09:00 - 09:30 Welcome Coffee and registration

09:30 – 10:00 Introduction (Plenary)

Mark Boden, JRC - The LAGREG project, Structure of the Monitoring Working Group and organisation of the day

10:00 - 11:30: Monitoring RIS3 Hearing (Plenary)

• Carlo Gianelle, JRC –The case for S3 monitoring as an integrated management tool and the case for a good balance between horizontal and priority-specific approach (30 mins)

• Yiannis Tolias, Innovatia System – Arguments in favour (advantages)

• Ken Guy, Wise Guys  – Arguments against (disadvantages)

Q&A

Moderator:  Elisabetta Marinelli, JRC

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30 Peer exchange – Parallel working groups

Regions and experts discuss their own experience of monitoring RIS3 focusing on the two aspects discussed in the previous session.

WG1 – Rapporteur: Michalis Metaxas/Moderator Karel Haegeman

WG2 – Rapporteur: Federica Bertamino/Moderator Elisabetta Marinelli

WG3 – Rapporteur: Monika Matusiak/Moderator Carlo Gianelle

WG4 – Rapporteur: Ruslan Stefanov/Moderator Marina Ranga

Moderator: Patrice dos Santos, JRC

13:30 - 14:30 Networking lunch

14:30 – 15:00 Plenary reporting back from the working groups

Rapporteur briefly summarised the discussion of the respective tables.

Moderator: Marina Ranga, JRC

15:30 – 16:30 RIS3 Monitoring Clinic

During this session each region/city will discuss with one expert and a member of the JRC their monitoring system in detail and propose operational objectives.

Experts, JRC representatives will be distributed as follows. Critical friends (other than Raquel Ortega and Artur de Rosa) and other participants can choose the table they prefer.

• Spain, Extremadura: Elisabetta Marinelli, Raquel Ortega
• Italy, Puglia: Federica Bertamino
• Bulgaria, Gabrovo and Ruse: Ruslan Stefanov, Patrice Dos Santos
• Portugal, Centro:  Carlo Gianelle, Artur de Rosa Pires, Ken Guy
• Poland, Warmisko Mazurskie: Monica Matusiak
• Romania, North West, North East and National representative: Yiannis Tolias, Marina Ranga, Karel Haegman
• Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Michalis Metaxas

The summaries of the monitoring systems are available here.

The outcomes of the RIS3 monitoring clininc are available here.

Moderator: Carlo Gianelle, JRC

16:30 - 17:00 Concluding remarks and next steps

• Experts report briefly to the plenary the objectives selected with the region.
• Ken Guy and Mark Boden reflect on the lessons learnt during the day.
• Elisabetta Marinelli and Carlo Gianelle clarify the next steps

Moderator: Karel Haegeman, JRC