Transcript Alastair-Campbell-Barroso-NI-Taskforce-finalx

The Barroso Northern
Ireland Taskforce
Background
• Created in 2007
• Not financial help
• Increased access to EU officials
• Identify and maximise EU
opportunities
• Barroso to step down in 2014
Thematic Groups & Desk Officers
Groups
• Competitiveness and Employment
▫ Gordon Browne ([email protected])
• Innovation and Technology
▫ Una Downey ([email protected])
• Climate Change and Energy
▫ Keith Brown ([email protected])
• Social Cohesion
▫ Alastair Campbell ([email protected])
Role of the Desk Officers
•Policy
•Funding
•Profile
Work to date
• Contacts established within DG REGIO, EAC, Climate, EMPL,
AGRI, Research, SANCO, Justice, ENTR, etc
• Opportunities, calls and requests for partners targeted to
appropriate contacts in NI
• Significant policy developments fed back to Northern Ireland
• Programmes of meetings organised for stakeholders visiting
from Northern Ireland
• Factsheets on funding streams and EU networks
• Successful digital broadband event held in office
• Attendance at working groups
• Outward visits by four Ministers, more to come
• Partner search – targeting and finding potential partners
• Raising awareness in Northern Ireland
Priorities
Social Cohesion
• Lifelong Learning
• Creative Industries
• Structural Funds
• European Citizenship
Innovation and Technology
• FP7 & Horizon 2020
• European Innovation
Partnership
• Digital Broadband
Competitiveness & Employment
• Lifelong Learning
• Tourism
• Further Education
• Youth Unemployment
Climate Change and Energy
• Life+
• State Aid
• TENS-T
Looking forward
• Promote Northern Ireland’s interests
▫ NI input into and awareness of evolving policies
▫ NI presence where possible
• Networking and lobbying
▫ More contact with other regions
▫ Identification of allies from further afield
▫ Better communication within Northern Ireland
• Holding regular events
▫ Each of the themes to hold events in Brussels and in Northern
Ireland
• Planning for the future
▫ Identify main themes of new funding programmes.
▫ Much yet to be decided/agreed, but many of the themes will
remain