Interreg and migrationrelated issues Interreg response to migration

Interreg and migration–related issues Interreg response to migration challenges 5 July 2016 | Vienna, Austria @Interact. EU Ivano Magazzu, Interact Programme

Background • Conclusions of General Affair Council of 19 November 2015: “CONSIDERS that Interreg programmes, even though operating with a medium and long-term perspective, may support, where necessary and justified, and in complementarity with other appropriate funding streams, to help respond to migration related challenges within the framework of existing programme priorities and agreed intervention logic; RECOGNISES the potential role for the ESPON and the INTERACT programme within the scope of their agreed objectives of providing territorial evidence (ESPON) and supporting Interreg Managing Authorities and other programme bodies (INTERACT) in this”; • Endorsement for a Pilot Project by Interact Monitoring Committee Migration

Actions • Proposal of a methodology/project to tackle the need and for establishing an exchange network of stakeholders • Partners involved: - Interact (overall coordination, moderation, support to Programmes) - ESPON (territorial evidence, analysis of trends and flows, thematic expertise) - European Commission (support to the initiative, policy trends) - Other relevant bodies/institutions/networks • Targets: Interreg Programmes, IPA CBC, ENI, Member States representatives, etc. Migration

Objectives • Make available all relevant data, • Spread knowledge about the current experiences and/or practices of programmes (desk research); • Analyse and facilitate exchange and peer learning about programmes’ migration-related measures and projects, • Elaborate a mapping of programmes and possible measures that could be implemented; • Define an Action Plan for programmes to implement possible options; Migration

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Where are we now? What has been delivered: - TODAY!!! O 0 - 1 Technical brainstorming and exchange meeting, o Objective: to help reach common understanding of the topic/issues. The meeting will focus on exchange between programmes on migration-related measures and projects. In order to facilitate discussion and exchange, Interact could provide a document containing: O 1 - Data on migration-related information with regard to territorial dimension (urban, rural areas, peripheral areas, Islands, border areas, etc. ) and policy considerations (ESPON), O 3 - Collection/analysis of available project data related to migration, based on KEEP, up to the 2007 -2013 programming period (Interact), O 5 - A list of programmes that could implement the options listed above, based on a screening of programmes’ selected Migration TOs and SOs (Interact),

Work plan 2016 December November October August July May September 2016 June Work plan Output nr. Activities 0 Technical brainstorming meeting 1 Evidence data 2 Policy considerations 3 Interreg projects and outputs related to migration issues 4 Background paper: possible bottlenecks and difficulties for the implementation of migration-related issues. 5 List of Programmes that could implement the migrationrelated measures (2014 -2020) 6 Possible migration-related measures (2014 -2020) 7 Guidelines on how implement migration-related measures (2014 -2020) 8 Cross-border challenges and possible responses to migration crisis workshop 9 On line tool 10 Comprehensive document/Final publication keyword

Where are the next steps? In cooperation with you, we would work on: O 4 - Background paper for further topic of analysis/discussion, possible bottlenecks for the implementation of such measures and how to possibly overcome them (reprogramming, etc. ) O 5 – A list of programmes that could implement possible measures and be part of the network (YOUR COMMITMENT!) O 6 - Repository of programme information on possible migration-related measures for 2014 -2020 programming period O 7 - Guidelines on how to implement migrationrelated measures for the 2014 -2020 programming period (e. g. , budget lines, types of projects and contents, specific set-up of calls) O 8 - 1 Cross-border challenges and possible responses to migration crisis event (Late 2016); O 9 - 1 exchange network - meetings and on-line tools): Migration

Let’s exchange! Migration

Desk research: Interreg projects on migration 20072013 Interreg response to migration challenges 5 July 2016 | Vienna, Austria @Interact. EU Ivano Magazzu, Interact Programme

Desk Research - Objectives 1. Obtain a repository of cooperation projects dealing with the topic (including the main project data such as budget, cooperation area, type of outputs etc. ); 2. Build knowledge on this data by analysing the available information related to projects’ outputs; 3. Provide relevant statistical data Migration

