Diapositiva 1

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First Forum for South East European Women
Entrepreneurs General information about South
East Europe Territorial Cooperation Programme
Istanbul, 22 September 2010
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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme
MAIN OBJECTIVE
to improve the territorial, economic and social
integration process in South East Europe and
contribute to cohesion, stability and
competitiveness of the area through the
development of transnational partnerships and
joint action on matters of strategic importance.
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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• The programme shall
• facilitate innovation, entrepreneurship,
  knowledge economy and information society by
  concrete co-operation action and visible results
• improve the attractiveness of regions and cities
  taking into account sustainable development,
  physical and knowledge accessibility and
  environmental quality by integrated approaches
  and concrete cooperation action and visible
  results
• foster integration by supporting balanced
  capacities for transnational territorial
  cooperation at all levels

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SEE Area
The South East Europe Programme Area includes 16
countries Albania Austria Bosnia and
Herzegovina Bulgaria Romania Croatia FYROM Greece
Hungary Serbia Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Moldov
a Italy (only some of its regions) Ukraine (only
some of its regions)
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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• The global and specific objectives of the
  Operational Programme will be pursued through the
  following Priority Axes
• Priority Axis 1  Facilitation of innovation and
  entrepreneurship
• The objective of this Priority Axis is
  fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, the
  knowledge economy and to enhance integration and
  economic relations in the cooperation area.
• Priority Axis 2 Protection and improvement of
  the environment
• The objective of this Priority Axis is to
  override the constraints imposed by national
  barriers, to foresee future environmental threats
  and opportunities and to develop common
  transnational action for the protection of nature
  and humans within the SEE.

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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• Priority Axis 3 Improvement of the accessibility
  
• The objective of this Priority Axis is to
  promote physical and virtual accessibility to the
  programme area.
• Priority Axis 4 Development of transnational
  synergies for sustainable growth areas
• The objective of this Priority Axis is to take
  different forms of preventive measures and
  development factors, showing a specific
  cross-sectoral character strongly interlinking
  economic, environmental, social and governance
  issues in sustainable urban and regional
  settlement development.

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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• Some information about Competitive Calls for
  proposals
• The open, competitive call for proposals,
  according to paragraph 7.2 of the Operational
  Programme, can follow one or two step application
  procedure. In case of two steps
• First Step Applicants are requested to submit an
  Expression of Interest (EoI) based on a reduced
  form. The EoI presents the objectives of the
  project, the anticipated budget, the type of
  activities, their location and the cooperation
  area covered as well as the planned outputs and
  results and the structure of the partnership.
• Second Step Only the applicants who were
  successful in the first step of the call are
  invited to submit a completed Application Form
  (AF).

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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• Two calls launched so far
• First call launched in May 2008 projects
  approved in March 2009
• 40 projects selected which amount to 76.628.855
  euro
• More than 500 partners from the 16 countries
• The size of the projects ranges between 1 and 5
  million euro
• The projects are covering all project priorities
• Second call launched in November 2009 the
  second step (submission of full application
  package) was closed on 07 September 2010.

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The South East Europe Territorial Cooperation
Programme

• Official information about the Programme
• This year SEE Annual Conference 2010 is taking
  place on 21-22 September in Thessaloniki, Greece
• The conference will provide the right
  environment to discuss the future of cooperation
  in the area, as well as to stimulate the
  development of relevant and innovative projects
  in South East Europe. It will have the following
  key objectives
• To promote the SEE Programme and reinforce its
  role in the area
• To stimulate innovative proposals for future
  strategic co-operation activities
• To create an (efficient) dialogue on the topic of
  development in the Balkans area
• To offer networking opportunities and a framework
  for the exchange of experience for the Programme
  stakeholders
• To stimulate inter-programme(s) dialogue and
  synergies
• To stir project development towards the third
  call for project proposals

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Project proposal WE-SEE

In occasion of the first call for proposal on
South East Europe Programme, the Ancona Chamber
of Commerce supported the Marche Region
(Department of Industry, Craft and Energy, Area
of Promotion, Credit and Innovative finance and
Area of Equal Opportunities) in the submission of
the project proposal WE-SEE Women's
Entrepreneurship Empowerment in South East
Europe Priority Axis 1 Facilitation of
innovation and entrepreneurship AoI 1.2 Develop
the enabling environment for innovative
entrepreneurship

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Project proposal WE-SEE

• The WE-SEE project aims
• to promote exchanges, studies and training
  activities for the innovation of production
  sectors and processes which women-run SMEs are
  more interested in and are more strategic in
  terms of development of local systems, with a
  special focus on the ICT
• to homogenise access to credit standards and
  procedures by supporting enterprises, especially
  those run by women, in the definition of their
  strategies for competitive development and via
  the valorisation of no-price factors (i.e.
  innovation, design, technology, environment, etc)
• to encourage new forms of savings and credit
  groups, ensuring that these will be accessible to
  women
• to create interdisciplinary and trans-national
  networks among most successful women-run
  enterprises and those with less experience will
  be promoted

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Project proposal WE-SEE
Estimated budget 1.260.000,00 Partnership
composed by 7 contries Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Slovakia, Greece, Albania and Serbia. The
project proposal (EoI) was submitted on the First
Step of the First Call for Proposal in June
2008. It hasn't been selected to the 2nd step
of the application procedure. The Monitoring
Commitee of the SEE Programme received a number
822 valid applications, the list of the projects
invited to the second step were only 95 (almost
11 has been approved) and our proposal was 116
in the ranking.


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Thank you for your attention! Davide
Frulla Contacts Forum of the Adriatic and
Ionian Chambers Ancona Chamber of Commerce Eu
project management and International Cooperation
Unit Piazza XXIV Maggio, 1 60124 Ancona Phone
39 071 5898355 Fax [phone] davide.frull
a_at_an.camcom.it