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European Territorial Cooperation
SustainabilityTransferabilityCapitalisation
Pietro Celotti
EIPA European Instituto of Public Administration 11 December 2012
Project sustainability
A project is sustainable when it continues to deliver benefits to the project beneficiaries and/or other constituencies for an extended period after the Commission’s financial assistance has been terminated.
Source: European Commission (2006) Directorate-General Education
and Culturehttp://eacea.ec.europa.eu/tempus/doc/
sustainhandbook.pdf
Project sustainability
• Sustainable problems with the classical donor-controlled project approach have become increasingly evident:
Inadequate local ownership of projects, with negative implications for sustainable benefits
..Source: European Commission (2004)
PCM Guidelines http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/multimedia/publications/documents/tools/europeaid_adm_pcm_guidelines_2004_en.pdf
Transferability
• Transferring project results and solutions to other bodies/organisations external to the partnership is one of the keys for sustainability
• This implies a sophisticated analysis of the external need for project results and solutions
• The analysis must be projected in a future time frame
Transferability
• Transferability process is a natural follow-up for a pilot project
• Transferability is based on the ‘production and distribution’ of tools that allow to share the approach experimented in the pilot project
• It is particularly difficult to monitor the actual use of the project results and solutions after the end of the project
Transferability Communication
Inform
Promote
InvolveTrain
Web-based
“Traditional”
Online tutor
Web 2.o
Website
Mailing listWorkshops
Events, exhibitions
Press coverage
Capitalisation
In the area of Territorial cooperation these issues are dramatically emphasised. “Capital isation” is a term used to stress the necessity to consider the l ink of the project with other projects and with the programme as a whole.
Why territorial cooperation• Solution of common problems• Through joined actions• Within a wide area of cooperation• With limited resources (if compared to other
programmmes)
• With specific financial rules (risks of low local ownership of the projects, costs generated by separate management/financing/monitoring arrangements)
Intangible effects
Strategy to reduce common
problems
Experimentation and innovation
Awareness of new common
problems
Improvement of competencies
Exchange of practices
Relationships and networks
Territorial cooperation
Territorial cooperation
• Territorial cooperation effects can not be compared to those generated by other programmes belonging to the cohesion policy
• They are strictly related to the intangible assets of the players
• Intangible assets do not belong to a unique lead partner or to a individual partnership – it is necessary to consider the whole policy cycle
Policy cycle
FormulationImplementationIdentification
Capitalisation
MAIN STEPS• Awareness of
project effects and relevant policy cycle phase
• Involvement of the policy players
• Impact on the policy (identification of a new problem, formulation of a pilot model of intervention...)
Policy evolution
Experimentation
Relations Networls
Competencies
Capitalisation
Identification of the policy cycle
phase
Identification of possible
synergies
CAPITALISATION
Involvement of players
Evaluation
CommunicationCAPITALISATIO
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Policy development
Alpine Space Programme (ASP)It is the EU transnational cooperation programme for the Alps. Partners from the seven Alpine countries work together to promote regional development in a sustainable way. During the period 2007-2013, the programme is investing 130 Million € in impact-oriented projects in which key actors develop shared solutions on specific Alpine issues.
ASP analysis
Literature
• Alpine Space Interact, Espon documentation; territorial cooperation evaluations
• Academic publications on capitalisation
Survey
• Questionnaire (10 questions)• Answers: 65% (100% 1° and 2° call for proposals)
Focus Group
• 4 focus groups• 60 participants
ASP findings
Literature
• Policy development and capitalisation are in the middle of the debate … but definitions are still confusing
Survey
• For the beneficiaries it is difficult to identify their role in the process
• It is hard to involve the “politicians”
Focus Group
• Several projects have started capitalisation processes unintentionally
• Projects are mainly at policy formulation level
ASP conclusions
• The main impacts of ASP concern the support to the policy cycle evolution
• Specifically ASP provides an important support to the formulation phase (piloting actions – experimentation)
• Capitalisation is the process of making the project effects (mainly intangible) impact the policy cycle
ASP conclusions
• All projects shall embody and develop a capitalisation process
• In ASP capitalisation process follows 3 main steps: awareness and sharing of the results among partners, communication and dissemination outside the project, integration with other policy tools
ASP conclusions• A project focused on policy identification
should be promoted by centres of research, SMEs/workers/volunteers associations, chambers of commerce...
• A project focused on policy formulation should be promoted by ministries, regional/local councils…
• A project focused on policy implementation should be promoted by local authorities, regional agencies…
Beneficiaries of political action
Civil servants
Political decision makers
Political elected representatives
International organisations Universities
and research Non profit organisations
Representatives of other
groupsBusiness
Volunteers associations
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A recent paradox!• In 2012 Alpine Space Programme is
carrying out a complex stakeholder dialogue process
• Italian stakeholders (about 160) tend to stress the necessity to “capitalise” the projects even more than the urgency to solve problems registered on the field
• How to interpret this evidence? See you again somewhere in 2013…
ASP guide on capitalisation is available
http://www.alpine-space.eu/fileadmin/media/National/Italy/Capitalization_Guide_IT.pdf
www.t33.itp.celotti@t33.it