1. Sound Planning and Management
Summer School
PCM for effective management of programmes and projects
under the European Social Fund 2007 – 2013
Sound planning and management: a COPs on PCM
Cagliari, Italy 11,12/06/07

2. Sound Planning and Management
1. Why to join the community on PCM
2. Approach and objectives
3. Community web environment and
roles
4. Community Activities

3. Sound Planning and Management
Why to join the community on PCM
• Exchange approaches and deal with challenges
faced by ESF programme and project managers
• Interact regulary to provide practical problem -
solving action learning sets
• Learn from and with each other
• Upgrade the specific skills base of key actors of
the new ESF

4. Sound Planning and Management
Objectives
• promote learning and knowledge creation on
sound planning and management with special
attention to Project Cycle Management;
• mainstream the lessons learnt from Equal and to
embed them in the new SF programmes
• professionalise ESF programme and project
managers across Europe on the use of Sound
Planning and Management methods

5. Sound Planning and Management
The Community Approach
Community as part of a Knowledge management system
Learning from peers
Developing mutual trust
and commitment
Sharing with others
Social networks
Social capital
From amateurs/practionners to professionals

6. Sound Planning and Management
The Web Environment www.soundplanning.eu
• Based on the new partecipative ICT tools
(web2.0 technology generation)
• Open source and Open content oriented
(reuse of contents)
• Focused on Blog
(but Fora and sycronous tools may be activeted too)
• Content Classification is based on taxonomy
(standard metadata) but also on Folksonomy (Tag
Clouds, informal/social classification)

7. Sound Planning and Management
(Some) Community tools
Individual space for short communications
(posts) concerning the personal knowledge of
the web site topic
Forum
Calendar
Weblog
Discussion area, organised on a topic base,
from each post can start a threath with many
comments
Agenda of meetings, seminars or other events
Document
Repository
Content catalogue organised on metadata
standard model

8. Sound Planning and Management
(Some) Communication facilities
Possibility to know when other user are on line.
On line
expert
User List
Presence
awareness
Availability of a question-asking facility to
request and give assistance or information and
to receive expert feedback
Address book containing information about
member area of expertise, their interests/need
On line Poll Availability of a system to build an deliver tests,
questionnaires, and on line poll

9. Sound Planning and Management
facilitates the interactions within this
community e.g. in face-to-face evens, on
line meetings and forum
Moderetor (s)
Steers the agenda of online interactions
and ensures good online practices.
Promote participation and discussions
Facilitator
Community roles
Knowledge
leaders
Experts who are net contributors of
knowledge into the community; usually
different leaders emerge for different
subtopics

10. Sound Planning and Management
Community roles
The community needs a strong committment
and requires staffing roles to support start –up
and CoP sustainable
Technology administration and support
COP animation
Content development and management

11. Sound Planning and Management
Community Activities
are oriented to the individual participation
• On line discussions and conversations
(syncronous and asyncronous)
• Face to face and on line meetings and events (3
showcasing workshops took place in Bruxelles,
Turin, Warsaw)
• Access to expertise (On line expert, FAQ)
• Community cultivation (content publishing,
animation, workgroup and tutoring)
• Blended learning on PCM (1 Summer school and
3 on line training editions are foreseen for 20
participants)

12. Sound Planning and Management
Expected Results
MA’s and designers
• Aware of good practices, initiatives, documents at
national and European level
• Aware of PCM benefits and of feasibility of
effective implementation
• Able to apply PCM key concepts and tools in ESF
programme

13. Sound Planning and Management
We are not going to create a community on
pcm, it already exists, we have to make it
grow
(The capacity Building Group)

14. Sound Planning and Management
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
For any information
Imma Citarelli icitarelli@formez.it
Sound Planning and Management
COP Community Manager
www.soundplanning.eu