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8th INFORM EU Meeting – Presentation of the STEP Communication Campaign

As part of the 8th INFORM EU meeting held in Tallinn (Estonia) from 16 to 18 June 2025, the Head of Communication for the 2021–2027 programming period, leading the Italian delegation, presented the new Italian communication campaign on the STEP – Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform initiative. The presentation took place during a good practices session within the fund-specific "REGIONAL" meeting (covering ERDF, CF, and JTF), and was complemented by a short video produced specifically for the occasion:

STEP Campaign Presentation to the Spain Country Team – INFORM ES

At the invitation of the European Commission and the coordinators of the INFORM Spain communication network, the OpenCoesione team shared the strategy and main features of its communication campaign for the STEP – Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform initiative. The presentation took place online, during a session dedicated to good practices, as part of the Spain Country Team meeting. Participants included communication officers for cohesion policy, Managing Authorities of EU funds, representatives from the Ministries responsible for the different funds, intermediate bodies, and officials from the European Commission (DG EMPL, DG REGIO, and the Commission Representation in Spain).

Spain is currently working on a similar communication campaign for STEP, and the Italian experience may serve as a helpful input in shaping it.

Le Politiche di Coesione per la competitività tecnologica delle imprese italiane. Il contributo della piattaforma STEP

Nell'ambito di ForumPA 2025, il Dipartimento per le politiche di coesione e per il sud ha preso parte alla conferenza "Le Politiche di Coesione per la Competitività tecnologica delle imprese italiane. Il contributo della piattaforma STEP", occasione di approfondimento sul ruolo strategico dell’iniziativa STEP (Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform) promossa dalla Commissione europea per rafforzare l'autonomia tecnologica dell'Unione.

Durante l'evento, organizzato da Regione Campania in collaborazione con il Dipartimento per le politiche di coesione e per il sud - che svolge anche il ruolo di punto di contatto nazionale con la Commissione europea per l’attuazione dell’iniziativa - è stata presentata la nuova campagna nazionale di comunicazione istituzionale dedicata a STEP, realizzata in coordinamento con i Programmi nazionali e regionali aderenti per far conoscere opportunità e impatti dell'iniziativa attraverso TV, radio, web e social.

Tavolo di lavoro - La coesione nella costruzione del quadro di bilancio europeo 2028-2034: il ruolo della comunicazione

All'interno di ForumPA 2025, OpenCoesione ha preso parte al Tavolo di lavoro dei comunicatori della coesione, durante il quale sono state condotte riflessioni approfondite sulle strategie e gli strumenti per comunicare efficacemente le risorse della coesione. In particolare, OpenCoesione ha coordinato il dibattito sul tema riguardante l'importanza della qualità e dell’efficacia della restituzione del dato. 

Al tavolo hanno partecipato diversi referenti della comunicazione di Programmi nazionali e regionali, ciascuno apportando il proprio contributo sul ruolo della comunicazione nella costruzione del quadro di bilancio 2028-2034.

Guarda il video con le interviste ai moderatori del Tavolo (al minuto 07:58:15)

Accountancy and the Monitoring of Cohesion Policies: Towards the National Monitoring System

The seminar aims to illustrate the National Cohesion Policy Monitoring System, in the light of the light of the novelties introduced by the ‘Permanent Table on the Monitoring of Public Investments’ of the RGS and those arising from the introduction of the ReGiS information system.

Annual Review Meeting - Year 2024

The 2024 Performance Review Meeting is the appointment for the European Commission and the Managing Authorities of the ERDF and ESF+ Programmes to review the performance of each Programme on the basis of the previous year's implementation data. The appointment is organised by the Department for Cohesion Policies and the South with the support of the National Cohesion Capacity Programme 2021-2027. The RAR 2024 was held on 29 and 30 October in Rome, at Palazzo Barberini.

TAIEX TSI PACE – Public Administration Cooperation Exchange

OpenCoesione took part in a bilateral meeting involving the governments of Italy and Romania, in the framework of the initiative ‘TAIEX TSI PACE - Public Administration Cooperation Exchange’ promoted by the European Commission. In Rome they discussed ‘Approaches, methods and tools for the proper implementation of EU-funded programmes at national and regional level: the Italian experience’.

The Festival of Participation

On 14 September 2024 OpenCoesione took part in the ninth edition of the Festival of Participation, dedicated to ‘Voices of the verb POWER: include, participate, claim’. The title of the report delivered as part of a panel dedicated to ‘Bridging the gap: what are the risks of poor communication of European Funds in the territories and how civic participation can help prevent them’ was ‘OpenCoesione: data and communication on cohesion’.

Committee meeting to monitor and accompany the implementation of the 2021-2027 programmes

OpenCoesione's presentation at the 18 July meeting of the PA Committee, i.e. the Committee with the function of monitoring and accompanying the implementation of the 2021-2027 programmes

The ASOC EU model as an example of active citizenship

The educational program "A Scuola di OpenCoesione" (ASOC) and the European application of its ASOC EU model were presented at the international conference "Empowering Young People, Protecting Democracy: How to Address Disinformation at School", organized by the think tank Lisbon Council. Representatives from the European Commission - DG Education, as well as representatives from organizations and associations active in the fields of active citizenship, information, and countering disinformation, participated in the conference.

