How to Establish Financial Engineering Instruments with EU Funds • EU Rules Compliance Brochure Practical Seminar | 24th October 2011, Berlin • Main Steps to Develop FEIs • National Implementation of Microcredit Funds • Practical Experiences 1 Practical Seminar How to Establish Financial Engineering Instruments with EU Funds Background The financial engineering instruments (FEIs) and financial tools offer different possibilities for disbursement and absorption of EU Funds from grants and provide sustainability of the available European and national resources beyond the programming period. The implementation of financial tools is not far advanced in all EU Member States. Many of them have just begun with the development and enforcement of the financial tools. The most common dilemmas relate to the following questions: • • • • Which financial tools ensure smooth and wide absorption of the EU Funds? What kind of financial tools have been developed and were successful in other European regions? What changes does the COCOF Note 3 from 2011 introduce? Can resources from different Funds be combined for setting-up a unique financial instrument? Seminar Contents This unique practical seminar combines legal background with practical aspects of establishing the FEIs. You learn in detail about the procedure for the development of FEI. High lyqualified speakers illustrate the advantages of the different forms of FEIs developed in various EU regions. Furthermore, you receive first-hand advice on how to use particular financial tolls for achieving regional priorities. Case studies on the present experiences in the implementation of FEIs enrich the seminar content. Target Group • Managing Authorities of ERDF • Managing Authorities of ESF and Cohesion Fund • Audit and Certifying Authorities • Intermediate bodies – state-owned banks • National and regional development agencies • Regional and city council offices • Banking and finance sector Your Benefit • Increase the absorption of the national EU Funds by implementing proven financial instruments for efficient absorption of the EU Funds • Have an impact on the sustainability of national and European resources by using FEIs for financing the projects • Develop new FEIs which will enable financing of economical and social priorities of your region • Learn how to combine resources for creating joint FEIs • Avoid repayments due to incorrect and ineligible financing of projects • Bring your own case studies and get practical advice from qualified speakers Teaching Methods • Lectures and case studies • Discussions and Q & A- sessions • Best practice reports • Rich course material and handouts “The seminar fulfilled all my expectations” Zuzana Valachova, Financial Manager, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Slovak Republic 2 “Exchange of information and networking in a pleasant environment, dense programme, perfectly organised.” Thomas Johan, ESF Co-ordinator, National Welfare Office, Germany Programme How to Establish Financial Engineering Instruments with EU Funds 24th October 2011 8.30-9.00 Registration and Hand-out of Seminar Material 9.00-9.05 Opening Remarks from the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law 9.05-9.15 Welcome Note from the Chair Martin Dastig, Member of the Strategy and Business Development Team, Investitionsbank Berlin, Germany 9.15-10.00 Establishing a Financial Engineering Instrument – How to Comply with EU Rules? 14.00-14.45 Ca Stu se dy Experiences and Practices with ERDF Co-Financed Loan-, Mezzanine- and Equity Schemes •Structure of revolving funds •The point of view of the Regional Development Bank •Advantages and challenges •Outlook: Setting up an ERDF-Holding Fund •EU Structural Funds Regulations and COCOF Guidance Note 3 •Setting-up the operation – with and without Holding Fund – issues to consider •Legal documentation required – what must be included •Eligible expenditure – at constitution and at closure •Use of idle funds interest and use of resources returned •Management control and verification Martin Dastig, Member of the Strategy and Business Development Team, Investitionsbank Berlin, Germany Jane Worthington, ERDF Senior Solicitor, North West Development Agency, United Kingdom (t.b.c.) Coffee Break 10.00-10.15 Financial Engineering Instruments for the Region Central Bohemia Q&A Session 10.15-10.45 Coffee Break 10.45-11.15 Main Steps to Develop Financial Engineering Instruments and Financial Tools •Establishing the rationale for and scope of public intervention •Developing the delivery and governance structure of the fund •Match funding and co-investments options •Financial return versus economic development objectives •Challenges and lessons learned 11.15-11.30 Q&A Session 11.30-12.15 Present Experiences for Future Structural Funds´ Tools •Advantages of financial engineering tools •Forms of financial engineering in North-Rhine-Westphalia •SMEs investment capital, regional seeds fund, micro loans, business