HOW TO finance cross-regional projects
Once cross regional synergies have been identified, they usually lead to cross-regional projects; the third step of the SCREEN project addresses the issue of financing them through funding synergies and particularly through synergies between ESIF and H2020.
11 Regions signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Common Pot! Go to the signed documents!
The SCREEN bottom-up approach: Common Pot and Memorandum of Understanding
Download the introduction to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Download the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Download the text of Article 70 ESIF
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The bottom-up approach
December 2016. Internal questionnaire distributed to the participating Regions to know their position on the seal of excellence and other financing instrumentsMarch 2017. Questionnaire's results distributed to the partners
April 2017. Analysis of existing instruments and their practical applicability distributed and discussed during the first Policy Lab; definition of the "Common Pot" initiative
June 2017-October 2017 Preparation of the "Memorandum of Understanding" for the Cmmon Pot initiative, distribution to the Regions for their internal discussion.
November 2017- January 2018 Fine tuning of the "Memorandum of Understanding" text on the basis of the feedbacks received.
February 2018 First Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding by Lazio Region
October 2018 Ten Regions and Regional Authorities signed the document or a Letter of intent; the initiative remains open to other EU Regions.
Other resources
developed by SCREEN
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Presentation of Katja Reppel (DG Regio) at the 3rd SCREEN International workshop
Slides 9, 10 and 11 with audio available here
An innovative approach for sequential funding has been also initiated by Centro Region (Portugal), as explained in the following slides:
Practices and experiences in the sequential funding of projects: Centro Region of Portugal, Presented by Margarida Franca at the Workshop on Synergies organized by the European Commission on 18/01/2018
Lombardy Region is using vauchers for financing seals of excellence projects, as shown in the following scheme (click on the image to download pdf version) slides:
, Presented by Marcello Colledani at the Workshop on Synergies organized by the European Commission on 18/01/2018
European Commission's Guidelines for funding synergies: "EU funds working together for jobs & growth
