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S3 Project aim

• The main goal, thus expected result, of the S3
  project would be to strengthen tools used for
  Structural Fund policies (SF), through the access
  to the experiences of others.

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The S3 Partners

• 1. Emilia- Romagna Region, GD industry, trade
  and tourism (IT)
• 2. Ostrava Regional Development Agency (CZ)
• 3. Office of the Koice Self-Governing Region
  (SL)
• 4. Regional Development Agency of North Great
  Plain (HU)
• 5. Region Madrid, Directorate generale of state
  cooperation European affairs (SP)
• 6. Development Bank of Saxony-Anhalt (DE)
• 7. Ignalina regional development agency (LT)
• 8. Regional Government of Campania (IT)
• 9. Centre for Innovation and Business
  Development CIDEM (SP)
• 10. Latium Region (IT)
• 11. Finlombarda Ltd (IT)
• 12. Region of Western Greece (GR)
• 13. Objective 1 Programme Directorate South
  Yorkshire (UK)
• 14. E.C. Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) of
  Western Greece GR) 

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The S3 Partners SF functional identity

• The partnership is made of 9 countries, and 14
  partners (4 of which
• new Member States). In 9 cases, the
  participating institutions are
• public authorities, part of regional
  governments. In 5 cases, being
• development agencies at regional level , they
  act as intermediate
• bodies.
• As far as regional governments are concerned
  they act as either
• Managing Authorities/Intermediate bodies of SPD
  (Spain, Latium, Emilia
• Romagna) of objective 2 programmes, or as
  Managing Authority of
• objective 1 operational programmes ( Western
  Greece, South Yorkshire,
• Campania). As far as Public Equivalent Bodies
  are concerned they either
• act as Intermediate Body (Saxony-Anhalt) or will
  be in charge of objective
• 1 operational programmes as Intermediate bodies
  (Ostrava, Kosice, North
• Great Plain, Ignalina).

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S3 Objectives

• networking experiences/best practices on regional
  development programmes in view of the potential
  application in the new programming period of
  Structural Funds and of the EU enlargement,
• networking people in order to strengthen and
  exchange know-how and skills,
• networking results in order to disseminate
  information EU-wide and in new member states
  regional institutions,'
• making the network a reliable counterpart for EU
  institutions in the process of revision of
  Structural Funds policies

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S3 Methodology

• The networking structure will facilitate the
  discussion
• and comparison among EU regions, the following
  main
• aspects will be promoted
• identification of functioning modalities as far
  as programming, managing, monitoring and
  evaluating,
• assessment of the added value of experienced
  instruments in terms of their capacity to achieve
  results,
• evaluation of possible difficulties in combining
  innovative instrument with EU regulations.

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WP1 Management Co-ordinationEmilia- Romagna
Region

• Strategic Focus
• This component aims at guaranteeing an effective
• management and co-ordination of activities that
  will be
• developed throughout the project. The goal is to
  adopt
• a common working methodology that will
  facilitate the
• work of the 14 members of our network and
  guarantee
• that all rules have been respected.
• expected out puts
• Three progress reports and one final report One
  kick-off
• meeting and one final meeting Four meetings of
  TAC
• and SC

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WP2 Networking experiences analysis and
share of best practices. Centre for Innovation
and Business Development CIDEM (SP)

• Strategic Focus
• This component focuses on the analysis,
  discussion
• and sharing of best practices in order to
  identify
• innovative tools of programming, managing and
• monitoring structural funds programmes. Managing
• Authorities will be grouped in 3 transnational
  thematic
• working groups and will share and discuss
  successful experiences
• expected out puts
• papers, reports and recommendations on the
  experiences
• analysed, set up of Thematic Working Groups

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WP3 Networking people hands-on experience of
best practices. South Yorkshire (UK)

• Strategic Focus
• Activities aim at making people of different EU
  regions
• co-operate with each other through an exchange
  of
• staff. Staff with relevant experience on SF will
• contribute by sharing it with colleagues from
  other
• regions. A one-week study will allow staff from
• interested regions and colleagues of hosting
  regions to work
• closely together.
• expected out puts
• exchange of staff and study visits, in-house
  training seminars,
• meetings for the dissemination of the achieved
  results

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WP4 Networking results dissemination and
information activities. Western Greece Region

• Strategic Focus
• This component focuses on networking the results.
  The project will
• focus on organising events and workshops in
  order to share and
• disseminate the results of the project EU wide.
  In this way, the
• added value of the individual Structural Funds
  interventions in the
• different regions can be expanded throughout
  Europe.
• expected out puts
• editorial and graphic line (web-site,
  newsletters, etc.), meeting at
• regional and national level and a final meeting
  at European level,
• contacts and meetings with existing similar
  networks and with EU
• institutions.

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Thematic Working Groups (TWG)

• TWG PARTNERSHIP will deal with experiences,
  referring to the application of the principle of
  partnership (art. 8 EC Reg 1260/99), thus the
  capacity to involve local and public competent
  authorities, economic and social partners and any
  other relevant competent bodies in the
  preparation, financing, monitoring and evaluation
  of the Programmes
• TWG ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT will deal with
  experiences promoting innovative tools adopted in
  the implementation of SF programmes as far as the
  methodologies adopted and the systems developed.
• TWG INFORMATION will deal with experiences
  defining innovative tools and methodologies for
  accomplishing the requirements of art. 46 of EC
  Reg. 1260/99 in disseminating information about
  SF programmes and operations to the potential
  final beneficiaries and to the general public.

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Main objective of the thematic working groups

• to select, according to a set of commonly shared
  criteria, the experiences to be discussed - to
  analyse the experiences according to a
  methodology focusing on operational modalities,
  their added value in terms of capacity to achieve
  results and potential difficulties faced in
  strictly following the EC related regulations.
• to disseminate the results of the analysis
  firstly at network level, then to a wider
  audience through meetings and events

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Management Structure

• Two main structures have been foreseen to be
• the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and
• the Steering Group (SG)
• a Technical secretariat (TS) supporting both
  structures

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Technical Advisory Committee

• The TAC is made up of a Project Co-ordinator
  (PC), a Financial
• Co-ordinator (FC) and Component Co-ordinators
  (CC). The TAC is
• the structure dealing with the overall
  coordination of technical and
• financial project activities.
• The TAC will ensure
• - co-ordination of activities of different
  components,
• - an information flow to the partners, to the
  SG and to the EC
• - the fulfilment of the regular technical and
  financial reports
• addressed both to the EC (progress and
  final) and to the SG
• - the implementation of strategic decisions
  carried out by the SG.
• - effective implementation of components
  through a qualitative and quantitative evaluation
  of projects' activities and their effectiveness
  according to project objectives.

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Steering Committee

• The SG is the strategic structure of the project.
  It is led by the Contract Manager (CM) and made
  of representative of each project partner. Main
  task of the SG is the evaluation of the
  effectiveness of the project activity according
  to the information provided by the TAC (reports
  and requested information) and the evaluation and
  revision of strategic priorities.. In order to
  satisfy specific items, it will be allowed for
  external experts or other project structures to
  be involved in SG meetings.

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Financing

• ERDF funding 956.943,50
• National co-financing EU Member States
  568.609,50  
• TOTAL BUDGET 1.525.553,00