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| 0.4.2 | Abroad |
“The transnational
cooperation helped us to go back over some of our traditional services;
for instance, the experience made by our Spanish partner gave us the
idea to look critically to gender stereotypes on kids’ care where
only women are traditionally considered suitable to this activity. We
re-focused our services, which are now provided both to men and women.”
“We wish we had linked
up (more closely) our transnational cooperation activities with the
public policies promoted at the local level. This would have allowed
us to achieve some tangible results from the TC component.”
“Transfer of tools
among partners is a critical issue, as several partners feel this practice
as a loosing of ownership over the tools.”
“Dialogue with the
Management Authority was very intense and burdensome on administrative
issues, while the Authority was very much less interested in the TC
content of the project..”
“TC had a tremendous
and beneficial effect of opening up the minds of national partners.
It helped them in putting their specific local experience ‘in context’,
by showing how under different national and local environments some
trustable partners achieved their goals by the use of different approaches.”
“Linguistic barriers
shall not be underestimated, and specific instruments have to be budgeted
for in order to let partners communicate effectively.”
“Partners should devote
to TC a comparable amount of resources..”
“The provision for
specific project management skills, with capacities in the area of conflict
management and resolution, was a key element of our partnership, which
proved being essential in order to solve critical situations.”
“Being our first experience,
we learned that in terms of TC we must be much more demanding since
the planning phase, while being very much narrow in scope. We must build
our project around very specific and job-related objectives.”
“A lesson we learned
is the following: avoid any aspect touching upon legislation and national
specific contexts. Techniques, tools and technologies can be compared
and exchanged, institutions cannot.”
“We very much valued
direct contacts among individuals. Direct interrelations, even those
of an informal / social nature are essential for the achievement of
common objectives.”
“It is plenty of organizations,
even solid and very well performing ones, which consider TC as an obligatory
dimension of their national DPs, and do not take it seriously.
This has to be understood during negotiation, and it is not an easy
task.”
“Partnerships have
to invest hard to get real results from TC, it is not an easy job. One
can do TC formally but not substantially, nobody will ever blame an
organization for this… So, many DPs in reality committed very little
during their TC partnerships.”
“If there is one single
recommendation to be addressed to Management Authorities this is: ‘Be
committed to TC! Be involved yourselves in TC projects, touch with hands
the benefits of international cooperation in order to convince implementing
organizations of the real benefits of this instrument!””
“We were not supported
by our Management Authority in assessing our achievements under the
TC component; this would have considerably enhanced our capacity to
monitor our progresses and to redress our plans.”
“The scarce attention
to TC of several MAs is deplorable. MAs shall understand the incredibly
high potential of this instrument in order to value it, and to explain
clearly to implementing organizations what the real benefits can be
of its use.”
“Ah, you want to talk
about this e-PAIN.”(2)
“It was said repeatedly
that TC was a “value in itself”. Even if it was not specified and
measured in details, the cooperation took place at several levels, between
the actors in different countries and often has resulted in on-going
cooperation.“(3)
“Awareness existed
about the fact that the positive significance of TC had not been visualised
and communicated sufficiently, the entities had not followed the mere
“information exchange” and vague “mutual learning”.”
“The possibility of
the Austrian participating organisations to share the experience and
to support origination of new ideas in international context was of
the same importance in TC.”
| (2) | Austrian Ministry official reacting to a request for an interview – QUAL in German means pain, suffering, torture |
| (3) | This citation and the following two citations come from Austrian evaluation reports concerning the CIP EQUAL implementation. |
