EQUAL - Final report - eng - navreme

EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
It is possible to follow several basic cooperation tools, which are characteristic for different project
types. The projects, which are based above all on conferences and presentations of work of the
national partners in transnational context, are organised and managed in a different way than the
projects based on workshops, short-term attachments or intensive work on preparation of a particular
product (joint research, development of know-how, of new tools, joint innovation – the management
is tighter, the transnational cooperation is not disintegrated to such extent to partial tasks within the
question of the individual partners).
Each of the mentioned types of cooperation brings different effects. It resulted from the results of the
questionnaire investigation that the recipients had classified in particular the transfer of practices and
know-how, the development of the partnership, joint development of methods and new tools and the
planning and management of the project itself as the key activities for the project’s success. However,
the complex results of the evaluation have proved that the activities relating to the transnational
cooperation used most often in CZ do not have to belong necessarily to the most suitable ones.
The factors of success from the point of view of the project implementation itself may be identified
according to the individual tools of implementation and according to the actors, at whom they are
aimed. While for example international conferences have as their objective to reach wider public
across the target groups and the surrounding of the problem, the professional work meetings work
with the internal sources of the project. Sharing the practice involves the local actors, joint
development of policies rather the independent experts.
From the simplified questionnaire investigation and the evaluation visits and interviews a simplified
classification of the activities and the tools of cooperation used according to the reached target groups
has resulted:
a) conferences and similar events reaching with its significance the professional public, people
from practice;
b) work meetings and expert teams – intended for particular work and narrowly focused, e.g.
on development of some product, only the experts concerned partake or they invite the
representatives of grantors, clients;
c) work meetings comprising sharing of the practice as an integral part – practicians, target
groups partake, some short-term attachments, some types of visits and the like belong here.;
d) individual contacts – personal or mediated;
e) other (research, short term attachments of study type, etc.).
This shortened classification may serve as a good guidance for managerial decision-making bound to
the transnational cooperation, it means decision-making on the extent of its formalisation, forms of
contact, division of responsibility, setting communication, harmonising / balancing of the content and
chosen forms, etc.
In the sense of the factors of success, the individual identified activities may be qualified according to
the participating target groups as follows:
• Transfer of practices, tools and know-how: It may relate both to direct practicians
(grantors) and the expert employees; the factors of success are good identification of terms
and conditions, under which different target groups may be involved in such process, and
suitably selected particular procedures that are transferable, comparable, as the case may be
at least communicable among the participating parties.
• Joint development of new tools and methods: Activity focused on expert teams – the
factors of success are functionality and equilibrium of the team and agreeing, shared
objectives; all issues concerning the framework for the given development need to be solved
in advance, namely including an accord on the starting points and values.
• Joint experiments in the area of innovative approaches: An innovative method that
presupposes involvement of experts, intermediate bodies (grantors, consultancy bodies, etc.);
the factors of success are good composition of the team, enough stimuli, ability to react to
current situations and local environment.
• Joint research: Expert activity, in which it may be sometimes difficult to determine how the
transnational team differentiates from another team, therefore the factor of success within
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