Project 0058

Culture, Civil Society, Good Governance and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms

Implementing shared anticorruption and good governance solutions in Southeast Europe: innovative practices and public-private partnerships

Justice and Home Affairs

The project’s overall objective is to deliver shared anticorruption solutions to increase the accountability of state institutions and strengthen civil society and the rule of law in SEE through capacity building on implementing best practice European social research innovation instruments and the establishment of knowledge-sharing public-private partnership between civil society and public-sector actors in 9 beneficiary countries. The action aims to close anticorruption policy implementation and public procurement gaps across SEE, which will amplify the impact of the planned increase in EU infrastructure support until 2025. The project’s objective will be achieved by mainstreaming social research innovation instruments, capacity building, and the establishment of a sustainable regional good governance public-private partnership platform in beneficiary countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). Established Regional Good Governance Public-Private Partnership Platform (R2G4P) is the project’s centrepiece sustainability product. In addition, training modules and manuals will empower NGOs and public authorities to further join forces on delivering shared regional solutions, based on the established public-private partnership path. Possibility for replication on European and global level will be driven by the public release of all project results and the adaptability of the implemented assessment and analytical tools. Combined, all project resources will empower new actors with innovative solutions in and outside SEE.

The project’s inclusive public-private partnership approach will allow target groups to share solutions across EU and non-EU borders in SEE, a critical contribution of the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Regional Cooperation.

The action rests on four result pillars:

• Established Regional Good Governance Public-Private Partnership Platform (R2G4P). The Platform will combine RCC and RAI’s public sector cooperation capacity with SELDI.net’s expertise to create a sustainable regional public-private partnership for shared good governance solutions. With at least 22 members, holding meetings at least once annually and joint task forces informing the work of the Platform, the R2G4P will be the project’s key added value.

• Increased capacity of public institutions and NGOs to diagnose and tackle corruption risks through 4 specialised three-day regional trainings for R2G4P members and annual summer school for 25 outside participants. The training modules will include: a) MACPI: Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation; b) Opentender.eu: big data and network analysis to develop innovative risk indicators; and c) tackling state (policy, regulatory) capture and emerging corruption risks. Manuals will guide each module.

• Designed shared management and policy anti-corruption solutions, through producing annual SEE Good Governance Reports, each accompanied by 9 anticorruption management reviews for selected SEE public institutions, based on implementing MACPI and opentender.eu methods.

• Communication and engagement strategy, including an opening conference, annual policy forums, and a closing summit, each attracting 100 participants.

The website will be elaborated after the selection and signing of a contract with a software/webdesign company. However, the project website will be hosted at: http://www.seldi.net

Social channels:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SELDI.network

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SELDI_Network

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCJd9_ow6Xl1CkAOx93RImGQ

Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy

Project 0137

EU-WATERRES

The EU-WATERRES project has been officially launched on September 1, 2020 under the leadership of Polish Geological Institute – National Geological Institute (PGI-NRI). All together nine partners from five countries (Poland, Norway, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine) have joined their forces to improve the management of transboundary groundwater resources in two geographical regions: Baltic and Eastern Europe. The project aims to increase the capacity of public authorities to manage transboundary groundwater resources by creating an integrated information platform, introducing new data analysis tools and solutions for coordinated management and integrated groundwater protection. The overall awareness of groundwater resources protection will be increased during variety of public events organized for stakeholders to tackle each specific project target group.

Project outcomes will enhance coordination, improved international cooperation transboundary groundwater resource quantitative and qualitative management and control. Planned numerous educational activities are aimed at raising public awareness of the issues of transboundary impacts on groundwater. The EU-WATERRES project is a forerunner in the creation of a universal tool supporting strategic decision making in the context of groundwater management in border areas.

• testing solutions in 3 case studies within the EU and 1 case study in Ukraine.

Target groups:

• Managers in the water management and environmental protection sector.

• Municipal enterprises providing water supply services.

• Practitioners, geological companies.

• Scientists.

• Non-governmental organizations.

Project Partners:

Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute, Poland

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Geological Company”, Ukraine

Geological Survey of Estonia, Estonia

Subsidiary enterprise “Zakhidukrgeologiya” of the National Joint-Stock Company “Nadra Ukrainy”, Ukraine

Intergraph Polska Sp. z o.o., Poland

University of Latvia, Latvia

The specific objectives of the EU-WATERRES are:

• creating a geoinformatic platform for integrated data processing defining the conditions of transboundary aquifers and their numerical simulation,

• support for decision makers in creating solutions for the coordinated use and integrated protection of transboundary groundwater,

• creating the basis for coordinating procedures for monitoring of transboundary groundwater flows,

• increasing the credibility of the assessment of the state of transboundary groundwater by integrating data,

The Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Latvia

Geological Survey of Norway, Norway