Joint Programme for Crossborder Cooperation between Southern Finland Coastal Zone and Estonia in 200

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• Joint Programme for Cross-border Co-operation
  between Southern Finland Coastal Zone and Estonia
  in 2001-2006

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What is new compared with Interreg IIA in
Southern Finland Coastal Zone (1995-1999)?

• emphases on cross-border effects and equal
  partnership
• Estonia as a programme area
• Joint Programme Document of Southern Finland
  Coastal Zone Interreg IIIA / Estonia Phare CBC
  providing a common framework for the two
  programme instruments
• Phare CBC programme instrument is developing
• Regional Council of Southwest Finland as
  management and paying authority of the Interreg
  programme

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SFCZ Interreg IIA and IIIA

• Interreg IIA
• programme period 1995-99
• 148 projects
• total funding app. 21.9 million and EU funding
  (ERDF, ESF, EAGGF) 6.1 million
• Interreg IIIA
• programme period 2001-06
• total funding app. 31.4 million whereof EU
  funding (ERDF) 14.1 million
• indicative allocations for corresponding Phare
  CBC funding in Estonia

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What is characteristic for the programme area?

• maritime border and external border of EU
• Estonia as an EU candidate country expected
  cross-border effects of free movement of people,
  goods, services and capital
• common neighbour, Russia
• traditions in contacts and interaction across the
  gulf
• two capitals, Helsinki and Tallinn, and dense
  connections there between (app. 6 million travels
  per year)
• gap in living standards
• prospects of information society
• location in relation to Scandinavian, Russian and
  Baltic Sea markets

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Vision

• The programme area is part of the strengthening
  Baltic Sea economic region, and gains from its
  location on the internal border of EU. The
  programme area is characterised with balanced
  economic development that reflects to the
  well-being of people and environment. There is a
  well-functioning co-operation on different levels
  and sectors of activities within the programme
  area.

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Strategy

• The common vision is approached by the strategy
  of assisting Estonia integrating to EU,
  encouraging and strengthening networks and
  co-operation links within the programme area,
  creating good preconditions for balanced regional
  development, employment and competitiveness, as
  well as protecting and improving the ecological
  bases of activities, the common environment.

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Joint Co-operation Programme

• Priority 1. Interaction and Networks (26)
• 1.1 Networks of Local and Regional
  Administration
• 1.2 Social Interaction and Contacts within Local
  and Regional Level
• Priority 2. Employment and Competitiveness (38)
• 2.1 Expertise and Know-how
• 2.2 Operative Environment of Enterprises
• 2.3 Tourism
• 2.4 Transport, Communication and Development of
  Interlinked Services
• Priority 3. Common Environment (28)
• 3.1 Co-operation in Environment Protection and
  Monitoring
• 3.2 Co-operation in Improving Environment

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Priority 1. Interaction and Networks

• Objective of this priority is to create and
  strengthen the co-operation contacts and networks
  on different levels and sectors of activity.
  Networks across the border are a prerequisite for
  realising a balanced development in the programme
  area.
• Networks of Local and Regional Administration
• Social Interaction and Contacts within Local and
  Regional Level

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Priority 2. Employment and Competitiveness

• Objective of this priority is to strengthen the
  programme area as a market area and improve the
  preconditions for employment and competitiveness.
• Expertise and Know-how
• Operative Environment of Enterprises
• Tourism
• Transport, Communication and Development of
  Interlinked Services

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Priority 3. Common Environment

• Objective of this priority is to protect and
  improve the common environment to secure the
  ecological bases of the programme area and
  preserve its valuable cultural environment.
• Co-operation in Environment Protection and
  Monitoring
• Co-operation in Improving Environment

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Southern Finland Coastal Zone Interreg IIIA
financing 2001-2006 ( million)
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National co-financing in Interreg IIIA

• Regional Councils (Min.Interior),
• State Provincial Offices, Dpt. for Education and
  Culture (Min.Education),
• Employment and Economic Development Centres
  (Min.Trade and Industry, Min.Labour,
  Min.Agriculture and Forestry),
• Regional Environment Centres (Min.Environment),
• Finnish Maritime Administration (Min.Transport
  and Communications)
• Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Min.Social
  Affairs and Health).
• Also local participation (municipalities) is
  national co-financing.

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Eligible organisations
Eligible organisations for financing from
Interreg IIIA program are, for example

• municipalities and intermunicipal corporations
• authorities
• NGOs
• private enterprises
• education and training units
• research and development units

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Decision-making Process in Interreg IIIA



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Payment Process in Interreg IIIA


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Programmes operating principles are

• to create and develop networks of co-operation
  within the programme area
• to improve project planning and management
  know-how
• to exchange information and expertise between the
  border regions
• to fulfil the principles of sustainable
  development
• to base on economically sound and viable bases
• to have long-term effects and to create bases for
  long-term co-operation
• to create positive environmental impacts
• to support accession of Estonia to the EU

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Programme Technical Secretariat
SFCZ Interreg IIIA Programme Secretariat
Regional Council of Southwest Finland, Turku,
Finland Phare CBC Programme Officers Tallinn,
Estonia
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Southern Finland Coastal Zone Interreg
IIIAhttp//www.varsinais-suomi.fi/etela-suomi_i
nterregEstonia Phare CBC Small Project Fund
(SPF) http//www.erda.ee