Experience Fair

Journey through project implementation Sofia

24-25 Apr 2018

Experience Fair

24-25 Apr 2018

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Tuesday, 24 April:
Wednesday, 25 April:

09:00 - 12:40 Panorama	More information Lead partner seminar (3rd call) This workshop is for 3rd call projects only Introduction to the reporting procedures: Reporting activities Managing finances
12:30 - 14:00 Foyer	Registration and lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Beta	Opening plenary The opening session sets the stage for the exchange of experience with highlights from the programme state of play and inspiration for interregional learning. The future of interregional cooperation will also be addressed. Welcome 30 Years of EU Cohesion Policy: the road ahead and the future of interregional cooperation Interreg Europe state of play Keynote speech on knowledge management and the learning process Petra Polaskova, Communication Officer, Interreg Europe, Lille, France Jean-Marc Venineaux, Quality Management Officer - Macroregional strategies, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, EC, Brussels, Belgium Denitsa Nikolova, Deputy Minister, Regional Development and Public Works, Sofia, Bulgaria Erwin Siweris, Programme Director, Interreg Europe, Lille, France Kai Böhme, Director, Spatial Foresight GmbH
15:00 - 15:30 Foyer	Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 Beta + small groups	Mobilising stakeholders In working groups, participants will discuss the most effective strategies and practices to engage with and mobilise their stakeholders. The participants will draft a list of good advice for stakeholder cooperation and share concrete examples and experiences with each other. How do projects work with their stakeholder groups? What are the main challenges and/or solutions? How to build a sense of ownership and maintain the interest of the stakeholders? Research and innovation SME competitiveness Low-carbon economy Environment and resource efficiency
17:30 - 18:30 Foyer	Networking cocktail

09:00 - 10:30 small groups + Beta	Transferring practices and experiences In working groups, participants will share their most successful techniques for learning from each other and transferring good practices between regions in order to identify a set of recommendations, tips and tools that can be shared across projects. What are the key steps for transferring a good practice between regions? How to identify and analyse best practices? How to improve exchange between organisations, institutions and actors? How to address legal or cultural differences? Research and innovation SME competitiveness Low-carbon economy Environment and resource efficiency
10:30 - 11:00 Foyer	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Beta	Achieving results: action plans and improving policies This session will focus on approaches to drafting, approving, implementing and monitoring action plans. Projects from different stages will share their experiences. The session will address questions, such as: How should the monitoring during phase 2 look like? What types of measures are included and how are they funded? What can be learned from call 1 projects? How to build a momentum with the action plan and make it last after the end of the project?
12:00 - 13:30 Foyer	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 different rooms	Cross-cutting sessions (round I) After the journey through the project activities and outputs, the afternoon is dedicated to sharing tips and tricks to fine-tune the process in short interactive sessions on issues related to project management and communication. Each session will be ran twice. Open discussion Project management Project communication Exchange of tools and templates
14:30 - 15:30 different rooms	Cross-cutting sessions (round II) Second round of short interactive sessions for sharing tips and tricks to fine-tune the learning process. Open discussion Project management Project communication Exchange of tools and templates
15:30 - 16:00 Beta	Conclusion Reports from the cross-cutting sessions

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Research and innovation SME competitiveness Low-carbon economy Environment and resource efficiency