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Central European Initiative Secretariat for CEI
Projects
Guido Paolucci CEI Programme Manager
Joining Forces in Co-operation for Development
Assistance Trieste, 10 June 2005
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Overview of the presentation

• CEI after Enlargement

• CEI Know-how Exchange Programme

• CEI Funding Unit

• Role of the CEI in Development Assistance

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CEI after EU Enlargement
Overview EU enlargement
Changed European environment the CEI now
encompasses of
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CEI after EU Enlargement
Overview New Instruments
CEI responded to EU Enlargement with 2 new
financial instruments

• CEI Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)

to support know-how transfer in specific areas of
European Integration and economic transformation

• CEI Funding Unit

to attract EU funding for CEI projects and to
join it with the CEI funds
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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Objectives
OBJECTIVES

• The CEI KEP was created in 2004 in order to
  strengthen the CEI support to the transfer of
  know-how and best practices between EU and non-EU
  CEI Member States

• Through the KEP, the CEI is willing to cooperate
  with ODA in 5 new EU Member States (Czech
  Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia)
  to provide ODA applicants with an additional
  source of project financing (similar to already
  existing partnerships, e.g. CIDA with Slovak ODA).

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Criteria
CRITERIA

• Conceived as a call for proposals open all year
  no specific deadline

• Open to public and private sector applicants

• Project leader comes from a donor institution/
  country (normally from an EU CEI Member State)

• Beneficiary/ies comes from a non-EU CEI Member
  State

• Application Form submitted at least 4 months
  before
• projects implementation date

• CEI co-financing up to 50 of the total cost of
  a project
• normally will not exceed EUR 40.000 per
  project.

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Areas
PRIORITY AREAS (1)
General

• FDI promotion

• trade facilitation (liberalisation, customs
  regimes and practices)

• privatisation and private sector development

• public administration and institutional
  development
• (including public finance management, public
  procurement
• regimes, the absorption capacity for EU
  programmes and
• institution capacity building)

• legislative reforms in the above mentioned areas

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Areas
PRIORITY AREAS (2)
Specific

• agriculture (including food safety standards,
  rural development, farmers cooperatives)

• energy (energy efficiency, renewable sources of
  energy)

• financial services sector (support to banking,
  capital markets and insurance)

• information society and innovative technologies

• infrastructure (transport and telecommunications,
  including public private partnerships, municipal
  engineering)

• environment (environmental protection,
  sustainable development)

• SMEs development, financing (including local
  economic development and employment, micro
  credits, etc.)

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP KEP Activities
KEP ACTIVITIES (selection)

• secondment of staff

• on-the-job trainings

• advisory missions

• need assessments, surveys of problems,
  performance, etc.

• assistance in the preparation of investment
  projects or applications for grant or aid
  programmes, projects evaluation

• technology transfer for the application of
  research and innovation

• preparation of manuals, promotional or
  technical materials, etc.

• translations of laws, treaties, manuals, etc.

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Feedback
FEEDBACK AFTER FIRST YEAR 0F ACTIVITY (1)

• Several projects submitted to the CEI however the
  majority did not meet criteria (know-how transfer
  not enough structured, e.g. seminars,
  conferences additional co-financing not secured)

• Difficult to get information on ODA priority
  areas, priority recipient countries, implementing
  agencies, etc. (Czech Republic and Hungary)

• Some relations established with ODAs in Poland,
  Slovakia and Slovenia

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Feedback
FEEDBACK AFTER FIRST YEAR 0F ACTIVITY (2)

• Different donor rules and practices hamper
  possibilities for combined use of ODA and KEP
  funds

• Poland very short period between the call
  announcement and the deadline for projects
  finalization vs. KEP rule of 4 months project
  submission prior to its implementation).
• Slovakia only one project per applicant allowed.
  Many applicants propose projects which were
  rejected in previous calls and thus they are not
  ready to work on new proposals (e.g. coming from
  KEP partners).
• Slovenia no calls for proposals

• ODA applicants can usually apply for a total
  financing of a project, thus, they are not
  motivated to search for additional sources of
  financing.

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Results
RESULTS AFTER FIRST YEAR 0F ACTIVITY (1)

• KEP did not look to work with ODAs only
  consideration has been given also to projects not
  financed by ODAs or other major donors.

