EQUAL - Final report - eng - navreme

EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
15. To collect suggestions from the part of technical and administrative support of the
transnational cooperation supported within the ESF framework;
16. To identify suitable ways of searching for partners and formation of partnerships;
17. To describe management methods of partnerships;
18. To identify conditions necessary for realization of the transnational cooperation of the aid
recipients from the ESF from the part of technical and administrative support;
19. To describe principles of evaluation of the quality of the transnational cooperation, namely
including verification of tools for self-evaluation of the partnership and management of the
partnership networks;
20. To formulate particular practical recommendations for implementation of the transnational
cooperation for the DP members;
21. To formulate concrete practical recommendations for implementation of the transnational
cooperation for the individual levels of the CIP EQUAL implementation structure.
Except for the last objective that is directed directly at the implementation structures in the Czech
Republic, all the other objectives relate both to the Czech and foreign reality. Thus the
evaluation focused primarily on the assessment of the impact of the transnational cooperation
financed from the Czech sources, but these findings were compared with the findings from ten
selected EU countries, for the majority of the phenomena being explored has (minimum) European
dimension.
3.2 European and transnational aspect of the evaluation
We have subjected the findings based on exploration of the national sample to comparison with the
other EU countries and above all, we have carried out the whole evaluation in European discourse. We
have in mind by this discourse the knowledge of the starting points of the relevant policies the
phenomena being explored come out from, the knowledge of the European environment, actors and
decision-making and communication principles, the knowledge of the requirements for quality and
evaluation methods in the European environment (comprehension of the evaluation within the EU
policies context) and the knowledge of the principle of partnership and transnational cooperation from
the European programmes and their practical implementation in the European projects (in which we
have also participated or we have evaluated them). Therefore Czech experts with international
experience, who cooperated with six foreign experts, were the core of the evaluation team.
For accomplishment of the evaluation of the CIP EQUAL transnational cooperation principle the
following countries were selected:
COUNTRY ABBREVIATION
1. Czech Republic (core of the evaluation) CZ
2. Italy IT
3. Germany DE
4. United Kingdom UK
5. Poland PL
6. France FR
7. Slovakia SK
8. Austria AT
9. Spain ES
10. the Netherlands NL
11. Portugal PT
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