Openness and transparency of data
in EU Structural and Investment Funds
2007-2013
an overview
Carlo Amati, Simona De Luca, Chiara A. Ricci
Department for Cohesion Policy
Informal Networks of Communication Officers
INFORM and INIO
Portorož, 30th May 2016
Open Data on public funds
Availability of information and Open Data (machine-readable)
on projects funded by public resources helps in:
• fostering transparency in the use of funds
• improving decision making and policy design
• encouraging the creation of new tools and services for
citizens
• increasing involvement of stakeholders in ensuring
efficient and effective use of funds
A feedback at the end of 2007-2013 programming period…
cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/
Openness and transparency: a priority in Europe
Eu rules on transparency & Open Data
List of Operations and more …
2007-2013, Art. 7 Reg. 1828/2006 – Three mandatory fields for online
publication: name of the project, name of the beneficiary, total value of the
project Hundreds of Managing Authorities are free to decide how much
information is to be published and the format of the downloadable datasets
European Transparency Initiative (2008) – Suggestion of some useful
details to be published: public payments to beneficiaries at the end of the
project, final year of payment, date of last update Guidance Note 23th April
2008
2014-2020, Art. 115 Regulation EU 1303/2005- Machine-readable Format
(CSV, XML),Single Website Portal, User Licence, mandatory fields for online
publication (headings & name of the projects to be provided in at least one
other official EU language):
- name of the project, name of the beneficiary, total value of the project (as in
2007-2013)
- summary of the project, start date, end date, EU eligible expenditure,
postcode of the location of the project, country, category of intervention of
the project, date of last update (newly introduced).
Recovery.gov
The investigation on Transparency on Structural
Funds’ Beneficiaries in Europe 2010-2015
Ascertain the presence or absence of specific quality features
of the beneficiaries’list published on line (62 variables in 2013,
2014, 2015) for 2007-2013: a new survey on 2014-2020 is
coming with the end of the year!
Recovery.gov
Countries with centralised portals (ERDF & ESF)
on Structural Funds projects
2010 2015 (considering OpenCoesione)
Recovery.gov
Transparency on Cohesion Funds:
the web based survey
Indices of openness and transparency of lists of beneficiaries of EU Structural Funds 2007-2013
6 different scores to each Operational Programme, one for each key aspect
of data publication. The scores are based on the availability of selected key
characteristics of the data, such as format, completeness of information,
availability of tools to browse effectively through the data, and so on.
Recovery.gov
EU27 2007-2013 OPs average level of compliance with the requirements set by the 2007-2013
COCOF and 2014-2020 Regulation
year 2015
2015
Machine-readable format?
PO ERDF 2007-2013
Quality Search masks
Financial Data Contents
Analysis / evaluation / research
Participation / “civic monitoring”
- “Macro” effects
- Categorizations / typologies
- Total values of cohesion policies
Data
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- “Micro” effects/ single project
- Geo-localization
- “Wiki” tools and “crowdsourcing”
From transparency to re-use and communication
• OpenCoesione as single national website portal providing information on,
and access to, all operational programmes in Italy;
• OpenCoesione for 2014-2020 includes also information on European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and European Maritime
and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), and develops new contents and
functionalities.
OpenCoesione for the cycle 2014-2020
UE Regulation 1303/2013
Italy Partnership Agreement 2014‐2020 par. 4.2
Note PCM-DPC N. 553/23-07-2015
Adaptation of
Open government diagram
by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lage released under Creative Commons
Attribution terms
Open data licence to support re-use
Information about
projects undertaken for
implementing regional
policies:
description
• funding (amount and
sources)
• locations
• thematic areas
• public/private subjects
involved
• deployment timing
100+ variables for each
project in open data
section (CSV)
+ access via API
The web portal:
www.opencoesione.gov.it
Some news for 2014-2020
1. Funding opportunities and calls
2. List of operations and beneficiaries
3. Additional informations on financed projects (also for 2007-2013)
Fase 2 First phase
Second phase
2014-2020
The new contents of the portal
Financial resources 2014-2020
Details on financial resources
2014-2020
Notes and downladable xls
www.opencoesione.gov.it/risorse_2014_2020/
Programmes 2014-2020
• Italy Partnership Agreement 2014-
2020;
• Programmes cofinanced by
European Structural and
Investment Funds:
Tables with links to the pdf of the
programmes, to the Commission
decisions and to the Managing Authorities
web portals.
• Programmes financed by Cohesion
Fund (CF)
• Complementary programmes www.opencoesione.gov.it/programmi_2014_2020/
Call for proposal/tenders and projects 2014-2020
• possibility to access to call
for proposal and tenders
financed by cohesion
policies;
• publication of the lists of
operations and beneficiaries
of projects approved.
www.opencoesione.gov.it/bandi_2014_2020/
www.opencoesione.gov.it/progetti_2014_2020/