ERNACT IMC meeting

1. ERNACT IMC meeting Digital Hub Dublin 8th April 2008

2. Recently submitted projects • PIKE • CMC@NP

3. Projects under development • ELLIS • eGovernment multichannel • CMC@NWE

4. Promoting Innovation and the Knowledge Economy PIKE Aim To improve Innovation & Knowledge Economy Policies through the exchange, sharing and transfer of good practices and through the integration of these good practices into the mainstream SF programmes • Objectives • To exchange experience and to transfer eGov and • Wireless Broadband good practice pilots and tools • To share the identified good practices and to • develop an Action Plan to transfer them into the • Mainstream SF programmes • To disseminate information about the project to a • Large audience • Budget • €1,665,523 • 75% funding rate • Status • Submitted to INTERREGIVC on Jan 15th • 500 applications • Decisions on project approval on Sep’08

5. PIKE partners

6. Connected Mobile Communities in the Northern Periphery CMC@NP Aim To use broadband mobile communication services to promote the competitiveness of rural communities in the NPP area Objectives - Develop the capability of rural communities to incorporate emerging broadband mobile services - To develop a number of broadband mobile services - Utilise the services to (1) improve the inherent sustainability of communities and to (2) provide economic connections to more central areas • Budget • €1,165,781.01 • 60% funding rate (50% for non NP partners) • Status • Submitted to INTERREGIVB on Mar 6th • 14 applications • Decisions on project approval on May’08

7. CMC@NP partners

8. COMING CALLS/PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT • CALLS • INTERREG IVB – North West Europe • 2nd Call opens 7 April & closes 9 May • INTERREG IVB – Atlantic Area • 1st call opens 17 March & closes 12 May • PROJECTS • ELLIS • eGovernment multichannel • CMC@NWE

9. INTERREG IVB - NWE

10. INTERREG IVB - AA

11. North West Europe 50% funding rate Programme priorities P1: Capitalizing on innovation P3: Improving connectivity P4: Strengthening communities Average project 9 partners (min 2 partners from 2 countries) 3/4 years €6M budget (€3M ERDF) 2nd call budget Atlantic Area 65% Funding rate Programme priorities P4 : Promote transnational synergies in sustainable urban and regional development Average project At least 2 countries (desirable as many AA MS as possible) 2 years €2M budget (€1.3M ERDF) 2nd call budget € 26,446,214 ERDF € 3,871,335 ERDF for P4 NWE & AA side by side

12. Émigrés Linking Locally through Investment and Skills transfer ELLIS Aim To reduce the impact of demographic migration in NWE through a transnational programme that promotes both the physical relocation and networking of its émigrés, coupled with skills transfer, commercial relationships and investment. • Objectives • To establish a skilled émigrés network • To use the latest Internet & CRM to link • expats to specific areas of business interest, • to network and delivering a range of • information services • To foster and broker a series of foreign direct • investment, partnerships and/or out sourcing • contracts • WORKPLAN • WP1 – Management and coordination • WP2 – Expatriate network • WP3 – Web based networking • WP4 - FDI, outsourcing and partnerships promotion • WP5 - Dissemination

13. ELLIS

14. eGovernment multichannel

15. General considerations • Only 1 month to deadline: even ONLY 2 project proposals is ambitious • Very difficult to get more than 1 project funded out of the same call→1 project to AA and another to NWE • Proposal: • ELLIS to NWE • eGovernment multichannel to AA

16. DARRA (Digital Age in Remote and Rural Areas) Programme: Northern Periphery Total Budget: €1,423,789 Duration: 3 years

17. Aim Eliminate the digital divide between rural and urban areas in the Northern Periphery by boosting the usage of more advances ICT services. Rural areas will benefit form more competitive business and full development of ICT for regional development.

18. Objectives • Create a vision on attractive rural lifestyle with ICT in 2013 to guide the ICT strategy development in rural areas in the future. • Raise awareness of the benefits of advanced ICT services. The target groups will be for example tourism sector, local authorities and municipalities • Implement the more advanced eServices in the project regions.

19. Partners • Kemi-Tornion University of Applied Sciences (Lapland, Finland) • Joint authority of Kainuu region (Kainuu, Finland) • Kainuun Etu Oy (Kainuu, Finland) • The Association of Local Authorities in Västernorrland (Västernorrland, Sweden) • Mid Sweden University (Västernorrland, Sweden) • Företagarna Västernorrland (Sundsvall, Sweden) • ERNACT (Ireland/Northern Ireland) • Shannon Development (Shannon, Ireland) • Sogn og Fjordane County Governor (Sogn og Fjordane, Norway) • Western Norway Research Institute (Sogn og Fjordane, Norway) • Rovaniemi regional development agency (Rovaniemi, Finland) • University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland)

20. Associated Partners • IT-forum Sogn og Fjordane via WNRI (Sogndal , Norway) • Derry City Council (Northern Ireland) • Donegal County Council (BMW Region, Ireland) • Galway County Council (BMW Region, Ireland) • Municipalities of Örnsköldsvik, Sollefteå, Kramfors, Härnösand, Timrå, Sundsvall and Ånge (Västernorrland, Sweden) • The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Stockholm, Sweden) • Entrepreneurs in West Bothnia (Kemi, Finland) • It-Polis in Kainuu (Kajaani, Finland)

21. WP1: Project management, evaluation & communication Strategic Focus: Project management, coordination and communication to secure effective communication and dissemination of project results. Responsible Partner: Kemi-Tornion University of Applied Sciences

22. WP2: ICT vision for remote and sparsely populated areas Strategic Focus: Understanding 2013 life styles in peripheral regions and systematically linking this knowledge necessary competences, policy & decision making. Responsible Partner: Kommunförbundet Västernorrland

23. WP3: Developing ICT maturity of SMEs in sparsely populated and rural areas Strategic Focus: Effectively address obstacles hindering ICT uptake & maturity of SME’s in peripheral regions and increase in a measurable way ICT uptake and e-Commerce performance of 20 SME’s in the partner regions. Responsible Partner: Kainuun Etu Oy

24. WP4: eGovernment solutions supporting e-business Strategic Focus: Make significant contribution to the uptake of e-business processes by SMEs and microbusinesses, and the stimulation of regional “e- services” markets, through strategic selection and implementation of a number of public or government “e-services”. It achieves this by using its dominant position for the supply of certain services to strongly encourage SMEs to utilise these services in their “e-form”. This includes local development groups working in public interest. Responsible Partner: ERNACT

25. Main Outputs • An understandable and easily communicated ICT-vision for rural areas where each region can find support for new initiatives and activities. • A new awareness of ICTs roll for regional growth in rural areas. Visions and scenarios should help policymakers take multiple futures into account and take actions to move toward desired futures. • Processing of some 120 – 150 SMEs in all 4 partner regions • 1 Handbook formulating a good practice model for ICT uptake in remote and peripheral areas, relying on the 2013 vision, the regulatory drivers,  the service provision and the actual SME processing. • Best practice model for e-business services by public authorities.