S3 review - where are we?

The above presentations could cover

• How do you organise the revision?
• What is critical to organise a S3 revision? (i.e. role of monitoring)
• S3 revision and post 2020
• Learning from mistakes – the importance of bad practice
• Link between S3 revision and ex-post final S3 evaluation

The above presentation will review an exercise being conducted in Italy by Agenzia della Coesione, highlighting the role of monitoring, accompanied by a sound governance structure, as precondition for S3 review. The exercise may provide inspiration to other countries/regions willing to conduct a similar effort. 

1) Part one: taking stock (approx. 11:45-12:35)

Participants will split in 4 groups – each with a moderator and rapporteur

Participants to the working group will discuss the following aspects:

• Are regions prepared for S3 review?
  • What are they reviewing? Instruments? Priorities? Governance system? Monitoring System?
• Why is the review being organised?
  • To meet the needs of this programming period?
  • To prepare for the next programming period?
• Why do you think you need to organise a review? In particular to get ready for the new programming period? (i.e…)
  • Do they have sufficient data?
  • Are the governance structures adequate?
  • Will stakeholders be engaged? To what extent?
• Do you have what you need to conduct such review?
  • Resources
  • Funds
  • Skills
• What is the relationship between the Mid-term review of the S3 and the final evaluation? Do you plan to hold a S3 ex-post evaluation or not? If so, when? will this ex-post evaluation be included in the evaluation(s) of the OPs or will it be independent?

• AOB

Moderators/Rapporters:

Elisa Gerussi/Ana Fernandez

Yannis Tolias/Federica Bertamino

Ruslan Stefanov/ Michalis Metaxas

Petra Szavic/Lajos Nyiri

Rappourteurs will need to send to the JRC (Elisabetta.Marinelli@ec.europa.eu) a summary of the discussion in each working table a few days after the event.

2) Part two: ability to learn from mistakes (approx. 12:35 – 13:30)

There is the risk that a "positive bias", and the search for "good practice", pushes policy makers away from bad experiences, missing out on opportunities to learn from mistakes. In reviewing S3 this bias should be avoided, as experimentation (and thereby mistakes) are inherent in Smart Specialisation. In this exercise   each partner region/partner member state should prepare a short description of a bad practice in advance and discuss it on the day.

Regions/Member States should prepare a one page note with the following information:

• What was your biggest mistake throughout the development of S3 (It can cover any aspect of S3, EDP, the governance system, the monitoring system, specific instruments, etc.)
• Describe such "bad practice"
  • What were the objectives
  • What went wrong?
    • Why?
  • What went right?
    • Why?
  • What would you do different next time?
  • What would you do in exactly the same way?

The note shall be sent to Elisabetta.Marinelli@ec.europa.eu by the 3rd of December.

During the exercise, the region/member state will discuss their experience, and peers

can ask further questions to the presenter, or share similar experience and together, guided by the moderator, draw relevant lessons for the review of S3 in the region of the presenter.(Further guidelines to this session may follow based on the documents received by regions).

Moderators/Rapporteurs (as above):

Elisa Gerussi/Ana Fernandez

Yannis Tolias/Federica Bertamino

Ruslan Stefanov/ Michalis Metaxas

Lajos Nyiri/ Petra Szavic

Rapporteurs will need to send to the JRC (scussion in each working table a few days after the event.