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Background locregis/19991007/index.html

Background www.locregis.net/19991007/index.html. Heikki Lunnas 7.10.1999. Local and Regional Information Society LOCREGIS. Local and regional information society projects and regional development Inventory of the projects Regional analyses Development of the evaluation methods

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  1. Backgroundwww.locregis.net/19991007/index.html Heikki Lunnas 7.10.1999

  2. Local and Regional Information Society LOCREGIS • Local and regional information society projects and regional development • Inventory of the projects • Regional analyses • Development of the evaluation methods • Networking and awareness • Co-operation • ERDF funding (art. 7) LOCREGIS I 1996-1998 LOCREGIS II 1999-2000 • http://www..locregis.net/

  3. History • LOCREGIS 1996-1998 results: • project database • regional analyses • best practice criteria, pilot profiles • networking platform of the experts • new regional products and co-operation

  4. Primary Targets:Objective 1 and 6 Regions in Austria, Finland and Sweden

  5. Nature of LOCREGIS II EU Commission Partner regions LOCREGIS Matching and interpreting New regions outside EU New regions in EU

  6. LOCREGIS II Implementation • Started in January 1999 • Ends in April 2000 • I phase 6 months; partnership and network, development of the tools • II phase 10 months; enlargement, tools, methods, networks • Results • database and analysing tools, benchmarking, regional profiles, self-sustaining networks

  7. Project Partners • Co-ordinator • Association of the Finnish Local and Regional Authorities • Other project partners • ARCO • Wirtschaftsservice Burgenland/BIC Burgenland • Landstingsförbundet

  8. Regional Partners • 12 regions in Austria, Finland and Sweden • Tasks: • Reporting the experiences • Working groups • Inventory • Consultancy (new platforms) • Testing of the results

  9. Support Partners • National actors • No funding, no payments • Same information as other partners • Value added for support partners and project

  10. Final seminar • LOCREGIS Final seminar in Eisenstadt in Austria 13.4.-14.4.2000 • Draft objectives: • support networking of the regions • regions and the Commission • regional best practice • more "visible" database=>projects and projects leaders physically • regional IS 2000-2006 (examples)

  11. LOCREGIS II Results Heikki Lunnas 7.10.1999

  12. Open tools in Internet Results 7.10.1999 • Adding and updating projects (1214) • Searching the projects • Organisations (3353) • Organisations in the projects • EU programmes (42) • Regions (330) • Regional profiles (330) • Evaluation of the projects (test phase) • Evaluation of the project proposals/ideas

  13. Database 1.10.1999 Results 7.10.1999 • 1209 single projects • In Austria, Finland and Sweden by region and by EU-programme 1640 projects • In the whole database by region and by EU-programme ~ 4000-4500 projects and 330 regions • 50 % with all needed information

  14. Project in the analyse Results 7.10.1999 • Logical funding • can be part of different EU sources • umbrella projects • Mostly estimated regional share in the transregional projects • Different phases mostly separate

  15. Summary1999 (1998) Results 7.10.1999

  16. Project costs by EU funding source Results 7.10.1999 Meuro

  17. Project costs by EU funding source Results 7.10.1999 Meuro Total costs of all projects 577,3 Meuro

  18. Sectors Results 7.10.1999

  19. Funding Sources Results 7.10.1999

  20. Results Results 7.10.1999 • Permanent new jobs of the big regional projects with cumulative effects (1.000 - 1.200) • Jobs during the projects 1.200 - 2.000 annual • Survival of the jobs and services most important • Main results in training and new business • Target groups 40.000 - 50.000 people and 1.500 organisations • More differentiated regions

  21. Remarks Results 7.10.1999 • Private sector participation is still difficult • The importance of the private sector in the regional development is not considered • Decision-making structures promote sometimes small and separate projects • In some cases also regional development funding to the projects without clear regional development goals

  22. Survival of the results Results 7.10.1999 • Part of the national inventory in Finland and Sweden • Support of regional development activities in many countries • Preliminary discussions with European associations: • management of the database • development of the tools

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