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European Network on Social Inclusion and Roma under the Structural Funds
Structural Funds: Investing in Roma
A half-way stage of implementation of the current 2007-13 Structural Funds programming period and the ongoing debates within the European Commission on the future of the EU financial framework make this momentum relevant for EURoma to contribute with proposals to the new Structural Funds Regulations 2014-2020 with the aim to mainstream Roma-related issues in this scope. To that end, EURoma network in the forthcoming Management Committee Meeting (to be held in Cracow next 21st and 22nd October 2010) will discuss this topic in order to agree on common proposals for the next regulations framework.
In fact, the amendment of the article 7 of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) regulations presented this year or the adoption last June of new measures to simplify management of European funds and to help regions tackle the crisis, assures that this is a good moment to look deeper into these modifications. It is believed that all these changes should facilitate access to the funds and accelerate flows of investment at a time when public budgets are under pressure. Indeed, additional advance payments totalling €775 million will be paid out to some member countries to tackle immediate cash flow problems.
In that sense, EURoma intends to reflect how to make a better use of European funds; improve coordination mechanisms, assure the effectiveness of the Structural Funds for Roma inclusion, among others. The idea is to produce a policy paper with key messages to disseminate it within the main stakeholders involved in this process. For that purpose, in the meeting sessions we will count with experts from different backgrounds who will guide the debate (delegates from ESF and ERDF, EAPN-Brussels, Open Society, Committee of the Regions are invited) jointly with the EURoma Technical Secretariat staff.
Concretely, a thematic conference “Coordination mechanisms between ESF and ERDF for more effective use of EU Funds for the social inclusion of the Roma” will be held to stress the potential of the art. 7 (2) amendment of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Regulation as regards the eligibility of housing interventions in favour of marginalised communities, followed by a panel of proposals of practical experiences in the use of this article: a Slovak experience on the combined use of Funds (ESF - ERDF) for the social inclusion of the Roma, and a Spanish experience on housing interventions from an integrated and de-segregated approach.
As in every meeting of the Network, one session will be dedicated to present a host country monograph, in this case a Polish presentation on Roma-related policies, initiatives, approaches, main actors, etc.
