TODAY AND TOMORROW OF THE EU FUNDS

NGO Seminar on Structural and Cohesion Funds

Thursday - Saturday, 26th - 28th February 2004
Brussels

• Rachel Lee, RSPB / BirdLife:
  Proposals for the reform of EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013
  Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
• Michel Eric Dufeil, DG Regional Policy:
  Third Cohesion report February 2004 – Convergence, Competitiveness, Co-operation
  Presentation (Power Point)
  
  
  

Session 2: EU funds today and tomorrow - introduction continues
16.30 – 18.00

Chair: Martin Rocholl, FoEE

• Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
  Structural and Cohesion Funds – state of play – European Parliament view
  
  
  
• Günter Raad, DG Environment:
  Perspectives for Environmental Integration Into EU Structural Funds
  Summary of the presentation (PDF)

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Session 3: EU funds - environmental dimension
9.30-10.45

Chair: Paul Kosterink, Milieukontakt Oost-Europa

Rachel Lee, RSPB / BirdLife:
Structural Funds and the Environment -case studies from member states
Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)



• Peep Mardiste, Estonian Green Movement, FoE/CEE Bankwatch Network:
  Lessons learned from EU pre-accession funds
  Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
  
  

Session 4: Partnership principle
NGOs involvement in Steering and Monitoring Committees
11.15-13.00

Chair: Magda Stoczkiewicz, CEE Bankwatch / FoEE

• Dirk Schubert, WWF consultant (Nova Institute) Germany:
  Success factors for influencing the Structural Funds - Experience from the EU member states, SF in Germany
  Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
• Teodora Donsz, FoE Hungary:
  Experience from Hungary, work of Monitoring Committees at national and regional level Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
• Andrzej Gula, Institute for Environmental Economics, Poland:
  NGOs in Steering Committees in Poland
  
  
  
  
  

Session 5 : NGOs as partners and as beneficiaries
14.30-16.45

Chair: Stefanie Lang, WWF-EPO

• David Trotman, RSPB Wales:
  Aren't Welsh Birds Brilliant. A Welsh European Funded Objective One, Measure 5 Priority 7 Project - Project and Process
  Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
• Constantinos Liarikos, WWF Greece:
  NGO Involvement in the Structural Funds- Influencing policy and Funding Conservation Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
• Andrew Faulk, Strathclyde European Partnership, UK:
  Participation of NGOs and the Environmental Sector in Structural Fund Programmes in Scotland Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
  

Session 6: How to influence more effectively? – NGO coalitions
16.45-18.00

Chair: Mara Silina, EEB

• Peter Torkler, WWF Germany:
  Germany-Poland twinning and cooperation activities
  Presentation (PDF), Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
• Robert Cyglicki, Polish Green Network/CEE Bankwatch, Poland:
  Via Baltica Campaign in Poland – Coalition building – learning by doing
  Summary of the presentation (PDF)
  
  
  
  

Strategy for influencing 2007-13 on the European and national level
9.30 – 13.00

Facilitator: Dirk Schubert, Nova-Institut GmbH

- NGO statement on SF/CF;
- Building coalition to influence new guidelines;
- Possible activities on the European and national levels;
- Division of tasks etc.

 

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**About the organisers of the event **

Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental network in the world, campaigning to protect the environment and create sustainable societies. Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) unites more than 30 national member organisations with thousands of local groups. FoEE coordinates and supports the campaigns and projects of its member groups which deal with a large variety of subjects including food, farming and biotechnology; climate change, energy, eco-taxation and nuclear safety; globalisation, trade, corporate accountability and sustainable development; EU Accession; and regional programmes in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe and the Mediterraneean.
www.foeeurope.org

The CEE Bankwatch Network is an international non-governmental organisation with member organisations currently from 12 countries of CEE and CIS region. The basic aim of the network is to monitor activities of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in the region, and to propose constructive alternatives to their policies and projects in line with the principle of sustainable development. The CEE Bankwatch Network was formally set up in 1995 and has become one of the strongest networks of environmental NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe. Members of the Bankwatch Network are environmental NGOs from: Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Macedonia, Latvia,  Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic and Ukraine.
www.bankwatch.org

The Heinrich Böll Foundation , affiliated with the Green Party, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. The Foundation's primary objective is to support political education, thus promoting democratic involvement, sociopolitical activism, and cross-cultural understanding. Its activities are guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, and non-violence.
www.boell.de