Budapest, June 2014 Hermina Golob Head od Development Policies Division SLOVENIA Partnership agreement and Operational programme

2014 – 2020 programming context Funds available: 2007 – 2013: 4,1 bn EUR (CF, ERDF, ESF) 104 mio EUR (ETC) 2014 – 2020: 3 bn EUR (CF, ERDF, ESF) 160 mio EUR (CEF), 21 mio EUR (FEAD), 63 mio EUR (ETC) Slovenia is among the countries that was severely hit by the economic and financial crisis  high discrepancy betwenn funds available and the needs 2 Cohesion regions

2 Cohesion regions in SI Slovenia as one region Cohesion fund (895 mio EUR) West Cohesion Region ERDF (approx 60 %) ESF (approx 40 %) (847 mio EUR) Slovenia as one region Cohesion fund (895 mio EUR) East Cohesion Region ERDF (approx 70 %) ESF (approx 30 %) (1,26 bn EUR)

Timeline Partnership agreement:  formally submitted to EC 10 April 2014  EC comments: mid June  Approval: end August Operational programme:  formally submitted to EC 12 May 2014  EC comments: mid August

Single document for all three funds (ESF, ERDF, FS) and both cohesion regions (East and West) 12 priority axes (together with the Technical Assistance) Operational programme

Priority axis Investment priorities mio EUR (1) International competitiveness of research, innovation and technological development in accordance with smart specialisation for enhanced competitiveness and greening the economy  RDI excellence  Encouraging corporate investments in RDI synergies between businesses, research and development centres and higher education… 480 (2) ICT  Broadband 50 (3) Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises  Promoting entrepreneurship,  New business models for SMEs, in particular for internationalisation 550 (4) Sustainable use, energy production and intelligent networks  Energy efficiency and RES in the public sector and households  Renewable energy resources  Smart grids  Sustainable urban mobility 281 (5) Climate change adaptation  Support to investments facilitating climate change adaptation, including ecosystem-based approaches 83 (6) Improvement of the environment and biodiversity status  Infrastructure in the area of water  Infrastructure for waste management  Biodiversity  Urban environment 406 (7) Infrastructure construction and promotion of sustainable mobility  Rail infrastructure  Regional mobility,  Investment in TEN-T network 263

Priority axis Investment priorities mio EUR (8) Promoting employment and supporting transnational labour mobility  Access to employment  Sustainable integration of young people in the labour market  Adaptability of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change 287 (8) Social inclusion, reduction of poverty risks, active ageing and health  Active inclusion  Enhancing access to affordable, sustainable and high- quality services  Investing in health and social infrastructure  Promoting social enterpeneurship 190 (9) Education, skills and lifelong learning to enhance employability  Life Long Learning (target groups primary focus)  Responsiveness of education and training systems  Quality, efficiency and access to tertiary  Developing Education infrastructure 229 (10) Rule of law, enhancing institutional capacity, efficient public administration, support to the development of NGOs and capacity building of social partners  Investment in institutional capacity and efficiency of public administration and public services  Capacity building for all stakeholders 62 Technical Assistance 120 TOTAL 3,000

Challenges ahead Further concentration of proposed measures Improve intervention logic, specific objectives formulation, in some cases better elaboration of the described measures to demonstrate contribution to the specific objectives Demonstrate more clearly the synergies among the investment priorities Sustainable urban development/integrated territorial investments Approval of both councils of both cohesion regions

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