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Grip-it PUBLICITY GUIDELINES for APPROVED
SUBPROJECTS Participants Seminar September 2006
Manuela Fischanger Responsible for Component 4
Info and Pubblicity
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Contents

• Publicity rules
• Basic rules for communication
• Contacts

- 16.02.2006
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1. Publicity rules

Legal Base

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1159/2000 on
information and publicity measures to be carried
out by the Member States concerning assistance
from the Structural Funds (OJ L130 of 31.05.2000)

Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999, Article
46laying down general provisions on the
Structural Funds (OJL161 of 21 June 1999)
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1. Publicity rules

Legal Base

• These regulations
• Establish communication as core task,
  strategically as important as other
  management activities.

• State that communication measures should be
  programmed, structured, reported and evaluated

• State aims of communication, essential target
  groups and message content

• Define set of obligations to be met!

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1. Publicity rules
Obligations/Tasks

• Inform general public about the role played by
  the Community concerning assistance and its
  results.

• Increase public awareness and transparency
  regarding the regional policy activities of the
  EU.

• Create coherent picture of the assistance across
  all Member States involved.

• Show programme funds which are taken up and used
  as effectively as possible

• Convey reasons for funding and results
  achievedby the Structural Funds.

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Responsibilities
1. Publicity rules

• Communication is clearly at the heart of any
  INTERREGIIIC project.

• In particular since INTERREG IIIC projects are
  essentially based on exchange and
  dissemination of experience, including
  dissemination of activities and results to a
  wider European audience

• Proactive communication is clearly a prerequisite
  forany successful project implementation

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1. Publicity rules

Monitoring

• Communication will be part of reporting
  duties, once your
• sub-project is up and running.

You will report about your related activities
and results and thus send us, for instance
publicity plans, press releases, brochures,
any other publications, published articles,
reports about website development and updates
as well as user statistics (hits), statistics on
target audiences reached (e.g. through events
or mailings), etc.
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Some Rules
1. Publicity rules


Publications (such as booklets, leaflets and
newsletters) about regional assistance
part-financed by the Structural Funds shall
contain a clear indication on the title page of
the European Unions participation and, where
appropriate, that of the Fund concerned as well
as the Community emblem ...

This does also apply for electronic media
(websites, databases) or audio-visual material
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Some Rules
1. Publicity rules


The organisers of information events such as
conferences, seminars, fairs and exhibitions in
connection with the implementation of operations
part-financed by the Structural Funds shall make
the Community contribution to these assistance
packages explicit by displaying the European flag
in meeting rooms and using the Community emblem
on documents.

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Publicity requirements
1. Publicity rules


Sub-project websites should contain links to

• Grip-it website (www.grip-it.info)
• Regional partners websites
• Interreg 3C website (www.interreg3c.net)

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Publicity requirements
1. Publicity rules


Any relevant project documentation should display
on their title page

• The INTERREG IIIC East logo
• The EU emblem including the text Project
  part-financed by the European Union
• The Grip-it logo
• (these logos are available from the
  downloads section of the
• grip-it website)
• The sub-project logo

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Subsidy contract provisions
1. Publicity rules

• furthermore, based on the subsidy contract
• any notice or publication by the sub-project, in
  whatever form and medium, including tne Internet,
  must specify that it reflects the authors views.
• The GRIP-IT RFO team has the right to publish
  certain information about your sub-project,
  including your progress reports, on the INTERNET.

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2. Basic rules for communication

achieving and communicating your activities and
results are key for the success of this
programme, so please remember

• E-mail is the official medium for communication
  at RFO level
• English is the official language for documents,
  activities and communications
• Communicate your logo and website to the grip-it
  webservice to let them available from our website
• Communicate names and addresses of effective
  contact persons for each subproject and
  participant

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2. Basic rules for communication

as regards the organization of meetings and
events

• Communicate in due time date and agenda of
  activities to the main partners of Grip-it
• Set them on your website, together with any
  related presentation or publication
• Main imperatives to be followed implementing
  info and
• publicity measures are
• To disseminate the results achieved and the good
  practices
• To ensure transparency in the use of public
  funds.

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3. Contacts
Grip-it Contact persons
Lead Partner Hradec Kralove Region (Rep.
Ceca)project manager Iva Kruncikovatel. 420
495 817 361 Iva Kruncikovae-mail
Kruncikova_at_cep-rra.cztel. 420 495 817 420
Tomas Trunece-mail trunec_at_cep-rra.czRegione
BasilicataBiagio Perrettitel. 39 347
3780750e-mail pb187agr_at_unibas.itWest-Transdanubi
an Regional Development Agency (Ungheria)Erika
Fuloptel. 36-96-319-467e-mail
erika.fulop_at_westpa.hu gripit_at_westpa.hu Regione
Friuli Venezia GiuliaManuela Fischangertel. 39
40 3775996e-mail manuela.fischanger_at_regione.fvg.i
t. Webservice anna.margotti_at_informest.it.

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3. Contacts
For more information If you have any questions
related to information and communication, you can
contact the communication officer of JTS
East Claus Schultze INTERREG IIIC East Joint
Technical Secretariat Schlesinger Platz 2 1080
Vienna, Austria Tel [phone] Fax 43
(0)1 4000 99 76142 Email claus.schultze_at_interreg3
c.net Or visit the Programmes website at
http//www.interreg3c.net/sixcms/detail.php?id134
4. http//www.interreg3c.net/sixcms/media.php/5/I
NTERREGIIICPublicityGuide_October2005.doc

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Thank you for your attention.