Cohesion Policy: Where to find interesting data? John WALSH Evaluation and European Semester Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy Cohesion Policy

What data is available? Where to find it? Some examples …. Key messages What data is available? Where to find it? Some examples …. For the specialists …. Exciting next thing ….

1. What do ERDF and Cohesion Fund programmes do? The ERDF and Cohesion Fund in the period 2007-2013 financed 322 programmes Across 28 Member states At National and Regional level Investing in a wide variety of themes ….

1. What do we have data on ? INPUTS: Programmes 1) allocate and 2) spend money in different 3) investment themes OUTPUTS: Direct measurable product of the actions supported RESULTS: Influence on socio economic developments (but there are other factors that influence also)

2. Where to find information? INPUTS: Atlas and Programme factsheets: 2007-2013 - 2014-2020 Absorption tracking by Member state (next slide) OUTPUTS – 2007-2013: Open data: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/ 2013 Strategic and National reports: LINK Annual Programme reports in Member States RESULTS: Evaluations (more later)

3. An example …. 2007-13

3. An example 2014-2020 ….

4. For the specialists …. Ex-post evaluation 2007-2013 Objectives: Accountability and transparency Learning policy lessons feed into the preparation of next period Details are here : LINK Objectives: Accountability: yearly report summarising the performance Funds to Council, European Parliament, Social Committee, Committee of Regions Policy lessons learnt will fed into the post 2020 discussion and the preparatory work of next Regulation: learn from our previous mistakes, improve policy Opportunity to experiment evaluation methods Deeper knowledge of available data and how to improve them Cohesion Policy 8

Challenges for 2007-2013 SCALE AND SCOPE: 322 programmes of varied sizes (from 3 Million to 28 Billion) Covering various fields of activity, expected results at different time horizons TIMING: Deadline for ex post evaluation: end December 2015 while programmes are still running Objective: to publish the synthesis report in April 2016 Challenge number and coverage 28 Billion is the national Polish OP infrastructure and environment, 3 million is the regional programme Aland in Finland: differences of role of ERDF in policy mix (from a crucial instrument to bring structural changes to experimentation) Covering various fields of activity: from enterprise support, research and innovation to energy efficiency, transport, communication, social and environmental infrastructures… Expected results at different time horizons Evaluations require different expertise and methodology + 1000 evaluations carried out by Member States, many on processes, varied quality More than 5000 uses of the 56 core indicator reported by the programmes, many more specific indicators, varied quality Cohesion Policy 9

Impact of Cohesion Policy (Synthesis) 2007 - 2013 Delivery systems Quest Rhomolo Modelling Block Outputs: Core indicators Inputs: Geographic distrib. Data Block Impact of Cohesion Policy (Synthesis) 2007 - 2013 Thematic Block Enterprise support Financial instruments Large Entreprises Transport Environment Energy efficiency Culture and tourism Urban and social European territorial Cooperation 14 studies launched, most will end in 2015, 3 already finished 2 studies on data: to verify indicators provided by Managing Authorities, to prepare for modelling work 8 thematic evaluations, filling gap in knowledge particularly for support to large entreprises and financial instrument, urban and social infrastructure, tourism and culture + Delivery systems (with DG EMPL) and ETC Macro-economic effects (2 internal models) + 2 Counterfactual impact evaluation on effects on growth Synthesis ( the consultants comment on each individual evaluation) Completed: two studies on data + evaluation on "Energy efficiency or public buildings and residential housing"

Typical elements of thematic evaluations Literature review Stock taking: financial data, core indicators Case studies (103 in total), surveys Stakeholder seminar Final report

5. Exciting next things … this December 2015 An OPEN DATA platform on the ESI funds 2014-2020 with initially … Searchable data at EU – Thematic – Member State or Fund level (ERDF-EAFRD-ESF-CF-EMFF) Financial allocations and planned achievements A later phases to To display all 500+ programmes Updates on absoption and tracking achievements Beneficairy lists

Useful information OPEN DATA: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/ Data for Researchers: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/data-for-research/ Link to the ex post evaluations: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/ec/2007-2013/ Link to the competition and conference: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/conferences/evaluating-effects/ Link to DG REGIO guidance: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/guidance/ To be found on the Inforegio website

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