Final Meeting: S3 Targeted Support - Horizontal Activities

22 Oct 2019 to 23 Oct 2019
Parador de Alcalá de Henares

This final meeting of the Horizontal Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation of RIS3 is organized as part of the project Targeted Support for RIS3 in Lagging Regions and takes place on Wednesday 23rd of October in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

22^nd October 2019

20:30-22:00 Networking dinner – El parador de Alcalá de Henares

23^rd October 2019

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome Coffee and registration

09:00 – 09:15 – Introduction to the day

Update on the Lagging Regions Activities, Mark Boden (JRC)
Plan for the day, Elisabetta Marinelli (JRC)

09:15-10.15h: Reiterating the promise of ODSI-S3: policy context and good practices

Q&A
Chair: Mark Boden (JRC)

10:15 - 10:50 Participatory Exercise 1 (part I) : S3 monitoring and open data: Country- specific roadmapping

10:15-10:25 Presentation of the exercise and classification of data-sources type, Enric Fuster (Siris Academic)

Division of participants by country

10:25 - 10:50 Validation of the main challenges in each member state and selection of the two challenges to address after the coffee break.

Coffee break 10:50-11:10

11:10 -12:30 Participatory Exercise 1 (part II)

Division of participants by country

11:10 - 11:45 Challenge 1 – Solution visioning and roadmapping
11:45 - 12:30 Challenge 2 – Solution visioning and roadmapping

12:30-13:30 Participatory Exercise 2: Cross-country discussion: exploring common challenges and opportunities

Participants split in 4 cross-national groups

12:30- 12:45 each participant reports the key outcomes of the country-specific discussion
12:45- 13:00 categorisation/clustering of implementation challenges/constraints
13:00 - 13:30 envisage EU-level or international initiatives to address them

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 -15:20 S3 Preparing for the next programming periods – experiences, suggestions,

proposals

Q&A

Chair: Mark Boden (JRC)

15:20 – 16:15 Preparing for the next programming period

Participatory Exercise 3: Preparing for the next programming period

Participants split in 4 cross-country groups
Open discussion on how they are preparing for the next programming period
Comments on JRC initiatives and identification of other themes to potentially address
Brief report to plenary – focussed on proposal for future activities

16:15 – 16:30

Closing of the working group

16:15-16:20 Statement by the Greek delegation (Ioannis Kesanlis, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace)
16:20 - 16:30 Closing remarks Mark Boden, Elisabetta Marinelli

Practical Information

When: 22 Oct 2019 to 23 Oct 2019
Where: Parador de Alcalá de Henares
Registration Information: By invitation

Description

This final meeting of the Horizontal Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation of RIS3 was organized as part of the project Targeted Support for RIS3 in Lagging Regions and took place on Wednesday 23rd of October in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

Objective

The day focused on the use of open-data in monitoring and evaluating Smart Specialisation Strategies, as well as on the preparation for the next programming period.