Master

1.1 Theoretical Approach to the subject

• From the Marshall approach to the contemporary declination of the productive districts;
• Local systems: competitions, innovation and technological dimension
• Economic culture and dynamics of territorial intervention
• Porter's analysis and the advantages related to the new competitive systems
• Storper and the Californian school
• The influence of new technologies
• The environmental and social sustainability of the investments
• Urban planning and the development of local communities
• Incentives and businesses
• Financing systems for local investments
• Development models, currents of thought and tendencies related to decentralization

1.2 Technical and practical elements related to the design of development plan;

• Elements of territorial Macro-economic Analysis
• Identification and involvement of local stakeholders (institutions, credit institutes, businesses, etc.).
• Analysis and choice of funding policies for development actions.
• Implementation of infrastructure works at the service of the territory and of businesses

1.3 Elements for setting and evaluating an entrepreneurial initiative

• Integration: entrepreneurial initiative and the general framework of territorial development
• Business plan as a presentation tool for a corporate initiative.

1.4 Analysis of a theory of territorial development

• Analysis of territorial vocation
• Setting of a system of provision of special obligations on a local basis
• Activation of a system of local rating for businesses
• Identification of territorial infrastuctural need
• Methods and tools for the active involvement of citizens in the dynamics of territorial development.
• Analysis and monitoring of a development plan

• Direct and indirect funds, European Programmes, Structural Funds
• The legislative framework
• The multi-year financial framework
• The programming framework of the cohesion policy 2021-2027, the main news
• Conditionality in the old and new programme, from the "ex ante conditionalities" of the 2014-2020 to the "enabling conditionalities"
• The simplification measures
• The priorities of investment for Italy
• The coordination between the european semester and the cohesion policy
• Innovative financial tools: Public and Private Partnerships (PPP) post 2020, administrative reform and outsourcing tools for services based on the pay- for-success logics
• Integrated territorial planning for the 2021-2027 cohesion policy
• The re-inforcement of the coomunity-led local development
• Co-planning: public and private co-planning, Experiences in comparison with the regulatory framework; Co-planning and the third sector; co-planning for the territory and network construction; co-planning procedures.

• Direct funding: the main European programmes and announcements of the Directorate General
• Direct Funding of the EU and local authorities
• The Programmes of territorial, european and regional co-operation
• InvestEU
• Erasmus and Creative Europe
• Life
• The Horizon Europe programme

4.1 - Introduction of the cycle of the project, Planning with the Logical Framework Approach (LFA)

• Origins of the “project cycle management”
• Steps of the project cycle
• identification
• formulation
• implementation
• What is the LFA
• The analysis: the problem tree and the objective tree
• The construction of the intervention logic
• Indicators, verification sources, conditions
• Business plan and resources plano
• THE GANTT

4.2 - The drafting of a project proposal:

• The detailed planning of activities and work packages: tasks, milestones and deliverables
• diagram of Gantt;
• The Budget: eligibility of costs, general principles;
• Tender announcement: the financial allocation of the call, percentage of funding, pre-feasability and cash-flow; co-finanancing; the drafting of an activity budget and an expenditure budget; Study of budget proposals for various EU financial lines; budget balance; Exercises: Budget construction of a project, starting from a tender announcement to the project idea; Partnership agreements

4.3 - How to participate in tenders

• Reference documents: programmes, work plans, forms;
• Call for tenders versus call for proposals;
• The administrative procedures for the submission of projects;
• The development of an international and local partnership;
• The dissemenation of results;
• The administrative procedure for the project: negotiation and contract with the EU, constrains and rules;
• Institutional assets and organizational models (internal management, ad hoc structures, steering committee);
• Identification of useful information and documents: the reference Work Programme

5.1 From the proposal to the financing

• Grant Agreement: administrative and financial obligations between the recipient and the European Commission, negotiation with the European Commission;
• modality of implementation of the financed funds;
• general normative framework related to the Community Subsidies;
• structure in the Grant Agreement;
• Administrative and Financial dispositions

5.2 Managing a project

• Coordinators and partners, many responsibiities;
• The team and the project, individual and collective responsibilities;
• Co-ordinating a working team;
• The management of projects as a model of organizational innovation for companies and Public Administrations: Case Studies
• Co-ordinating the partnerships; Managing the stakeholders of the project;
• Managing change in the project; content editing; time control;
• Communicating the project; the rules of communication in project managing.
• Planning Expenses and connecting them to the project's progress
• Monitoring programmes and projects

6.1 - Monitoring of projects. tools:

• physical and financial monitoring charts
• risk monitoring charts
• Reporting
• Types of reports
• Contents
• Timing

6.2 - Project Assessment

• Scopes and types of evaluation (feasibility studies, ongoing, final and ex post evaluation)
• Evaluation criteria: relevance, efficiency, impact and sustainability)
• How to organize to assess (Planning, identification of the stakeholders, assessment budget)
• Assessment reports
• Qualitative and quantitative assessment methods

6.3 - Reporting

• Eligibility of expenditure;
• Archiving systems;
• Management of preventive budget deviations;
• Management of administrative acts and beginning of the project;
• Periodic reporting of expenses and preparation of progress reports;
• Management of relationships with partner companies;
• Final report: project closure and completion of audit trails;
• Drafting and preparation of documents for the purpose of assessment;
• methodologies for ex-ante, in progress and ex-post evaluation.
• Administrative, banking and fiscal aspects;

Each candidate of the Master is required to create a Project Work related to the themes developed in the course.

The aim of the final project is to propose one or more innovative solutions through the in-depth analysis of context variables, processes and application models.

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