Project Summary

This project, together with other two strategic projects, should jointly tackle the IPA ADRION supported action - Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement the EUSAIR also by supporting its governance mechanisms. It will support and facilitate the functioning of EUSAIR governance structure and increase the impact of EUSAIR actions in the Adriatic and Ionian region and contribute to Adriatic-Ionian cohesion by addressing a wider population, boosting regional policy learning, and encouraging multi-level governance approaches. The overall objective of the project is facilitation and enhancement of strategic project development to support the cooperation and governance of the Adriatic and Ionian region and EUSAIR implementation. This project should provide a quality and efficient organizational and methodological framework for the selection of relevant key strategic ideas based on existing EUSAIR flagships and development of the framework for the implementation formats (IFs). It will also facilitate the preparation of project proposals for each strategic implementation format accompanied by the facilitation of the mapping process. Finally, this project will enable the capitalization and performance assessment of project proposals’ development process. The whole EUSAIR territory and its stakeholders will benefit from successful implementation of this project and produced outputs. Its implementation represents a dynamic transnational approach and collaboration in a multi- stakeholder setting. This new approach shall ensure that the policy-level actors and the ground-level actors meet, discuss, learn from each other, and together create multi-level solutions for the challenges they chose to jointly collaborate on for the sake of the whole Adriatic and Ionian region and its overall enhancement.