European Territorial Cooperation: How to build a successful European

Seminar
European Territorial Cooperation:
How to build a successful European
partnership for better use of EU funds?
Closure of programmes and preparation for
the next programming period 2014-2020
Barcelona (ES), 26-28 May 2014
European Institute of Public Administration
Institut européen d’administration publique
Introduction
Target group
National, regional or local public administration, NGOs,
associations and other actors interested or involved in the design,
development and implementation of territorial cooperation
programmes and projects.
Description
The three-day practical seminar will give a complete overview of
all existing and accessible financial instruments for countries,
regions, provinces and municipalities in the framework of
territorial cooperation in the programming period 20142020, as well as foreseeing questions related to the closure of
programmes implemented under Territorial Cohesion in the
2007-2013 perspective.
Regions and cities are very important players in programming and
implementation of the EU Cohesion policy in terms of promotion
of regional and local growth, job creation and maintenancerelated measures, but also in the process of creation and
implementation of JOINT EU co-financed projects in different
areas of regional development. The EC encourages regions and
cities from different EU Member States to work together and
learn from each other through joint programmes, projects and
networks. This seminar will be focused on the following areas:
The NEW Goal 2 of the Cohesion Policy in the programming
period 2014-20 – European Territorial Cooperation covering
three types of programmes co-financed by ERDF (cross-border,
transnational and interregional cooperation programmes),
with separate regulation, a bigger budget and higher importance;
European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), legal
instrument designed to facilitate and promote cross-border,
transnational and interregional cooperation. It reflects the
ongoing development of governance and organisational
solutions in the area of territorial cooperation;
The NEW ‘European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)’ designed
to target sustainable development and approximate EU policies
and standards in the neighbouring countries;
The NEW Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance II (IPA II) –
instrument of EU pre-accession policy providing assistance to
candidate and potential candidate countries of the European
Union.
Learning methodology
Traditional training methods (lectures and presentations,
including concrete examples) will be combined with an interactive
approach through discussions, exchange of experiences between
participants and with the experts. One of the most important
elements of the seminar is the presentation of best practices of
JOINT EU co-financed projects that were implemented in the
previous programming periods, as well as those planned to be
implemented in the present financial perspective, and a practical
workshop on how to be efficient in joint projects, managed by
experts in the field.
Objectives
By the end of the seminar, participants will have gained a
thorough knowledge of all accessible financial and legal
instruments for territorial cooperation, rules which apply to joint
programmes and projects, how to use the best practices and
how to avoid mistakes. The goal of the seminar is also to build
a real territorial cooperation network between participants and
institutions for future joint projects and the exchange of practical
experiences.
Programme
Monday 26 May 2014
08.45 Registration and distribution of seminar material
09.00
Opening of the seminar: introduction to the
programme, objectives and methodology
Iwona Karwot (PL), Senior Lecturer and Project Leader,
EIPA Barcelona
09.15 Tour de table: participants’ presentation to endorse
networking
I. Territorial cooperation and partnership: Objectives,
instruments, legal solution, geographical division and
developments in the programming period 2014-2020
09.30
Introduction to the EU Territorial Cooperation Policy
in the programming period 2007-2013 and its
evolution in the 2014-2020 perspective: objectives,
instruments and challenges
Iwona Karwot
11.00 Q&A session
11.10 Coffee break
11.30 European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation
(EGTC): state of play and prospects in Europe in
2014-2020
Case study: the EGTCs in Spain
Gracia Vara Arribas (ES), Expert, EIPA Barcelona
13.00 Q&A session
13.15Lunch
14.45 State of play of all ENPI CBC programmes and
foreseen changes for the programming period 20142020
Albert Sorrosal (ES), Director of CNS Consultores,
expert for the European Commission DG Regio,
DG Environment & DG Devco
16.15 Q&A session
16.30
Future of Territorial Cooperation 2014-2020: some
thoughts and actions from the CoR
María Lozano Uriz (ES), Horizontal Policies and
Networks, EU Committee of the Regions
09.35 Europe 2020 and territorial cohesion.
Alexander Heichlinger (AT), Expert and EPSA Manager,
EIPA Barcelona
11.00 Q&A session
11.15 Coffee break
II. Territorial cooperation and partnership: experiences by
regions and countries, practical examples of best practices,
closure of programmes and preparation for 2014-2020
11.45
Success stories of territorial cooperation
programmes and projects in Spain
Belén Mendoza (ES), Responsible for EU programmes,
Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of
Santiago de Compostela.
