S3 Targeted Support – Horizontal Activities Sixth meeting Madrid - Alcalá de Henares, 23 October 2019

1. Data users and data producers:
the Italian experience of OpenCoesione
TEAM OPENCOESIONE
Madrid - Alcalá de Henares, 23 October 2019
S3 Targeted Support – Horizontal Activities
Sixth meeting

2. OpenCoesione is the open government initiative on cohesion policy in Italy.
www.opencoesione.gov.it provides access to searchable data on:
 Implementation of cohesion policy in
Italy (projects financed by the European Structural Funds, the National
Development and Cohesion Fund and the National Cohesion Action Plan)
 resources planned and spending
 locations
 thematic areas
The OpenCoesione initiative
downloadable
open-format
data
The information includes data on planning and
implementing authorities, the implementation
timetable for individual projects and the associated
bimonthly series of cumulative payments.

3. OpenCoesione: administrative data
on…
PROJECTS ENTITIES TERRITORIES
Programming period
Fundings (national and EU)
Theme and type of
investment
Status (completes, settled, open, not
started)
Expected/effective start and
end date
In-depth thematic studies
on implemented projects
(Research and Innovation, Tourism,
Culture and Nature, Confiscated Assets)
Planning Body
Implementing Body
Beneficiaries
Where does the funding
go?

4. At the school of
Open cohesion

5. OpenCoesione: Where data comes
from… Data Producers
Included variable
selected for
monitoring System
for regional and
national smart
specialisation

6. Citizens
Journalists
Media
Policy makers
Researchers
Other Data users

7. Data utility for the evaluation client
Data help in expressing better evaluation
questions
i.e Research sector: a NUVAP pre-evaluation analysis based on data
on over 21,000 projects selected considering procedural information in
order to extract a sample as a basis for an in-depth evaluation
Data help in starting specific analysis
• Data Card
• Thematic focus
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PROCEDURA

8. Other Data utility for PA
• Funding Opportunities
• Tenders published
• List of Beneficiaries

9. Data utility for researchers
In-depth understanding of the meaning of each single variable
 relevance of metadata + initiatives to deepen data knowledge
Administrative data are not statistical ones and are not
released for an explicit research purpose!
Need of data integration with other sources
Team with multidisciplinary skills: policy and data analysts
Use of standardization techniques to compare data
Relevance of temporal references
OpenCoesione releases relational databases whose size is of
the order of a million records with more than 200 variables
OpenCoesione Data Study Groups – OpenCoesione Evidence
Labs launched within the National Evaluation System

10. Data re-used
https://opencoesione.gov.it/en/sollecita/

11. OPEN DATA, DATA JOURNALISM AND CIVIC MONITORING
ON COHESION POLICY IN ITALIAN HIGH SCHOOLS
plan tellfocus analyse explore engage
www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it

12. www.monithon.it
Monithon is an
independent initiative
for citizen monitoring of
cohesion policy projects
in Italy based on
open data from
OpenCoesione
CHOOSE A PROJECT ON
OPENCOESIONE
STUDY THE STORY OF THE
PROJECT
EXPLORE ON THE FIELD
DRAFT A REPORT
SHARE
CALL YOUR FRIENDS

13. www.opencoesione.gov.it
info@opencoesione.gov.it