#PONGOV, paths of innovation and cohesion

OpenCoesione took part in the #pongovexpo, the event that closed the PON Governance and Institutional Capacity ERDF ESF 2014-2020 (#pongov) programme, an afternoon of work to present some of the most significant results of the Operational Programme and to assess how innovation and cohesion policy have contributed to making PA more efficient, effective and closer to territories, citizens and businesses.

In March 2014 OpenCoesione also dedicated a Data Card to #pongov

TAIEX-REGIO Multi-Country Workshop on Digital administration and IT systems in Cohesion funds

OpenCoesione participated in a multinational workshop on digital administration and information systems in cohesion funds in Madrid, as part of the TAIEX-REGIO project. The meeting explored possible new applications for managing project demand, implementation, monitoring, and control. In this context, during Session 7 dedicated to future developments and open data, the experience of OpenCoesione was presented.

OGP: meeting for reporting results of Commitment 5.02 of the Fifth National Action Plan

The contribution of OpenCoesione to the meeting for reporting results within Commitment 5.02 "Open Standards for Inclusivity and Civil Society Participation in Monitoring Public Spending" of the Fifth Italian National Action Plan for Open Government 2022-2023.

"Understanding Results and Impacts of Cohesion Policy": Meeting of the National Evaluation System

"Data and Indicators for Evaluation: The New Features of the OpenCoesione Portal" is the title of the presentation delivered by the OpenCoesione team at the meeting organized within the framework of the National Evaluation System (SNV). This presentation offered a significant preview of the new look of the national open government portal on cohesion policies in Italy.

European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2022)

In the framework of the European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics  scheduled from 8th to 10th June 2022 in Vilnius (Lithuania), the OpenCoesione in collaboration with Italian Institute for Statistics - ISTAT has prepared and presented the intervention entitled “Understanding the territory through data, data journalism and civic engagement – The ASOC project from Italy to Europe”  to underline and illustrate the synergic action carried out by the means of a specific agreement signed among ISTAT and the Department for Cohesion Policies aimed at promoting the knowledge and the use of official statistical data in the civic monitoring researces carried out by the student teams and aimed at enhancing the trainings addressing teachers who participate in the ASOC with the specific dedicated course named Statistical Culture+.

The materials are available on the Slideshare

Simona De Luca and Patrizia Collesi - The paper, Understanding the territory through data, data journalism and civic engagement: the Asoc project from Italy to Europe

Simona De Luca and Patrizia Collesi - The presentation, Understanding the territory through data, data journalism and civic engagement: the Asoc project from Italy to Europe

14th Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society (EES2022)

At the 14th Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society (EES2022) scheduled from June 6th to 10th, 2022, in Copenhagen, the ASOC-OpenCoesione team promoted and hosted a panel on Wednesday, June 8th, titled "Building the Future of Democratic Accountability in Europe: Civic Engagement, Evaluation, and Open Public Data in the A Scuola di OpenCoesione Project."

Browse the panel presentations on SlideShare:

Simona De Luca, Gianmarco Guazzo - Building the Future of Democratic Accountability Across Europe: Civic Engagement, Evaluation, and Open Administrative Data in At the School of OpenCohesion

Luigi Reggi - Creating Open Government Data ecosystems:  Network relations among governments, user communities, NGOs and the media [a questo link è disponibile anche la video-presentazione]

Natalija Simunovic - At the Schooh of OpenCohesion Croatian Experience

Carlo Amati - Ex post evaluation of cohesion policy

Mara Giua - The role of Cohesion Policy evaluation for an evidence-based Next Generation EU

Le politiche di coesione e la strategia nazionale di valorizzazione dei beni confiscati

Beni confiscati e politiche di coesione

OpenCoesione alla Riunione Annuale di Riesame 2021

La presentazione a cura di OpenCoesione in occasione della Riunione Annuale di Riesame 2021. Tutte le novità del portale e le nuove iniziative di monitoraggio civico del progetto A Scuola di OpenCoesione

A Scuola di OpenCoesione alla 14° Conferenza Nazionale di Statistica

A Scuola di OpenCoesione e OpenCoesione hanno preso parte alla quattordicesima Conferenza Nazionale di Statistica (CNS), promossa dall'Istituto nazionale di statistica (Istat). È stato infatti presentato un poster scientifico che racconta il progetto ASOC come ambito di sviluppo e promozione di "Cittadinanza attiva e cultura statistica nelle scuole superiori".

Guarda il poster scientifico. 

Il poster è accompagnato da una video-pillola curata dal team ASOC in collaborazione con Patrizia Collesi responsabile “Sviluppo e promozione della cultura statistica” per Istat