17 September 2019 | EUSAIR meeting on funding | Portorož

1. Funding EUSAIR • framing the workshop • 17 September 2019 | EUSAIR meeting on funding | Portorož

2. Funding EUSAIR – framing the workshop • Macro-Regional Strategies are referred to as ”innovative instruments for cooperation”. • What role does the Strategy play in the development of the Macro-Region? • What is innovative about the EUSAIR?

3. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe Whyare Macro-Regional Strategies needed? What challenges or opportunities do they address? How are they implemented, the so called modus/modi operandi?

4. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe Why?

5. Major societal challenges that can not be solved by a single country, region or municipality. For example, migration / integration, the quality of marine environment and unsustainable energy supply Europe in crisis; war in Ukraine, Brexit, financial crisis, refugee crisis, citizens questioning the membership in EU (what’s in it for me) - Europe needs to be re-integrated More cost-effective solutions; solving problems together instead of “re-inventing wheels”. Macro-Regional Strategies are laboratories for a new Europe. A Europe in need of more targeted solutions to our societal challenges. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe Why are Macro-Regional Strategies needed?

6. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe • Prerequisites • Three no • No new funding • No new institutions • No new legislation • but one big YES • Use existing resources - channel them to the implementation of macro-regional strategies and promote cooperation between existing institutions at all levels, by engaging in collaborative working formats. Multilevel governance

7. Macro-Regional Strategies – are new, emerging ’experimental governance’ in Europe. Bringing all types of stakeholders into designing the future of Europe is the essence of the Macro-Regional Strategies as adaptive, macro-regional development strategies. Unlike ”old, formal” strategies, this one is very pragmatic – aims to solve real macro-regional challenges that no country can solve alone (like integrating vulnerable social groups in the society and labour market). Built on participatory approaches which bring together different perspectives in scoping and approaching the challenge, and work both by on the level of policy and that of action on the ground. Finding and financing common solutions require aligning different funding sources, too – another reason to bring together various partners with access to funding, on national, regional and local levels. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe

8. Macro-Regional “trategies – laboratories for a new Europe What? Challenge: larger than one country can handle Focus: Define the macroregional added value

9. Integration of migrants Local answer: Finding accommodation for newly arrived refugees Macroregional answer: Developing methods for quickly learning a new language

10. International competitiveness among SMEs Regional answer: Building innovation clusters Macroregional answer: Developing joint training of cluster managers

11. Sustainable food production National answer: Introduce a funding mechanism supporting sustainable protein sources Macroregional answer: Start a macroregional cluster for sustainable food production

12. Focus: Define the macroregional added value • Learning between countries / benchmarking (policy and methods) • IPA-learning • Multi-Level Governance (MLG) in practice • One Macro-Region (belongingness)

13. Listed Actions with a macroregional added value – form an Action Plan Actions ≠ Projects!

14. Policy Area Action Plan structure Action 3 Action 1 Action 2 Targets and indicators Targets and indicators Targets and indicators 1 Flagship (process) 1 Flagship (process) 1 Flagship (process) Projects Projects Projects

15. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe How?

16. How to implement the Action Plan? Modus Operandi in EUSBSR

17. Flagships – development processes Modus operandi

18. Flagships – joint transnational development processes Within the MRS framework, the collaborative processes are called flagships – strategic actions born to respond to macro-regional challenges, for which they gather relevant stakeholders from all levels of society. Flagships become ”the home” (‘containers’) for projects, chains of projects, processes, thematic groups and platforms – that together produce a much higher impact on the issue. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe

19. ,A flagship within the Baltic Sea Strategy

20. FLAGSHIP LEADER Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions Sweden Flagship structure Flagship Leader – a new role! NEETs Learning platform Norden Association Sweden EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING Learning platform City of Turku Finland INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES Learning platform City of Turku Finland Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Peer-learning Peer-learning Peer-learning Projects Projects Projects ”production units”

21. Benefits of ’containers’ (vs ’projects’)? • All types of stakeholders (MLG + civil society) • Incompatibilities between EU members and IPA countries MATTER LESS • Not limited in time • Real alignment of funding • Real alignment of policies • Collaboration capacity of all involved grows through learning-in-acton LARGER IMPACT on the Macro-Regional issue

22. From ’Projects’ to ’Containers’ Policy impact on the issue at hand MLG: wider stakeholder circles Core project Multi-funding Collaborative capacity

23. Macro-Regional Strategies – laboratories for a new Europe Alignment of funding – mainstream programmes • ESIF Article 70 – allowed to spend up to 15% outside the programme area • Alignment require a structure – a Managing Authority network (MA-network) • Agreement on thematic priorities and mandates defining “modus operandi” • Co-ordinated calls / synchronized calls aiming to support flagships • Today 4 MA-networks (ERDF, ESF, EARDF, EMFF) • ESF was first forming an MA-network in 2011, ERDF in 2016 and the other two in 2017.

24. More information Anders Bergströmanders.bergstrom@norden.se Websitehttps://www.balticsea-region-strategy.eu/

25. Workshop 4 Questions • Agree on a societal challenge to be addressed by the Strategy? A pragmatic challenge with a clear macroregional added value. • Access all relevant perspectives on this challenge (environmental, social etc.). • Make a stakeholder analyses. Whom can bring about change? Need to be engaged. List all possible actors. • What funding programmes need to be used? List multiple and relevant funding sources (for example ESIF, sector programmes and IPA).