2. Why ASPO?
All the Obj. 1 Regional Operational Programmes use the
web site as an instrument of communication
The e-government policies
The activity of the WEB EuroPA 2006 project, which
aims to support the operability of Communication
Plans by the elaboration of working instruments
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3. Information and publicity measures on the web site
Commission Regulation (EC) 1159/2000:
Managing Authorities must use some information
instruments (such as billboards and commemorative
plaques), but they can choose the other methods, e.g.:
the institutional web site
Practical Guide to communicating on the Structural
Funds 2000-2006:
The web site is considered an “essential tool”
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4. ASPO’s Objectives
Self-evaluation: it delineates the physionomy of
the web section devoted to the OP and to the
Structural Funds, described on the basis of the
positive aspects (which are to be improved and
to be perfected) and of the information or
functional deficiencies (which are to be examined
in order to identify criticalities and define
improvement margins)
External evaluation: it helps the comparison of
similar experiences (by defining the best
practices) and the standardisation (convergence
towards an “ideal” model)
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5. ASPO’s features
ASPO’s indicators have been defined on the basis of:
the rules of the Commission Regulation 1159/2000
the terms contained in the Practical Guide to
communicating on the Structural Funds 2000-2006
the propositions of the working group formed by the
Formez team and the Obj. 1 Information Officers
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6. How ASPO works: the indicators
For each indicator you have to consider the presence or
absence of information and, in most of the cases, the
quality of it (score is from 0 to a maximum of 4). The last
option includes the former ones.
When you calculate the score you have to consider the value
of the multiplier (1-3), which increases the score
depending on the importance of the indicator
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B12. Is the information
about the implementation
available?
absent 0
present (mid-term evaluation report) 3
present (annual implementation report) 4
7. ASPO’s contruction
The check-list proposed by Formez
It was constructed on the basis of the two main targets (the
public and the potencial beneficiaries) plus the “information
multipliers”
Meetings with the Information Officers
Meetings were held between May 2004 - September 2005 to
put together the suggestions from the Information Officers
E-work
We worked at distance to amend the check-list and test it on
the web sites
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8. ASPO’s structure
5 thematic indices (A-D contents, E technological
devices):
A. FRONT-OFFICE
B. TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
C. SERVICES TO THE “POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES”
D. RELATIONALITY AND PARTNERSHIP
E. USABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVICES
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9. A. FRONT-OFFICE
Objective: self-presentation of OP information service
The objectives of the Communication Plan, the contact
details of the Information Officers and of the Managing
Authorities, the information service to the public (e.g. call
center, help-desk, etc.)
The structural funds, the OP and the links to the
institutional web sites about regional policy
News about the OP implementation
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10. B. TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
Objective: to show all the financial opportunities provided by
the EU and national regional policy, presenting the
territorial strategy and giving visibility to the projects
the assistance package and the other main programmes at
regional level
the integrated territorial projects
the projects part-financed by the Structural Funds
the OP implementation
the framework of the period 2007-2013
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11. C. SERVICES TO THE POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES
Objective: to reach quality services that ensure transparency for
the potential beneficiaries
a “usable” description of the assistance package (data base,
guided way)
information on calls for proposals
details of contacts for the information on the measures and the
implementation
other services (glossary of terms, FAQ’s, online information
service)
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12. D. RELAZIONALITY AND PARTNERSHIP
Objective: to give the Monitoring Committee and the local
network an online section to:
inform
be informed
discuss
collaborate
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13. E. USABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, TECHNOLOGICAL
DIVICES
Objective: to make the finding of the information easy for
everyone
URL recognisability, link to the home page of OP section
from each page, equal and recognisable elements in all
pages, search engine
minimum criteria of accessibility
link check, HTML check, browser compatibility, load time
check
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14. The working group
The Formez team and the Information Officers of
Objective 1 Regional Operational Programmes
Contacts:
Titti Paderi
E-mail: spaderi@formez.it
Tel.: 0039 – (0)70 - 67956248
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