EU INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME: INTERREG IVC Introduction to programme

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EU INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMEINTERREG
IVC Introduction to programme application
process

• Elena del Rey
• Dirección General de Economía- Conselleria de
  Economía y Hacienda
• Generalitat Valenciana
• Info Point Sur INTERREG IVC
• Autoridad de Gestión INTERREG IIIC Sur
• Murcia, 27 de Noviembre de 2007

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Overview

1. Programme Structure
2. Development/Tools
3. Application
4. Assessment
5. Decision

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1. Programme Structure
INTERREG IIIC versus INTERREG IVC
INTERREG IVC
INTERREG IIIC

• 315 MEUR ERDF
• Cofinancing up to 50 (up to 75 for Objective 1
  Regions)
• Four programmes 4 Managing, 4 Audit and 4
  Paying Authorities
• 4 JTS
• All themes of regional and local public
  activities
• 3 Types of Operations

• 321 MEUR ERDF
• Cofinancing up to 75/85
• One programme
• 1 Managing Authority (Région Nord-Pas de
  Calais), 1 Audit Authority, 1 Certifying
  Authority
• 1 JTS in Lille and 4 Information Points in
  Rostock, Katowice (with support from Vienna),
  Valencia and Lille
• Focus on Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas
• 2 Types of Interventions

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1. Programme Structure
INTERREG IVC - Types of intervention

• Regional Initiative Projects classical
  approach
• Intensity of cooperation
• Partnership at least 3 countries 2 MS
  8-203-8 p.
• Duration 36 m. recommended
• Budget ERDF 500.000- 5M

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1. Programme Structure
INTERREG IVC - Types of intervention (II)

• 2. Capitalisation Projects (including Fast
  Track Projects)
• Aim transfer of regional development god
  practices into mainstream EU SF Programmes
• Partnership at least 3 countries 2 MS
  6-10 c. Relevant bodies
  responsible for monitoring OP
• Duration 24 m. recommended
• Budget ERDF 300.000- 3M
• Fast Track Projects additional EC assistance
  offered
• 30 possible themes of the RfEC Initiative
  defined

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1. Programme structure
INTERREG IVC Management structures
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1. Programme structure

• Information points
• Rostock (IBSH), GermanyDenmark, Estonia,
  Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden,
  Norway
• Katowice (MRD), Poland, with support from the
  City of Vienna Austria, Czech Republic,
  Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia,
  Bulgaria, Romania
• Valencia (GV), Spain Cyprus, Greece, Italy,
  Malta, Portugal, Spain
• Lille (RNPC), France Belgium, France, Ireland,
  Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
  Switzerland

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2. Development

• Tools provided by the JTS and the Information
  Points (IPs)
• Website www.interreg4c.net
• Events
• Consultations
• Application Pack
• Project idea database
• Brochures, leaflets and articles in relevant media

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3. Application

• Application Pack
• Programme Manual (found at www.interreg4c.net)
• Programme information
• Project development
• Application selection
• Project implementation
• Project closure
• Application Form (found at www.interreg4c.net)
• Activities Timeplan
• Co-financing Statement

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3. Application

• Application Form
• General instruction
• Checklist
• Project summary
• Detailed project description
• Components
• Budget
• Partnership

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3. Application
Activities Timeplan
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3. Application
Co-financing Statement
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3. Application

• Time table
• 21 September 2007 Opening of first call (Lisbon)
• 15 January 2008 Deadline for submission of
• applications first call
  to Lille-FR
• June 2008 (provisional) Opening of second call
• October 2008 (provisional) Deadline for
  submission of
• applications second call

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4. Assessment

• Assessment of applications
• Eligibility Check
• Quality Check

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4. Assessment

• Eligibility Check (by JTS)
• Application Form submitted in due time
• Application is complete
• Application is fully and properly filled
• All Co-financing Statements are correctly filled
  and printed
• Partnership from a min of three countries, from
  which at least two partners must be from EU
  Member States and financed by the INTERREG IVC
  programme
• Mini-programmes max of eight partners

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4. Assessment
Quality Check (by JTS and external experts)
1) Relevance of the proposal
2) Coherence of the proposal

• Content related

3) Quality of results
4) Quality of management

• Implementation related

5) Quality of partnership
6) Budget and finance
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4. Assessment
Scoring system

• Not eligible (Information to MC and Lead
  Applicant)
• Eligible

• Eligibility Check

• 0 Knock out (objective of the project can not be
  fulfilled)
• Very poor
• Poor
• Adequate
• Good
• Excellent

• Quality Check

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4. Assessment

• Time table for the approval of first call for
  proposals (provisional)
• By end Feb 2008 Eligibility Check (JTS)
• By end May 2008 Quality Check (JTS-Experts
• Pool)
• By end June 2008 Decision MC

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5. Decision

• MC decision
• Two-thirds majority of Member States present
  needed
• Majority must include votes of countries having a
  Partner on its territory.

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5. Decision

• MC decision
• Approval without condition
• Approval with conditions
• Rejection

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Final

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