cohesion, regional & structural policy

Analysis of the implications of the EU-Cohesion and Structural Policy on the services offered by the German Technical Cooperation in the field of regional development in South East Europe, North-Caucasus and Central Asia (Study for the German Technical Co-operation  - GTZ GmbH)

Medium-term and Short-term Expert (MTE / STE) in various Twinning-Projects:

• Key Expert in the project "Support to the Managing Authority for Community Support Framework (MA CSF) to ensure a sound and efficient management of the EU Structural Funds": Strengthening the capacities of the Authority for the Coordination of Structural Instruments - ACIS for ensuring the coordination of Structural Instruments; Support to the Technical Assistance Operational Programme (OPTA); Training of staff
• “Strengthening the Capacity of the MoE to Manage the Operational Programme ‘Development of the Competitiveness of the Bulgarian Economy’ under EU Structural Funds”, Key Advisor for component 2 on Programme Design - process of developing the Operational Programme Documents
• STE in the German-Slovene Twinning “Development of Capacities for the Implementation of Structural Assistance in the Ministry of Education and Sports, and in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology”: preparation of a guideline and a checklist on public procurement; training of the personnel of the Ministries and of “project providers”
• „Setting up a coherent system for the Structural and Cohesion Funds in Slovenia”, MTE in component 2: Assistance in ERDF measures implementation, development of a project pipeline eligible for ERDF-support
• "Strengthening the Capacity of the Ministry of Economy of Bulgaria”; STE: Provision of advice on EU policy making in the field of SME-Promotion and Structural/ Regional Policy
• “Special Programme for Preparation to EU-Structural Policy in Cyprus”, MTE: Development of the Medium Term Indicative Strategy, Advice on the National Development Plan, Drafting of a Pilot Operational Programme and Complements
• “EU-Special Preparatory Programme for the Structural and Cohesion Funds – SPP, Slovenia”, MTE: Provision of policy and programming assistance with the preparation of the National Development Plan, Assistance in building-up the National Agency for Regional Development, Objective-1-programming (ERDF)

Short-term Expert for the GTZ GmbH (German Technical Co-operation): Assistance to the Slovene National Agency for Regional Development in preparing the relevant Structural Funds programming documents: National Development Plan, Single Programming Document, Programme Complement

Design and implementation of a 4-days-workshop with actors of the Opole Woiwodship (Poland) on Programme- and Project development in the context of the implementation of the EU-Structural Funds and project development; Preparation of a Manual (Dom Europejski Opole; Congress and Training Center, Warsaw)