Estonia – Latvia Programme

Helena Järviste, Acting Head of the Joint Technical SecretariatVõru, 19 September 2012

Priority 1:

Transport, IT, environment, public services

Priority 2:

Entrepreneurship development, tourism, training and practical education

Priority 3:

Grass-root and community level cooperation

Programme’s priorities and directions of support

• Public sector, NGOs, private companies (Programme financing 50-85% of the project budget)

• Programme financing for one project: €20 000 – €2 000 000

• Project duration – up to 2 years

• Long-term thoroughly planned cooperation vs. one time events

• Joint vs. parallel activities

Conditions for applying

Number of submitted projects - 236

26%

74%ApprovedRejected

Thematic fields of the submitted projects

42%

9%7%

14% 15%

5%7%

16%

12% 13%

18%16%

12% 12%

% of projects

% of funding

Community level

cooperation

Education/ science/

technology

Tourism Environment

Entrepreneurship

Transport / communication

Health/ rescue

Thematic fields of the supported projects38%

5%8%

15% 15%11%

8%10%

2%

17%

14% 12%

34%

11%

% of projects

% of funding

EnvironmentEntrepreneurship

Transport / communication

Health/ rescueCommunity

level cooperation

Education/ science/

technologyTourism

Geographical coverage of the partners by countries

Submitted Approved

471

131

384

95

from Latvia from Estonia

Geographical coverage of the partners by regions/counties

Vidzeme

Kurzeme

RīgaHarj

uValg

aPärn

uPõlva Võru

Jõgeva

Viljandi

Saare Ta

rtu HiiuLää

ne

117

78

267

42 3748

1840

16 13 12

144

1 1132

17

79

14 13 8 6 16 1 2 431

0 0

SubmittedApproved

Coverage of the partners by the type of organizations

Loca

l auth

orities

Regional auth

orities

Other p

ublic auth

orities

Environmental b

odies

Education and/o

r research

insti

tutions

State insti

tutions

NGOs

Private partn

ers

227

39 56 37

120

47

264

6564

11 19 18 28 2155

10

SubmittedApproved

ERDF (in EUR)

111 832 095

Requested

Approved

Rejected35 788 342

76 043 753

Approved funding* division by countries

*ERDF

17 177 29917 245 281

More statistics ...

3.63.7

3.4

Submitted

Approved

Rejected

Average number of partners in the projects Biggest number of

partners in one project:

39

Total average project size (ERDF in EUR):

473 865Biggest project size (ERDF in EUR):

4 200 000

European Cooperation Day 2012

• Europe-wide initiative, we contributed in organizing it in Europe and in the Baltics

• International Conference on Border Areas in Võru, Estonia

• Documentaries „Better Neighbors / Paremad naabrid / Labāki kaimiņi“ on LTV 1 (September 21 18:30) and ETV1 (October 3, 22:30)

• 15 local events, organized by partners throughout Estonia and Latvia

• Traditional & Social Media promotional activities

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