Cultural projects in EU programmes: Culture in the EU’s Structural Fund projects and in the Rural Development Programme for Mainland Finland in 2007–2013
Pekkala, Laura (2012)
opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö
2012
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The activities of the EU’s Structural Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development will have a large impact on the Finnish culture sector in the programme period 2007–2 013, seeing as the Funds had allocated over €180 million in public and private funding by the end of 2010. More than 800 projects have been implemented since 2007. This figure does not include projects that received a financing decision in 2011.
The funding of the EU’s Structural Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development can be compared to the state and municipal funding annually allocated to culture, which for the state totals around €400 million and for municipalities some €500 million.
A separate survey was conducted to determine the significance that the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Rural Development Programme have on cultural development, since comprehensive information about the allocation of project funding to culture has not been readily available. The survey of the Structural Fund and Rural Development programmes in mainland Finland was carried out to gain more information about project implementation from the perspective of culture. Moreover, the survey provides information about the kind of support that cultural project implementers may need at the national and regional levels and about ways in which project participants can cooperate.
The survey has separate sections on the EU Structural Fund programmes and on the Rural Development programme. They are independent of one another but are presented together to enable the reader to simultaneously review the cultural funding of different programmes. However, the implementation of Structural Fund projects and the Rural Development programme should also be analysed in their own right, since the criteria of funding programmes differ from one another. The Rural Development programme focuses on projects that are smaller in terms of funding, and it receives applications from the third sector more commonly than do the European Regional Development Fund or the European Social Fund.
The objective of this survey is to serve national, regional and local developers in the culture sector and in project activities by providing different levels of information about new development measures introduced in projects, and about their results. The information can be used to, for example, prepare and implement cultural policy. With preparations for the new programme period 2014–2020 about to start, the survey results can also be used for this purpose.
Our warmest thanks go to Laura Pekkala, BA and student of social sciences, for her work on the survey, as well as to Marianne Selkäinaho from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for her help and comments concerning the section on the Rural Development Programme.
This survey was conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture in cooperation with the Rural Policy Committee’s Culture Theme Group.
The funding of the EU’s Structural Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development can be compared to the state and municipal funding annually allocated to culture, which for the state totals around €400 million and for municipalities some €500 million.
A separate survey was conducted to determine the significance that the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Rural Development Programme have on cultural development, since comprehensive information about the allocation of project funding to culture has not been readily available. The survey of the Structural Fund and Rural Development programmes in mainland Finland was carried out to gain more information about project implementation from the perspective of culture. Moreover, the survey provides information about the kind of support that cultural project implementers may need at the national and regional levels and about ways in which project participants can cooperate.
The survey has separate sections on the EU Structural Fund programmes and on the Rural Development programme. They are independent of one another but are presented together to enable the reader to simultaneously review the cultural funding of different programmes. However, the implementation of Structural Fund projects and the Rural Development programme should also be analysed in their own right, since the criteria of funding programmes differ from one another. The Rural Development programme focuses on projects that are smaller in terms of funding, and it receives applications from the third sector more commonly than do the European Regional Development Fund or the European Social Fund.
The objective of this survey is to serve national, regional and local developers in the culture sector and in project activities by providing different levels of information about new development measures introduced in projects, and about their results. The information can be used to, for example, prepare and implement cultural policy. With preparations for the new programme period 2014–2020 about to start, the survey results can also be used for this purpose.
Our warmest thanks go to Laura Pekkala, BA and student of social sciences, for her work on the survey, as well as to Marianne Selkäinaho from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for her help and comments concerning the section on the Rural Development Programme.
This survey was conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture in cooperation with the Rural Policy Committee’s Culture Theme Group.