Workshop Session 1: Transnational and cross-border co-operation TranSMEC - Transnational support method for European Co-operation Stakeholder: INTERREG B NorthWestEurope Programme Production and testing of “ready-to-use” and “easy-to-read” assistance for better communicating, disseminating, monitoring and steering of the Dorothea Palenberg, blue! advancing european projects 2011 Internal Seminar November Kraków, Poland

ESPON observes and measures territorial co-operation INTERREG Implements and co-ordinates/steers territorial co-operation (projects) in a defined space ESPON Projects: Production of - data sets - typologies - indicators in „spatial planning“ language/complexity Offers a „Catch basin“ for very specific territorial co-operation projects under 4 aggregated thematic ERDF priorities Need for assistance that is - easy-to-read (for non-planners) - ready to use (for programme managment) for ongoing and dynamic steering, monitoring, communicating and disseminating of programme results Visualisation Map as aggregated and multi-layered result of a complex process Production of simpler territorial monitoring data about -Number of Participants - Amount of ERDF spent ? Focus on Visualisation

ESPON observes and measures territorial co-operation INTERREG Implements and co-ordinates/steers territorial co-operation (projects) in a defined space Superpositioning of data in a Overlay Map ESPON Maps (thematic and timely matches) INTERREG monitoring data about -Number of Participants - Amount of ERDF spent Screening of ESPON projects 15 Applications that reflect the requirements for disseminating, capitalising, steering and monitoring of an INTERREG programme such as - Variation in scale, Zooming in and out of the area, Filtering complex data sets -Comparing programme performance against a „territorial baseline“, Assistance for the demarcation of a thematically targeted call, Use of new typologies

Conclusions how ESPON can support INTERREG B ESPON might engage more in the „stakeholder-oriented“ processing of existing data, e.g. provide easy accessible background visualisations in order to be able to communicate and steer programme perfomance – special „service“ unit at the CU? ESPON could provide typologies and indicators for pinpointing the factor of „transnationality“ within structural fund interventions – so far, regional structural effects are among the most important success indicators and compete with other funding options, we need to better communicate the the added value of transnational approaches – for example, TranSMEC showed that „strong performing“ regions show a higher participation rate …. do they benefit more from the offers of transnational approaches? ESPON provides (maybe on demand?) territorial evidence in order to better steer the programme concerning new, emerging themes like innovation – e.g. TranSMEC shows that regions with certain typologies for the European knowledge economy (ESPON KIT project: networking, scientific and technologically advanced regions) show stronger participation than others….what „type“ of INTERREG participant is initiating cooperation in the field of innovation? INTERREG B calls for more dynamic interaction between the programmes – so far, the interactive periods between the programmes where limited to the INTERREG programming period. In the future, the ICT capacities and better alignment of processes allow a closer linkage through the complete programme cycle e.g. the registration of projects and the assessment of territorial effect in very short feedback loops

Conclusions in the context of the EU2020 strategy -Using new typologies that connect territory and innovation - Visualising these typologies together with activities of innovation related INTERREG projects - ESPON and INTERREG can help to better understand the success criteria for EU2020‘s call for „innovation and knowledge transfer throughout the EU -EU2020 flagship initiative „Resource Efficient Europe“ wants to „accelerate the implementation of strategic project with high European Added Value to adress ciritical bottlenecks, in particular cross-border sections“ -INTERREGs effectiveness lies in exchanging and pooling knowledge about resource efficent, greener and more competitive approaches. - With TranSMEC, it is much easier to assist the identification of suitable cooperation partners with similar territorial settings -ESPON can help to show where lower perfoming partners have so far not been able to participate successfully - Based on territorial evidence, INTERREG can develop strategies on how to integrate partners for different performance levels. SMART Growth SUSTAINABLE Growth INCLUSIVE Growth

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