EQUAL - Final report - eng - navreme

EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
work of the expert teams and professional seminars focused on development of particular new tools
or educational materials than for joint experiments, innovative forms of work, some types of
dissemination and implementation. Different background is necessary to be created for various
participating groups, to presume different forms of work; each of these types requires different
logistics and outputs.
One of the variants of structuring being offered that is worth mentioning is “variable” structuring. It
may relate to the cooperation itself and perhaps still more to the approach of the national support and
managing structure. It is obvious from the statements in the interviews the respondents would, on the
one hand, welcome the possibility to influence the cooperation more, to have it more in their hands
and, on the other hand, they would appreciate more freedom, creativity, flexibility. Certain dichotomy
in this respect is understandable and it would be possible to accommodate it by higher extent of
structuring in the initial stages of the project (see the parts dealing with the project preparatory
stages above), which would in case the cooperation proves useful, pass into greater freedom and
would develop the motif of mutual trust and responsibility of the partners more. This model could be
very convenient for involvement of the national support structures, even if it were not easy to set
understandable and comparable conditions for it at the beginning.
It is then convenient to choose the tools, forms and particular activities of the transnational
cooperation according to the content and objectives of the particular partnership and according to the
involved target groups generally already in the preparatory stages of the project, as the case may be
of the development partnership. The bearer of this know-how in this future comparable projects can
be hardly anybody else than the national support and managing structure.
5.4 Sustainability, mainstreaming and wider partnership
networks
The issues of sustainability, mainstreaming and wider partnership networks relate above all to:
• further utilisation, ownership and copyright and its succession at the products arisen within
the framework of the project – know-how, information and educational materials, CDs and
DVDs, tutorial materials, work sheets, promotional materials, brochures, web sites, outputs of
research, auxiliary ledgers, the best procedures and practices and the like are concerned,
namely including the possibilities for their further development, which as the case may be
need not be of non-commercial character any more;
• dissemination of the outputs and products arisen / tested within the framework of the projects
and their implementation in wider context (thematic / resort area, geographical area –
regional or nation-wide public policy, legislation); complementing the outputs, grouping and
accessibility of the outputs according to the topics, i.e. not only according to the isolated
projects; interconnection of the outputs at the corresponding level with the target groups
concerned;
• active work with wider groups of recipients and potential recipients of the outputs from
the projects, it means with the groups, which are not and could not have been identified in
the project as the “target groups”, but in spite of that they enter the game in some way or
other; if this happens, then it is essential for wider links and usability of the project outputs to
address them and engage them actively;
• maintaining of the established partnerships and relations, further utilisation of the acquired
contacts, scope of knowledge and self-confidence and their further transfer at the level of
links, relations and personal (personality) growth.
With regard to the aspect of the transnational partnership and cooperation in the projects being
evaluated, it is necessary to construe these topics as complementary, but not as marginal. In the
basic plan, it is necessary for them to be considered and solved already within the framework of the
projects. The solving entities bear indisputably the principal responsibility for sustainability of the
project’s outputs and also for maintaining of the created relations and links, in spite of the fact that
the role of the national support and managing structure (and as the case may be of other bodies) is
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