NSPA Open Days side event 7.10.2014

Kari Aalto, East and North Finland EU Office

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• East and North Finland EU Office Kari Aalto kari.aalto@eastnorth.fi

• Mid Sweden EU Office Kerstin Brandelius‐Johansson kerstin.brandelius@midsweden.se

• North Sweden EU Office Mikael Janson mikael.janson@northsweden.eu

• North Norway European Office Trond Haukanes trond.haukanes@northnorway.org

NSPA Regional Offices in BRU

info@nspa-network.eu | www.nspa-network.eu

• Main focus has been in interest promotion• Support to more developed regions will be

decreasing in the future. What is the role of the NSPA?

• Need to show the results of the special allocation

• Need to make the NSPA more visible

NSPA and the Future Challenges

• Interest promotion will be an important focus also in the future

• More focus on the concrete activities in the region

• More active dialogue on NSPA related topics

• Finding out what we have in common and is there something we should do together?

• Extensive study to support future interest promotion

NSPA and how to respond to our challenges

• Regional policy• Transport policy• Regional State Aid• Arctic and northern issues• Raw materials and the refinement• EU financing instruments and trenghtening the

R&D in the region• Eastern border of the EU, especially Russia• EU priorities such as Europe 2020 strategy,

thematic concentration, smart specialisation• European Territorial cooperation

NSPA interest promotion

• Activating the network dialogue in the regions• Mapping of project activities• Mapping of regional strategies and evaluating the

cooperation potential. What we have in common? • Closer dialogue with the existing cooperation

structures in the region.• Exhanging of best practises• NSPA will maintain as a network, but there is a

need to find ways of handling the common challenges in more coordinated ways.

NSPA congrete activities

NSPA strategy for Europe 2020 – How are we doing and What do we need to do?

Kerstin BrandeliusDirector

Mid Sweden European Office

SMART SUSTAINABLE INCLUSIVE

Europe 2020

Innovation Union

Youth on the move

Digital agenda

Resource efficient Europe

An industrial policy for the globalisation

era

An agenda for new skills and

jobs

European platform against poverty

1.  Employment• 75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed

2.  R&D • 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&D

3. Climate change and energy sustainability• greenhouse gas emissions 20% (or even 30%, if the conditions are

right) lower than 1990• 20% of energy from renewables • 20% increase in energy efficiency

4. Education• Reducing the rates of early school leaving below 10%• at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level

education

5. Fighting poverty and social exclusion• at least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and

social exclusion

Europe 2020 targets

EU

Mellersta Norrland

Övre Norrland

Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

Nord-Norge

NSPA

62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82

Employment rate, ages 20-64, %

75 %

Early leavers from education and training, ages 18-24, %

EU

Mellersta Norrland

Övre Norrland

Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

Nord-Norge

NSPA

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

10 %

Unemployment, ages 15-24, %

EU

Mellersta Norrland

Övre Norrland

Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

Nord-Norge

NSPA

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

Share of gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), %

EU

Mellersta Norrland

Övre Norrland

Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

Nord-Norge

NSPA

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

3 %

At-risk-of-poverty rate, %

EU

Mellersta Norrland

Övre Norrland

Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

Nord-Norge

NSPA

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

• NSPA region can pioneer innovation for sparsely populated areas – Broadband for SME a necessity and an attractiveness – ITC solutions – citizen service – demographic challenge– Green solutions; using wood instead of oil, green mining – Renewable energy & energy efficiency

• Funding programming period 2014-2020– Focus on achieving the Europe 2020 targets – Cooperation for common challenges

Showing results and added value for Europe!

Clear message from the Commissionen:

Stop talking and start acting!

• NSPA a Smart Region in the EU - Smart Specialization

• NSPA commitment in the European Innovation Platform for Smart Cities and Communities

• NSPA and Arctic EU affairs

• OECD study a tool for lobbying

Platforms and initiatives as tools to reach the EU2020 targets for the

NSPA

Various NSPA position documents…

 

 

 

 Study 2005

Study 2009 Future EU

cohesion policy

EU strategy

Baltic Sea Region

Green Paper –

Territorial Cohesion

policy

Publications/position papersNSPA forumsMeetingsPresentationsSeminars/workshops Letters to COM etc.

