New summary prospectuses on Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation are online.
Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation: a long-awaited update
We have already announced on several occasions, proposing provisional prospectuses and contents, the forthcoming publication of the fact sheets on Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation.
We are finally ready: most of the Territorial Cooperation and Regional Operational Programs have been approved, so we have a sufficient basis to publish their contents in our Guide.
We will begin with the summary schedules, placed at the respective sections ( Structural Funds – Territorial Cooperation ) and we will continue to gradually update the individual program sheets.
Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation: what changes in the new forms
The new sheets resume the concise and schematic approach used for Community Programs.
All the in-depth links will be available at the top of the chapter: Managing Authority; Program Approval (with date); Program Text; Program Website; Program Reference Documents; Calls for Proposals; Program Implementation Information.
Next, we outline in a few lines the structure of the program, in terms of resources allocated to the major strategic priorities of Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation.
This information will be available in a summary table positioned at the respective sections ( Structural Funds – Territorial Cooperation ).
Through the summary table and through the chapters of the Guide, it is possible to access the in-depth fact sheets of the individual Operational Programs and Territorial Cooperation Programs, which provide some basic information for understanding the Program and an outline of the distribution of resources by strategic priority and specific objective.
Next, we detail the individual areas of intervention of the Program with their financial allocations, thus giving a concrete idea of what the Program intends to accomplish during the seven-year period.
A standard structure
The proposed structure of analysis constitutes a “diagonal reading” of individual PRs, NPs and Territorial Cooperation Programs-documents several dozen or even several hundred pages long.
Knowing their structure, which is relatively standard in all programs, makes it possible to go through them more quickly and to delve more easily into the parts of interest. In fact, all programs are organized on the following levels:
- 5 priorities or strategic objectives (PO, Policy Objectives), i.e., the major strategic priorities of the European Cohesion Policy, plus specific priorities related to territorial cooperation and allocations for technical assistance to programs;
- More than 40 specific objectives of regional policy (RSO), which represent a declination of the strategic objectives;
- 182 areas of focus, which can be associated with the strategic (and specific) objectives in various ways and provide a clear idea of the actions that will be financed by the calls.
While a careful reading of all the reference documents is advisable, the analysis of the schemes proposed in our fact sheets provides an indicative idea of the basic choices made within each territorial cooperation program, as well as the possibilities it offers to those interested in proposing projects.
We also report the existence of a common framework of indicators , the elements of which are taken up within the programming documents (codes RCO for Output indicators, RCR for Outcome indicators) and which are a further declination of it. Their analysis provides additional insight into the type of actions, projects and beneficiaries considered by the different components of each program.
