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

2. 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 ….

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

4. 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)

5. 2. Where to find information?
INPUTS:
Atlas and Programme factsheets:
Absorption tracking by Member state (next slide)
OUTPUTS – :
Open data:
2013 Strategic and National reports: LINK
Annual Programme reports in Member States
RESULTS:
Evaluations (more later)

6. 3. An example …

7. 3. An example ….

8. 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
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9. 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
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
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10. 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)
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"

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

12. 5. Exciting next things … this December 2015
An OPEN DATA platform on the ESI funds 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

13. Useful information OPEN DATA: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/
Data for Researchers:
Link to the ex post evaluations:
Link to the competition and conference:
Link to DG REGIO guidance:
To be found on the Inforegio website

14. ??? Questions ???
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