2003-2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

W. paper –

Territories with

specific Geo.

features

Non-paper Artic policy

HaparandaAugust

KirunaDecembe

r

TromsöJanuary

Meeting DG RegioJanuary

and Septembe

r

Meeting DG RegioJanuary

Meeting DG RegioJanuary

& October

& Decembe

r

Open Days + 2 workshop

s

Open Days + 2 workshop

sOpen

Days + 1 worksho

p

Continuous meetings and conversations with:- The permanent representations - DG Regio/COM Hahn’s cabinet- DG Enterprise / Head of Unit Raw Material - European Parliament; MEPs, co-workers - Members of the CoR - Other representatives in Brussels

-CPMR-27 Regional Counselors

- NO-RUS Chamber of Commerce

- Northern Dimension Steering group

- EP Intergroup 174- Barents regional Council

Objective 2 initiative

Kuopio September

Keys for success during 2007-2013

SundsvallApril

UmeåOctober

Breakfast meeting & seminars European

ParliamentApril, June

& December

Transport

seminarMarch

Next step for the

NSPA?

Various NSPA position documents…

 

 

 

 OECD Teritorial Review

Publications/position papersNSPA forumsMeetingsPresentationsSeminars/workshops Letters to COM etc.

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

NSPA forum

Finland

KirunaDecembe

r

NSPA Forum BodöNovember

Meeting DG Regio

Meeting DG Regio

Open Days

Open Days

Open Days

Continuous meetings and conversations with:- The permanent representations - DG Regio/COM cabinet- DG Enterprise / Head of Unit Raw Material - European Parliament; MEPs, co-workers - Members of the CoR - Other representatives in Brussels

EIP Smart Cities & Communities initiative

NSPA-forum Sweden

Ahead is 2014-2020 Long term planning and proactivity

NSPA-Forum

NSPA Forumr

Breakfast meeting & seminars European

Parliament

Transport

seminar

Next step for the

NSPA?

Open Days

NSPA – a Smart Region in the EU

Mikael Janson –

NSPA – a Smart Region in the EU

www.northsweden.eu

The northern view from outside…

Northern Sparsely Populated Areas

And relatively more spacely it becomes….

www.northsweden.eu

…or maybe this is us they think…

Gold rush for Gold curse?!

- No matter if black or glimmering!

www.northsweden.eu

Bild: LKAB

…but mostly like this, to be frank…

To be or not to be…on the map…

www.northsweden.eu

Bild: LKAB

But also, suddenly, like this…

The cool Arctic hot spot!

www.northsweden.eu

Bild: LKAB

…or maybe not…

Still a white spot to drill a black hole in on the world map!

There is more than cold dark forests and deep oceans and mining shafts where the map ends!

There is not least innovative people creating glocal

added value, also for Europe and the EU!

?

!Raw Material

…if not really turning the map around!

norske forsvarets karttjeneste

www.northsweden.eu

Strong, Specific and Promising

EC: ”Show us arguments!”

”Misery”

to ”Vision”

"This year’s results are a clear warning that more efforts to boost innovation are needed.

If we want to close the gap with our main economic partners and to overcome the current crisis, innovation deserves all our attention. In particular I count on

enterprises as they have proven to be the key to success in innovation. But successful start ups in other parts of the world show that some lessons are still need to be learnt

in Europe.”

European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship 2012-02-08.

