Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 Call for Tenders N° 2016CE16BAT077 Inception Report [Written by CSIL, Centre for Industrial Studies (Italy) - In partnership with Ramboll Management Consulting A/S (Denmark) - In association with Significance BV (The Netherlands) - TPLAN Consulting (Italy)] [July – 2017] EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General and Urban Policy Directorate Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy Unit Evaluation and European Semester Contact: Jan Marek Ziółkowski E-mail: [email protected] European Commission B-1049 Brussels Directorate-General General and Urban Policy Unit Evaluation and European Semester 2017 EUR [number] EN EUROPEAN COMMISSION Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 Call for Tenders N° 2016CE16BAT077 Inception Report Directorate-General General and Urban Policy Unit Evaluation and European Semester 2017 EUR [number] EN Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union. 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Source: [Fotolia.com] (unless otherwise specified) Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 Author: CSIL, Centre for Industrial Studies Date:14 July 2017 Table of Contents 1. FOREWORD............................................................................................... 3 2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF PROJECTS DOSSIER 4 3. FINE-TUNING OF THE PROPOSAL ............................................................. 8 3.1. TASK 1 - THE CONCEPTUAL BASIS ................................................................. 8 3.1.1 Effects mapping and measurement ........................................................ 9 3.1.2 Interpretation of project success and failure .......................................... 12 3.1.3 Synthesis and conclusions ................................................................... 13 3.2. TASK 2 – PRELIMINARY REVIEW AND SELECTION ................................................. 16 2.1. Preparing 30 project summary sheets .................................................... 16 Data gathering ........................................................................................... 16 Drafting 30 project summary sheets ............................................................. 17 2.2. Projects Rating .................................................................................... 18 2.3. Proposal for selection of 10 projects ....................................................... 20 3.3. TASK 3 – EVALUATION OF 10 ERDF OR CF PROJECTS ........................................ 21 3.4. TASK 4 – SEMINAR ................................................................................. 23 Step 1 Plan ................................................................................................ 23 Step 2 Prepare ........................................................................................... 25 Step 3 Implement ...................................................................................... 27 Step 4 Employ ........................................................................................... 27 3.5. TASK 5 ................................................................................................ 27 4. ORGANISATION OF THE WORK AND RESOURCES ................................... 29 4.1. WORK PLAN AND DELIVERABLES .................................................................... 29 4.2. RESOURCE ALLOCATION .............................................................................. 32 ANNEX I – KEY INFORMATION ON 30 PROJECTS .......................................... 34 ANNEX II – REVISED LIST OF REFERENCES FOR THE LITERATURE REVIEW UNDER TASK 1 .............................................................................................. 42 Selection of most relevant and interesting papers (from the long list below) to be review under task 1 .................................................................................... 42 The full revised list of references .................................................................. 43 ANNEX III – SUMMARY SHEET STRUCTURE AND GUIDELINES ...................... 51 ANNEX IV – EXAMPLE OF A FILLED IN SUMMARY SHEET .............................. 55 ANNEX V – EXAMPLE OF A FILLED IN ENRICHED SUMMARY SHEET .............. 59 1 Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 ABBREVIATIONS CBA Cost-benefit analysis CF Cohesion Fund DG REGIO Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy EC European Commission ERDF European Regional Development Fund ESIF European Structural and Investment Funds EU European Union EU13 New EU member states EU15 Old EU member states EUR Euro ICT Information and communication technologies ISPA Instrument for structural policy for pre-accession MCA Multicriteria Analysis NUTS2 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics RDI Research, Development and Innovation TEN-T Trans-European transport networks ToRs Terms of References 2 Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 1. FOREWORD The Commission awarded to CSIL, Centre for Industrial Studies, in partnership with Ramboll and supported by Significance and Tplan, a contract to carry out a study concerning the Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund (CF) between 2000 and 2013. The objective of this ex post evaluation is to analyse the long term contribution of 10 projects in the transport sector implemented during the 2000-2006 or 2007-2013 programming periods in the European Union and co-financed by the ERDF or CF, to economic development as well as the quality of life and well-being of society. This is to contribute to the wider effort engaged by DG Regional Policy to undertake ex post evaluation of Cohesion Policy. The present Inception Report further details the proposals made in the Technical Offer, taking into account the first inputs from the Commission discussed during the kick-off meeting of the project (15 June 2017, Brussels). The Inception Report is organised as follows: after presenting the scope of the study and the preliminary analysis of project dossiers performed on the 30 projects proposed in the ToRs, the report focuses on the methodological fine-tuning of some activities with respect to the proposal. Finally, a concluding section deals with the revised work plan and resource allocation. Annexes comprise: A table providing key feature of the 30 projects; A revised list of references for the conceptual model; Revised and commented project summary sheet templates; Illustrative project summary sheets. 3 Ex post evaluation of major projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund between 2000 and 2013 2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF PROJECTS DOSSIER The core of this ex-post evaluation is the in-depth investigation of 10 major projects in the transport sector to understand and discuss their long term contribution to economic development as well as the quality of life and well-being of society. The 10 projects for case studies will be selected from a sample of 30 projects indicated in the ToR. This sample was selected by the Commission in order to include projects: implemented in EU Member States investing the most of Cohesion Policy resources both in absolute and/or in relative terms in a given (sub-) area1 in comparison to their Cohesion Policy allocation. reflecting the financial allocation among the sub-sectors; which have been operational for at least 5 years by time the evaluation was launched and have not been covered by case studies in other evaluations done by DG REGIO; concentrated on 2007-13 to ensure that most recent examples are taken into account. Figure 1. Scope of the study: 30 selected Major Projects in the transport sector a) A geographical and sectoral overview 1 Applicable to policy areas like transport or environment, which can be further down divided for sub-areas such as road, railway, urban transport or water, waste water management and solid waste management. Not necessary
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