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Optimizing the Peer Review methodology Experience and added value of working with the peer review

methodology

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Internationalisationcenter Styria (ICS)

Peer Review methodology

Optimizing

Experiences

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ICS – the one-stop-shop for Styrian institutions and companies regarding all questions of internationalisation.

• State Government of Styria• Styrian Chamber of Commerce • Styrian Federation of Industry

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Foreign Trade Enterprise Europe Network Territorial Cooperation RIST/Projects

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European Union• Authorized representative of the State Government of Styria• Development, Evaluation & national Funding (co-financing) • CoR & AER; Lisbon Agenda (Lisbon Monitoring Platform)• Policy Recommendations for Internationalisation & Innovation

other Tasks• Prioritization of international programs & projects of Styria• Internationalisation of Clusters, Networks & Competence Centers• Styrian Business center (St. Petersburg, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Shanghai)• International Marketing of Styria abroad

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Host Region Review Team Review Process Sustainable Tourism Checklist Preparing for the Review Visit Report Action Plan


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The Review Process

Step 1: Regional authority indicates its interest in being a host region to the AER Secretariat

Step 2: AER Secretariat issues a call for experts, identifies a multinational peer review team with relevant experience and nominates a team leader

Step 3: AER Secretariat contacts all participating regions to arrange a mutually convenient date for the peer review

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Step 4: Host region completes preliminary questionnaire on its tourism policies and disseminates it to the peer review team, together with additional background information on its tourism policies

Step 5: Review teams review information provided and provide host regions with a set of suggestions for meetings they would like to hold during the peer review

Step 6: Host region agrees detailed timetable for the peer review with the review team leader

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Step 7: Host region sets up meetings for the peer review and arranges transportation, interpretation and accommodation

Step 8: Review team spends one week in the host region undertaking the review

Step 9: Review team prepares a draft set of recommendations for the host region, within one month of the review, on improving its tourism policies

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Step 10: The host region has two weeks to provide feedback on the draft report to the review team leader

Step 11: The review team has an additional two weeks to incorporate the remarks of the host region and produce a final report

Step 12: Host region presents recommendations to its political representatives and prepares action plan on implementation of the recommendations

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Peer and Hostlike in sports: Peer acts as the Trainer and Host as the Athlet

The Questionnaire:attention: the „strategic response styles“ button is activ- use the defined sample of indicators - General economic indicators- Tourism related inidicators

use all important concepts of the region(executive summary in english!)

generate a dossier of the region(it‘s homework for the peers)

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• Mixed teamsdiferent experts for tourism, spatial planing, economy to check interaction of policies, spatial planing and financing.

• interviews with policy makers, entrepreneurs and…

• Generation of template (no content related questions)

• At the end of the visitDo a Group interview for „the whole picture“Lunch together Meeting of Peers (fresh impressions)

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Experiences

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• Foster regional cooperation(eg. setup common EU-projects, B2B-meetings, Fairs)

• Optimize the “Transferability models”

• Transfer “Good Pratices”

• Find investors for implementation(Public – like national structural funds – and Private)

• Optimize the PPP-Models

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Recommendations

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• Do it

• Be practial oriented

• Peers: be the traineruse the „learn from our mistakes“ approachlook for added value

• Hosts:be the athletelook for added value

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Michael AzodanlooMichael AzodanlooAuthorized representative of the Authorized representative of the

State Government of Styria for Territorial CooperationState Government of Styria for Territorial Cooperation

ICS Internationalisierungscenter Steiermark GmbH ICS Internationalisierungscenter Steiermark GmbH Head of Department for Territorial CooperationHead of Department for Territorial CooperationA-8010 Graz | Koerblergasse 117 (access: Lindweg 33)A-8010 Graz | Koerblergasse 117 (access: Lindweg 33)T +43 316 601-276 | F +43 316 601-455T +43 316 601-276 | F +43 316 601-455M +43 664 81 79 316M +43 664 81 79 [email protected]@ic-steiermark.atwww.ic-steiermark.at www.ic-steiermark.at

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