In the same time First innovation union scoreboard 2011!

www.northsweden.eu

SMART

SUSTAINABLE INCLUSIVE

growth

EU:s Cohesion funds & Research funds etc.

innovation

specialisation

cluster

Dig where you stand and aim for the green tree crowns

(= make a SWOT) Innovation eco-system

EuropeanExcellence

GlobalCompetiveness(on the market)

RegionalCapacity building

Europe 2020 strategy

EU

Sector funds

Lubricators:

www.northsweden.eu

www.northsweden.eu

Unleashing the regional EU-2020 potential

Smart specialisation by using the obstacles in an innovative way The center of the car industry winter testing

The home of Santa Claus and the Ice Hotel and Arctic tourism Arctic shipping, drilling and excavation expertise

The first site outside US for servers for Facebook and alike Few people in vast area far from big markets creates need to be creative and go

global Developing E-health and other tools is also know-how export possibilities

Smart specialisation as help in transition out of being pragmatic If we can move cities, we can also balance excavation with tourism and creative

businesses Finding the growth spots to support taking advantage of each other (=critical mass)

Mining, forest and oil is mainly male business, so make it also a female business If lack of people, make people from abroad come and live and getting job

If we are few people, then let’s work together with the whole NSPA-region and neighbors

Smart specialisation for strategic investments and expanding clusters

Broadband to connect rural IT-companies and spread-out clusters to academy and the world

If functioning infrastructure, also small cities can be motors for surrounding regions Work strategically with knowledge in base industry for entrepreneurial growth/cross

fertilization Use the big outdoor areas as global spots for climate research, wind parks and niche

tourism

Strong, Specific and Promising

EC: “Now, show that you really exist to create the common critical innovative mass you

need!”

• Socio-economic analysis– Trends– Potentials for growth

• Development strategies and initiatives– For example innovation clusters and the role of higher

education• Governance

– Strategic planning– Horizontal cooperation– Partnerships with private sector and civil society

• Case studies– Approx. 10 pages per region– Will be the basis for the analysis of the whole NSPA area

Next step to prepare for 2021OECD Territorial Review of NSPA

www.northsweden.eu

• OECD is a respected authority with experience conducting this kind of exercise

• A transnational review can identify political obstacles to cooperation

• The study can help the regions in their individual development efforts

• A tool for lobbying– The reasons the bonus to sparsely populated areas

was extended were strong arguments backed up by research Now furthermore work on-going to align to Arctic funding

Why then an OECD review?

www.northsweden.eu

• European programmes and platforms for Smart Cities focus strongly on continued urbanisation (= large cities).

Also shift EU-focus from Smart Cities…

www.northsweden.eu

• European programmes and platforms for Smart Cities focus strongly on continued urbanisation (= large cities).

• The unique innovation potential for Europe is the blend of some few mega-cities, a wide range of medium/small cities and the interaction, the “eco-system”, between the cities and surrounding rural areas and sparsely populated areas (SPA).

…to Smart Cities and Regions:

www.northsweden.eu

• European programmes and platforms for Smart Cities focus strongly on continued urbanisation (= large cities).

• The unique innovation potential for Europe is the blend of some few mega-cities, a wide range of medium/small cities and the interaction, the “eco-system”, between the cities and surrounding rural areas and sparsely populated areas (SPA).

• The long distances in NSPA create a need for innovative ways to increase connectivity to reduce the cost in time, money and environmental impact. This is however as true for urban areas, due to congestion, crowded space and need to lower the carbon footprint. For example innovative ICT services developed and tested in smaller scale in SPA may therefore be replicated in

larger scale in urban areas.

Smart Cities and Regions

www.northsweden.eu

www.northsweden.eu

Business

Society/ Public sector

Academy

Natural Resources

Creative sector

Raw Materials

Globally

Cross-border

Macro-regional (NSPA)

Innovation!

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Exchange over

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Exchange between sectors

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Strategies for Smart regional Specialisation (”S3”)

Cooperation in Three Dimensions (”C3D”)

Three northern cooperation-triangle nodes

”Long distances, but close between people create unique innovation potentials!”

A test bed and unique

innovation eco-system

for Europe!?Tim

e to unleash

the Smart Region

potential!?

www.nspa-network.eu

7 October 2014Sointu Räisänen, East and North Finland EU Office

NSPA commitment to the EIP Smart Cities and Communities

European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs) • EIPs act across the whole research and

innovation chain, bringing together all relevant actors at EU, national and regional levels to: – step up research and innovation; – coordinate investments in demonstration and

pilots; – anticipate and fast-track regulation and standards; – mobilise ‘demand’ in particular through better

coordinated public procurement to ensure that any breakthroughs are quickly brought to market.

