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... The evaluation project
“Evaluation of CIP EQUAL Transnational Cooperation Principle” commissioned
by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (MoLSA)
took place in the period from April to October 2008 in the territory
of the Czech Republic and ten European Union (EU) countries, to be specific,
in Austria, in Germany, in Poland, in Slovakia, in the Netherlands,
in the United Kingdom, in Portugal, in Spain, in Italy and in France.
The individual evaluation steps, i.e. analysis of documents, questionnaire
survey, evaluation visits and interviews, case studies, focus groups,
SWOT and process analysis took place in accordance with the stipulated
time schedule. The evaluation output was in total six reports (including
this Final Report), which, in accordance with the stipulated time schedule
and the contract, answered the individual evaluation tasks and questions. ...
... Bernd Baumgartl, Austria, Germany ...
... Maria Spindler, Austria ...
... Austria ...
... The focus groups were
always designed so that they might balance the findings from the questionnaire
investigation and from the evaluation visits and interviews. Above all
the visits and interviews were conducted, with some exceptions (interviews
with the representatives of the European Commission and CIP EQUAL agencies
in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain and the
United Kingdom) with the representatives of the development partnerships
and the transnational cooperation coordinators. Thus the observations
mentioned in the previous chapter are based on this sample very clearly
and the very focus groups should bring another view of the matter. For
this reason two groups were suggested, one with the NSS representatives
and one with the MA representatives. A scenario was established for
each group, i.e. the questions that were asked during the discussion
and the sense of which was to observe how the transnational cooperation
management and implementation proceeded, how the monitoring and the evaluation
were used, what kind of support was provided to the implementing bodies.
A supplement to the focus groups was then the evaluation of processes,
in this case above all of the information and communication flows among
the mentioned bodies, i.e. the managing authority, PricewaterhouseCoopers
and representatives of the development partnerships. Moreover, this
picture of the flows becomes somewhat complicated by the fact that,
within the framework of the transnational cooperation, it is necessary
to negotiate also with the bodies outside the national field, thus with
the representatives of the foreign development partnerships and even
with the representatives of the foreign managing authorities (e.g. in
case of TCA modification) and ministries (e.g. in case of proposals
of international coordination of search for partners and gathering information
to the transnational cooperation). ...
6.5 Topic 5: Analysis of interesting approaches and specific areas of HRD in other EU countries [go to this article ]
... A specific part of the
study answered also the question of relevant HRD areas, on which it
would be desirable to focus the projects implemented in the form of
transnational cooperation in the following programming period. In the
time of processing this part of the evaluation only a call from France
for projects in transnational cooperation, strategic documents of HRD
and related areas from ten EU countries included in this evaluation
(see the list of sources in the annex hereto) and evaluation reports
concerning this topic from Poland and Austria were available. The evaluation
team was coming out from the findings from the evaluation visits, study
of documents and expert recommendations. While some countries have the
orientation of the transnational cooperation in HDR defined according
to the appropriate strategic documents thematically (if ever), other
countries prefer regional orientation (less frequent case). For this
reason the expert team combined both approaches and to do so it used
the SWOT method, thus it divided the analysis according to individual
countries and specified further the topics, which are recommended for
cooperation with the given country. However, the SWOT analysis defined
also a wider context, in which these topics come into question for Czech
organisations and identified risks connected with it. In any case it
is necessary to point out that these topics are secondary ones; really
primary is what was broken down in the First Interim Report in more
details, thus success in negotiating and planning of the partnership,
equilibrium of the partners, understanding and sharing joint objectives
and values. The topics we have singled out for the orientation of the
HRD projects implemented in the form of transnational cooperation are
the following ones: social economy and entrepreneurship (IT, PT), employment
services and advanced vocational training (UK, AT, FR), community development,
local partnership and wider partnership networks (UK, NL), social area,
inclusion and inclusion strategies (NL, DE, FR, UK, ES), research (HU,
PL, DE), Public Private Partnership and intersectoral cooperation (DE),
industry restructuring (ES), tourist industry (ES), cultural heritage
(ES, FR and the like). ...