Governance

Partnership

The partnership principle has a long tradition as the focal point for dialogue, participation and consultation on the cofinancing of policies and programmes with European funds.

The principle is based on the multi-level governance approach, which seeks to ensure the active participation, throughout all phases of fund management, of all relevant partners, both in the administrative field (including national, regional and local authorities).

as well as civil society in the broad sense (including third sector entities), as well as economic and social partners and research entities and universities.

Partnership partners play an essential role both at the stage of drawing up the strategies and programmatic instruments of the funds - through prior consultations and the public hearing procedure - and throughout the stages of implementing the funds and their subsequent evaluation, in which they participate through the programme Monitoring Committees.

In addition, the broad-based partnership is essential to ensure adequate coordination in the management of funds across the European actors and instruments in order to eliminate duplication and enhance integrated approaches among the funds to enhance synergies.

Thematic networks of European funds

Over successive programming periods, thematic or sectoral networks of European funds have emerged as a key instrument for ensuring acoordinated implementation of European funds, ensuring the complementarity of the various funds and programmes with each other, as well as with other public policies, whether co-financed by the EU or supported by national resources.

In this sense, the thematic networks play an important role as a coordination mechanism to facilitate the exchange of experiences and dissemination of good practices financed with European funds in their fields of action, as well as for the presentation and analysis of developments in Community and national policies with repercussions on the management of actions financed with European funds, and the dissemination and analysis of the technical problems caused by the application of Community and national legislation in actions financed with European funds, including that derived from the management, control and audit systems.

R&D&I Policy Network (IDI Network)

Its main objective is to coordinate the different actors of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation in order to optimise the design and development of public support frameworks for R+D+I, thus favouring the mobilisation of resources and access to funding from the European cohesion policy and, in particular, the ERDF.

National Network for the Communication of European Funds

The main objective of the Network is to promote proper coordination between the main actors involved in the transparency, communication and visibility activities of the actions cofinanced with European funds in Spain and their achievements.

Network of Urbas Initiatives (RIU)

Its objective is to be a mechanism for coordinating, promoting and supporting the management and evaluation of urban actions co-financed by European Funds and it is a necessary instrument for sharing good practices and disseminating the results of urban projects receiving European funding.

Network of Environmental Authorities

Its objective is the integration of environmental and energy principles and criteria in the management of the European Funds and in the actions co-financed by them. That is why it has become natural, under the principles of efficiency and effectiveness, to incorporate into the RAA the objectives pursued by the Thematic Network on Low Carbon Economy (REBECA). To this end, the RAA will serve as a technical forum that brings together experts and decision-makers in environmental, energy and European Funds matters.

Network of equality policies between women and men in Community funds

The Network is designed as the main forum for discussion and analysis to improve the real and effective integration of the gender perspective in the interventions co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds that are part of it (ESF+, ERDF, FEMPA, FTJ, EAFRD, FAMI, ISF and IGFV).

Spanish Network for e-Cohesion (REdeCo)