Quick appraisal of "Sistema de suministro desde el embalse del Cenajo a la Mancomunidad de Canales del Taibilla"

The project under assessment concerns the construction of an aqueduct in order to divert water from Tajo-Segura Channel onto the Cenajo reservoir and to the water purification plants of Sierra de la Espada and of Campotéjar. The main objective is to improve water quality rather than quantit

Overcoming obstacles in border regions:Train and qualify in your country, work in another

Galicia y el norte de Portugal son pioneros en facilitar el reconocimiento de cualificaciones para los solicitantes de empleo en toda la Unión Europea (UE).A Galiza e o Norte de Portugal são pioneiros a nível da UE em matéria de esforços para facilitar o reconhecimento das qualificações dos candidatos a empregoGalicia and North of Portugal are pioneering efforts to ease qualification recognition for job seekers throughout the EU

Spain-Portugal, case study Ex post evaluation of Cohesion Policy programmes 2007-2013, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund (CF)

No specific (sub-) priority or project code was used to quantify which projects specifically focused on “capacity building”. Instead, the focus was to explore the ways which “capacity building” was enhanced in different thematic domains, such as innovation, environment, administrative capacity etc. This approach was informed by stakeholders interviewed for the Spain-Portugal programme, including the JTS, who clearly stated that the respective priorities contribute transversally, in different ways and extents, to developing “capacity building” across the border. From the outset, it is important to emphasise that the historical, cultural, socio-economic and territorial context of the “border” between Spain and Portugal poses a number of “barriers” to cooperation for the CBC programme. A key finding to emerge from the evaluation is that the CBC funding has really had a significant impact in changing the mentality of stakeholders on both sides of the border. The result has ensured that the “border” is no longer viewed as much as a “barrier” as it once was but rather as a way in which common issues and challenges can be tackled. The Spain-Portugal programme has made significant achievements which have had a range of impacts. In particular, stakeholders stressed the ways in which the Spain-Portugal programme had enhanced “capacity building” through the development of “softer” elements of cooperation such as trust, networking and joint working. Such qualitative elements of the programme are harder to “measure” and so there is a need for more tailored indicators developed specifically to capture the value of the cross border programmes

Autovía del Oliva Eje diagonal intermedio Úbeda - Estepa. quick appraisal report

The Autovía del Olivar, also called Eje Diagonal Intermedio, consists in the upgrade and new construction of an interregional highway corridor of 170 km length, connecting Ubeda to Estepa. The project will improve road transport and accessibility between the populations and main cities located in the Córdoba and particularly Jaén provinces; overall the traffic to and from these territories and the ones in the central and northern part of the Andalucía region are expected to benefit from this investment