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Ana ZubčićCounselor for International Relations and EU Funds – AGRRA
Zadar County OverviewOP Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020
18th of October, 2016Capacity Building Workshop
• Zadar County overview
• Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014 – 2020• PA 3: Business
Competitiveness• IP 3d: Supporting the capacity
of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes
• SO 3d1: SMEs' development and growth improved in domestic and foreign markets
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Zadar County
The County of Zadar is an administrative subdivision of the Republic of Croatia
It is one of seven coastal Croatian Counties and it is located in the very center of the Croatian part of the Adriatic coast
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Zadar County
The county's area is 7,854 km² (6,4 % of the territory of Croatia)
3,646 km² is land The sea area of the County is 3,632 km² More than 300 smaller and larger islands (Zadar archipelago)
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Zadar County
The population in the area of Zadar County according to the 2011 census was 170.398
Population density in Zadar County is 44,5 people/km²
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Zadar County
210 out of 229 settlements in Zadar County are in rural area
92,8% of the territory is rural 48% of the population lives in rural area
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Use of information and communication technolgies
Croatia ICT as a sector represents 4.2% of the total GDP 2.2% of overall active population is employed in it Croatia will seek to implement the ambitious targets
set in the Europe 2020 Strategy and Digital agenda for Europe flagship initiative
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia Broadband penetration and NGN coverage levels:
both lagging behind the EU average levels Fixed broadband penetration was 21.7% in January
2014 (EU average was 29.8% in 2013) In 2013, 63.6% of households in Croatia had Internet
access (EU average was 76% in 2013) Although Croatia has already achieved good basic
broadband coverage (97% of population in 2013), total NGA network coverage in Croatia amounted to only 33% in 2013, which positioned Croatia far behind EU’s average NGA coverage of 62% in the same year
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia Current level of NGA coverage is concentrated on few
densely populated areas of Croatia Considering this, significant number of households,
public administration sites, educational and health care institutions, as well as small and medium enterprises is unable to access the high-speed broadband and use advanced IT services, thus hindering uniform regional development in Croatia and exploiting of socioeconomic benefits related to the availability of NGA broadband networks
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia At least 60% of Croatian population would not be
commercially covered by NGN infrastructure, due to poor profitability prospects for NGN investments in areas with lower population density
In order to foster extension of NGN coverage to these areas, public funds shall be used for support of investments in NGN infrastructure (backhaul and access portion of network), to complement private investments by operators in white and grey NGN areas
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia
In order to reach 100% national NGA broadband coverage and close the existing and foreseen coverage gap in unprofitable areas by 2020, investments of up to €1.286 million are needed
At least 29.8% of this amount is foreseen to be covered by private investments from operators, while remaining share of 70.2% shall be covered by public support
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia
Detailed analysis of the Croatian public ICT sector has detected deficiencies which mostly concern inadequate and inefficient cost and investment management in the ICT public sector
Public ICT projects are mainly implemented by individual state administrative bodies, without systematic coordination or possibility to use common resources while concurrently many systems have small utilization percentages of the available ICT infrastructure
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia
Public e-services in Croatia are to a greater extent provided to companies than to citizens
Citizens have fully available 50% of basic public services via the Internet (in 2010), but compared to EU-27, Croatia is below average (EU27 81%)
Only 30.8% of citizens communicated with public authorities through online applications in 2013 (EU-27: 50%)
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ICT – main identified problems
Croatia
Digital Growth Strategy will give direction for the development of e-services, with a clear prioritization and orientation to results and will elaborate incentives aiming to increase the usage of eservices (e.g. faster treatment of e-requests and cost reduction in comparison to classical counter service delivery).
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Business competitiveness
SMEs
99,7% of the total number of enterprises in Croatia 68,3% participation in total employment 51% of GDP
Croatia: “moderate innovator”
SMEs innovation: 8% below the EU average
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OP Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014. – 2020.
Priority Axis 3: Business Competitiveness
Investment Priority 3d: Supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional,
national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes
Specific Objective 3d1: SMEs development and growth improved in domestic
and foreign markets
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Specific Objective 3d1 – results to be achieved
Implementation of modern information and communication technologies (ICT):
creates the possibility for optimizing the functioning of enterprises and affects directly the growth of innovativeness and competitiveness of the economy
The aim is to finance SMEs projects to deploy e-business solutions
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Specific Objective 3d1 – results to be achieved
Improving the competitiveness and efficiency of enterprises through ICT Support to enterprises introducing and implementing
e-business solutions provided by ICT Supporting e-services creation and provision between
enterprises (B2B) and implementation of ICT solutions
Supporting initiatives aimed at digitalization of business services and products
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Possible policy improvement
Policy more incisive and tailor-made to support business development and technological readiness of SMEs in rural area
Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts: letter of support
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