SeminarsOpen activitiesHow to Set-up and Implement a Successful Twinning Project in EU Candidate,...PROJECT NUMBER: 1081401
How to Set-up and Implement a Successful Twinning Project in EU Candidate, Potential Candidate and Neighbouring countries
4-5/Mar/2010 • Warsaw • Fee: € 690 • Special discount available
eipa.eu
Objectives
Among the many cooperation mechanisms developed by the European Union, the Twinning project has been one of most extensively and successfully applied over the past ten years. It is to assist beneficiary countries in the institution-building process on their way towards EU accession and full adoption of the acquis communautaire. Employed in the framework of Poland and Hungary Assistance for Reconstructing their Economies (PHARE), Transition Facility and more recently under the Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) programmes, Twinning projects in beneficiary countries have contributed to the development of efficient administrations reaching the same standards as the Member States in the following areas: Agriculture and Fisheries, Environment, Structural Funds, Consensus and Social Policy, Public Finance and Internal Market, Justice and Home Affairs, Transport, Energy and Telecom, and Standardisation.
Twinning is currently a broadly applied institution building instrument in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries allowing for the approximation of the acquis and implementation of EU good practices under the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI). Selected areas as well as agreed objectives and guaranteed results are always project specific and stem directly from the Accession Partnerships or Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) & European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action Plans. Therefore, the change achieved in beneficiary countries concerning, among others, organisation structures, legislation, management skills and human resources, is conducive to the implementation of a related part of the acquis or good EU practices.
The seminar will:
• Carefully present and screen the whole process that a successful Twinning project must undergo, including: project identification and drafting of the Twinning Fiche, selection of proposals, preparationof a Twinning contract, project implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation;
• Describe and analyse the roles and tasks assigned in the process to beneficiary country administration officials;
• Concentrate on potential risks and pitfalls that can be encountered, and provide practical and effective ways to avoid or deal with these.
The seminar will draw on several real life examples referring to numerous Twinning projects carried out in the past, and provide the most up-to-date information about specific conditions and requirements. The participants will be actively involved, solving practical problems and discussing the seminar issues. They will be encouraged to share their views and professional experience with one another.
The objectives of the seminar are threefold
1. to bring together public officers and/or twinning project managers from new EU Member States (2007 accession), Candidate, Potential Candidate and ENP countries so that they can share their knowledge and practical experiences they have gained, identify essential cooperation issuesand extend their network;
2. to achieve in-depth understanding of all components of the process of preparation and implementation of a Twinning project;
3. to discuss and analyse from the practical point of view the main opportunities and challenges of the Twinning project as an effective cooperation tool within the context of the EU integration process.
Target Group
The seminar is intended for public officers and current or prospect twinning project managers from the new EU Member States (2007 accession), Candidate and Neighbourhood Countries, who have been or expect to be involved in Twinning projects, and would like to enhance their knowledge about this cooperation mechanism and improve the skills required for successful preparation and implementation of projects. It should be of interest to those who are involved in one or more of the following activities: identifying areas that a Twinning project is to cover, drafting project fiche, proposal selection procedure, drawing up a Twinning contract, project implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation.
Description and Method
This two-day seminar will be run by Pawel P. Mlicki, Ph.D – Dutch/Polish Senior Expert who worked as a Short-Term Expert on several Twinning projects carried out in a number of beneficiary countries (both new Member States and Candidate Countries), and twice as a Resident Twinning Advisor and Mr. Wolfgang Koeth, Senior Lecturer EIPA Maastricht, former Twinning Project Manager at the European Commission Delegation to Lithuania and former Deputy Head of the European Commission Liaison Office to Kosovo. The experts will give a thorough introduction into the concept of the Twinning project, provide the status quo regarding specific conditions and requirements set by the European Commission, and will go through all successive components of the process with a focus on potential risks and ways to address these. Each subject will be explained through a short theoretical presentation, illustrated by real life examples, which will be followed by sub-group work. The course will be highly interactive, and delegates will be encouraged to share experiences and ask practical questions as much as possible. Lessons learnt from implementation of previous projects will be drawn for successful realisation of new projects.
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