FARNET: what can it do for Swedish FLAGs? - Urszula Budzich-Tabor, Thomas Hjelm Stockholm, 17 January 2019

FARNET: what can it do
for Swedish FLAGs?

Urszula Budzich-Tabor, Thomas Hjelm
Stockholm, 17 January 2019

A quick remider…

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                     by the

CLLD in
the EMFF:

368 FLAGs

20 MS

ca. €690 total
public

Multifunding (combining several
EU Funds in one local strategy)
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30                                            11

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     GR       IT          LT          LV      PL        PT       SE        SI       UK

          monofund EMFF        EMFF+EAFRD   EMFF+EAFRD+ERDF   EMFF+EAFRD+ERDF+ESF

FARNET: The European Fisheries Areas Network
•   FLAGs
•   NNs
•   IBs / MAs
•   European Commission
•   Other stakeholders

The FARNET Support Unit
• A permanent team of 12
• A Geographic Expert per MS
    •   Capacity building
    •   Information dissemination
    •   Exchange of experience and best practice
    •   Support to FLAG cooperation

Some tools…

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                by the

Guides (2 per year, 7 languages)

Magazines (1 per year, 4
languages)

Project examples

Support to FLAG cooperation

Perhaps the most important:
seminars!
• Twice a year, ca. 140 participants, including some 100
  FLAGs
• Opportunity to learn, share your successes, network
  with other FLAGs, start cooperation projects
Next seminar:
   Smart coastal areas: Resourcefulness and
   innovation in FLAG communities
   (sub-themes: Smart partnerships, Smart resource
   use, Smart financing, Smart services)
   Bantry, Ireland, 2-4 April 2019
   Registration deadline: 4 February

How well do you know FARNET
tools?
Let’s do a little test…
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• Which FARNET Guides (from 2014-2020
  period, i.e. no. 10-16) contain examples
  from Sweden?
• Which FARNET Magazine (2014-2020)
  features a Swedish FLAG?
• How many project examples are
  available in Swedish? From which
  countries?
• How many Swedish FLAGs have their
  profiles uploaded on the FARNET
  website?

Some project examples from the
FARNET tools…

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Adding value, creating jobs, attracting young
people and promoting innovation at all stages
of the supply chain of fishery and aquaculture
products

Research to facilitate export of
live octopus

  Sotavento do Algarve FLAG, Portugal

Setting up the first commercial
coral farm in Europe

  Mariña Ortegal FLAG, Spain

Enhancing native oyster stocks

   South West FLAG, Ireland

Commercialising underused fish
species

   Central Finland FLAG, FI

Supporting diversification inside or outside
commercial fisheries, lifelong learning and job
creation in fisheries and aquaculture areas

The Wave Restaurant set up by a
fisherman

   Dodecanese FLAG, Greece

Using crushed shells for 3-D
printing

    North Sardinia FLAG, Italy

Cooperation to jointly valorise
fisheries heritage

    Nine FLAGs in Northern Poland

Enhancing and capitalising on the
environmental assets of the fisheries and
aquaculture areas, including operations to
mitigate climate change

Fisheries organisation becoming self-
sufficient in renewable energy supply

   East Asturias FLAG, Spain

Testing environmentally friendly
fishing traps

  Baltic Sea Coast FLAG, Germany

Monitoring and protecting local
fish stocks

 North Kurzeme FLAG, Latvia

Promoting social well-being and cultural
heritage in fisheries and aquaculture areas,
including fisheries, aquaculture and maritime
cultural heritage

Regenerating a fishing port in
Puise

  Laanemaa FLAG, Estonia

Setting up Inshore Fisheries
Forum

  6 Irish FLAGs, IE

Attracting the young to oyster
farming

  Arcachon FLAG, France

Strengthening the role of fisheries
communities in local development and the
governance of local fisheries resources and
maritime activities

Supporting small-scale fishermen
to access additional funding

  Silute FLAG, Lithuania

Putting actors together to create a
Marine Protected Area

   Cadiz Estrecho FLAG, Spain

Animation for a stronger community
bond with aquaculture

  Our Krajna and Paluki FLAG, Poland

Would you like to share some of your
projects with the FARNET
community?

Important work
 strand: improving
 CLLD delivery
• Working with Managing Authorities, Intermediate
  Bodies, Paying Agencies, National Networks and
  FLAGs to avoid delays, duplication of tasks and
  excessive administrative burdens
• FLAG survey (deadline 25 January)
• Five case studies (Estonia, France, Greece, Poland,
  Sweden) to look for good and not so good practices
• Late 2019 – CLLD delivery guide

Thank you very much!

                                        urszula@farnet.eu
                                     thomas.hjelm@utposten.se
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