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Contribution to the Debate on the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion

This article explores the role of the European Commission in promoting territorial cooperation, the need for new forms of cooperation, and the development of legislative and management tools. It discusses the impact of InterRegional Cooperation (IRC) programs and highlights the characteristics and priorities of the INTERREG IVC program.

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Contribution to the Debate on the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion

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  1. Contribution to the debate on the Green paper on territorial cohesion Brussels – 25 September 2009Michel LAMBLIN | Programme Director

  2. 1- What role should the Commission play in encouraging and supporting territorial cooperation? • to highlight the need for cooperation • to further develop the promotion of existing results • to reaffirm the need for innovation in every Territorial Cooperation programme • 2- Is there a need for new forms of territorial cooperation? • Evolution more profitable than revolution: • massive dissemination and use of the existing stock of good practice, • improvement of existing programmes and procedures, • increase of the ERDF budget • think of the subsidy rate (75% - 85% at the moment) • reinforce the integration role of the regional policy towards thematic DGs • 3- Is there a need to develop new legislative and management tools to facilitate cooperation, including along the external borders? • a specific TA rate for cooperation (up to …%)

  3. Possible improvements for IRC • enlarge the thematic areas of Innovation and Environment to further themes, such as: • regional policy management (in order to improve the capacity building); • territorial governance; • other territories, not covered at present (not urban, nor regional) metropolitan areas, rural/urban interface; • integrated sustainable development; • the future interregional cooperation programme should be the natural platform to facilitate the transfer of cooperation results to regional operational programmes; • to imagine devices to improve the access to IRC programmes for small public entities/authorities;

  4. European Cooperation • Crossborder

  5. European Cooperation • Transnational

  6. European Cooperation • Interregional

  7. Although IRC (InterRegional Cooperation) does not concern directly a territory, has this type of programme a “territorial” impact? • Yes, as much as any other regional (territorial) programme, which can be improved through IRC

  8. INTERREG IVC characteristics INTERREG IVC • 1 EU Programme - 321 M€ - Subsidy rate 75/85% • Exchange & Transfer of good practices in the fields of Innovation & Environment • Dedicated to Public local and regional Authorities Objective • Improve the effectiveness of regional development policies (and contribute to economic modernisation and competitiveness of Europe • by • Enabling exchange of experiences and knowledge, matching less experienced with more advanced regions, ensuring transfer of identified good practice into mainstream programmes

  9. INTERREG IIIC experience INTERREG IVC 321 M€ _______________ = __________ ΣStructural Funds 347 000 M€ ~ 1 °/°° Reminder of INTERREG IIIC (2002/2006 – 264 projects – 2634 Cities and Regions involved)

  10. Distribution of the 9000 public authorities • within the two first calls for projects (2 x 500 projects submitted)

  11. INTERREG IVC characteristics Programme Priorities • Priority 1: Innovation and Knowledge Economy (177 M€ ERDF) • Priority 2: Environment and Risk Prevention (125 M€ ERDF) Types of Interventions • Regional Initiative Projects • Exchange of experience and good practice, development of tools and instruments of regional policies • Capitalisation Projects • Capitalisation projects: optimise results achieved, transfer of good practices identified into mainstream programmes

  12. Soon, we’ll start capitalisation at programme level: • clustering projects working on similar issues; • drawing lessons from their findings; • publicising the lessons learnt for the benefit of all local and regional authorities and Managing authorities of Convergence and Competitiveness programmes.

  13. Where are we? • 1st Call (2008): • 500 projects received involving 5000 public authorities (400 eligible) • 41 projects approved for 70 MEUR • 2nd Call (2009): • 500 projects received (400 eligible) • ~ 60 projects recommended for ~100 MEUR • Decisions early November in Stockholm • 3rd Call (2010): • only Capitalisation projects and • limited at 15 MEUR

  14. Thank you for your attention! www.interreg4c.eu www.interreg4c.eu

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