Sharing INTERREG experiences
Sharing INTERREG experiences
Download this Workshop Fact Sheet (application/msword, 168KB)
| Title | MT Workshop at the Seminar "Experiences of East-West-Co-operation in the CADSES area" organised by City of Stuttgart, Germany |
| Venue | Leipziger Messe, Leipzig, Germany |
| Date | 23 October 2006 |
| Outline |
The City of Stuttgart has achieved a significant experience in the cooperation with partners from the old EU-15 and new EU-5 member states. In particular, following projects have been carried out involving Partners from both the new and the old member states: - 2000 – 2003: Forschungsprojekt INCORE (Integrated Concept for Groundwater Remediation) im 5. Forschungsrahmenprogramm mit der Stadt Bydgoszcz und dem Polnischen Geologischen Institut in Warschau (Polen) - 2003 – 2006: INTERREG III B CADSES Projekt PROSIDE (Promoting Sustainable Inner Urban Development) mit Budapest (Ungarn), Lodz (Polen) und Ploiesti (Rumänien) - from 2005: INTERREG III B CADSES Projekt CoUrbIT (Complex Urban Investment Tools) mit Budapest (Ungarn) und Krakau (Polen) - from 2005: INTERREG III B CADSES Projekt MAGIC (Management of Groundwater at Industrially Contaminated Areas) mit Olsztyn (Polen) und Ostrava (Tschechien). Even though these projects achieved (or are achieving) their major goals, they have experienced some bottlenecks and delays in the implementation, due e.g. to heavy administrative and management procedures of some partners. The City of Stuttgart requested INTERACT Point MTEC to support the project partners in the definition of the above mentioned bottlenecks and in outlining possible solutions. The proposed approach and possible solution resulting from the workshop should be made available to the entire INTERREG partnerships for further reflection and discussion. Contents of INTERACT Point MTEC intervention 13:30 – 16:30 Experiences of East-West-Co-operation in the CADSES area. Chair Mauro Novello (INTERACT) 13:30 – 14:30 Workshop Part 1 (working in max 4 people group from the same country): Definition of main bottlenecks in East-West-Co-operation involving the City of Stuttgart 14:30 – 15:00 Reporting to the plenary session 15:00 – 15:30 Workshop Part 2 (working in max 4 people group from the same country): Possible solutions to the bottlenecks 15:30 – 16:00 Workshop Part 3 (working in max 4 people group from the same country): Feasibility of possible solutions, according to the thesis-paper. 16:00 – 16:30 Reporting to the plenary session Open questions to be addressed by the workshop participating project partners: Part 1 - Definition of main bottlenecks: 1. Is your decision-making process efficient? Yes No 1.a Does it take long to coordinate and receive the necessary consensus within your organisation? Yes No 1.b Does it affect the project implementation, e.g. in the early phases? Describe how very briefly 1.c Have the representatives of your organisation enough power-defined competence to make binding decisions towards other partners? Yes No 2. Is your organisation flexible enough to face project changes (e.g. changes of the activities) occurring during the project implementation, which are necessary for the achievements of the project goals but could not be foreseen in the project development phase? Yes No 3.a Do financial flows work smoothly in your Country (e.g. transfer of money, payments to final beneficiaries)? Yes No What does not work? Describe very briefly 3.b Is the first level control efficient and quick enough to ensure the project success? Yes No Where do major bottlenecks occur? Describe very briefly 4. Have you experienced bottlenecks and delays in project implementation and in the timetable set with the partnership? Yes No What are the main reasons? Describe very briefly 5. What is the main language used among partners (English – German)? Is the different language an obstacle to smooth cooperation? Yes No 6.a Are the work plan and the decisions made by partnership always clear to you? Yes No 6.b Do you feel free to make questions for clarification or are there communication obstacles? Yes No What are these obstacles? Describe very briefly 7. Have you ever had to leave a project or have you experienced other partners leaving a project? Yes No What were the main reasons? Describe very briefly 8. Is the communication with the other project partners working? Yes No What is causing obstacles? Describe very briefly. 9. Are there any further bottlenecks occurred in the cooperation? Describe very briefly and list them. Part 2 - Possible solutions. How can the identified obstacles in workshop part 1 be removed? Possible solution to the bottlenecks occurred. Please describe briefly How can the cooperation in general be improved? Part 3 – Feasibility of possible solutions. Are the suggested solutions in thesis-paper feasible? Why not? Number of participants: 22 Countries involved: Germany, Poland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands |
| Documents |
Presentation (application/pdf, 279KB)
Report (application/pdf, 37KB) |