Methodology 1. Data collection through the www. keep. eu database (Keywords); 2. Data collection concerned the two last programming periods (2000 -2006 and 2007 -2013), ALL Interreg (all strands), IPA CBC and ENPI CBC programmes, and the whole EU territory (about 180 project entries have been identified); 3. Analysis of data relevance according to project description and topic (65 projects identified); 4. Consolidation of projects’ information on the basis of the available programmes’ information (61 projects identified); 5. Identification of projects according to the sub-topic addressed (see Table 4) ; 6. Consolidated data have been shared with the concerned programmes (where applicable); 7. An additional layer of analysis was applied for identifying the relevant project actions and outputs in order to cluster them around nine categories (see Figure 2). Migration

Main findings - 1 A very limited number of projects tackled the topic of migration, 61 projects have been identified out of more than 20. 800 projects funded during the two last programming periods, hence the 0, 3% of the total number of projects funded: For an overview of projects funded, please see: http: //www. keep. eu/keep/dataprogramme 2000 -2006 Projects 2007 -2013 Projects Interreg A 9 Interreg A 22 Interreg B 8 Interreg B 4 Interreg C 4 IPA CBC (PHARE 4 IPA CBC 2 ENPI CBC 2 Total 27 Grand Total 61 projects identified etc. ) 34 Migration

Main findings - 2 cooperation programmes (Interreg, IPA CBC and ENPI CBC) have invested a limited amount of resources on the topic of migration: Period Budget EU Funding available 2000 -2006 € 48. 886. 680, 15 € 32. 318. 501, 77 2007 -2013 € 46. 275. 977, 30 € 29. 791. 252, 95 Total € 95. 162. 657, 45 € 62. 109. 754, 72 Projects addressed mainly themes related to the Governance and management of migratory flows and no measures related to Welfare and social inclusion have been financed during the programming period 2007 -2013: Migration

Main findings - 3 cooperation programmes (Interreg, IPA CBC and ENPI CBC) have invested a limited amount of resources on the topic of migration: Period Budget EU Funding available 2000 -2006 € 48. 886. 680, 15 € 32. 318. 501, 77 2007 -2013 € 46. 275. 977, 30 € 29. 791. 252, 95 Total € 95. 162. 657, 45 € 62. 109. 754, 72 Projects addressed mainly themes related to the Governance and management of migratory flows and no measures related to Welfare and social inclusion have been financed during the programming period 2007 -2013: Migration

Activities funded • Policy-making tools: Policy recommendations, Manual to assist newcomer entrepreneurs , Stakeholders platform, Capacity building activities • Support to self-entrepreneurship and self-employment: Support services to boost self-entrepreneurship and self-employment potentials, Coaching for existing small businesses, multilingual services for firms • Education, Training, Culture: Cross-cultural and linguistic activities/competence programmes for nurses, Construction of a classroom for adult education, facility for day care, ICT classroom, meeting room, kitchen and storage space, Special education and language programmes, in synergy with other ERDF and ESF programmes • Social infrastructures: Establishment of a Multi-functional Educational – and Care Centre, Creation of Cultural centres , Transformation of a former car park in a deprived neighbourhood into a centre which offers education, health and employment services in one facility. • Financial support measures: Small Business projects funding, transnational guarantee fund Migration

Outputs funded Types of outputs financed Action Plans/Methodologies for integration policies/Models/Policy documents Analysis/Studies/Reports 7% 3% 2% 16% 12% 16% Service centres/Enterpreneurial and coaching Services/Social infrastructures/Awareness raising and promotion activities ICT infrastructures, Tools and databases/Surveillance tools and Equipments Partnerships/Working Groups/Networks/Observatories/Crossborder services 13% 14% 16% Training methodologies/Training programmes Guidelines/Manuals for assistance Capacity building activities/study visits Migration

Cooperation works All materials will be available on: www. interact-eu. net Contact: Ivano Magazzu, ivano. magazzu@interact-eu