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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Duration: 36 months Lead Partner: The Baltic Institute of Finland Partners: Bologna, IS Fyn, Kaunas, Sheffield, St. Petersburg, Tampere, Tartu, Trento, Turku, Vaasa,Vilnius Geographical coverage: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, UK Implementing agencies: City/Municipality Administrations Donor contribution: 720 000 EUR Budget: 1 314 000 EUR Starting date: January 2005

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Objectives to support and facilitate development and piloting of innovative and advanced local eGovernment actions and strategies through interregional cooperation between European cities and municipalities on three subject areas: 1) eManagement: development of efficient online services and processes within city administrations,; 2) eServices: development of innovative public online services targeting at local citizens, smart card applications, mobile services,; 3) eParticipation: enhancing participation of citizens in local democratic decision-making through Internet,;

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Objectives Awareness Raising: As a cross-cutting issue, innovative methods and tools to raise public awareness and stimulate citizens participation and interaction online in the local policy-making will be developed. To provide an effective and sustainable interregional cooperation and network of contacts between partner cities to ensure maintenance and continuation of project results, flow of information and acceleration of new joint project initiatives.

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Key activities Focus on development, piloting and finalising of innovative public services provided by the partner cities and municipalities on three subject areas eManagement, eServices and eParticipation Development and piloting of new innovative public awareness raising tools, implementation of information distribution strategies and local campaigns as well as publishing studies and reports on eGovernment actions in Europe and key results of the project components. Capacities and knowledge of local policy-makers, officials and experts on design and management of local eGovernment actions will be enhanced through extensive training, study tours, consultancies. A follow-up strategy to ensure sustainability

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Expected outputs action plans for the components and involved partners, joint training seminars and study tours, electronic document management system for city administration with pilot activities on interactive procedures, integrated databases, integrated information systems, paperless office applications.

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Expected ouputs innovative citizen's smart card applications for public services with pilots on access control, ID card, integration with web-services, mobile public service applications, portal for eParticipation, public awareness strategy with local campaigns in each partner city, a follow-up strategy

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Project management and coordination Lead Partner Everyday project management tasks, reporting, consultations and communication with the Interreg III C North Secretariat, representing the partners towards the donor in all issues, negotiations on changes in work plans and budgeting. Local coordinators responsible for local project management, reporting, practicalities, book-keeping, auditing, experts

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Project management and coordination Steering committee: -to monitor project progress, -ensure coordination and linkages between the partner cities, other agencies and relevant initiatives, -assist in resolving any obstacles and promote sustainability all partners represented meets every six-months at progress review meetings rotation principle: chairperson and location

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Information distribution and publicity measures -publicity requirements defined by the EU/Interreg III C -applied in all project communication including web-sites, project documents, press releases, hand-outs, publications etc. -on the title page of the project publications and websites the following information should be displayed: a. The official EU emblem including text 'Project part-financed by the European Union' http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/sources/graph/embleme_en.htm b. Official Interreg III C main logo Hyperlinks to www. interreg3c.net andamp; http://europa.eu.int/inforegio d. The eCitizen project logo

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Information distribution and publicity measures The project has a web-site www.baltic.org/ecitizen where all general project information will be published. The partner organizations may publish information on local project related activities in their own web-sites. This information should be always copied to the LP and links to the local web-sites should be published in the general project web-site. The Interreg III C technical Secretariat should be provided with links to the project related web-sites and published information.

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© 2004 THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND Information distribution and publicity measures The project web-based moodle environment is available in the address https://moodle.baltic.org This eCitizen moodle environment is a key project management tool for the project partners. All necessary project material, schedules and communication is concentrated to this environment. All the partners will have their own codes to access the pages, add partner information and participate in the communication.