Hub&Spoke System: The New Phase of Laboratory Development

This is carried out by capitalizing and consolidating the experience gained through the first Hub&Spoke Project, during which we intended to enhance and strengthen the capacity of the administrations involved in the phases of promotion of an “aware” and “structured” participation in international cooperation interventions. Particular attention is paid to the creation of synergies and mechanisms of sharing between the Administrations and among these and the territorial stakeholders, so that they can create a stable platform of comparison for the definition of joint cooperation strategies.
For implementing the Project, a new group of five key administrations has been involved: Avellino, Salerno, Benevento, Messina and Brindisi. These administrations individually work in the project action line Ambit A, and will work together with some of the ten administrations, who took part in the first Hub&Spoke Project. The purpose is to strengthen, at territorial level, forms of collaboration between local authorities and technical actors (Ambit B).
The last phase of the Project concerns the creation of methods of solid collaboration between local authorities and technical actors (Ambit B). The last phase of the Project refers to the establishment of a cooperation between the administrations from various regions, so as to build the capacity of impact of the four regions in the Euro-Mediterranean Countries (Ambit C).
Ambit A envisages the elaboration of a Strategic Plan Paper for the international opening of the territory, as a tool to identify the strategic objectives on internationalisation. The five new administrations are finalizing the paper.
The Strategic Plan represents the result of a pathway along which the goals related to internationalisation have been first identified in the papers of the Plan existing and then grouped upon three homogeneous areas. Subsequently, by using the partecipative method of the Goal Oriented Project Planning (GoPP), inter-connections among the elements identified have been highlighted and schematised into logical frameworks.
The paper elaborated represents the result of a pathway directed to rendering the role of the administrations in the process of internationalisation more crucial and aware, and provided useful elements to guide-line the decisions on this matter, thus enhancing the experiences already gained in the past and including them in a broader well-defined path in terms of priorities.