1. EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Insight into interregional cooperation Elena Ferrario| Project Officer Joint Technical Secretariat FLIPPER final conference 21October 2011, Almada

2. 2 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Summary 1. Programme context 2. Programme state of play 3. Results and achievements 4. The FLIPPER project

3. 3 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 1. Programme context

4. 4 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 4 1. Programme context EU Cohesion and Regional Policy Objective 1: Convergence € 282.8 billion Objective 2: Regional Competitiveness and Employment € 55 billion Objective 3: European Territorial Cooperation (including INTERREG IVC) € 8.7 billion REGIONAL / NATIONAL PROGRAMMES influence

5. 5 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 1. Programme context EU Cohesion and Regional Policy Reducing disparities

6. 6 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 6 INTERREG IVC main features ERDF funding: €300 m Eligible area: - EU 27 - Switzerland & Norway 2 priorities - Innovation & knowledge economy - Environment and risk prevention 2 types of interventions - Regional Initiative Project - Capitalisation Project 1. Programme context

7. 7 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 7 1. Programme context in a nutshell INTERREG IVC allows local and regional policy-makers to access the experience of others in Europe facing similar issues in order to renew their practices / strategies / policies  Mainly dedicated to local and regional authorities  Core focus on the exchange of experience “Learning by sharing”

8. 8 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 2. Programme state of play

9. 9 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Programme implementation – 2011  Three calls for proposals (2008 – 2009 - 2010) Around 1,000 applications received  Fourth call 2011 Deadline 1 April 2011: around 350 applications received 2. Programme state of play

10. 10 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Programme implementation – 2011 2. Programme state of play

11. 11 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Applicants per country – all calls 2. Programme state of play

12. 12 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Project partners per country – 3 calls

13. 13 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 2. Programme state of play 1: Innovation and the knowledge economy 2: Environment and risk prevention 71 projects 51 projects

14. 14 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 INTERREG IVC projects related to Energy and Sustainable transport 2. Programme state of play 19 projects 226 partners

15. 15 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 2. Programme state of play Capitalisation at programme level to better exploit the knowledge resulting from projects working on a similar topic up to 12 topics covered renewable energy cultural industries entrepreneurship ageing population climate change Sustainable transport

16. 16 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 3.First programme achievements

17. 17 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Good practices transferred 1,121 good practices identified 3. First programme achievements (Data from the 41 first call projects) 29 successfully transferred

18. 18 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Examples of transfer under Priority 2 From: Borrough of Bromley (UK) To: Frankfurt am Main (DE) Practice : ‘Walk to school’ – Encourage school children to walk to school rather than travel by car Project : 3. First programme achievements

19. 19 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Results: - 1 practice transferred (partly financed by IVC) - 15 schools and 3,000 pupils involved - 40 tonnes CO 2 (and 19,200 litres of oil) saved PIMMS TRANSFER example 3. First programme achievements

20. 20 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Programme overall objective: “Improvement of regional and local policies” Already 50 national/regional/local policies improved: 42 policies improved under Priority 1 8 policies improved under Priority 2 3. First programme achievements

21. 21 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 Examples of policy improvement 3. First programme achievements Sub-theme: Information Society Project: PIKE Partner concerned: Bologna Municipality (IT) Policy improved: Revision of the Emilia Romagna Regional Telematic Plan 2011-2013 which now includes the ‘Guidelines for Local Wireless Communities’ coming from PIKE Sub-theme: Natural & technological risks; Climate Change Project: GRaBS Partner concerned: London Borough of Sutton (UK) Policy improved: Revision of the ‘Sutton’s Adaptation Action Plan’ which now integrates GRaBS findings on community and stakeholders engagement into Climate Change policies

22. 22 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 4. About FLIPPER

23. 23 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 4. About FLIPPER  Intense good practice transfers  Promising actions to improve regional/national policies  Successful pilots...one of our best projects, taken as example to illustrate the successfulness of INTERREG IVC projects to the EU Commission and EU Member States Concrete and relevant results

24. 24 FLIPPER Final conference – 21 October 2011 www.interreg4c.eu