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State of play of the ESSnet programme

…and the new ESSnet strategy

ESSnet Workshop 2012 Rome

State of play of the ESSnet programme Martin Karlberg, Eurostat

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Overview

• Workshop 2011• Evaluation 2012• Communication survey 2012• New ESSnet strategy

• Top-down ESSnets• Centres of Comptence

• New collaborative portal• ESSnet programme for 2013



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Conclusions ESSnet workshop 2011(Section 10 of final report)• Bottom-up vs. Top-down approaches

Should ESSnets follow a general strategy (and if so, which strategy?) or focus on specific needs?

• Communication, collaboration and coordinationEspecially projects with similar content(Thematic workshops; support from Eurostat project managers; Steering Groups.)

• Centres of Competence and knowledge transferThe last link in the chain, ensuring the sustainability of results.

• Administrative burden



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2012 ESSnet assessment report



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• Main authors:• Professor Risto Lehtonen• Professor Beat Hulliger

• Published by Eurostat(link provided on the CROS portal)

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=KS-RA-12-017

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=KS-RA-12-017

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2012 assessment report – findings



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Coordination problems (“A tendency of fragmentation of ESSnet projects is still visible”)– within large projects– between ESSnet projects– between ESSnet and other projects– lack of exchange with other disciplines/areas

But also good examples:+ EGR and Profiling

Scientific aspects– lacking in certain “architecture” ESSnet projects

(“However, it is not necessary so that an ESSnet action must have a TTK aspect”)+ impressive in other “architecture” ESSnet projects

(as well as certain “sectoral” ESSnet projects)

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2012 assessment – findings (cont.)



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Cost/benefit analysis– “Costs/benefits of implementation are very seldom

quantified”

Contribution to the ESSNot surprisingly:+ “Architecture” ESSnet projects are generally viewed as

contributing well to standardisation/harmonisation– “sectoral” projects are assessed to have a relatively

narrow impact on the ESS as a whole

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2012 ESSnet communication survey



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• Invitation to all ESSnet portal users• Response rate < ½ % (23 / 500) Useful for hypothesis generation

• Other interesting survey initiatives(no managerial link with Eurostat)

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2012 ESSnet comm. survey – findings



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• General satisfaction (generalisable?)

• Internet fora• “interesting and useful, but…”

Lack of time, email alerts needed, lack of awareness, too many existing fora, lack of purpose.

• Suggestion: Discussion “leader” for each forum• Reflection: Continuous discussion won’t happen;

“leader” to launch discussion when needed.

• The portal should have a very brief summary on its home page about recent ESSnet activities.

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Comm. survey – findings (continued)



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• ESSnet newsletter welcomed. Suggestions:• Thematic summaries of ESSnets• New calls for proposals for ESSnet projects• What’s new: Short summaries of deliverables and meetings. • What to expect in the next few months: deliverables, meetings• Notification service on the portal, with possibility to subscribe.• First newsletter issue: Summary of ESSnets and how they fit

into the ESS strategy.(Subsequent issues could then focus on individual ESSnets and how they could be useful to different NSIs)

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Comm. survey – findings (continued)



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• ESSnet newsletter welcomed. Suggestions:• Thematic summaries of ESSnets• New calls for proposals for ESSnet projects• What’s new: Short summaries of deliverables and meetings. • What to expect in the next few months: deliverables, meetings• Notification service on the portal, with possibility to subscribe.• First newsletter issue: Summary of ESSnets and how they fit

into the ESS strategy.(Subsequent issues could then focus on individual ESSnets and how they could be useful to different NSIs)

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Overview (again!)

• Workshop 2011• Evaluation 2012• Communication survey 2012

• New ESSnet strategy• Top-down ESSnets• Centres of Comptence

• New collaborative portal• ESSnet programme for 2013



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Plenty of input…

…so what has been done?

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New ESSnet strategy(ESSC 2012/13/2/EN)

Adopted by the ESSC (24 May 2012):1. New type of ESSnet projects: ”Top-down”

projects (”Vision Implementation stream”)2. Centres of Competence3. The normal (”bottom-up”) stream remains

open



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1. The ESS VIPs



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• Focus on a few projects bringing high value added to the Vision implementation

• Results should be generic enough to be reusable in other contexts

• Measurable contribution to common ESS infrastructure and implementation of the ESS vision

(Eurostat) Vision Implementation projects (VIP)

ESSnet projects

ESS VIPs

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1. The Vision Implementation stream



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• The ”top-down” ESSnet projects will be the main instrument for collaborative work in the ESS in the ESS VIP projects

• The ”top-down” part of the ESSnet programme is part of the ESS VIP programme (for 2013: SIMSTAT and Validation … and ESBRs?)

• Same principles as for the ESS VIPs: fewer, larger projects

(Eurostat) Vision Implementation projects (VIP)

ESSnet projects

ESS VIPs

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2. Centres of Competence

• Principles endorsed by ESSC in (May 2012)• Pilot Centre of Competence in 2013 (DWH)

(Possibly additional pilot Centres in 2014)• Modalities to be elaborated

• Business case/technical conditions?• Organisational setup?• Human and financial resources?

… will be treated at tomorrow’s panel discussion!



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3. ”Bottom-up” ESSnet projects

• All current ESSnet projects are ”bottom-up”• The ”bottom-up” stream is still open, but……priority given to the Vision Implementation Stream!



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CROS – the new collaborative portalCollaboration in research and methodology for official statistics

… the one-stop shop for collaboration in Official StatisticsLearn more about it at parallel session 6 tomorrow!

ESSnet portal– ESSnet projects

CROS portal– Research topics

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ESSnet programme for 2013(Annex 3 to ESSC 2012/15/6/EN)• Vision Implementation stream

–ESSnet projects within the ESS VIPs on:• SIMSTAT (presented tomorrow morning)• Validation (presented tomorrow morning)• Centres of Competence

Pilot Centre of Competence on:• Data Warehousing

Outside the programme: ESS VIPs (such as ESBRs) and other topics within the framework of already approved ESSnet projects



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ESSnet programme consolidation

• 21 projects repsesented at this workshop– 4 projects having ended/ending in 2012– 9 projects completed in 2013+ 6 projects launched in 2013 (foreseen)• 14 projects running on 31 December 2013

(6/1/1 projects ending in 2014/2015/2016)



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The parallel sessions will now begin…

• 2 out of 3 sessions arranged around ESS VIP• Take the opportunity to learn

• where your project fits into the ESS VIP programme• what the opportunities are for future collaboration



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Questions? Suggestions!

Which 2011-2012 input has not been sufficiently taken into account?

Coffee?

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