Governance of Regionally Integrated Projects using Innovative Tools.Structural funds implementation in an integrated approach
Implementing EU policies has become an important task for public authorities at the regional and local levels across Europe. In particular when receiving and processing EU Structural Funds for the development of their regions, public authorities are facing demanding tasks of programme and project management. To enhance their administrative and project generating capacities for successful Structural Funds management regional institutions need to be well informed about tools such as project cycle management or integrated project management. The Regional Framework Operation “GRIP_IT: Governance of Regionally Integrated Projects using Innovative Tools” aims at promoting good practices and developing innovative methods for programming and implementing Structural Funds investments in their regions. This includes the development of a pipeline of well-crafted projects, governance arrangements for involving local actors, project appraisal and selection, reporting and payment, monitoring and evaluation. RFO subprojects will, among others, focus on developing training tools, exchanging experts, developing and testing innovative governance and management tools and elaborating guidelines. Subprojects will also focus on public-private-partnership within integrated projects and Operational Programmes. The operation “GRIP_IT” results in improved capacity of regional public actors for designing and managing effective Structural Funds interventions in their regions. GRIP_IT enables its partner administrations to successfully apply innovative governance and management tools for the next programming period of the Structural funds. Activities include the organisation of interregional meetings and conferences, information days and seminars about integrated project governance, identification of best practises and exchange of experts.