ESF seminar in Vilnius Organised by the EQUAL Unit together with the EQUAL MA from Lithuania, Italy, Poland and French speaking Belgium. Brought together politicians and ESF managers from across the whole of Europe (including Romania and Bulgaria) to: learn about specific methods and tools for sound planning clarify the programming process share experience
Speakers Presentations and speeches: Commission: Lithuania Other: Lenia Samuel, Deputy-Director General DG EMPL Marie Donnelly, Head of Unit, ESF coordination, DG EMPL Lithuania Mr Kairelis, State Secretary of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour Mr Simonavicius, Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance Other: Italy: C. Balboni, Director General, Culture, Training, Employment, Emilia-Romagna UK: Patricia Greer, Deputy-Director, UK Prime Minister Strategy Unit
Information market Set up by EQUAL MA of Lithuania, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, United Kingdom, French speaking Belgium and Sweden To showcase and explain experiences concerning jointly developed toolkit for planning, monitoring and evaluation of innovative and transnational projects
Interactive workshops challenges planning tools useful approaches key actions regarding: Strategic orientation and coherence Stakeholder engagement Monitoring and evaluation Designing effective delivery
Interactive workshops
Follow-up The speeches and presentations of the seminar, the EQUAL planning toolkit and video, on display at the seminar's information market, can now be found: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/equal/news/20051125-vilnius_en.cfm A full report/sourcebook is in preparation in the Commission EQUAL Unit
Evaluation Sheet Analysis Very low Low Satisfactory Good Excellent Seminar facilities 2 22 51 Location of event 4 5 14 19 36 Information market 21 32 Seminar materials 1 27 34 Accommodation - 3 13 58 Travel agency services 23 Dinner 15 59
Evaluation Sheet Analysis Very low Low Satisfactory Good Excellent Vision of the future 4 20 33 19 The pillars of sound programme planning 1 13 35 28
Evaluation Sheet Analysis Very low Low Satisfactory Good Excellent Challenges in planning ESF programmes 2 8 13 36 17 Planning tools under EQUAL 4 6 20 32 9 Sharing useful approaches in planning 5 15 33 Key actions for the future programmes 11
Evaluation Sheet Analysis Very low Low Satisfactory Good Excellent Round table discussion 6 29 30 10
Evaluation Sheet Analysis Yes No Total Fulfillment of expectations 65 10 79