1. Social fund Regional dev. fund MA: Nutek MC Monitoring committes MC OP Operational programmes OP RP Regional plans RP RP Joint partnerships in the eight regions OP MA: ESF

2. Cooperation between Regional develop- ment fund and Social fund based on: The National Strategy for Regional Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Employment 2007-2013 ! Arenas for cooperation between the funds, both at a strategic level and at regional level. Synergies between the two funds in order to facilitate for regional learning, growth and innovativeness. Learning conferences and seminars in each of the eight regions/structural programmes. Joint efforts to create continous improvements in line with the system of indicators and stronger impact due to cooperation between the funds.

3. Evaluation of Regional structural funds programmes Synthesis and Learning in Structural funds MC P. 3 P. 2 P. 6 P. 7 P. 4 P. 5 Regional program level Contracting on- going evaluators (responsible for 2-3 programs). Project level Contracting on-going evaluators and self evaluation in projects. Contracts with on-going evaluators in larger/strategic projects. All project owners are responible for selfevaluation. The aim is learning to and from projects, programmes and in public debate! P. 1 P. 8

4. University qualified efforts to improve feedback and learning from ongoing evaluation for both funds: a) Joint course and reader in Learning and Ongoing evaluation. b) A joint guideline in Ongoing evaluation and project support: Nytta med följeforskning c) National network for evaluators, newsletters and research reports.

5. Cooperation between the RCE and territorial objectives Joint evaluation of the implementation organisation Univ. qualified on- going evaluation in projects, programmes Regional learning by means of networking, conferences etc. Learning spiral: