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What to expect from today?

Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme 2014-2020 How To Apply seminar 20th March 2014 North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, Denmark. What to expect from today?. NPA Programme 2014 - 2020 information General overview and Q & A Quality objectives Application

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What to expect from today?

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  1. Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme 2014-2020How To Apply seminar20th March 2014North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, Denmark

  2. What to expect from today? • NPA Programme 2014 - 2020 information • General overview and Q & A • Quality objectives • Application • Step by step explanation of application sections • Project summary, project partners, project description and project budget • Q & A sessions • How to close a preparatory project • General wrap-up

  3. Thank You for Listening!www.northernperiphery.eu

  4. General overview Ole Damsgaard Northern Periphery and Arctic 2014-2020 Programme How to apply seminar 20th March 2014

  5. Timeline, where are we in the process?

  6. What is new? • Thematic concentration • Focus on results seen from programme area’s point of view • Intervention logic as cross cutting programme approach

  7. Intervention logic?ntion logic?

  8. Most important challenges • Peripherallity combined with low population density => • Fragile local economies • Shrinking rural communities • Demographic challenges • Labour market challenges • Governance challenges • Globalisation and increased competition • Environment & climate change

  9. Most important opportunities • Abundance of natural resources • Versatile business sector • Strong regional centres • Sectoral expertise and specialist knowledge • Demographic drivers as high in-migration • Capitalising on the opportunities from climate change

  10. Four Priority Axes, six specific objectives

  11. The six specific objectives • Increased innovation and transfer of new technology to SMEs • Increased innovation within public service provision • Improved support systems tailored for start-ups and existing SMEs • Greater market reach beyond local markets for SMEs • Increased use of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in housing and public infrastructures • Increased capacity of remote and sparsely populated communities for sustainable environmental management All objectives are in specific addressing remote and sparsely populated areas

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  13. Quality Objectives Kirsti Mijnhijmer20th March 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark

  14. Results orientation – some terminology • Result – what is intended to be changed in the programme area • Outputs– direct products of the programme, intended to contribute to results. They are mainly developed at project level (products/services). • Results orientation – for the 2014-2020 period, the focus is shifting from only measuring outputs (products/services) to measuring the results that they contribute to (change in the programme area).

  15. Why quality objectives? • Purpose: to ensure that project outputs (products & services) meet high quality standards, and (are likely to) contribute to the results sought by the Programme. • Quality objectives • Help to bridge the gap between the project outputs and programme results • Indicate the characteristics of the type of projects the programme aims to support; those that will deliver meaningful change. • Form a reference point for evaluating project applications – basis for selection criteria

  16. Why quality objectives?

  17. Quality Objectives • Concrete • Innovative • Focused • Relevant • Responsible • Viable • Transnational • Strategic • Value-for-money

  18. Quality Objectives • Concrete • Innovative • Focused • Relevant • Responsible • Viable • Transnational • Strategic • Value-for-money

  19. Quality Objectives – Innovative, Relevant • Innovative: the project output is new or innovative to the partner organisations, the partner countries involved, or the Programme area. • Relevant: Project outputs take into account relevant conditions in each part of the project’s target area. This means that the project outcomes: • Demonstrate a high relevance for the development needs and opportunities in the target area. • Take into account the level of maturity in the field of intervention for each part of the target area. • Demand-driven: The development of project outputs is based on demonstrable stakeholder demand and include stakeholder involvement (interface)

  20. Quality Objectives – Viable, Transnational • Viable: project outputs are supported by appropriate business and dissemination models that allow the project output to become self-sustaining when the project support ends. Business models describe: • Marketing plans for the project output to reach identified relevant target groups. Note: project branding should focus on project outcomes, not on promoting the project. • Realistic provision/delivery models. For example, ensuring that that the project output is delivered by organisations with the right competences, and well integrated, etc. • Transnational: the design of project outputs clearly draws on the results of transnational cooperation. • E.g. transferring models/knowledge/technology from one region to another, partners complementing each others’ competences and resources, combining different regional skill sets, gaining a critical mass, etc.