13.15 Q&A session
13.30Lunch
15.00
Ex ante evaluation of Territorial Cooperation
Programmes: methodological approach
Nicola Brignani (IT), Responsible for the Territorial
Cooperation Area at t33
16.30 Q&A session
16.45
Implementation of the 3rd objective of the Cohesion
Policy in Poland and preparation for the
programming period 2014-2020
Representative of the Ministry of Infrastructure and
Development, Poland
18:15 End of the second day
Wednesday 28 May 2014
III. Workshops
09.00
Key elements of different phases of joint projects:
practical approach
Xavier Tiana Casablancas (ES), Head of International
Relations in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Expert
on EU Structural Funds
17.45 Q&A session
10.30 Workshop: How to build a successful partnership in
European territorial cooperation projects?
Xavier Tiana Casablancas, Iwona Karwot
18.00 End of the first day
11.00 Coffee break
20.30 Welcome dinner
11.20 Workshop: continuation
Tuesday 27 May 2014
13.15 Evaluation panel
Xavier Tiana Casablancas, Iwona Karwot
09.30 Introduction to the second day
Iwona Karwot
14.00 Closure and issuing of EIPA certificates
Experts
(in alphabetical order)
Nicola Brignani (IT)
Responsible for the Territorial Cooperation Area at t33. Involved
since 2010 in European Commission studies (‘PSI: Identification
of Potential Exclusive Agreements – Italy’; ‘Moving towards a
more result/performance-based delivery system in Cohesion
Policy’; Analysis of the financial and physical data in the Final
Implementation Reports concerning the Objective 1 and 2
Programmes for 2000-2006 financed by the ERDF), he is currently
responsible for several ex ante evaluations of 2014-2020 ETC
Programmes (Interreg Europe, Alpine Space, France (Channel)
England, 2 Seas, Italy-Swiss). He is also currently contributing
to the DG Regional and Urban Policies study on Multi-Level
Governance (‘MLG in support of EUROPE 2020’) and to the WP0
of the ‘Ex-post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 20072013’. He has experience in capacity building and is specialised in
qualitative surveys.
Alexander Heichlinger (AT)
Senior Faculty Member, Expert at EIPA Barcelona and Manager
of the European Public Sector Award (EPSA). Over the last nearly
20 years he has managed different projects for local and regional
public administrations in Europe, as well as for several European
institutions and international organisations (e.g. he was
member of the EC DG Employment 2010 Steering Committee
‘Assessment of ACB interventions and future needs in the context
of the European Social Fund’). He has managed and developed
projects with European funds of Interact & Interreg, Framework
Programme I+D and External Aid. Moreover, since 2007, he has
been managing one of the flagship seminars at EIPA (EU Project
Funding Strategy: Do’s and Don’ts), of which more than 30 editions
have taken place, training more than 1000 civil servants from all
over Europe in different aspects of European projects. Since 2009
he has successfully been heading the EPSA Award scheme, which
celebrated its fourth edition in 2013 and is co-financed by the
ESF, with the support of 13 partners. He has published 12 books
and many other publications in his field of expertise.
Iwona Karwot (PL)
Senior Lecturer and Project Leader at EIPA Barcelona. Doctor in
EU Regional Policy. Specialised in EU funds, with a main focus
on European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and preaccession funds (former PHARE, IPA). Working experience as EU
expert, national ERDF expert, trainer, manager or adviser in the
framework of Institutional Building and Technical Assistance EU
projects in the field of regional development in: Poland, Germany,
Spain, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania,
Turkey, Kosovo, etc.
María Lozano Uriz (ES)
Coordinator of the Subsidiarity Monitoring and Territorial Impact
Assessment at the Committee of the Regions, inside Directorate
E for Horizontal Policies and Networks. She has been Head of the
EU Office of the Government of Navarra for 12 years. Her work
had a special focus on Regional policy, Research and innovation,
Enterprise, Energy and Education. She has experience on Public
Affairs and lobbying within the EU institutions and as a European
projects facilitator for regional stakeholders. She has been an
active member in European regional networks: European Regions
for Research and Innovation (ERRIN), where she was a member of
its management board and leader of the Bioeconomy working
group; the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR);
the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), where she
was a member of its Steering Committee. María Lozano Uriz holds
a European PhD on Public Communication from the University
of Navarra and an Executive Master in Public Management from
Solvay Business School – Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is also
an Associated Professor at the Master in Political and Corporate
Communication of the University of Navarra.
