Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Grant allocationStatus and Experience

Sofia, 28 May 2009

Dr Tore Lasse By Programme directorNorwegian Cooperation Programme

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Innovation Norway

• Statutory company owned by Ministry of Trade and Industry

• 750 employees in offices distributed throughout all of Norway’s counties and in 30 countries. The Head Office is located in Oslo.

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Innovation Norway

Innovation Norway’s objective is to promote private-

and socio-economic profitable business development

and to release the commercial opportunities of the

districts and regions by encouraging innovation,

internationalisation and profile-building.

Innovation Norway team Bulgaria

• Commercial Counsellor

Anne Lise Rognlidalen• Programme officer

Venceslava Yanchovska• Programme Assistant

Galina Vassileva• Programme Director

Tore Lasse By

Norwegian Cooperation ProgrammeProject selection

Application

EU screening

IN decision

IN pre-assessment

NFP opinionIN full assessment

NORWEGIAN CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIAper 30 April 2009

Programme Statistics as per April 30th, 2009

NORWEGIAN CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIAper 30 April 2009

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW IN FIGURES (EUR)

TOTAL PROGRAMME ALLOCATION 20.000.000

TOTAL ALLOCATION FOR PROJECTS (after deduction of mgmt costs)

18.300.000

TOTAL IPs APPROVED(of which into NGO projects)

17.983.3543.277.900

TOTAL SEED MONEY APPROVED 303.180

TOTAL TRAVEL SUPPORT APPROVED 13.466

Not allocated 0.00

NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 30 April 2009

Approved IPs per type of project promoter

1

107

4

Private

NGO

Public

Tradeunion

NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 30 April 2009

Approved IPs - amounts in EUR per priority sector

300 000,00

1 191 454,00

6 406 000,00

5 290 000,00

4 615 900,00

Technical Assistance

Environment

Sustainable Production

Schengen

Energy

NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIA per 30 April 2009

Approved IPs per priority sector

2 1

9

38

Energy Efficiency

SustainableProduction

Environment

Schengen

TechnicalAssistance

NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH BULGARIAper 30 April 2009

1 0 13

1

5

10

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Approved IPs by location in BG regions

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Survey results85 respondents answered the

survey before May 25th (+ 50 % response rate).

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Questions related to project management

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Questions related to projects’ expected

impact

Project management

Averages

Project management

Averages

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Cross cutting issues

Cross cutting issues

Averages

Cross cutting issues

Cross cutting issues

Averages per country for ‘Energy efficiency …’

Averages per country for ‘… sustainable production…’

Questions related to programme implementation

and Innovation Norway quality of service

Averages related to communication with Innovation Norway

Questions related to application preparation and partner search

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Project implementation related questions

Average answers related to understanding of documentation needed

during implementation

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria

Partnership Experiences

•Public-Public•NGO-NGO•Private-Private•Mixed partners

Norwegian Cooperation Programme with Bulgaria