  21. Important considerations • When developing your project, make sure to take the quality objectives into account. The selection criteria will be based on them! • Use the different sections of the application form to demonstrate how your project addresses the quality objectives. • Describe concrete project outputs = products/services and their relevant components.

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  23. Introduction to application Christopher Parker20th March 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark

  24. Introduction to application • NPA Application form and Harmonized Implementation Tools (HIT) • NPA application form goes online • Time Plan

  25. Project identification • Project title • Project title not too long • Acronym: Use a catchy name • Project duration • The project lifetime cannot exceed 40 months (to be determined by PMC) • Programme priority • Select from drop down menu

  26. Project summary • A short overview of the project • What are the common challenge you are jointly addressing in your project idea • The main objectives of the project and the expected change your project will make to the current situation • The main outputs your project will produce and who will benefit from them • What is new and original about the approach you plan to take and • What is new and original about the project ideas • In English language [1000 - 1500 characters] • The first 4 lines of the project summary will act as the synopsis on the NPA programme website

  27. Lead partners

  28. Project partners – Lead partners

  29. Project partners – Lead partners

  30. Project partner

  31. Project partner

  32. Associated project partner (x)

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  34. Introduction sections C1 and C2 Kirsti Mijnhijmer20th March 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark

  35. Introduction sections C1 and C2 • Purpose of these sections: linking projects and their results to the programme intervention logic • Important to keep in mind the quality objectives (=selection criteria)!

  36. Intervention logic

  37. C.1 Project relevance • Refer back to challenges or potentials mentioned in the Operational Programme document (section 3.2.2). Demonstrate how your project is relevant for all regions involved, how it addresses a need, and how stakeholders are involved. Quality objective(s): relevant, focused. • Referback to the change sought as outlined in the Operational Programme document for the selected specific objective. Demonstrate that you are aware of the result sought by the programme and describe how your project will contribute to it. Quality objective(s): focused.

  38. C.2.1 Project objectives and expected results

  39. C.1 Project relevance - continued • Describe what is innovative about the products/services (outputs). Demonstrate that you are aware of the existing practice/state of the art in the sector/programme area/participating countries. Quality objective(s): innovative, relevant. • Describe why transnational cooperation is essential for achieving the project objectives OR what benefits the partnership/target groups/regions gain from the transnational approach. Quality objective(s): transnational.

  40. C.2.2 Target groups • List which main groups your project outputs and results are targeted at. • Demonstrate that you have considered how to involve end users during the project to ensure that the outputs will be used afterwards. • Please note that we expect you to build stakeholder engagement into the project, e.g. in your (associated) partnership, through your communications work package, or if relevant, by having a work package dedicated to industry interface, if your envisaged end users are the private sector. Quality objective(s): relevant, viable.

  41. Durability & Transferability • Demonstrate that you have considered how the project outputs and results can survive beyond the project lifetime, and what concrete measures will be taken during the project, e.g. developing viable business models, etc. Quality objective(s): viable. • Describe concrete measures to ensure that the project outputs and results are transferable, e.g. how this will be taken into account in the product/service development. Quality objective(s): relevant, transnational.

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  43. Linkages and Synergies and Horizontal principles Ole Damsgaard20th March 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark

  44. Links and Synergies

  45. Links and Synergies • Does your project contribute to other overall EU or national strategies e.g.: the EU BSR or the EU Atlantic strategy? • Is your project a follow up of previous funded projects? • Does your project have relations to other on-going projects?

  46. Horizontal Principles

  47. Horizontal Principles • The Programme is committed to integrate the horizontal principles into each priority and throughout the Programme as a whole • Every project approved by the NPA is required to contribute the improvement of the three horizontal principles

  48. Horizontal Principles • Does the project deal with green business models? • Does your project include young people/under represented groups? Or does it unintentionally create new barriers for specific groups? • Does your project aim to address gender inequality in the periphery?

  49. Thank You for Listening!www.northernperiphery.eu

  50. Work packages, Time plan and Indicators Christopher Parker20th March 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark

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