The Future of Funding

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The Future of Funding DG Employment and
Social Affairs
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EU Support for Local Employment Development

• 1986 LEDA Programme
• 1993 White Paper on growth, competitiveness and
  employment
• 1997 Territorial Employment Pacts (TEPs)
• 1997 European Employment Strategy (EES)
• 2001 Communication 'Strengthening the local
  dimension of the European Employment Strategy
• 2005 Strategy for Growth and Jobs (3
  over-arching objectives, 8 guidelines)

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European Commission LED activities

• The EES (political lever)
• ESF, Article 6, EQUAL, pilot projects (financial
  lever)
• BUT, focus now on
• Raising awareness of EES at local level, and of
  LED
• Identifying, sharing and disseminating good
  practice
• Encouraging co-operation and promoting
  partnerships
• Building on the experience of a wide range of LED
  activity
• How local activities can be persuaded to move
  from grant-based funding to sustainable
  development

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The New Architecture 3 Objectives, 3 Funds

• Convergence (ERDF, ESF, CF)
• - regions (regional GDP per head lt 75 of the
  average) - regions concerned by the statistical
  effect- MS (GNI per head lt 90 of the average)-
  Outermost regions for specific ERDF funding
• Regional Comp. and Employment (ERDF, ESF)
• phasing in regions
• all other parts of the Union no Commission
  "zoning"
• European territorial cooperation (ERDF)
• No Community initiatives

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The new ESF

• Reinforced links with EU employment and social
  inclusion priorities
• Contributes to Convergence and RC and employment
• Mainstream of innovative actions and
  transnational cooperation
• Promotion of good governance and partnership

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Mainstreaming innovation and transnationality

• Promotion and mainstreaming of innovative and
  trans-national actions within each programme
• Each MA will choose the themes for innovation
• Trans-national co-operation specific axis or
  programme
• MS ensure complementarity and coherence with
  other Community programmes

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What kind of project?

• Financially unsustainable other policy area?
• Financially sustainable no external funding
  required
• Somewhere in between