Transnational Partner Forums

National Supporting Institution developed its own idea of Transnational Partner Search Forums. So far five events have been organized collecting representatives from 11 countries with almost 400 participants and 300 projects. The key purpose of the Forums is to enable the participants to find appropriate partners along with exchange of knowledge and good practices pertaining to transnational cooperation within ESF. For that purpose projects and participants, based on the projects’ description (Project fiches), are divided into thematic tables at which they discuss in details possibility of cooperation. The themes cover a wide range of subjects related to all ESF priorities. For any further details please contact us.

On 4th & 5th of March 2013, the National Supporting Institution organized next, VI Transnational Partnership Forum in Warsaw. It had a smaller scale than previous events, as it was attended by 38 participants (so far the average size was up to 100 participants). There were representatives of 37 projects (22 Polish, 8 Swedish, 2 Italian, 1 Spanish and 4 Belgian projects) at different stages of implementation - from the idea, through the preparatory phase up to the implementation phase. Forum as a tool for direct support of beneficiaries in searching partners for cooperation, constitutes a complementary element to the existing NSI activities aimed at intensifying transnational cooperation in the current programming period.

The 5th Transnational Partner Forum was held in Warsaw on 20 and 21 November by the Polish National Supporting Institution – Centre of European Projects (NSI). 97 participants attended, with 66 projects from 6 countries being represented (41 Poland, 13 Sweden, 5 Italy, 3 Germany, 2 Ireland, 2 UK); most of them were in the preparatory or implementation phase. The key objective of the Forum remained unchanged in relation to previous incarnations – i.e. to help projects find suitable and reliable partners, and to establish lasting contacts for strengthening transnational cooperation under ESF.

National Supporting Institution successfully organized IV Transnational Partner Forum on 25th and 26th of April 2012 in Warsaw. The representatives from six countries - together almost 100 participants. They represented almost 80 projects (33 projects from Poland, 22 from Sweden, 14 projects from Belgium, 6 from Czech Republic, 1 project from Germany and France) at different stages of implementation  –  mainly in the preparatory or implementation phase.

National Supporting Institution organized III Transnational Partner Forum on 15th and 16th of June 2011 in Poland (Warsaw). The representatives from eight countries took part in the Forum: Poland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain and United Kingdom - together 84 participants. They represented 53 projects (26 projects from Poland, 16 from Sweden, 4 from Czech Republic, 2 projects from Finland, 2 from Germany and 1 project from Estonia, Spain and United Kingdom) at different stages of implementation  –  some of them were at stage  of the “project idea”, several already received financing but not started its project implementation and some were already implemented. The representatives of the AEIDL (the European Association for Information on Local Development) as well as  Learning Network on Transnational Cooperation in ESF took part in the Forum.

National Supporting Institution organized II Transnational Partner Forum on 30th and 31st of March 2011 in Poland (Warsaw). The representatives from five countries took part in the Forum: Poland, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Lithuania - together almost 100 participants. They represented 80 projects (46 projects from Poland, 20 from Sweden, 6 projects from Finland and 8 projects from Germany) at different stages of implementation – some of them were at stage of the "project idea", several already received financing but not started its project implementation but most of them were in different stages of project implementation. The representatives of the European Commission, AEIDL (the European Association for Information on Local Development) as well as Learning Network on Transnational Cooperation in ESF.

National Supporting Institution organized 1st Transnational Partner Forum on 22nd and 23rd of November 2010 in Poland (Warsaw). The representatives from three countries took part in the Forum: Poland, Sweden and England,  together over 80 participants. They represented 55 projects (28 projects from Poland, 11 from Sweden and 16 from England) at different stages of implementation  –  some of them were at stage  of the “project idea”, several already received financing but not started its project implementation but most of them were in different stages of project implementation.