Vegard Unger Ellefsen, the Ellefsen, Unger Vegard © Civil Protection for Directorate Norwegian

2004-2009 2009-2014 2014-2021

TOTAL FUNDING TOTAL FUNDING TOTAL FUNDING €70.3M €80.75M €113.1M

EEA GRANTS GRANTS EEA GRANTS NORWAY GRANTS EEA GRANTS NORWAY GRANTS €32.3M €38M €38.35M €42.4M €54.9M €58.2M

PRIORITY AREAS

2009-2014 2014-2021

Supporting judicial reform, tackling cross-border and Increasing the competitiveness of Slovak enterprises organised crime Fighting poverty and improving living conditions for the Improving the situation of vulnerable groups, including the Roma population Roma population Continuing cross border cooperation with Ukraine Boosting green innovation and entrepreneurship Supporting social and economic development through Strengthening civil society to promote social justice, culture democracy and sustainable development Supporting victims of domestic and gender-based violence

COUNTRY FACTS Slovakia EU-27 GDP per capita in PPS (EU=100) 77 100

Economic growth (% change on previous year) 3.3 2.00

Unemployment rate (%)* 4.9 7.6*

Youth unemployment rate (%)* 18.6 16.8*

Public debt (% of GDP) 51.8 83.2

Gender pay gap (%) 19 16.3

At-risk-of-poverty rate (%) 18.1 23.5

Human development index ** 21 (EU-27 ranking)

Corruption perception index* 21 (EU-27 ranking)

Sources: Eurostat/UNDP/Transparency International All data is from 2016, except where * indicates 2017 and ** indicates 2015. All data is from EU-27, except where ~ indicates EU-28. SLOVAKIA

2009-2014 PERIOD

PROGRAMMES UNDER THE EEA AND NORWAY GRANTS *Programme Operator • NORWAY GRANTS • EEA GRANTS Programme Partner(s) Grant (€ million) Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection, Norwegian Adaptation to climate change 12.5 • Water Resources and Energy Directorate Green Industry Innovation Innovation Norway 16.1 •

NGO Fund - 7.4 •

Local and regional initiatives 1.0 •

Cross-border cooperation Norwegian Barents Secretariat 13.4 •

Cultural and natural heritage - 11.9 • Icelandic Centre for Research, Agency for International Scholarships Education Affairs (), Norwegian Centre for 1.9 • International Cooperation in Education Decent work and tripartite dialogue Innovation Norway* 0.4 •

Domestic and gender-based violence Norwegian Directorate of Health, Council of Europe 8.4 •

IMPLEMENTATION STATUS

Total funding (€M) Disbursed* No. of projects No. of partnership projects** 80.75 96.49% 382 117 (30.6%)

*The percentage is calculated based on the net allocations to the beneficiary country and reflects funding spent per 16.05.2018. **Projects with donor project partner including mobility projects in the scholarship programmes.

2014-2021 PERIOD

PROGRAMMES UNDER THE EEA AND NORWAY GRANTS *Fund Operator • NORWAY GRANTS • EEA GRANTS

Programme Partner(s) Grant (€ million) Innovation Norway, Norwegian Centre for International Business Development, Innovation and Cooperation in Education, National Agency for International 20.0 •• SMEs Education Affairs (Liechtenstein) Social Dialogue – Decent Work Innovation Norway* 0.58 • Local Development, Poverty Reduction - 15.0 • and Roma Inclusion Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection, Norwegian 16.0 •• Environment Agency Cultural Entrepreneurship, Cultural Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Arts Council of Norway 17.5 • Heritage and Cultural Cooperation Civil Society - 9.0 • Good Governance, Accountable Norwegian Barents Secretariat, Organization for Economic Institutions, Transparency and Cross- 8.5 • Co-Operation and Development border Cooperation Domestic and Gender-based Violence Norwegian Directorate of Health, Council of Europe 9.0 • Bilateral national fund- funding for developing bilateral cooperation and - 2.26 •• activities of bilateral interest with , Liechtenstein and Norway

KEY FACTS No. of Donor Cooperation Agreements (MoUs) signed on Programme Partners 28 November 2016

1 Liechtenstein https://eeagrants.org/Results-data/Documents/Legal-documents/Memoranda- 10 9 Norway of-Understanding-with-beneficiary-countries/Slovakia

Read more about programmes and projects in Slovakia: www.eeagrants.org/slovakia