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The New Swiss Regional Policy (NRP) & knowledge management by regiosuisse, the Swiss network unit for regional development. August 2010. Content. The New Swiss Regional Policy (NRP): Objectives and strategies What is regiosuisse? How is regiosuisse organized? What does regiosuisse do?

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August 2010

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  1. The New Swiss Regional Policy (NRP) & knowledge management by regiosuisse, the Swiss network unit for regional development August 2010

  2. Content • The New Swiss Regional Policy (NRP): Objectives and strategies • What is regiosuisse? • How is regiosuisse organized? • What does regiosuisse do? • Products and services of regiosuisse 2

  3. 1. NRP: Objectives and strategies The Swiss federal government’s regional policy is designed to help rural, mountainous and border areas to implement their development programs: Promote Improve Create Reduce Entrepreneurship Innovation Value chains Regional disparities Competitive-ness Employment 3

  4. 1. NRP: Most important features Adjustment to the globalised economy: Regional policy helps rural areas to adjust to the globalised economy. Enhance export capacity: Regional policy supports export-oriented value creation systems. Laws of the market: Regional policy takes account of the laws of the market. Focus on geographical and functional centres: The regional centres are the development drivers. 4

  5. 1. NRP: The core concept: enhance the regions export capacity Region • Strengthen those economic activities that create value and increase exports out of the region • Reduce barriers to innovation and entrepreneurship • Active support of innovative and entrepreneurial actors Export-oriented activities Purchase of local products Exports (revenues) Imports (expenses) Local economy Intraregional multiplicator 5

  6. 1. NRP: Geographical area of application 6

  7. 1. NRP: Financing mechanism Non-repayable grants 26 mio. € p. a. Amortisation & interest Regional Development Fundstock ≈ 0.8 billion € Addition deposits2008–2015  150 mio. € Repayable loans  32 mio. € p. a. 7

  8. 1. NRP: The three pillars of Swiss regional policy Pillar 1: Increasing the economic strength of the regions trough direct promotion of initiatives, projects, programmes and regional development agencies Pillar 3: Expertise on regional policy and the people involved in it; supports the implementation of pillars 1 and 2 Pillar 3: expertise for regional policy and the people involved in it; supports the implementation of pillars 1 and 2 Pillar 2: Horizontal co-ordination with other federal agencies that are concerned with the needs of rural areas such as policies on innovation, education, agriculture, the environment, energy, tourism and SME 8

  9. NRP: Pillar 1:Multi-year programme 2008–15 9

  10. 1. NRP: Pillar 1: Direct promotion of initiatives, projects and programmes Step 1: The canton defines an implementation programmeThe federal government does not hand out cash to the cantons on the principle of equal share for all. No support without innovative ideas and compelling concepts. Step 2: The federal government and the canton conclude a programme agreementThe federal government assesses the canton’s proposed strategy. Both parties sign a joint programme agreement. Step 3: The canton implements its strategyThe contractually agreed objectives and milestones are the cornerstones of the collaboration.  One programme for each canton! (23) 10

  11. NRP: Pillar 1: Contracted objectives 2008–2011 11

  12. 1. NRP in Switzerland: Pillar 3: Expertise 12

  13. 3. What is regiosuisse? …is the Swiss network unitfor regional development. …was launched at the beginning of 2008 by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), DepartmentRegional and Spatial Planning Policy, in order to accompany the New Regional Policy. regiosuisse… 13

  14. 4. How is regiosuisse organized? • PLANVAL AG as general contractor:regiosuisse was established and is managed by PLANVAL AG; Managing regiosuisse, PLANVAL contracts with different Swiss and international offices. • The strategically control ofregiosuisse is carried out by the SECO. 14

  15. 5. What does regiosuisse do? • to support people involved in regional policy and regional development with a systematic, practice-oriented knowledge-management-system. • to offer various services so that knowledge about the NRP and regional development can be acquired, exchanged and enhanced. • to facilitate networking and the mutual exchange of knowledge within the «regional development community». The main tasks of regiosuisse are… 15

  16. 6. Varieties of our products and services The Internet portal for regional development,www.regiosuisse.ch 16

  17. regiosuisse-Hotline: +41 27 922 40 88 17

  18. «Big events» 18

  19. «regioS» – the trilingual magazine for regional development 19

  20. Training programs in regional management and regional development 20

  21. Knowledge Communities of regiosuisse (multilingual CoP‘s and CoI‘s, different subjects in regional development) 21

  22. Thank you for your attention! For enquiries and future partnership please contact us. 22

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