Management and implementation
of the transnational cooperation priority axis does not arise in vacuum,
it follows up with the previous experience in management of similar
programmes and it does not definitely assume that it will leave the
begun tradition completely. On the contrary, this is obviously the solution
to the basic question, the general problem connected with management
of any programmes: namely to what extent to set the rules and restrictions
in such a way that the exerted endeavour would really reflect in the
improved quality of the implemented projects. It appears that obviously
the surest answer is the link-up with the traditions, the implementing
entities’ expectations and the previous experience, from which this
results as a rule. The priority axis management must work necessarily
with the context of the Czech environment, thus with the relatively
low experience of the project implementing entities in transnational
partnerships and (sometimes) with the partnership at all, smaller stability
of institutions and weak links between the transnational and national
level of the partnership. In the countries that were included in the
evaluation, various measures were recommended and somewhere also implemented.
For example, creation of a special measure or a project at the programme
management level (not at the project level) was concerned, which will
facilitate the process of search for the partners and formation of the
transnational partnership; in some countries this type of measures is
implemented in the form recommendation of minimum extent of the partnership,
which countries to focus on when searching for partners (further to
the national strategies), which activities shall be strengthened (it
is generally recommended to limit generic activities that miss the concrete
content); somewhere this principle was transposed into formation of
a concrete physical institution, the mission of which is to support
transnational partnership in the projects in the given programme. A
recommendation to announce gradually successive calls, some of which
(or each) will focus specifically of the concrete priority area, geographical
territory or the types of activities, seems and an alternative to this
model.
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