Il Programma Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE: risultati, success...

TAKING COOPERATION FORWARD 1

Il Programma Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE: risultati, success stories e prospettive

Luca Ferrarese | Head of the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Joint Secretariat

“Giornata della Cooperazione Europea - EC DAY 2018”

Venice | 24 September 2018


TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EUROPE� EUR 1.8 bn ERDF

(20,36 % of Interreg)

(0,56 % of CoPol)

� 6.687 projects*(at 12.09.2018)

� 64.185 partners*(at 12.09.2018)

� IT � larger share*

*Source: keep.eu


THE INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME

� 85 projects funded in 2 calls

� 160 m EUR allocated (70 %)

� 900+ partners involved


PARTNERS INVOLVED (after 2 calls)


NETWORKS ESTABLISHED (after 2 calls)

� 90 % of CE regions

are cooperating

� Strong cooperation

North-South and

East-West

� Peripheral regions

are well connected

to the CE core


FINANCIAL PERFORMANCES (Sept-2018)

All Interreg programmes Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE

Source: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/


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WHAT COMES NEXT

The third call will soon bring new funding to central European regions:

at least 60 mEUR ERDF

� decision for funding on 15-16.01.2019

A fourth call (experimental) will be launched in 2019:

with the remaining (limited) funds

� more information in October 2018


LOOKING AT THE FUTURE

� EC proposed a reduced budget for Interreg post-2020 � less programmes by:

o Allowing only one single CBC programme per land border

o Integrating maritime CBC into transnational sea-basin programmes

o Discontinuing Interreg Europe and URBACT

o Possibly, discontinuing some transnational programmes

� The notion of “functional areas” has been introduced � programmes are to be

designed for “covering contiguous functional areas” (Article 5(1) ETC Reg.)

EC DG-REGIO put the Interreg

CENTRAL EUROPE Programme in question


WHAT IS A FUNCTIONAL AREA?

� Which criteria make an area “functional”? And at which territorial level?

� No commonly accepted definition…

� …however a precise and relevant one comes from CEMAT (Council of Europe

Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning):

A A functional area is a cohesive territory that operates politically and/or socially

and/or economically as a whole or as a system. Therefore, a functional area is

defined by a structure of interactions that occurs in several territorial

administrative units (…) that work together and are linked e.g. by transportation,

communications, economic activities or natural conditions, as well as through

common challenges and features.(17th session of CEMAT. Bucharest, 3 November 2017)


IS CENTRAL EUROPE A FUNCTIONAL AREA?

� 9 countries:(AT, CZ, DE, HR, HU, IT, PL, SK, SI)

� 76 regions

� 146 million inhabitants

� 8 cities > 1 million inhabitants

� Industrial core of the EU

(industrial transformation)


SHARED CHALLENGES IN CE

Old and new divides along the

north-south and east-west axes

are still shared challenges for

central European regions

Regional competitiveness index (2016) Quality of government index (2017)

7th Cohesion Report)


Old and new divides along the

north-south and east-west axes

are still shared challenges for

central European regions

Electricity generated from renewable sources (2015)

Electricity generated from hard coal and lignite (2015)

SHARED CHALLENGES IN CE

7th Cohesion Report)

Disintegration drivers against

EU cohesion are in place


TERRITORIAL COHESION ON THE GROUND IN CEShared values and a common identity generate strong networks and territorial integration on the ground

Partners in CE 2007-13 projects Network analysis of CE 2007-2013 transport projects


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Is a functional area also a “functioning” region?

� A transnational functional area is often identified with a geographical feature (a mountain chain, a river, a sea)

� However there are transnational regions sharing economic, social and cultural

features rooted in a common history and, at the same time, facing the same challenges (even without a common physical element)

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� Territorial coherence goes well beyond physical features and administrative

borders therefore…

� …functional areas should be defined following a holistic (yet rigorous and

coherent) approach, i.e. considering shared economic features, flows of goods

and people beyond borders, shared societal challenges (e.g. migration), common

identity � cohesive regions


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