Day 1 – Monday, 21 November
13.30 Arrival and welcome
14:00 Opening
14:00 - 17:30 (incl. coffee break) 1st Steering Group Meeting: Overviewing activities under Management and Communication
Component Management
- Overview of financial performance – presentation by the LP
- Overview of reporting – presentation and discussion chaired by the LP
o experience of internal financial monitoring
o experience and actual status of partner level reporting (collection of partners’ feedback on partner level reporting, cooperation with First Level Controllers)
o overview and actual status of project level reporting – in view of the new on-line system (iOLF) introduced by Interreg Europe
Preparatory input required from partners: collect information linked to FLC reporting, worth sharing with the LP and with the partners
Component Communication
- Overview of Communication outputs, actual status, upcoming tasks – presentation and joint discussion chaired by Savonlinna
- Interactive session
Preparatory input required from partners: collect information linked to your local level communication activities, worth sharing with the LP and with the partners (use of communication outputs already developed – website, social media, etc.)
Day 2 – Tuesday, 22 November
Component Exchange of experiences
09.00 – 17.00 1st Project Working Group Meeting
09:00 - 09:30 Overview of thematic activities in the 1st Semester – presentation and joint discussion by the LP
09:30 - 10:45 “Ambition setting” Part 1. - first experiences of the ambition setting visits - presentation by CRE, advisory partner, joint discussion with partners
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 - 12:30 “Ambition setting” Part 2 – initial experiences of setting up and operation of Local Stakeholder Groups (LSGs) – joint discussion chaired by CRE, with the participation of partners’ LSG moderators, LSG members
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 “Ambition setting” Part 3 – Actual status of Status Quo analysis of partners, in view of first draft action plans – presenting the initial experiences of action planning of Drenthe, exchange of experience with other partners: PPs suggestions and recommendations as inputs contributing to the further development of Drenthe’s action plan
Preparatory input required from partners: collect experiences linked to the Status Quo Analysis, worth sharing with the partners, make contributions to hosting partner’s action plan
15:00-15:30 Coffee/tea break
15:30-17:00 “Ambition setting” Part 4, bridging to vision development – continuation of sharing experiences regarding Status Quo analysis and action planning, launching the next phase of thematic implementation: vision development actions
Presentation on RURAL BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND INNOVATION: THE CONTRIBUTION OF RURAL ENTERPRISE HUBS
Preparatory input required from partners: collect experiences linked to the Status Quo Analysis, worth sharing with the partners
Day 3 - Wednesday 23rd November
Site visits
09:00-17:00 Excursion
Visiting various businesses in the area (best practices).
9:15-10:00 Succesful entrepreneurship - example of best practice at a dairy farm - Drentse Koe drentsekoe.nl/
10:20-13:00 Creating employment in rural areas – an historical perspective - Colonies of Benevolence (Unesco heritage candidate 2018)
www.kolonienvanweldadigheid.eu
13:00-14:00 Lunch at Hotel Frederiksoord
14:15-15:00 Sustainable tourism - Landhotel Diever
15:30-16:15 Social care farm and tourism – Noaberhoeve Echten
16:30-17:00 Incorporating innovative, sustainable solutions in renovation -Dwingelderveld National Park Visitors Centre
www.nationaalpark-dwingelderveld.nl
Day 4 - Thursday 24th November
09:00-12:00 “RuralGrowth talks” – Thematic debate on visitor economy, leisure industry, etc.
• 9:00-9:30 Presentation of RIS3, the policy-instrument we want to influence with the Ruralgrowth project – Ben van Os
• 9:30- 10:45 Presentation of 1 best practice of each partner (15 minutes each): a good case study of successful rural SME in the tourism sector
• 11:00-12:00 Discussion on the good practices presented at the site visit on Day 3, their adaptability and integration into action planning by partners
12:00-12:30 Summary
12:30-13:30 Lunch and closure