Positive and negative experience of implementation

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INTERREG IIIA Conference "United by Borders"
24-25 September 2007 Reval Hotel Latvia, Riga

• Positive and negative experience of
  implementation
• Interreg IIIA North priority Measure 1 project
  Development of Hereditary Cancer Prevention
  Measures in Estonia and Latvia (HeCaPrev)
• by Aiga Petkevica, Project Co-ordinator

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Tasks of the presentation

• To give short overview of the project
• To provide positive experience of the project
  implementation
• To share problems (challenges) of the project
  implementation

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Partners and budget

• Lead partner
• Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital
  (PSCUH)
• Initial partner
• Estonian Genome Project Foundation (EGPF)
• Invited partner
• Tartu Oncology Clinic (TOC)
• Budget
• 680 998 EUR, incl. 510 748,50 EUR ERDF funding
  and 170 249,50 EUR National co-financing
• Project duration
• July, 2005 November, 2007

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Aim of the project

• To improve life quality in Latvia (LV) and
  Estonia (EE) by developing effective population
  based hereditary cancer (HC) screening and
  management system model and combating hereditary
  cancer in border regions.

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Work Packages of the project

• 1 WP Management and coordination
• 2 WP Hereditary cancer screening and management
  pilot-project
• 3 WP Development of hereditary cancer
  consultation and management centres
• 4 WP Education and information measures
• .

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Positive experience during implementation

• 1. Implementation of activities / financial flow
  
• Regular meetings serve as basis for involvement
  of project staff, allows to follow time schedule
  and take quick decisions
• Successful project extension in time, budget
  changes, as also procedures due to change in
  legal status of project partner
• Telephone conferences as instrument /
  alternative to encourage partners for joint
  discussions and decisions (also savings on
  travel, meeting expenses)

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Implementation problems (challenges)

• 1. Implementation of activities / financial flow
  
• Project partner (EE) funding problems, which
  caused delay in project implementation (WP2)
• Delays in project activities mostly because of
  administration issues (procurement procedures,
  internal organization processes always take more
  time as planned)
• In project activities more actual staff involved
  than planned (procurement, personnel division
  staff)
• hard to motivate for meetings project partners
  (overload of staff, overlapping of other events,
  meetings, hard to find date suitable for all)

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Implementation problems (challenges)

• 2. Reporting, auditing
• Staff cost calculation requirements, which make
  the main reason in reporting delays
• Not clearly defined and changing requirements of
  auditors. Every step in project you do, you
  always think how it will be interpreted by
  auditors

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Thank you for your attention!

• Contact information
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