[PDF] Top 20 Expert evaluation network delivering policy analysis on the performance of Cohesion policy Year Task 1: Financial engineering

... Latvia was only the third country to engage EIF as manager of its Holding Fund, with Romania signing a few months earlier in Feb. 2008, and Greece being the first. Consequently EIF was “learning by doing” and, according ... See full document

... last year is attributed primarily to a shift of funds from Enterprise Environment to Territorial ...Through Financial Engineering Instruments (FEIs), SMEs received in 2012 ... See full document

... the year 2012, especially after the Supplementary Budget was adopted in April ...2012, financial absorption of the OP Strengthening Regional Development Potentials (SRDP) was ...the year 2013 ... See full document

... Since the national regulation requires all investment decisions to be taken before end-2013, the number of supported investment is likely not to change in any significant way in the remaining years. This means that ... See full document

... In the ICT area, outcomes are modest and have made limited contribution to objectives. The contribution to a dynamic ICT market, e-commerce and e-business environment with 14 SMEs using e-commerce and 66 SMEs using ... See full document

... In order to improve the overall financial implementation, the Central Coordination Authority and the MAs have elaborated several documents in the last years. However, the evidence suggests that measures included ... See full document

... summary, evaluation exercises conducted during the current programming period reveal a significant change in the evaluation ...different evaluation objects, taking into account the particularities of ... See full document

... Malta, Final Page 34 of 45 RES or EE projects, has been addressed in 2012. However, the lower co-financing rate implies the need for greater financial involvement by private beneficiaries who may experience ... See full document

... The support to research and innovation projects went to many topics proposed by the public research organisations, without a clear concentration on specific sectors that provide clear comparative advantage to Luxembourg, ... See full document

... In the case of airports and ports, the indicators for the actions carried out continue to show progress, with achievement ratios of 90% and 65% of their respective targets, relatively in line with their financial ... See full document

... EEN Task One Report indicated, the overall gross employment creation effects associated with ERDF by the end of 2011 in the United Kingdom as a whole were estimated to be 46,600 jobs in the Competiveness and ... See full document

... a network of people including the director of the Office of Regional Council who was arrested for corruption charges (and in July 2012 convicted for ...2 cohesion region consists and the Ministry of Finance ... See full document

... The economic and financial crisis had a negative impact at the NUTS 2 level in 2012 (Table 2). In contrast to 2011, when there was positive economic growth in 10 of the 12 Dutch provinces, there was only minor ... See full document

... The committed co-financing amounts to 159% of the ERDF available, which means that ERDF financing amounts to 39% of total funding. With 76% of co-financing coming from public sources, which is lower than last year ... See full document

... Estonia, Final Page 7 of 42 First, extensive assistance had been provided to SMEs affected by the 2007 credit crunch. The private market in Estonia does not offer adequate capital to entrepreneurs who lack sufficient ... See full document

... Outputs in the field of environment are highly diversified. There is a number of rehabilitations of natural sites / landscapes with preservation of biodiversity as in Franche-Comté (70 sites), Languedoc-Roussillon ... See full document

... According to the analysis, two distinct groups can be found among the projects carried out. Many projects act as investments in regional knowledge and research systems. Other significant group of projects act in ... See full document

... development of indicators starts from the concrete regional and local implementation of the ERDF programme. In Southern Denmark for example, focus has been on clusters, renewable energy, welfare innovation and leisure ... See full document

... model and the first simulation were conducted as part of a research project funded under OPTA. Throughout the first programming period in Bulgaria, the main concerns of the MAs have been process, and not content related ... See full document

... Lithuania, Final Page 15 of 54 housing. The amounts allocated for the FEIs for SMEs were reduced. As for the multi-apartment housing, there is a risk that not all financing will reach final beneficiaries at the end of ... See full document