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Baltic Sea Region Programme
2007-2013Evaluation Criteria and Practices
METNET Workshop, Hämeenlinna 13.1.2009Vice Executive Director Matti Lipsanen, Regional Council of Häme
EU financing for territorial
co-operation
• Territorial co-operation ”Interreg”, objective 3 of the EU
structural policy
• Competitiveness and sustainability
• 7,75 billion euro ERDF financing
• Cross border co-operation ”Interreg A”
• Transnational co-operation ”Interreg B”
• Interregional ”Interreg C”
Eligible area
•EU Member States: Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Sweden and northern parts
of Germany
•Norway
•North-west regions of Russia
•Belarus
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Financing available
total221.5 MEUR
Norway5.7 MEUR
ENPI20.3 MEUR
ERDF195.5 MEUR
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Programme co-financing rates
• up to 75% of costs generated by partners from Denmark,
Germany, Sweden and Finland
• up to 85% for partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and
Poland
• up to 50% for partners from Norway
• up to 90% for partners from Russia and Belarus
+ own contribution of the project partners
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Baltic Sea Region Programme – new
profile
• Focus on fewer themes inside the four priorities
• Implement goals of Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas
• Emphasis on investments: preparation or implementation
• More effort on information and communication
• Possibility to be approved as a strategic project.
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Strategic objectives and priorities
To make the
Baltic Sea region an attractive place
to invest, work and live in
1. Fostering innovations
2. External and
internal accessibility
3. Baltic Sea as a common
resource
4. Attractive and competitive
cities and regions
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Project strategy in the application
form
• Problem => objective
=> results
=> outputs (means developed and used to reach the objective)
• Horizontal issues
• Durability and transferability
• Work plan
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• Relevance of the proposal to the programme
• Coherence of the proposal and quality of the approach
undertaken
• Durability, transferability and dissemination
• Partnership
• Management
• Budget
Selection criteria used to assess the
project strategy
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• Investments
• Private partners
• Partners from Russia and Belarus
• Experience in EU Projects
• Focus on geographical disparities in the BSR
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Additional selection criteria used to
assess the project strategy
First application round
• Closing date 30.5.2008
• Financing decisions 24.10.2008
• 110 applications
• 24 projects approved
• 59 Meuro financing committed
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First application round
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METNET BSR
Category 2b: Proposals that should not be approved
Relevance: 3
Coherence: 2
Durability: 2
Partnership: 3
Management: 2
Budget: 3
Additional quality features
• Active RU/BY partners
Outcome of the assessment
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METNET BSR
“The project has not quality enough to be approved. Themain strong feature is that the project idea andobjectives as such match well to the selected priority.The public sector, research sector and public businessadvisors are well incorporated into the project in eachparticipating region either as financing partners or asassociated organisations. The weakest point is lack offocus regarding the activities to be carried out and theresults that the project would like to achieve as well asthe lack of incorporating the SMEs directly into theproject partnership. In addition, some costs are clearlyover-budgeted.
Recommendation: Please note that the project partner 9 (Association of Technology and Innovation) is ineligible according to the programme rules.”
Outcome of the assessment
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Second application round
• 19.1.-31.3.2009
• More info at http://eu.baltic.net
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