policies in general should be better aligned • Deadline for progress review is 31 December 2010

3. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What should be taken into account • for implementation of the project? • importance of cooperation=interregional, transnational • link of different priorities/activities • potential of EU structural funds interventions=high, medium or • low • different funds = different rules • double financing • project management capacity

4. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What funds and financial sources are available? • EU funds • grants and loans • tenders and contracts • regional policy programmes • International Financial Institutions • European Investment Bank • Nordic Investment Bank • European Investment Fund

5. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What funds and financial sources are available? • Financial instruments • JEREMIE • JESSICA • JASMINE • JASPERS • ELENA • Banks (micro credits, small loans, guarantees) • State programmes • Own resources

6. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What are objectives of EU regional development • programmes? • EU financing objectives • 1) Convergence (Objective 1) • 2) Regional competitiveness and employment (Objective 2) • 3) European territorial cooperation (Objective 3) • EU funds • European Regional Development Fund • European Social Fund • Cohesion Fund

7. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What regional development programmes are available • in Latvia? • EU programmes • national programmes • transnational cooperation programme • interregional cooperation programmes • cross-border cooperation programmes • European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) • www.esfondi.lv , www.zm.gov.lv and www.raplm.gov.lv

8. Financing possibilities: different solutions • How to find the fund? • Project idea • Project activities • Partners • Project amount • Status of organisations involved • Find contacts

9. Financing possibilities: different solutions • What does it mean Flagship Project? • Is a type of action with high significance presented and shortly • described under respective Priority Area in Action Plan • Is a set of activities corresponding to the description of the • Flagship Project and supporting its implementation or implementation • of the respective Priority Area in the Action Plan • The revised Action Plan defines 85 Flagship Projects

10. Financing possibilities: different solutions What does it mean Flagship Project? BSR Programme Member States seprately HELCOM CB Obj 1 Poland FP 7 Obj 2 Sweden EIB/NIB / Bankable Projects

11. Financing possibilities: different solutions • Where to get information and support? • national and regional institutions, ministries • national contact points, information points • associations, agencies • network organisations • funders • Priority Area Coordinators • National Contact Point • Joint Technical Secretariats • Managing Authorities • INTERACT Point Turku • websites, etc.

12. Financing possibilities: different solutions • Who we are? • The INTERACT Programme promotes and supports good governance of • European Territorial Cooperation programmes • Act as a platform for exchange of information, experience, • good practices • Contribute, by its services, to: • - increased efficiency and effectiveness of programmes • - quality and know-how in Territorial Cooperation • Create a community of actors throughout Europe, facing the same • daily issues, questions and challenges

13. Financing possibilities: different solutions Who we are? European Territorial Cooperation Objective: • 52 Cross Border Cooperation programmes (CBC) • 13 transnational programmes • 1 interregional programme (INTERREG IV C) • 3 network programmes (INTERACT II, URBACT II, ESPON) INTERACT Point Turku covers 10 programmes in the North

14. Financing possibilities: different solutions Who we are? Decentralised delivery of services ETC • INTERACT Secretariat • INTERACTPoint Turku • INTERACT Point Valencia • INTERACT Point Viborg • INTERACT Point Vienna ENPI • ENPI Point North, Turku • ENPI Point South, Florence • INTERACT Secretariat Managing Authority: Bratislava self governing region, Slovakia 4+2 Regional Networks

15. Financing possibilities: different solutions • Role of INTERACT Point Turku in • the EUSBSR implementation? • Laboratory Group is established since January 2009 to support • implementation of the EUSBSR • Key tasks of the Laboratory Group • support the overall coordination aim of the EUSBSR • define the implications on programmes already adopted • seek operative solutions to identified points • identify consequences on programme management

16. Financing possibilities: different solutions • Role of INTERACT Point Turku in • the EUSBSR implementation? • Laboratory Group members represents: • - Territorial cooperation programmes (CBC and Transnational) • Convergence and Competitiveness Objective programmes + ESF • ENPI programme representation • DG REGIO • Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth • International Funding Institutions, NIB, EIB

17. Financing possibilities: different solutions INTERACT EUSBSR / MS / EU / Commission / Macro Region

18. Thank you for your attention! • Useful liks: • http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperation/baltic/index_en.htm • http://www.interact-eu.net/ • Please don´t hesitate to contact us • baiba.liepa@interact-eu.net • ulf.wikstrom@interact-eu.net