“Grécke skúsenosti s využitím štrukturálnych fondov”” 21st June 2007, iDEME, Bratislava ‘07 Ioannis Drakopoulos [email protected] Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 1 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G Operational Programs Information Society § Greek Population: 10M § Slovak Rep. Population: 5M § GR OPIS (2000-2006) § SK OPIS (2007-2013) § Public Expenditure 2.269,6M€, § Public Expenditure 1.168,3M€, National Contribution 25% & EU National Contribution 15% & EU Contribution 75% Contribution 85% § ESF (25,6%) & ERDF (74,4%) § ERDF funded only combined funding § 4 Action Lines – Electronization of public administration and § 5 Action Lines development of electronic services (63,0%) – Education & culture (14,8%) – Development and renewal of the national – Citizens & quality of life (31,0%) infrastructure of repository institutions (11,6%) – The digital economy and employment (31,8%) – Improvement of broadband internet access – Communications (20,0%) (22,3%) – Technical Assistance (2,4%) – Technical Assistance (3,1%) Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 2 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G A long story short… …Greek “experience” before NSRF 2007-2013 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS OF GREECE FUNDED FROM EU 1986-2006 BASED ON THE INITIAL APPROVALS (MIP). 1st C.S.F. 2nd C.S.F. 3rd C.S.F. (1986-1989) (1989-1993) (1994-1999) (2000-2006) In thousands In thousands In thousands in thousands ECU** ECU** ECU** Euros Base line prices Base line prices Base line prices Base line prices 1986 1989 1994 2000 Total Budget 2.101.933 14.342.054 29.721.300 44.363.540 National Public Participation 695.740 5.802.196 7.069.900 11.126.075 EU Contribution 2.576.000 7.193.241 13.980.000 22.707.000 Private Participation 210.193 1.346.617 8.671.400 10.730.465 * MIP (Mediterranean Integrated Programmes) after 1989 was incorporated to the 1st C.S.F. ** 1 ECU = 1 Euro (exchange rate on 1/1/1999) Source:Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 3 DEXTERA Operational Program Information Society (OPIS) C O N S U L T I N G was the 1st horizontal action line dedicated to Information Society Identity § Title of OP: ‘INFORMATION SOCIETY’ § Duration of OP: 1.1.2000 to 31.12.2006 § Deadline for completion of the OP Actions: 31.12.2008 § Deadline for full payment of the OP Action: 31.12.2008 § Priority Axis CSF 2000 – 2006: 6 – Information Society § National Independent Managing Authority for the OP: Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance § OP Submission: April 2000 § Date of OP Approval: 14.03.2001, C (2001) 551 § Date of OP Modification: 29.12.2004, C (2004) 5868 § Date of 2nd OP Modification: 20.12.2005, C (2005) 5839 § Programme Complement Submission: May 2001 Budget: § Total Cost: 2.676 ΜEURO § Public Expenditure: 2.167,5 ΜEURO (80,99% of the Total Cost) § Community Contribution ERDF & ESF: 1663,4 ΜEURO (76,74% of the Public Expenditure) § Community Contribution ERDF: 1.242,3 ΜEURO (57,3% of the Public Expenditure) § Community Contribution ESF: 421,1 ΜEUR O (19,42% of the Public Expenditure) § National Participation: 504,1 ΜEURO (23,26% of the Public Expenditure) § Private Participation: 508,5 ΜEURO (19% of the Total Cost of OP) Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. 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CONFIDENTIAL 4 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G OP Information Society 2000-2006 Action Lines § Action line 1 – Education and Culture The aim is to adapt the educational system to the needs of the digital age and to achieve increased use of new technologies in education, including the networking of schools, universities and the academic community (including administrative services); training teachers and pupils; and developing digital educational content. § Action line 2 – Citizens and Quality of Life Using ICTs for improved services to the public in critical sectors of the public administration, and improving of the quality of life through the introduction of new technologies in the areas of health and welfare, the environment and transport as well as to develop Land Registry applications and infrastructure. § Action line 3 - The Digital Economy and Employment Creating conditions for conversion to the “new economy”, through the promotion of e-business and research and its relationship to production, skills upgrading, employment and tele-work and the exploitation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the SMEs. § Action line 4 – Communications Supporting the market liberalisation process and developing telecommunications infrastructure in remote areas for the provision of advanced services at low cost and points of access to the IS for the public and the utilization of ICTs by the Public Media. § Action line 5 - Technical Assistance. Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 5 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G Current status of OPIS implementation Budget/Allocations/Contracts/Spending Total Budget (in M€) / Data 16.3.07 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 3532,37 1500 2675,97 2402,97 1000 1436,75 500 0 100% 132% 89,80% 53,70% Budget Allocated amounts Contracted Spendings Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 6 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G Current status of OPIS implementation Budget/Allocations/Contracts/Spending Toatl Budget Brakedown per priority Axe Data as per 16.3.2007 1.400,00 1.200,00 1.000,00 Budget 800,00 Allocated amounts 600,00 Contrac ted Spendings 400,00 200,00 0,00 (20%) Axis 4: Axis (31,0%) (31,8%) quality of life of quality employment economy and & culture (14,8%) culture & Axis 1:Education Axis Communications 5:Technical Axis Axis 2:Citizens & Axis Axis 3:The digital Axis Assistance (2,4%) Assistance Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 7 DEXTERA Projects funded from Structural Funds that C O N S U L T I N G changed the way we live, learn, play and communicate…. § Education – GRNET / GUNET / EDUNET § Public Sector – SYZEFKSIS / ARIADNI / Grants for SMEs – HOT SPOTS § Broadband Penetration – OPTICAL MANs / FUNDING INVESTMENTS FOR BROADBAND PENETRATION Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 8 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G The Greek Network of Research, Academic and Education Community Research www.grnet.gr Community: GRNET (Backbone) 35,8 M Euros Academic www.gunet.gr Community: GUnet (Based on GRNET 57,9 M Euros Backbone + local hubs and additional services ) Education www.sch.gr Community: EDUnet (Based on GRNET Backbone + local hubs and additional 15,9 M Euros services provided from Greek Universities ) Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 9 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G GRNET § The Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) supports the research and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within Greece and internationally, through: – the provision of its high-capacity networking and grid computing infrastructure, – the strengthening of e-Learning & e-Business practices, as well as – the participation in international research and education efforts. § GRNET operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Development and is supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Development. § The network connects 27 Universities, 15 Technical Universities, 33 Research Institutions and 12,673 schools to the Pan-European Research and Education Network, GEANT. Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 10 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G GRNET Topology The GR-NET backbone consists of network nodes in 7 major greek cities, that is, Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Ioannina, Xanthi, Heraklion and Larisa. All 7 nodes are co-located in the Greek Public Network Operator's (OTE) central offices under a leasing aggreement. Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 11 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G GUnet Objective & Description § The project "Academic Internet- GUnet: Access Network and Core Services for the Education" was initially financed from the 2nd CSF (1994-1999) (Operational Program Education and Initial Professional Training). § Implementation is based upon both the experience of the institutions-members (all the Greek Universities) and of the civil non profit society GUnet (Management Authority). § Advanced telematics services of horizontal character as well as digital content has been implemented, aiming to cover the needs for information and use of advanced applications by the users of the Academic Community. Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 12 DEXTERA C O N S U L T I N G GUnet Services § The development of advanced telematics services (catalogue services, security, voice-over-IP), for the academic community. These services will have a horizontal character, integrating complementary actions of the institutions- members. § The development of digital content and especially ICT related content, aiming at the dissemination of the learning content created within the Greek Academic Institutions. § The development of synchronous and asynchronous e-learning services and the implementation of projects for the acquisition of know- how in the new technologies of telematics and networks by the members of the Network Operations Centers (NOC). Presentation_ID © 2007 DEXTERA CONSULTING. All rights reserved. CONFIDENTIAL 13 DEXTERA GUnet C O N S U L T I N G The VoIP service § The Voice Over IP service constitutes one of the main activities of the GUnet. § The objective of the service is the provision of voice communication without any charge among the end users of the academic institutions. § By this way: – the potential of the data network to transport voice packets is developed, – the collaboration and communication among the members of the academic community is strengthened, and simultaneously – the telecommunications costs of academic institutions are limited. § The service implementation was based on the international standard H.323 that determines a set of network components and protocols for the transmission and reception of voice, video and real time data.