The Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform in a nutshell

More than 150 regions and cities networking on growth and jobs and contributing to the EU debate on EUROPE 2020

Aims

• The EUROPE2020MP supports the diffusion of multilevel policymaking for growth and jobs by facilitating the exchange of information and good practices between local and regional policy makers,
  
• The EUROPE2020MP helps the EU and its Member Countries to address challenges and obstacles, mainly by means of monitoring exercises at the territorial levels feeding into the CoR consultative activity.

In so doing, the EUROPE2020MP contributes to fulfilling the CoR mission "…to involve regional and local authorities in the Europeean decision-making process and thus to encourage greater participation from our fellow citizens." (from the CoR's Mission Statement, 21 April, 2009).

Click here for the list of the EUROPE2020MP members.

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Political coordinators

In 2010, the CoR appointed Ms Christine Chapman (UK/PES, Member of the Wales Assembly for Cynon Valley) and Mr Nichi Vendola (IT/PES, President of the Region of Puglia) as political coordinators of the Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform. Political coordinators, appointed by political groups from among the members of the CoR, give impetus to the Platform's agenda, report on it to the CoR Bureau, present the results of the Platform's works and represent it vis-à-vis other institutions. Read more  

Tools

1) Website (http://cor.europa.eu/europe2020), as the EUROPE2020MP's main information and exchange tool. In its revised version, it is more easily accessible, more concise and focused on providing support to the ongoing EUROPE2020MP activity.

2) Policy workshops in which EUROPE2020MP members can have a straight debate with representatives of the EU institutions, external observers and experts.

3) Questionnaires and surveys, to collect information on ongoing developments at the territorial level as well the EUROPE2020MP members' views on their involvement in the Lisbon process and on the policy's implementation best practises.

4) Monitoring Reports addressed to the CoR, the other EU institutions and bodies, the local and regional authorities and the general public.

5) Thematic initiatives (such as working groups, animation of exchanges on specific topics, specific use of questionnaires and surveys), focusing on priority and emerging EUROPE2020-related issues with a view to feed into the ongoing activity of the CoR Commissions.  

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