Community of Practice on partnership in the ESF

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Community of Practice on partnership in the ESF

• October 2008
• Open Days
• Benedict Wauters
• Deputy Director Flemish ESF Agency
• COP partnership coordinator

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COP origine

• Initiative came from DG EMPL and ESF Managing
  Authorities of Czech Republic, Austria, Portugal
  and Belgium Flanders
• Flanders is coordinating the COP
• Response to the new ESF regulation articles on
• involvement of stakeholders, including social
  partners, in the governance mechanisms of the
  Operational Programmes
• the provision of financial support to multi-actor
  projects
• as well as EQUAL lessons learnt

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involvement of social partners and NGOs (ESF
Reg., Art 35)
How to practice, and how to support
partnerships as ESF Managing Authority /
Implementing body?
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COP definition

• Communities of practice are groups of people who
  share a concern or a passion for something they
  do and learn how to do it better as they interact
  regularly.

The group consisted of the pioneers in the ESF
who are taking partnership seriously!
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Who is in the COP?

• Steering group of ESF Managing Authorities
• Belgium Flanders
• Malta
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

• ESF programme managers from
• Greece
• Italy
• Sweden
• Poland
• Austria
• Romania
• Hungary
• Germany
• Spain

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COP objectives

• In the EC grant agreement
• provide a space for members to help them
• solve everyday problems in promoting and managing
  partnership in the programmes
• disseminate good practice
• innovate (find better ways of doing things than
  what already exists)
• this is in line with the COP mission statement
  which was constructed based on members input

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Mission of the COP as defined by its members
More and fresh/creative partnership thinking and
implementation in structural funds (especially
the ESF)
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How do we achieve this?
Mission of the COP as defined by its members

• Convincing programme managers, including from new
  member states of the importance of partnership
• Produce/share and provide easy access to
• practical tools, models, guidance notes/fiches,
  good/poor practice descriptions, contextualised
  case studies and real life stories
• anchored in reality (including from EQUAL)
• Engage in two-way interaction with other
  networks, initiatives, wider work environment

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Interactive study visits

• Study team does research before the visit
• Interviewing a representation of monitoring
  committee, programme management and partnership
  project coordinators/partners
• Using questionnaire based on the key success
  factor framework
• Analyst synthesis results, looking especially at
  difference between types of actor
• Workshop with the interviewees is used deepen
  common understanding and propose actions
• Action plan is prepared by study team with
  programme managers

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Summing up results from the CoP

• Validated key success factor framework with good
  practice descriptions in the structural funds
  from all over the EU
• Country fiches describing the understanding and
  implementation of partnership in the ESF around
  the EU
• Interactive study visit procedure based on the
  key success factor framework
• Handbook for ESF programme managers on supporting
  partnership in the ESF
• All available via the interactive website

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Interested to join?

• To know whats going on but
• Go to www.partnership.esflive.eu
• Register
• Gain access to and read (public) discussion fora,
  wikis, blogs etc.
• Ready to engage further? Contact the coordinator
  benedict.wauters_at_esf-agentschap.be