– EIPs are not funding instruments, but different funding instruments are exploited for their implementation

– EIPs influence calls launched within EU funding instruments

European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs) • EIPs are launched in areas in which government

intervention is clearly justified, and where combining EU, national and regional efforts in R&D will achieve the target quicker and more efficiently:

EU Urban Agenda: focus shifting towards large cities• Commission Communication (COM(2014) 490 final):

“The Urban dimension of EU policies – key features of an EU Urban Agenda”

– 3/4 of EU citizens live in urban areas, consuming 70% of the EU's overall energy consumption and emitting roughly the same share of greenhouse gases (Source: SIP)

• EC keen to obtain maximum impact and hence focus on large cities - yet over 4000 of the currently more than 5000 Covenant of Mayors cities have less than 50 000 inhabitants → smaller and medium sized cities working together can have a huge impact

The NSPA position on Smart Cities: voice of small and medium sized cities and rural areas

EIP Smart Cities priorities

EIP Action Clusters

ICT/Integrated infrastructures

Integrated planning

Sustainable mobility

Business cases and

funding

Sustainable districts/built environment

Citizen focus

440 evaluated commitmentsresulting in

369 eligible commitments

Evaluation results

What did we commit to?• To map communities’ plans for future neighborhoods, use

indicators of the CONCERTO and Smart City-projects for analyzing how to optimise existing and planned neighbourhoods, develop tool kits facilitating integrated planning and infrastructures

• To map research organisations’ common and complementary research and innovation excellence and capacities in the Smart City areas

• To map viable existing business models with viable pay-back time

• To map existing sustainable urban/mobility transport plans, facilitate the transfer of successful models across the NSPA and beyond

• To study and analyse best examples related to horizontal, integrated ICT solutions and infrastructures, existing Living Labs, Open Data, Service Design, wireless smart measurement systems and digitalization of services

• To map local and regional initiatives related to resource efficiency and circular economy, transfer and replication of best concepts and solutions.

The NSPA-lead EIP consortium– Arctic Power, Castilla y León, Castilla y León Innovation, Financing and

Internationalisation Agency, Castilla y Leon Regional Energy Agency (EREN), Center for Internet Excellence (Oulu), Centria University of Applied Sciences, City of Joensuu, City of Kuopio, City of Lappeenranta, City of Luleå, City of Mikkeli, City of Oulu, City of Rovaniemi, City of Skellefteå, City of Umeå, City of Östersund, Cyberlightning Ltd, Dataföreningen i Norr, Federation of municipalities, enterprises and provinces of Aragón (FAMCP), FREE initiative, Joensuu Sciencepark, Kainuun Etu Oy, Kajaani University Consortium, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Kemi Digipolis Oy, Kiruna Municipality, Kuopio Innovation, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, LTU Business, LTU-CDT-Botnia Living Lab, Luleå University of Technology, Measurepolis Development, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, Municipality of Piteå, Municipality of Sundsvall, Municipality of Örnsköldsvik, Piteå Science Park, RIC Lower Silesia-consortium (Climate-KIC Regional Centre), Rovaniemi Development Agency, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, TECNARA (Aragón’s ITC, Electronics and Telecommunications Companies Cluster), Teruel Province, Troms county council, Umeå University, University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium, University of Lapland, University of Oulu

The NSPA commitment to the EIP Smart Cities

• The NSPA carry out many ongoing Smart City-type actions: the FIREBALL FP7-project, Smart Hiukkavaara-district, Digital Mikkeli, Östersund Green Highway… and many more

• Through the EIP commitment, the NSPA will strengthen collaboration and share existing, integrated Smart City solutions and concepts within the NSPA partners and beyond

• The NSPA will set up Task Forces to coordinate the work and follow progress. The partners will organise workshops and meetings and deliver reports, publications and policy recommendations