Belén Mendoza (ES)
Responsible for EU programmes, EU Programmes Department
in the Santiago de Compostela Chamber of Commerce, Industry
and Navigation. Former Secretary General of CECICN (Conference
of European Cross-border and interregional city networks), where
her job focused on cross-border and interregional projects and
consultancy work for International Relations issues for the City
Council of Santiago de Compostela. She was in charge of designing
and monitoring projects of the different European Programmes:
Interreg IVB, Interreg IVC, Framework Programme, Europe for
Citizens, Daphne, and Youth in Action. She has coordinated
ATLANTE project (Interreg IIIB), SUITE project (URBACT II) and
SANTIAGO-UNE project (Europe for Citizens). She also took part in
the General Assemblies or Executives Bureaux and was in charge
of the communication with the entities and institutions in which
the City Council of Santiago is a member.
Albert Sorrosal (ES)
Director of CNS Consultores. He has been working as an Expert
for the European Commission since 1996 (DG REGIO, DG
ENVIRONMENT & DG DEVCO) and he has a long experience
in supporting project management, in particular in European
Territorial Cooperation, Cultura 2007, INTERREG and LIFE. He is
currently working as key expert for DG DEVCO in the support
of the preparation of ENI-CBC programmes Mediterranean Sea
Basin, Mid-Atlantic, Black Sea Basin and Italy-Tunisia.
Xavier Tiana Casablancas (ES)
Head of International Relations in the Metropolitan Area of
Barcelona. Expert in EU Structural Funds national and regional
programmes (programming, project preparation, project
management, evaluation). Experience in European Territorial
Cooperation and other EU programmes like LIFE, Horizon 2020,
URBAL, ENI, etc.: project preparation and project management.
Experience in lobbying EU Policies related to urban and regional
issues. Good knowledge of European and international networks.
Gracia Vara Arribas (ES)
Expert at EIPA Barcelona, lawyer, she has dedicated the
last 14 years to research on European law and the decisionmaking process in Europe, from the perspective of the regional
participation in the new European Multilevel Governance. She has
developed several courses and consultancy works for different
levels of administration in States and Regions of Member States
and candidate countries, as well as for the European institutions.
In the area of territorial cooperation – through the legal tool EGTC
– she was a member of the Committee of the Regions group of
selected experts on the topic (CoR Ateliers 2008). She conducted
a research on the EGTCs in Spain (2008), and published several
articles on the issue, the last one under the title ’European
Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) - New spaces and
contracts for European integration?’ (Eipascope number 2009/2,
co-authored G. Vara & G. Spinaci).
General Information
Seminar venue
K+K Hotel Picasso
Passeig de Picasso, 26-30
ES - 08003 Barcelona
Tel: +34 93 547 86 00
Fax: +34 93 547 87 00
E-mail: sales.picasso@kkhotels.es
www.kkhotels.com
Working language
The seminar will be conducted in English.
Registration
• Participation fee: €990 (includes: documentation, two coffee
breaks, two lunches, a dinner and certificate of participation).
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participants or their administration.
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Information
European Institute of Public Administration, EIPA Barcelona
Natalia Domenech, Programme Organiser
C/ Girona, 20 - 08010 Barcelona (ES)
New tel.: + 34 93 245 12 07
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Hotel reservations
EIPA Barcelona will be pleased to make reservations for you at the
following hotel (where special rates apply for EIPA participants):
K+K HOTEL PICASSO ****
Passeig de Picasso, 26-30
ES - 08003 Barcelona
Tel: +34/ 93 547 86 00
Fax: +34/ 93 547 87 00
E-mail: sales.picasso@kkhotels.es
www.kkhotels.com
Rates of room with breakfast buffet included:
• €130 Double room for single use or double use*, breakfast buffet
and 10% VAT included
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City tax not included (€0,71 per night and person)
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