The Compartim program is a knowledge management program within the Justice Department of the Government of Catalonia in Spain. It operates communities of practice (CoPs) composed of professionals in the justice field who voluntarily work to improve their practices. The program provides structure, funding, and expertise to help the CoPs effectively share knowledge. Over 900 professionals participate in CoPs focused on topics they select that are also aligned with organizational needs. Through monthly meetings and online collaboration, the CoPs produce resources like protocols, handbooks and videos to disseminate what they've learned. The program aims to promote informal, collaborative learning and improve professional cohesion.

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Compartim, “Sharing”
Knowledge management programme in Justice Departement of Governement of Catalonia
Workshop: 1. Learning network among operators
Country Spain
SECTION 1 Personal information
Project’s coordinator
Name: Ana Saint-Dizier
Role: Coordination of communities of practice and innovation training
Address: Carrer Ausias Marc, 40 – 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia
tel:+34-935527978 fax:
e-mail: saint.dizier@gencat.cat
Year, realization period/duration
2006-2011
Organization promoting the action/Coordinating organization/Partners and supporting organizations
Centre for Legal Studies and Specialized, the center of training (initial and continuous) and research of
the Department of Justice of the Autonomic government of Catalonia
Financial source/Organization financing the project
Public Administration: the budget of the Compartim programme is about 100.000 € and it is directly
provided by Centre of training, which is part of the Justice Department
SECTION 2 The project/service
Targets
Justice Department workers: in 2011 we have had aproximativly 900 professionals participating in
communities of practice, mainly from penitenciany services (legal experts, art formers,sports trainers,
social educators, socialworkers, TICs trainers, etc.), Courts assessment services (psychologists,
socialworkers, mediators) and Juvenil Justice (social educators, prevention technics, tehcnics for penal
execution in the community, etc.). We also work with professionals of legal specialized library and
judiciary registres, civil mediators and workers of public legal information offices.
Short description of the service/project and of its objectives
Compartim is a network of communities of practice (CoP) formed by professionals and focused on
producing knowledge in Catalan Justice Department. In that project, a CoP is a group of professionals
sharing the same professional area who get involved willingly in the process for improving their day-to-
day praxis. Compartim programme offers them:
1. a structure (official 2.0 web, rooms and conference hall for meetings, administrative management,
etc.)
2. a budget (economical bonus for the moderators of each CoP, budget for external experts and annual
conference)
3. the know how for managing CoP in a successfull way, after 6 years of experience (progressive work
plan and schedule in relation with the targets of each CoP)
The CoP choose by itself the subject to work on, but in permanent coordination with the authorities in
order the CoP’s objectives take in account Organization needs. That coherence allows Organization
gives to CoP all kind of facilities.

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The CoPs would normally meets physically once a month and keep in permanent contact via a 2.0 web
(blocs, wikis, repositories, etc), so that members increase their professional sociability and share
knowledge.
At the end of the cycle (one or 2 years), those exchanges result in a “collaborative product” (protocol,
handbook, databases, communication tools as videos, pamphlets, etc) targeted to feed all the
representants of a profession in the institution.
Compartim promotes that creative and collective knowledge management to involve the workers in
training programmes as an alternative to formal education,what is called “learning by doing”, and in
that way, to improve professional cohesion and increase work motivation, searching new solutions for
the future.
Description of the actions/activities (Indicate here the actions/activities made available within the
service/project for the final recipients, e.g. consulting actions, education, tutorship, information and
awareness actions towards institutions, research, training, monitoring, assessment, international
activities)
Compartim is focused on professional training for public workers.
The actions are on one hand the permanent activity of communities of practice, and on the other hand,
courses about group management, leadership for moderators, and about new technologies for all
members of CoPs. Once a year, each CoP organize their Conference to present publicly their product
and have a face to face debate.
Compartim is also three general meetings, with all the representants of CoPs of the programme (20 in
2011), experts in knowledge management, CoP leaders in others organization (public and private).
Compartim produce an average of 15 collaborative products a year and promote public diffusion of the
majority in digital format, thanks to the institutional web and socialnetworks (facebook, youtube,
twitter, etc.).
Skills involved and competences used on the field
For CoP moderators: leadership, good relationship with authorities and with colleagues, empathy and
capacity for synthesizing
For CoP members: motivation, professional commitment, disponibility
Success factors and difficulties observed
Success factors:
- the demand has to come from the professionals themselves
- a prepared organization that would support the collaborative project (it requires a previous
specific training for head and managers to explain the benefits of informal and collaborative
training)
- economical and human resources (incentives for moderators, coordination and administrative
office)
- a good dissemination network to make all products and actions public
Difficulties:
- lack of availability for that kind of “extra” in an economical crisis context (less workers, more
pression)
- decreasing economical resources for supporting all the project
- difficulties to keep a high level of participation and motivation in the oldests CoPs (6 years)

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Bibliography, published texts; website for further reference
General:
- MARTÍNEZ MARÍN, J.; SOTERAS, J. and VIVES, N.(coord.), El treball col·laboratiu a l’Administració,
Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2009
http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/Justicia/Documents/ARXIUS/treball_collaboratiu_compartim.pdf
- Web: http://www.gencat.net/justicia/cejfe
- Blog: http://blocs.gencat.cat/blocs/AppPHP/gestioconeixement/
CoP products:
- Recomanacions per a defensar l’informe al judici oral, Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2009
- Valoració de la mediació penal juvenil per part de víctimes i infractors, Barcelona, Generalitat de
Catalunya, 2010
- Revisió de la Guia d’avaluació del testimoni en violencia de gènere, Barcelona, Generalitat de
Catalunya, 2010
- Reflexions metològiques dels educadors socials dels centres penitenciaris entorn de l’atenció
individualitzada, Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010