1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Interactive workshops
challenges
planning tools
useful approaches
key actions regarding:
Strategic orientation and coherence
Stakeholder engagement
Monitoring and evaluation
Designing effective delivery

5. Interactive workshops

6. 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:
A full report/sourcebook is in preparation in the Commission EQUAL Unit

7. Evaluation Sheet Analysis
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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

8. Evaluation Sheet Analysis
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Vision of the future 4 20 33 19
The pillars of sound programme planning 1 13 35 28

9. Evaluation Sheet Analysis
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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

10. Evaluation Sheet Analysis
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Round table discussion 6 29 30 10

11. Evaluation Sheet Analysis
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Fulfillment of expectations 65 10 79