ASTRALE GEIE - Your Monitoring Team -

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ASTRALE GEIE- Your Monitoring Team -
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The partners
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Organisation
EC / Nature and Biodiversity Unit (B2 Thematic)
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Purpose of the Monitoring Team

• Why a Monitoring Team?
• LIFE projects cover a broad spectrum of themes
• a high number of active LIFE projects
• limited internal human resources at the European
  Commission
• What is the role of the team?
• assistance to European Commission
• advice to beneficiaries
• but not to make decisions on the Commissions
  behalf and not involved in the management of
  financial resources

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Monitoring Assessment

• Assist the Commission with monitoring
• and assessing ongoing LIFE Environment projects
• Report evaluations
• Visits to projects at least once a year
• Technical verification
• Ex-post evaluations

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Support

• Provide support to LIFE beneficiaries
• assistance and advice to projects on reporting,
  the Common Provisions and other issues
• act as a technical interface
• encourage exchange of experiences and stimulate
  creation of thematic networks
• But we are advisors - the Commission is NOT bound
  by our opinions!

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Dissemination

• Assist with the presentation and
• dissemination of LIFE projects
• for newly selected projects
• for the wider public
• for thematic networks
• for the media

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Capacity of the team

• Regional representation and presence
• Old and new MS
• Cross cutting expertise in relevant topics
• A central team for QA and coordination
• One project one monitor
• But one monitor up to 20 projects!

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Working with the Monitoring Team

• Always keep the Monitoring Team informed
• Always send one copy of everything that goes to
  the Commission to the Monitoring Team
• Send a draft copy of reports to the Monitoring
  Team
• But note - the Monitoring Team provides support
  our approval does not mean acceptance by
  Commission!