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Measuring benefits of European Territorial Cooperation Programmes – Piloting of Typology
22 February 2011
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The Proposal – Why?
• Need to know benefits at the EU level
• Need to assess what is achieved in order to communicate benefits
• Difficulty with indicators across E.T.C. Programmes – Over 50 sub themes identified in regulations– Wide range of projects multi country & multi sectoral– Common system not possible– Difficult to change existing programmes– Too late for new indicators
• Data for communication, capitalisation, monitoring, evaluation needed
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Benefits
• A tool to identify common achievements– What are you proud of?– Relevance of your achievement in context of programme
area/topics
• Visibility
• Communication tools– KEEP
• Help the programme– To show its uniqueness– Justify achievement of programme objectives
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The Proposal – How does it work?
• Looking outside of indicators, but focusing on project achievements (the most significant effects achieved by the end of the project)
• Reported via one report at project completion stage
• Based on project self assessment
• Simple, easy to use, not take very long to complete
• Online system
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Step 1: Type of achievement
• New knowledge or analysis - Studies and analysis where the main purpose is to develop new knowledge (eg feasibility studies, benchmarking, comparitative analysis or surveys)
• New ways of working - Change or significant improvement of working methods, skills, practices, procedures and structures (eg guidelines, strategies, tool kits, new clusters, new legal identities)
• Changes to policy or public behaviour - Amended laws or regulations (eg new standards for construction of buildings)
• Investment or infrastructure - eg road, bridge, cycle route
• Product or Service – eg online service, health care service
• Community integration - Integrating communities on both sides of the border and strengthening personal contacts (eg people to people, cross border cultural festivals)
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Step 2: Themes
• Economic development
• Environment
• Quality of life
• Accessibility
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Step 3: Value of cooperation What is the added value of the cooperation?
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• Cooperation status – To what extent is the cooperation important for this achievement?
• Benefits of cooperation – Additional effects of cooperation?
• Geographical impact – At what level is the most extensive geographical impact of your achievement?
• Transferability of achievements – Would it be possible to transfer this achievement to other organisations / regions / countries outside current partnership?
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Pitfalls
• Projects have difficulty identifying one major achievement
• Projects have difficulty distiguishing between types of achievements
• Projects have difficulty distiguishing between outputs and results
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Discussion Questions
• Can you identify one main project achievement?
• Can you explain how cooperation has helped you reach your main project achievement?