RIS3 in North-East Romania Monitoring system Foresees targets and indicators for: global objective vertical priority axes horizontal fields of interventions Indicators are: Correlated with the dimension of the interventions (impact, results and outputs) Correlated with official statistic info; secondary sources shall be explored after 2020 (hoping financing source for this activity shall be settled); Some targets and indicators are aligned with ROP 2020 (technological transfer entities);

RIS3 in North-East Romania Monitoring system Implementation foresees: Progress registered in each major value chain and smart specialization key area: companies interviewed, projects under development and implementation, events dedicated to RIS3 Timing: every 6 month for sectorial report on implementation; every year for consolidated implementation report, 2018 for monitoring report, and 2022 for ex-post evaluation report. Discussions are in-progress with MAs (under Financial Consultative Committee) to adjust monitoring system with info collected from: Potential applicants Funding beneficiaries Gabriela Macoveiu, Innovation Director, North-East RDA, Romania gmacoveiu@adrnordest.ro ; Tel +40 745 616717

Open questions Inter-regional cooperation – inter-regional (international) projects under RIS3: specificity of joint monitoring mechanisms ? would an EU monitoring standard be feasible? best practices ? Monitoring systems for multipoint/simultaneous interventions: across value-chains / across priority areas for integrate & inter-regional projects