Conference on regional governance in a global context

The experience of Emilia Romagna

Morena Diazzi

Managing Authority ERDF ROP 2007-2013

Factsheets •22.000 Km2

•4,2 mill. inhabitants

• 430 th. enterprises 1 each 10 inhabitants

• 97% of enterprises < 20 workers

• 134 bill. € regional GDP

• 31.700 € per capita GDP

• 47 bill. € export, 13% of national total•Highly specialised and competitive clusters•9 Provinces with a low level of socio-economic disparities•For 2009 expected GDP -2,2

Key elements of development policies of the Region • Territorial approach to development (supported by regional laws

in R&D, energy, tourism, trade, craftsman, cooperation, internationalisation, industry, and related programmes)

• Negotiated approach and using of negotiated instruments (expression of interest, technical negotiation, agreements)

• Partnership relevance (horizontal partnership with social and economic actors)

• Multi-level governance (vertical partnership with local institutions)

• Using of tools of EU regional policies (objective oriented programming, monitoring, evaluation, control)

Partnership relevance

Socio–economic and institutional partnership as a common methodology of regional policies and as a tool to share decisions and to reinforce commitment:

Vertical partnership between regional and local public institutions (provinces and municipalities) but also with national and European institutions (i.e. NSRF,Industrial District Programme, 2015 Industry Programme)

Horizontal partnership among socio and economic actors (business associations, labour organisations, civil society).

i.e.Task force for the economic and financial crisis for social secuirity and credit measures

Negotiated planning as an instrument to involve actors and territories

Common sharing and definition of

interventions based on complex

characteristics of territorial assets

Strategic orientations and guidelines defined at regional level

Local institutions

Economic and social partnership

Projects developed by territorial stakeholders

ERDF ROP 2007-2013: an example of strategic regional planning

• Definition of the Programme within strategic objectives set at EU level (Lisbon and Goteborg strategies)

• Thematic concentration of interventions (Innovation, knowledge society, research and technology transfer, environmental sustainability, renewable energies)

• Interpreting territory as a a determining factor of regional economic system

• Setting objective targets and monitoring the performance through measurable indicators

• High integration with regional programming instruments

• Relevance of horizontal and vertical partnership in programming and implementation phases

• Multi-annual planning (2007-2013)

Key elements in programming ROP

• Reinforcement of the role of medium-large sized firms, or small dynamic firms

• Increased sector complexity and inter-cluster connections – Individuation of regional macro-clusters

• Higher specialisation and international trends

• Increased efforts of companies in R&D

• Increased networking of universities and research institutions at regional level

• Greater need of qualified professionals in the technological, creative, cultural and organisational fields

• Need for enhancing cultural and environmental heritage disseminated across the region

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Socio-economic context

Strategy

•Promoting development of a sustainable economy able to maintain a high level social quality in an economic framework

• open to European integration and international competitiveness,

•towards a “new competitive industry”

•mainly through knowledge and innovation and

•focusing on the territory as a determining factor of innovative development of the regional economic system

Strategic set

• Operations for companies – Research

– Innovation

– Energy efficiency

– Qualification of services for cultural and environmental heritage

• System operations – Setting up of “technopoles”

– Setting up of sustainable industrial areas

– Enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage

Priorities Priority 1: Industrial research and technology transfer (in addition to 2

regional programmes implemented in the last 5 years)

Priority 2: Development of Innovative enterprises (in addition to the regional

programme for industry and that for the dissemination of broad band)

Priority 3: Energy-environmental qualification and

sustainable development (in addition to regional programme approved

in 2007)

Priority 4: Enhancement and qualification of environmental and

cultural heritage (in addition to annual programmes for tourism and trade)

Priority 5: Technical assistance

Strengthening the regional network for research and technology transfer network and supporting the research capacity of companies

Promotion of industrial research and technology transfer as a main factor of the competitiveness of the economic system within the regional context

Activities Setting up of technopoles for industrial research and technology

transfer

Supporting SMEs cooperative research projects with research laboratories and innovation centres

Supporting the start up of newly established innovative companies

Priority 1

Technopoles Setting up infrastructures for industrial research, TT and

generation of high tech companies;

Locating within the infrastructures industrial research and TT laboratories, promoted or with the direct participation of universities or with research centres , innovation centres, hi-tech business incubators and all other services of industrial research and experimental development;

Implementing industrial research programmes, experimental development and TT, through laboratories located in the technopoles and envisaging accessibility of scientific equipments to the whole network and to companies

Promoting the growth of companies, supporting evolution of the productive system towards forms of innovation, where knowledge based products and processes are the key elements to ensure competitiveness of the industrial and territorial system at international level

Activities Supporting projects for the introduction of ICT in SMEs

Supporting projects and services for the setting up of networks of companies, for technological and organisational innovation in SMEs

Supporting the use of innovative financial management tools in SMEs

Priority 2

Promoting energy competitiveness and energy-environmental requalification. It concentrates on environmental sustainability, particularly on innovation related issues, on promotion of energy efficiency, on innovation in logistics

Activities Improving the energy-environmental technologies of industrial

“parks”

Supporting SMEs innovative projects in the field of energy-environmental technologies aimed at energy saving and the use of renewable resources

Supporting pilot projects for mobility and logistics, for energy purposes

Priority 3

Supporting socio-economic development as a potential for a sustainable tourism

Activities Enhancing the environmental and cultural heritage

Integrated promotion of the environmental and cultural heritage

Supporting qualification of service activities promoting cultural and environmental heritage

Priority 4

Increase expenditure of R&D/GDP

Increase of employment in R&D public and private sectors

Increase of energy efficiency

Reduction of emissions affecting climate

Networking with European high level techonology and research centres also on energy matters (ERIK Network, projects submitted and under evaluation within territorial cooperation programmes)

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Expected results

First results• 4 call for projects issued (3 concluded)• 3 expressions of interest launched for public institutions and

research institutions• About 930 SMEs projects funded for a total of eligible

expenditure approximately 228 mill. euro• 38 projects for the enhancement of environmental and cultural

heritage launched by local institutions for a total eligible expenditure of about 100 mill. euro

• 25 research programmes to be implemented in technopoles submitted by universities and research institutions for a total eligible expenditure of about 200 mill. Euro

• 20 industrial parks for energy technologies whose total eligible expenditure is currently under evaluation

Thank you!

Morena Diazzi

Managing Authority Emilia Romagna

ERDF ROP 2007-2013

Emilia-Romagna Region

Via Aldo Moro 44

40127 Bologna

Tel. +39-051-6396419

adgpor@regione.emilia-romagna.it

http://fesr.regione.emilia-romagna.it

• The main risk of territorial policy is fragmentation

• The main advantage is the multiplyer effect of resources and thus the integration of policies

• What is needed is strong and appropriate governance