Workshop for IPA/NDICI programming authorities on embedding the EUSDR into EU funding programmes
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The relevant references of the proposal by the EU Commission for the new regulatory framework for the funding period 2021-2027, including regulations relevant for IPA and NDICI and their implementing regulations recognise the necessity to include macro-regional priorities in the planning and programming documents from the very beginning, and to identify challenges with macro-regional relevance.
This requires upgrading the level of coordination among countries, notably among national/regional authorities responsible for ESIF, IPA and NDICI planning and programming.
What has been done so far?
As agreed by National Coordinators (NCs) of EUSDR participating states in November 2019 in Zagreb, a Task Force for embedding the EUSDR into EU Programmes (EMB-DR) was formed. The aim was to draft a functional tool to support the EUSDR embedding process and the strategic planning and programming of the ESI/IPA III/ NDICI funds.
As the EUSDR Action Plan (with 85 actions) would be hard to utilize in the embedding process, a shortlist of maximum of three strategic topics per Priority Area (PA) to be included in the relevant national/regional Operational Programmes was generated.
The EUSDR “embedding tool” was elaborated based on a screening of available funding instruments. In this matrix, for each action and strategic topic possible funding instruments are suggested. The possible financing instruments refer to the Policy Objectives (PO) and Specific Objectives/intervention fields (EU-MS), IPA III Thematic priorities for assistance and NDICI Areas of cooperation for the geographic programmes & Areas of intervention for thematic programmes (non-EU). The tool supports the implementation of strategic topics with the highest EU added value in line with the priorities set for the next financing period.
In the course of the 2nd EU MRS WEEK, Cross embedding workshops on IPA and NDICI with programming authorities from the Danube Region took place. The workshops aimed to gather the main stakeholders of the IPA and NDICI embedding process, present the draft programming framework and open a discussion on how to achieve the objective in cooperation focused on possibilities to link IPA and NDICI assistance with macro-regional priorities.
Why another meeting?
Such meetings among programming authorities from the Danube Region could become a permanent tool for coordinating/monitoring the implementation of macro-regional actions (and then projects) included in the national programmes. To streamline the discussion process and to offer as much common focus as possible 2-3 meetings with / of MA are scheduled. 1. ERDF & CF managing authorities, 2. Meeting of ESF managing authorities Network, 3. IPA and NDICI programming authorities
In the first meeting, we kindly invite programming authorities responsible for IPA and NDICI funds to a Workshop on embedding the EUSDR into EU Funding Programmes. The Workshop includes sufficient time for discussion and exchange between the programming authorities, who are the target group of the Workshop. The agenda is complemented by short presentations and information from the EC and the EUSDR (incumbent Presidency and Danube Strategy Point), who plays the role of process facilitator. In order to show already good ways of embedding processes, examples from the Strategy on the one hand and from a IPA programme on the other hand are presented.