• So far KEP has not been sufficiently exploited 2
  projects approved and 2 in the pipeline

Approved projects

• PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT training for civil
  servants
• Donor/ executing agency Center of Excellence in
  Finance (CEF), Slovenia Ministry of Finance,
  Slovenia
• Donating institutions CEF, CEI KEP
• Recipient institutions Ministry of Finance and
  Central Bank of Macedonia.

• SHARING POLICY KNOW-HOW a database of public
  policy documents from the CEI region.
• Donor/ executing agency Central European
  University (CEU), Hungary
• Donating institutions CEU, CEI KEP
• Recipient institutions Governments of non-EU CEI
  Member States

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Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
KEP Results
RESULTS AFTER FIRST YEAR 0F ACTIVITY (2)
Projects in pipeline
ENKNOVA transfer of Slovenian know-how in
innovation policy making, support to spin-off
enterprises, etc. Donor/ executing agency
Municipality of Ljubljana Donating institutions
Municipalities of Ljubljana and Rijeka, CEI KEP,
and discussion with Slovenian ODA and other
Slovenian national programmes Recipient
institutions Municipality of Rijeka and other
Croatian partners
NGO ACADEMY a training programme for Serbian
and Croatian NGOs promoting self sustainability
of NGO sector. Donor/ executing agency Slovak
NGO (to be identified) Donating institutions CEI
KEP, Slovak ODA(?), VIMIO Croatia (to be
confirmed) Recipient institutions NGOs in Serbia
and Croatia
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CEI Funding Unit
Funding Unit Tasks
TASKS

• Information on EU programmes

The Unit provides information about the
possibilities offered by EU programmes in project
co-financing.

• Partner search assistance in Central and Eastern
  Europe

Thanks to CEI institutional links the Unit
provides partner search assistance for project
promoters looking for partners in CEI countries.

• Promoting CEI participation in EU projects

The CEI takes part as a full-fledged project
partner and it promotes institutional links
between EU and non-EU countries.

• Supporting non EU country participation

In some cases, the CEI can support the
participation of non-EU countries in European
projects, where they are not eligible for EU
funding.
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CEI Funding Unit
Funding Unit Results
OUTLINE OF RESULTS AFTER FIRST YEAR 0F ACTIVITY
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CEI Funding Unit
Funding Unit Project examples
Selection of EU funded CEI projects

• GREAT-IST (Information society)

• Preparing for future international co-operation
  in Information Society Technologies
• The CEI is a platform of countries which will
  discuss the convergence of IST policies with the
  EU in view of 7th FP
• - Financial source 6th Framework Programme
• Total Cost 400.000 EUR
• CEI Involvement 160.000 EUR

• FASTER (Transport and SMEs)

• Fostering Alliances for Sustainable Transport in
  European Research supporting SMEs participation
  in EU RD projects through awareness raising
  workshops and services of profiling and screening
  SMEs by consultants
• - Financial source Sixth Framework Programme
• Total Cost 1 m EUR
• CEI Involvement 40.000 EUR

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Development Assistance Possible CEI role
Possible role of the CEI in development
assistance (1)

• Development assistance awareness raising through
  CEI Working Groups, institutional links and
  networks

• Further support to ODA programmes in 5 new CEI EU
  Member States

• Identification and support to projects not
  financed by ODAs or by other major donors

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Development Assistance Possible CEI role
Possible role of the CEI in development
assistance (2)

• Can the CEI have a role in multi-donor
  cooperation (e.g. Slovak ODA - UNDP, DTS in
  Albania, etc.)?

• How to link CEI-EBRD institutional partnership,
  EBRDs investment activities and KEP?

• Can the CEI with its institutional links and
  networks have a role in bringing together ODAs,
  multilateral donors and recipient countries? Is
  there a role for regional organizations in the DA?

• Can the CEI KEP support establishment of ODAs of
  future Emerging Donors (Bulgaria, Croatia and
  Romania)?

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Contacts
Contacts
Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP)
Adrian Keler Tel. [phone] E-mail
keler_at_cei-es.org Web www.ceinet.org/KEP
CEI Funding Unit
Lara Tassan Zanin, PhD Phone [phone]
731 E-mail tassanzanin_at_cei-es.org Izabela
Gostisa Pasic Phone [phone] E-mail
gostisa_at_cei-es.org
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