Benchmark Study 1

IPP BENCHMARK REPORT
INTELLIGENT
ENERGY
EUROPE
2009
No. of successful Total budget of successful
applications from application
EU support for successful
IPP region
application
Saxony-Anhalt 0 - -
Valencia 0 - -
Eszak-Alföld 2 2,161,807.00 1,621,355.25
Latvia 5 6,978,781.00 5,234,086.65
Source: http://ieea.erba.hu/ieea/page/Page.jsp?op=home
Key findings:
The data on the participation of IPP regions in a selected number of EU- programmes leads to the following
conclusions:
o
With regard to the Research Framework Programme Valencia was able to acquire 65 percent of
the EU-27 average funding per head in the 6 th Research Framework Programme, which is almost
twice as much then any other IPP region. However during the 7 th Research Framework Programme
Valencia was only able to acquire 41% of the EU-27 average. In all IPP regions the acquisition
figures for funding stay way behind the national lead region or the European lead regions which
have acquired between 3 and nearly 25 (!) times more then the IPP regions. This underlines on the
one hand the large concentration of EU-research funding on only a very limited number of regions
in Europe. It also shows however the potential scope for the IPP regions to gain bigger access in
the European Research funding if their research institutions would put more effort and emphasis on
participating in these programmes.
o
With regard to INTERREG IV C it can be stated that almost all IPP regions – given their individual
size – have acquired in relative terms similar amounts of EU funds. There were however striking
differences in the strategies used to apply for the funds. Saxony-Anhalt and partly also North Great
Plains had a much higher success ratio between applied projects and granted projects. The
Saxony-Anhalt ratio was 46% whereas the ratio of successful projects with regard to applied
projects for Valencia was just 10%. There seem to be strong differences in the application
strategies between the regions which largely determine their success rate. Saxony-Anhalt was
successful in applying with projects including a strong role for the regional government (i.e. as Lead
Partners) whereby local authorities in Saxony-Anhalt were largely absent to take part in
INTERREG applications.
o
With regard to the LIFE+ programme it is a totally different story. Whereby Valencia managed to
succeed with 21 applications, North Great Plains only managed 2 and Saxony-Anhalt only
managed 3 successful applications in the calls of 2007, 2008 and 2009. Latvia had 8 successful
applications. However in the 2007 call Saxony-Anhalt managed to acquire with 2 successful
applications an EU support of nearly 18 Mio. Euro. Valencia managed with its 21 successful bids a
total EU support of around 30.5 Mio. Euro.
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