Publicity Requirements for approved Subprojects

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Publicity Requirements for approved Sub-projects
Panagiota Mitropoulou PSC Assistant Region of
Western Greece Info day for LPTsPatras 23rd
September 2005
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Legal Base
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1159/2000 on
information and publicity measures to be carried
out by the Member States concerning assistance
from the Structural Funds (OJ L130 of 31.05.2000)
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999, Article
46laying down general provisions on the
Structural Funds (OJL161 of 21 June 1999)
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Legal Base

• These regulations
• Establish communication as core task,
  strategically as important as other
  management activities.

• State that communication measures should be
  programmed, structured, reported and evaluated

• State aims of communication, essential target
  groups and message content

• Define set of obligations to be met!

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Obligations/Tasks

• Inform general public about the role played by
  the Community concerning assistance and its
  results.

• Increase public awareness and transparency
  regarding the regional policy activities of the
  EU.

• Create coherent picture of the assistance across
  all Member States involved.

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Obligations/Tasks

• Show programme funds which are taken up and used
  as effectively as possible

• Convey reasons for funding and results
  achievedby the Structural Funds.

• Inform about joint responsibility of the Union
  and Member States , that they are working
  together and pooling their financial resources.

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Responsibilities

• Communication is clearly at the heart of any
  INTERREGIIIC project.

• In particular since INTERREG IIIC projects are
  essentially based on exchange and
  dissemination of experience, including
  dissemination of activities and results to a
  wider European audience

• Proactive communication is clearly a prerequisite
  forany successful project implementation

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Monitoring

• Therefore, communication will be part of your
  reporting duties, once your project is up and
  running.

• Including communication activities in your
  project proposals you need to demonstrate that
  you understand the importance of the
  programme which assigns to information and
  dissemination.

You will report about your related activities
and results and thus send us, for instance
publicity plans, press releases, brochures,
any other publications, published articles,
reports about website development and updates
as well as user statistics (hits), statistics on
target audiences reached (e.g. through events
or mailings), etc.
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Some Rules
Publications (such as booklets, leaflets and
newsletters) about regional assistance
part-financed by the Structural Funds shall
contain a clear indication on the title page of
the European Unions participation and, where
appropriate, that of the Fund concerned as well
as the Community emblem ...
This does also apply for electronic media
(websites, databases) or audio-visual material
!
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Some Rules
The organisers of information events such as
conferences, seminars, fairs and exhibitions in
connection with the implementation of operations
part-financed by the Structural Funds shall make
the Community contribution to these assistance
packages explicit by displaying the European flag
in meeting rooms and using the Community emblem
on documents.
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Publicity requirements
Any relevant project documentation should display
on their title page
The INTERREG IIIC East logo The EU emblem
including the text Project part-financed by
the European Union The INNOREF logo The
sub-project logo
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Publicity requirements
Project websites should contain links to

• INNOREF website
• Region website
• Interreg 3C website

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Emblems/Logos
Downloads the EU Emblem are available at the
INFOREGIO sitehttp//europa.eu.int/comm/regional
_policy/index_en.htm (Go to Information
sources/Logos and Maps or INNOREF web site
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Emblems/Logos
Download INTERREG IIIC main logohttp//www.inter
reg3c.net (Go to Downloads/Logos, Forms,
Screensaver)
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Emblems/Logos
Download INNOREF logo http//www.innoref.net (Go
to Logotypes)
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Summing up
By achieving and communicating your activities
and results are key for the success of this
programme.
For guidelines and good practice see
Communications handbook (download from Innoref
web site)
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Relevant activities by INNOREF RFO team
Independently of your and your partners joint
efforts to inform your target groups and the
general public about your sub-project, the
INNOREF RFO team has the right to publish
certain information about your sub-project,
including your progress reports, on the INTERNET.
This is based on what is laid out in the subsidy
contract and the partnership contracts.
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Thanks for your attention!