> EU Structural Funds – the Frankfurt Experience Oktober 2007

Administration of EU Structural Fund in Germany

• Certain amount granted by EU handed over to the German Government

• Framework/operational programme of the structural funds developed on the federal level

• Framework of the structural funds developed on the regional level - in the case of Frankfurt: State of Hesse.

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Amount of grants for the State of Hesse

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Level Bill. EUR % of total budget

total Budget EU 2007-2013 925,3 100

Of which structural funds (cohesion policy) 374,4 37,5

15,8% of which reserved for regional competitiveness and employment policy

55,0 5,9

17,1 % of which foreseen for Germany 9,4 1,0

50% of which for EFRE 4,747 0,5

5,55 % of which foreseen for the State of Hesse

0,2635 0,03

Main topics of the Hessian Government

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•Innovation and knowledge based economy

•Promotion of entrepreneurship and competitiveness especially SME

•Enlargement of potentials of economically disadvantaged regions and reduction of regional disparities

•Technical support

The situation of Frankfurt:

•Prospering city region

•Contrast to other parts of the state of Hesse(gap between the city and rural areas)

•Competition between cities within the region as well as between the regional government (of the State of Hesse) and the City of Frankfurt

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Competencies of Frankfurt

•No possibility to get involved into the decision process

•Funding of projects in the framework of the Structural Funds

•More success in the framework of the European Social Funds (projects)

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Lobbying the structural funds>

•Participating in activities of cities‘ networks (i. e. Eurocities) in the framework of the development of structural funds;

•Networking on the federal level

•Contacts on the regional level

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Examples of successful ESF projects

.•INTEGRA – project for the qualification of people aged 55+ who have been without occupation for more than one year (550.576 EUR) „Kompetenzagenturen“ – agencies for competence at schools for students between 14 and 16 years(157.000 EUR)•„Lernbetrieb“ – special enterprises for young people between 14 and 27 – learning by doing and eventually graduate from school(amount ESF n. k.)

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Procedure to get funding from the State of Hessen

Responsible institution Step

Ministery for social Affairs of the State of Hessen

Announcement of funding (ESF as well as capital from the state of Hessen)

Municipality Contacting associations, supporting oragnisations

Collecting concepts and calculations

Sending Application to the Investitionsbank Hessen (Hessian Development Bank)

Investitionsbank Hessen (IBH) Granting according to each year of duration of projects

Municipality forwarding the decision about grants to associations

Forwarding declaration about their expenditures to IBH

Demanding grants from the IBH every 3 months

IBH Payments to municipality

Municipality Division and payment to organisations

collecting proofs of use and sending them with reports to the IBH

After having verified them ( municipal auditing office)

Demand of Complete proof after the project at the organisations

Sending Summary of proofs to IBH

After having verified it (municipal auditing office)

monitoring

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Petra SchwindStadt Frankfurt am Main Referat für Internationale AngelegenheitenSandgasse 660311 Frankfurt am MainPhone +49 69 212 44 033Fax +49 69 212 31 730E-mail: petra.schwind@stadt-frankfurt.de

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