Information and Publicity of the activities cofinanced by Structural Funds

Seminar's content

The Seminar covered Information and Publicity of Structural Funds from an integrated and global perspective, which included:

• a global analysis of the European communication activities on Stuctural Funds (targets, priorities, main activities and perspectives beyond 2006) by Mrs Véronique Faure and Luigi Nigri from the Information and Communication Unit of the DG Regional Policy of the European Commission.
• a detailed presentation ot the Publicity Evaluation of the Madrid Region Information and Publicity Plan by Lucía Lisbona, part of the team of Quasar Consultores, who carried out the evaluation.
• a critical overview of the audit process of the information and publicity requirements in the Madrid Region Administration by. Mrs Salomé Fernández Muñoz, Head of the Auditing Unit of the Presidency Deparment.
• a round table in which Spanish regions and partners of the S3 project presented their best practices in information and publicity implemented in their own territorial scope:
• Madrid Region, Spain (S3 project): Mrs Laura de Esteban, Director General for State Cooperation and European Affairs.
• Andalucía Region, Spain: Mr Antonio Valverde Ramos, Director General for European Funds.
• Murcia Region, Spain: Mr Ángel Iniesta Nicolás, Directorate General for Budget, European Funds and Finance.
• Castilla y León Region, Spain: Mrs Ana Gonzalo de la Fuente and Mrs Margarita Prada Alonso, Directorate General for Budget and Communitiy Funds.
• Emilia Romagna Region, Italy (S3 project): Mrs Anna Maria Linsalata, Directorate General for Industry, Trade and Tourism.
• South Yorkshire Region, UK (S3 project): Mr Richard Holmes.
• a detailed analysis of the Practical Guide to Communicating on Structural Funds 2000-2006 by Luigi Nigri, Expert in Information and Communication of Structural Funds from the European Commission.

All the partners of the S3 project were invited to the Seminar and a great variety of national, regional, local and European actors and institutions attended it:

• European Commission (Information and Communication Unit of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy and the Office in Spain of the European Commission).
• Structural Funds managers of Madrid regional government.
• Madrid Politécnica University.
• Madrid Rey Juan Carlos University.
• Madrid Complutense University.
• Madrid Autónoma University.
• Madrid local govermentl.
• Spanish Ministry for Employment and Social Affairs.
• Spanish Ministry for Finance.
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• Asturias region (Spain).
• Castilla - la Mancha region (Spain).
• Castilla y León region (Spain).
• Andalucía region (Spain).
• Murcia region (Spain).
• Galicia region (Spain)
• Social partners.
• Emilia Romagna region (Italy): S3 project.
• South Yorkshire region (United Kingdom): S3 Project
• Saxony- Anhalt region (Germany): S3 Project.
• North-Great Plain region (Hungary): S3 Project.
• Regional Development Agency, Lithuania: S3 Project.
• Western Greece region (Greece): S3 Project.
• Quasar Consulting Firm, Madrid (Spain).
• Ipunto Consulting Firm, Sevilla (Spain).

Agenda

Inaugural speech: Mr Francisco Granados Lerena (Regional Minister for Presidency, Madrid Regional Government): 9:00 a.m.

MORNING SESSION: 9:00- 14:00 A.M.

9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Information and publicity of activities cofinanced by European Funds (Mrs Véronique Faure, Information and Communication Unit, Regional Policy D.G, European Commission).

10.15 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.: Evaluation of information and publicity activities cofinanced by European Funds in the Madrid Region (Quasar Consultores).

10.45- 11:15 a.m.: Auditing the information and publicity requirements in activities cofinanced by Structural Funds in the Madrid Region (Mrs Salomé Fernández Muñoz, Auditing Department in the Presidency Department of Madrid Region).

Coffee-break: 11:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

• 11:45 a.m.- 14:00 p.m.: ROUND TABLE: Best practices concerning information and publicity activities. Coordinator: Mr. Luigi Nigri, Expert in Information and Communication of Structural Funds, European Commission)
• Madrid Region (Spain): Mrs Laura de Esteban Martín, Director General for State Cooperation and European Affairs.
• Andalucía Region (Spain): Mr. Antonio Valverde Ramos, Director General for European Funds.
• Murcia Region (Spain): Mr. Angel Iniesta Nicolás, Head for the Information, Advisement and European Funds Dissemination Department, Directorate General for Budget, European Funds and Finance.
• Castilla y León Region (Spain): Mrs Ana Gonzalo de la Fuente and Mrs Margarita Prada Alonso, European Funds Department, Directorate General for Budgets and Community Funds.
• Emilia Romagna Region (Italy). Mrs Anna Maria Linsalata, Responsable for Communication of the Objective 2 Programme of Emilia Romagna Region, Directorate General for Industry, Trade and Tourism.
• South Yorkshire Region (U.K.): Richard Holmes, Communication Manager.
• Debate.

Lunch: 14:00 p.m.- 15:00 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSION: 15:00 p.m.- 16:00 p.m.

15:00 p.m- 16:00 p.m.: The Practical Guide to Communicating on the Structural Funds 2000- 2006 (Mr. Luigi Nigri, Expert in Information and Communication of Structural Funds, European Commission).

Seminar's presentations

• Luigi Nigri_DG Regio_1 (.pdf, 71 kb)
• Luigi Nigri_DG Regio_2 (.pdf, 47 kb)
• Andalucia Operational Programme) (.pdf, 4.33 Mb)
• Emilia-Romagna Communication Strategy (.pdf, 423 kb)
• Castilla y Leon Operational Programme) (.pdf, 78 kb)
• Madrid Information Plan Evaluation (.pdf, 489 kb)
• Murcia Operational Programme (.pdf, 2.7 Mb)
• Veronique Faure_DG Regiod (.pdf, 791 kb)
• South Yorkshire Communication Strategy (.pdf, 2 Mb)
• Auditing the Information and Publicity Requirements of SF (.pdf, 112 kb)