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Strategic Projects The Ireland Wales Experience INTERACT – Rome, November 10 th 2011

Strategic Projects The Ireland Wales Experience INTERACT – Rome, November 10 th 2011. Ireland Wales Programme Area. Programme Focus. Programme Budget. ERDF Grant €52.7 million Match Funding €17.6 million Total Budget €70.3 million

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Strategic Projects The Ireland Wales Experience INTERACT – Rome, November 10 th 2011

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  1. Strategic Projects The Ireland Wales Experience INTERACT – Rome, November 10th 2011

  2. Ireland Wales ProgrammeArea

  3. Programme Focus

  4. Programme Budget • ERDF Grant €52.7 million • Match Funding €17.6 million • Total Budget €70.3 million • Max 75% grant for BOTH Irish and Welsh project partners

  5. Ireland Wales – Call by Call

  6. Ireland Wales – Latest Position

  7. Strategic Call – Why? • Respond to need for greater strategic impact in Cohesion Policy • Assist with meeting N+2

  8. Strategic Projects – What • Aim for increased impact, influence and visibility • Leave a legacy beyond the life of the programme • Achieve a balance between top-down and bottom-up approaches • Additional set of criteria/conditions

  9. Strategic Call – Criteria • Highly developed levels of cross border cooperation • Clear relevance with the Programme’s Priorities and Themes • Strategic impact beyond the life of the Ireland Wales funding • Originality – It represents a chance to shape discussions regarding policy development in areas directly relevant to the programme. • Ability to commence operations speedily and spend to profile from the beginning

  10. Strategic Projects – How • Exploratory discussion with PMC (January 2010) • Background research by JTS (February 2010) • Detailed discussion with the PSC (March 2010) • Detailed proposal sent to the PMC (April 2010) • Agreement to launch a Strategic Call (April 2010)

  11. Strategic Projects – Generation • Development Officers • Standard Communication Channels • Intense levels of support pre-submission • ‘Normal’ call launched in 2010 also

  12. Strategic Call – Process • Call Launched – April 23rd 2010 • Call Closed – May 21st 2010 • Applications Received – 3 • Applications selected by PMC June 16th • Applications selected – 2 • Projects started – July/August 2010

  13. Strategic Call – Appraisal • Similar to main calls but with some changes • Comply with Strategic conditions • Core selection criteria only • Projects selected by PMC not Steering Committee • Other parts of process remain the same

  14. Winning In Tendering • Partners – Bangor University, Dublin City University, IIPMM • Total Cost €3.74 million • Total ERDF Grant €2.54 million • Timeline 08/2010 – 12/2013 • Website http://www.youtube.com/user/winintendering

  15. Winning In Tendering • 'Winning in Tendering' (WIT) is a strategic project aimed at transforming the public tendering experience of SME’s in Ireland and Wales. WIT will address skill gaps of SME’s (&public procurers) which inhibit the region's competitiveness & sustainable development via unique, innovative & complementary targeted interventions.

  16. Smart Coasts • Partners – Aberystwyth University, University College Dublin • Total Cost €4.35 million • Total ERDF Support €3.27 million • Timeline 07/10-06/13 • Website www.smartcoasts.eu

  17. Smart Coasts • The core aim is to equip Irish and Welsh communities to maintain the economic and strategic value of near-shore waters to their economies. This will be done by facilitating application of new real-time management systems, first suggested by WHO and soon to be allowed within EU Directive criteria.

  18. Strategic Projects – Latest • Conditions broadly complied with • External and internal challenges re quick spend • Strategic doesn’t just mean big • Subject to close JTS/MA monitoring • Optimistic regarding outputs, results, impacts • Can only judge success at a later date • New regulations allow time to consider next move

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