angels and master craftsman foundation award •Outlook at the end of the programming period •Lessons learnt for the next programming period Dr. Claudia Schulte, Head of ERDF Secretariat, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Federal State North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 14.45-15.00 Q&A Session 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.15 Ca Stu se dy •Present experiences with JESSICA •Using bank landing instruments for financing EU funded projects •Demand among beneficiaries for FEIs •Can FEIs substitute EU Funds? •Possible Role of FEIs in the next programming period 2014-2020 Tomáš Novotný, Director, Regional Council Office of the Central Bohemia, Czech Republic 16.15-16.30 Q&A Session 16.30-17.15 National Implementation of Microcredit Fund in the Framework of ESF •Development of the ESF financial instrument Microcredit Fund Germany in a political context •Putting into practice – capacity building of MFI •The European context •Lessons learned Dr. Dieter Englert, ESF Managing Authority, Federal Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, Germany 17.15-17.30 Q&A Session 17.30 End of the Seminar and Hand-Out of Certificates 12.15-12.30 Q&A Session 12.30-14.00 Lunch Break 3 Speakers How to Establish Financial Engineering Instruments with EU Funds JANE WORTHINGTON ERDF Senior Solicitor, North West Development Agency, United Kingdom (t.b.c.) Jane Worthington is responsible for providing leadership to the European Programme Executive of the North West Development Agency in the context of the existing legal and regulatory framework relating to ERDF. In addition, she is in charge of the delivery and procurement of expert technical advice to senior management on all ERDF-related legal issues, including major, innovative and flagship projects such as JEREMIE and JESSlCA. Jane Worthington has participated at the COCOF meetings as a technical expert on FEls on behalf of the UK Government. DR. CLAUDIA SCHULTE Head of ERDF Secretariat, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Federal State North RhineWestphalia, Germany Dr. Claudia Schulte is Head of the ERDF - Objective 2 Secretariat of the Federal State North Rhine- Westphalia since 2001. She is also advisor in the field of public and administrative management. Dr. Claudia Schulte was involved in the initiative for efficiency of resources of North RhineWestphalia and in the project Seneca - Service Networks for Professional Education Processes. Before joining the ERDF – Objective 2 Secretariat, she was a research assistant at the University of Bochum and the University of Dortmund. She has an educational background in civil engineering. DR. DIETER ENGLERT ESF Managing Authority, Federal Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, Germany Dr. Dieter Englert is working for the Federal ESF Managing Authority since 2007. He is responsible for the Microcredit Fund Germany and for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes with social partners. Before joining the ESF Managing Authority, he was a researcher at the Humboldt University Berlin and responsible for research and transfer project for implementing gender mainstreaming in government service. Dr. Dieter Englert also worked as lecturer at the Free University Berlin, Berlin School of Economics and at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin. MARTIN DASTIG Member of the Strategy and Business Development Team, Investitionsbank Berlin, Germany Martin Dastig is member of the Strategy and Business Development Team at Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), the regional business and urban development bank in Berlin. He has been developing new financing schemes for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) and for urban development projects in the current and the former EU funding period. He participated in the FinNetSME (European Network for Regional SME Finance). In the period 2000 - 2004 he was a Private Equity Manager for the strategic participations of IBB and inter alia responsible for the development of its Venture Capital arm. He teaches at Berlin School of Economics and Law and works on his PhD about development banking in developed countries at London Southbank University. TOMÁŠ NOVOTNÝ Director, Regional Council Office of the Central Bohemia, Czech Republic Tomáš Novotný is an economist, lawyer and director of the Regional Operational Programme for Central Bohemia. Prior to becoming the director in 2009, he was a member of an international team of experts for EU Funds who advised the Ministry of Trade of Romania. He gathered his extensive experience on EU Funds as deputy minister responsible for EU Funds at the Ministry of Environment (in the period 2002-2006) and as deputy director responsible for ISPA at the State Environmental Fund (in the period 2000-2002). “It is the right combination of theory and practice. 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