Rome: Inter-regional Workshop on the Processes for the International Opening of Territories

The Inter-regional Workshop can be considered as the continuation of the specific sessions of exchange held by the regions involved in the project “Benchmarking of Regional Strategies and Organizational Models for Governing Cooperation and Internationalization Processes”, and represents an occasion for sharing the results of a common initiative which has lasted for several months.
During the workshop and on the basis of the benchmarking results, the needs of the regions as well as the organizational innovation actions will be highlighted, in particular those which have been developed to promote the international opening of territories. In this regard, the technical feasibility study of the permanent inter-regional workshop of technical assistance to the regions will be elaborated for supporting the government of cooperation and internationalization processes.

The programme implies two working days in which the seven Southern Italian regions will take part together with two North-central regions (Emilia Romagna and Friuli Venezia Giulia) and three European regions (Wallonia in Belgium, Cantabria in Spain and the PACA region in France) which are also involved in the acknowledgement procedure.
 

•  Focus A. Information system for the control and evaluation of the processes of strategic and operational management
• Focus B. The prospects of the integrated regional strategy: organizational solutions and criteria of instrumental integration

The project aims at supporting each Italian region in an integrated manner in re-organizing the relation strategy / organization and in finding the most adequate organizational solutions for the achievement of the strategic objectives which the regions intend to pursue in light of multilevel governance. The project is structured as a system action with the active involvement of all Southern Italian regions and three European regions (Cantabria, PACA and Wallonia).

The analysis carried out in the seven Southern Italian regions has “taken a photograph” of the current - actual and non-formal - regional organizational set-ups, the methods for managing processes and the related distribution and classification of the existing competencies by emphasizing shared strengths and criticalities.
Following the presentation of the project, every region will outline their own experiences. In the afternoon session on the first day, parallel working sessions will be presented: