Projects

The project involved a comparative study of development policies implemented through a shared management model. The study included assessmment of international financial institutions and country examples, drawing lessons for Cohesion policy.

This study involved an ex post evaulation of the management and implementation systems for the ERDF in Objective 1 and 2 programmes in 2000-6, across 25 EU Member States.

The project involved research on regional development in Central and Eastern Europe.

The project comprised an evaluation of the potential for regional policy instruments (2007-13) to contribute to the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives for growth, jobs and sustainable development. It focused on the role of the Operational Programmes for the 2007-13 period, and their relationship to the National Sustainable Reference Frameworks, as well as the National Reform Programmes and National Sustainable Development Strategies for the operationalisation of the Lisbon and Gothenburg agendas at national level.

The project involved a comparative analysis of evaluations of EU-funded programmes in Poland. The aim was to examine the factors that contribute to the effective use of these evaluations in public sector management.

The project comprised the ex ante evaluation of the IPA Operational Programmes (OPs) for Environment, Transport, Regional Competitiveness and Human Resource Development for Croatia (2007-09). The study involved stablishing the evaluation frameworks, assessing each of the programmes and critically evaluating the final programme drafts.

The project involved research in support of the drafting of the Operational Programme for the Atlantic Area. The study provided a synthesis of the results of interviews carried out as part of the elaboration of the new Atlantic Area Objective 3 programme. The interview questions covered the relevance and value of the Programme’s proposed Priorities, objectives and activities as well as issues arising from the practical implementation of the Programme (cooperation, participation, communication, publicity etc.)

The project involved research and preparation of a discussion paper for the Conference ‘Building Cohesion in an Ageing Europe’ organised by Regions for All Ages in cooperation with the Committee of the Regions. The conference took place at the Committee of the Regions, Brussels on 23-24 November 2005.

The project involved comparative research on the design and implementation of regional policies in Central and Eastern Europe, and the organisation of a conference to facilitate dialogue between regional policy-makers from old and new Member States, as well as Romania and Bulgaria, on the directions of regional development policies at European, national and sub-national levels.

The project comprised the Territorial Impact Assessment of past Structural Fund programmes and the appraisal of the potential territorial impact of current Structural Funds programmes. The study was undertaken with a view to formulating policy recommendations for the reform of the Funds for the post 2006 period and to improving their capacity of delivering enhanced territorial cohesion. In particular, the research has the following objectives: elaboration and application of a methodology for the territorial impact assessment of Structural Fund policies; presentation of Structural Fund policies with reference to the territorial dimensions and the governmental level responsible; ­development of a set of indicators and of a database for capturing the spatial effects of Structural Fund programmes; ­analysis of the result of EU Structural and Cohesion policies as regards balanced territorial development; development of policy recommendations on future implementation of Structural Fund programmes in an enlarged EU in relation to strategic focus, area designation and delivery mechanisms.