Transnationality

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Transnationality

• Jane Nimmo

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Why Work Transnationally?

• Organisational benefits (short-term)
• accessing new ideas
• sharing experience and expertise
• building capacity
• enhancing skills
• finding new business partners

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Why Work Transnationally?

• Strategic benefits (long-term)
• accessing European networks and markets
• keeping up-to-date with policy developments
• increasing the profile and experience of your
  organisation
• benchmarking of your organisation/partnership
• incorporating a European dimension to your work

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Why Work Transnationally?

• Individual benefits
• acquiring new skills
• raising levels of self-confidence
• increasing understanding of different ways of
  working
• sharing experience and expertise
• developing new contacts
• developing a wider European perspective

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Why Work Transnationally?

• Levels of transnational working
• Exchange of information and expertise
• Parallel development of innovative approaches
• Import, export or adoption of new approaches and
  their adaptation
• Joint development
• Organised learning

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Transnational Partners

• Full EU Partners with EQUAL funding
• Associate Partners
• Organisations from non-EU Member States including
  TACIS, CARDS, MEDA, and Accession Countries
• Organisations from the EU Member States without
  EQUAL or ESF funding

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Why Work Transnationally?

• It is important to learn from mistakes, but
  this learning is not necessarily restricted to
  ones own. It may be much cheaper to learn from
  mistakes others have made.