Kick-off event of the Interreg capitalisation network for Better Governance and Institutional development across borders (TO11)
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Objectives
This meeting organised by Interact intends to take stock of programme activities that were undertaken under the thematic objective 11 “enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration” in Interreg and other cooperation activities, such as Macro-regional strategies. The meeting aims at establishing an exchange of experience across cooperation programmes (and others) and their management authorities with regard to the topic mentioned above and thereby lead to a discourse on how cooperation programmes can contribute to capacity development. It also intends to develop the thematic knowledge of participants via the exchange with academia, policy makers, and mainstream policies. In the course of the network’s development, the thematic objective will be broken down into sub-topics in order to enable in-depth discussion.
Outline
The Interact Programme has established capitalisation networks dealing with some of the thematic objectives 5 (climate change), 7 (transport), 8-9-10 (inclusive growth), and 11 institutional capacity (TO11). Interreg programmes are a major contribution to the institutional development both in quantitative terms and qualitative terms. They invest into projects that support capacity building. Moreover, cooperation activities and initiatives also support the sustained exchange of experience across borders and thereby the institutional development in a multi-level governance framework. In this respect, it should also be borne in mind that institutional development is a cross-cutting theme and at the same time, institutional capacity can be seen as a pre-condition for project and programme implementation in Regional Policy.
The Interact Capitalisation Plan proposes the following activities for the capitalisation networks:
- Analysing past and current Interreg results in order to gain insight and improve project practices.
- Contributing to the shaping of future action and strategies at project, programme and at policy levels.
- Promoting the re-use and/or transfer of this knowledge and these results, in order to support performance and delivery, future policies and programmes’ developments.
- Making programmes’ and projects’ achievements more visible, through a broader view (not only limited to priorities).
- Provide feedback to EU policy makers on how EU support makes a difference in the field and to identify ways to target such support in a better way
Day one
Monday, 19 March 2018
12.00-13.00
Registration and Welcome Lunch
13.30-14.15
Welcome and tour de table
14.15-14.30
Introduction and objectives of the meeting
Jörg Mirtl, Interact Programme
14.30-15.30
Group work: Project presentations & discussion (Interreg)
15.30-16.00
Coffee break
16.00-16.20
Presentation of the b-solutions project
Max Maurenbrecher, European Association for Border Regions
16.20-16.40
Activities of Urbact in the fields of capacity building and capitalisation
Clémentine Gravier, Urbact Programme
16.40-17.00
Cross-border multi-level governance – point of view of the Mission Operationelle Transfrontalière (MOT)
Alexandra Lafont, MOT
17.00-17.30
Introduction to the macro-regional perspective
Claudia Singer, EU Strategy for the Danube Region
Staša Mesec, EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (tbc)
Day two
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
09.00-09.30
Presentations and Discussion of the Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI)
Kevin Richman, OECD
9.30-10.00
Capacity Building across borders - presentation of the ESF PAG platform and options for more transnational cooperation
Vladimir Kvaca, AEIDL
10.00-10.40
Communication aspects of Interreg projects related to TO11
Ulf Wikström, Interact Programme
10.40-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.00
Discussion of next steps and operational issues
12.00-12.30
Conclusion of the meeting
12.30
Goodbye lunch