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How did Austrian RDA‘s prepare to enter the EU Lublin, June 2001. MANFRED KOJAN ÖAR Regional Development Consultants A-1010 Vienna / Austria. Background. Austria accessed the EU in January 1995 Austria has a very strong federalistic structure 9 NUTS II regions
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How did Austrian RDA‘s prepare to enter the EULublin, June 2001 MANFRED KOJAN ÖAR Regional Development Consultants A-1010 Vienna / Austria
Background • Austria accessed the EU in January 1995 • Austria has a very strong federalistic structure • 9 NUTS II regions • inhomogeneous and diversified regional and local development structures
TMG Upper Austrian Technology and Marketing Agency ECO-Plus WWFF Vienna Business Agency Salzburg Agency WIBAG Wirtschaftsservice Burgenland AG VTTZ Vorarlberg Region SFG Styrian Business Agency Tech-Tyrol KWF Carinthian Business Agency RDA‘s in Austria NUTS II: 9 RDAs NUTS II-III: 25 local development promotion, 40 LEADER, BIC, TEC, Business Incubators, ...
Austrian accession process • strong lead on national levelBKA (Austrian Chancellery)ÖROK (Austrian Spacial Co-ordination Conference) • Regional Programmes on NUTS II level developedcounty administrationexternal process assistance (ÖIR, ÖAR, SIR,...) • low development of RDAsone of several involved partners within the process (sectoral/regional experts)
How Austrian‘s regions prepare for EU accession • no EU but some national money for EU-accession preparation • ÖROK/ÖAR studies, analysis of how other EU countries prepared their programmes • ÖROK: programming meeting for dissemination of EU-accession, Know how to RDAs and Regional Administration • RDAs (and Regional Administration) adapt their subsidy system to EU conformity • RDAs: learning by doing
The actual position of Austrian RDAswithin EU-programming and programme implementation • Important experts (regional Know-How) within the programming process • High involvement in INTERREG programmes (programming, specific projects, ...) • co-ordination and administration of some of the EU-structural funds (and national funds) • Development and management of own (RDA) EU projects • Assistance for region to develop projects for EU co-financing
Interregional co-operation of Austrian RDAs The Information Net of Regional Development Agencies in the Central European andDanubian Area
The RDA-Net CEDA Area Austria Italy Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary Slovenia Poland
CEDA International Conference:Networking Regions "Regional Development and TransnationalCo-operation in an enlarging EU" June 18th / 19th 2001, Vienna and Sankt Pölten, Austria Major Topics of the conference: • RDAs and their role for the regions • Networks and Networking • Transnational Co-operation • Panel Discussion: EU Structural Funds and community initiatives after EU-Enlargement