• The NSPA will actively contribute to the Action Clusters of the EIP

Benefits of NSPA commitment • EIP commitment provides a platform to promote

sparsely populated/rural areas on a European level• Participation in EIP strengthens capacity to respond

for example to Horizon 2020 calls on energy, ICT and transport sectors – Commitment promotes an image of NSPA regions with its cities, universities

and companies as trusted partners for calls launched within European financing instruments

• Participation increases NSPA’s credibility regarding lobbying activities connected to Smart Cities and urban development

• European cooperation will bring about market opportunities for companies located in the NSPA

European Commission’s agenda – Official kick-off meeting organised by the EC on the

9th of October– Members of NSPA commitment can already start

using the EIP brand, the NSPA commitment is already published at http://dev.eu-smartcities.eu/commitment/7688

Internal NSPA Agenda 2014

– East and North Finland EU Office coordinates the consortium• Responsible for reporting towards the European

Commission• Representation of the consortium at official

meetings– Working plan for the next years in drafting

• Consortium members will be contacted during October 2014 with a first proposal for a work plan

• Thematic groups and Steering group to be formed

• First proposals for joint projects (Interreg, LIFE, Horizon 2020…)

Further information:

sointu.raisanen@eastnorth.fihttp://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/

Market Place

07.10. 2014Janika Luukinen, East and North Finland EU Office

Potential of EUprogramme synergies for the NSPA

• Why do we need synergies?– decreasing budgets– overlapping RDI activities– lack of strategic coordination – gap between research and markets

Need to maximise impact and efficiency of public funding and tackle these issues in order to enhance Europe’s competitiveness

Background

• Synergies are about combining and complementing different level funding – NOT about substituting national/regional or

private co-funding of different programmes• Focus should be on using the synergy

possibilites on the strategic aims of the smart specialisation strategies and OPs – Emphasis on place-based socio-economic

development and structural adjustment NOT on mere acquisition of additional funding from different programmes

What are synergies ?

Smart specialisation as a tool to pool resources and find synergies

Region

EU STRUCTURAL AND INVESTMENT FUNDS

LIFE(€3,4 billion)

EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INNOVATION PROGRAMME (EASI)

(€0,92 billion)

CREATIVE EUROPE(€1.46 billion)

COSME(€2,3 billion)

ERASMUS +(€14.7 billion)

HORIZON 2020(€79,4 billion)

EIPJPIJTIKICPPP

Smart Specialisation

• All the parties managing the programmes need to improve their understanding of the objectives and management principles of the different level instruments

• Example of differences: Horizon 2020 and ESIF – international consortia/single beneficiaries,– competition/geographical earmarking– biannual workprogramme/ 7 year operational

programme– scientific excellence/socio-economic impact

Challenges

• NSPA’s common specific challenges, characteristics and knowledge sectors as a basis to identify the potential initiatives and programmes

• Possible scenarios for synergies:– Sequential, parallel or joint projects in e.g. smart specialisation

fields: Horizon 2020, opening OPs to cross border activites, using INTERREG to replicate and develop further local/regional best practices

– Human resources & Mobility: EIT-KICs, Marie Curie/COFUND, Erasmus for All, ERA Chairs

– R&I in and for SMEs: H2020-SME instrument, COSME (EEN), Creative Europe (Culture/Media),

– Public-Public Partnerships and Transnational cooperation/coordination initiatives: Joint Programming, ERA-NET, Art. 185 Initiatives, EUREKA/EuroStars, European Territorial Cooperation

– Research infrastructures: ESFRI Roadmap, major ERDF projects, ERIC, EGTC

– Stimulation of demand: pre-commercial public procurement, procurement of innovative solutions

– New forms of innovation support: Prizes, social innovation, non-tech. innovation, European Innovation Partnerships

Using synergies for strategic NSPA cooperation

• Commission guide:– “Enabling

synergies between European Structural and Investment Funds, Horizon 2020 and other research, innovation and competitiveness-related Union programmes - Guidance for policy-makers and implementing bodies”

Guidance on synergies

North Norway European Office

Trond Haukanes