The European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy is seeking proposals by public authorities and civil society organizations, interested to strengthen citizen participation in cohesion policy through collaborative innovative solutions.
- 10 March 2022
The European Commission is offering technical support by experts from OECD to managing authorities, intermediate bodies or beneficiaries and to civil society organisations to implement in an innovative way the partnership principles in EU Cohesion Policy. Up to 10 proposals, co-signed by a public authority and a civil society organisation, will receive assistance by the Open Government unit of OECD to test new innovative solutions for engaging citizens.
Such solutions can be in the context of design, implementation and/or monitoring of programme, but also of a strategy specific for one of the five policy objectives, or even of a specific investment under programmes 2021-2027
For further details, see the call for expression of interests on Innovative Implementation of the Partnership Principle.
Have a look at the presentation and watch the video recording.
To reply to your questions, you can book a 15-minutes conversation with DG REGIO and OECD these two days:
- Monday April 11 2pm-3pm
- Tuesday April 12 11am-12pm
The application should be sent at REGIO-E1-ADMINISTRATIVE-CAPACITY@ec.europa.eu.
The deadline for applications is 30.04.2022.
A webinar to present the call in details and to reply to your questions is organised by DG REGIO and OECD on 24 March 2022 from 10 am to 11 am CET. If you are interested to participate, please register.
Background
In 2020-2021, DG REGIO already cooperated with OECD Open Government to provide support to five public authorities, i.e. managing authorities and intermediate bodies, in improving their competences and practices when engaging with citizens. In parallel, DG REGIO offered grants to civil society organisations to promote citizens engagement. The present call for expression of interest builds on the experience from these two previous initiatives. For further information, please visit the webpage dedicated to the topic.
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