Il 18 novembre 2021 si è tenuto un incontro tra i referenti dell’iniziativa OpenCoesione e il Ministero della salute della Repubblica della Macedonia del Nord, nell’ambito dell’iniziativa Open Government Partnership. La sessione di lavoro - uno scambio di buone prassi - ha visto, inoltre, la partecipazione del responsabile dell'OGP del Pandemic Action Network e del responsabile dell'Open Contracting Partnership per Europa dell'Est e Asia Centrale.

1. The Italian open government strategy on cohesion policy
18 November 2021
Open Government Partnership – Republic of North Macedonia
Simona De Luca
Evaluation Unit
Department for Cohesion Policy
Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy
Gianmarco Guazzo
Team ASOC
Department for Cohesion Policy
Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy

2. Cohesion policy aims at reducing disparities
In Italy and in Europe
All over Italy (although mostly in
the South) in many different policy
sectors in order to reduce
disparities, attract business and
enhance opportunities and the
quality of services.
Cohesion Policy can be
considered an example of any
public investment policy
More developed
regions
Transition regions
Less developed regions

3. Cohesion policy: 14 years of investments
Gross planned resources in Italy across programming periods (EU and
national budget)
• 2007-2013: 89 Bn €
• 2014-2020: 140 Bn € including agricolture and poverty
•2021-2027: 42 Bn € (only EU structural funds and resources, co-financing
negotiation in progress)
→Cohesion Policy funded few projects related to the Health sector,
although there are several projects concerning, for example, the
Territorial Health Networks, the use of innovative solutions in the
field of biomedicine, the telemedicine, etc.
→On the other hand, the outbreak of the pandemic with its
consequences has placed the issue of health in a higher position on
the government’s agenda, with the consequent planning of more
cohesion policy resources to be directed into the programming
period 2021-2027.

4. OpenCoesione initiative

5. An open government strategy on cohesion policy
Since 2012 in Italy

6. Adaptation of
Open government diagram
by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lage
released under Creative Commons
Attribution terms

7. Open Data licence
Information about projects
undertaken for implementing regional
policies:
• description
• funding (amount and sources)
• locations
• thematic areas
• public/private subjects involved
• deployment timing
200+ variables for each project in
open data section (CSV)
+ access via API
The web portal: www.opencoesione.gov.it
Data updated every two months
31 dec 2020: more than 1,6 million of projects
for approx 186 billion of euros of public funds

8. Health and innovation in Cohesion Policies
monitored by OpenCoesione
In Italy, since 2007 about 3.2 Bn EUR
have been leveraged, from the ERDF
(European Fund for Regional
Development) and DCF (Development
and Cohesion Fund).
These funds include investments in
hospital infrastructures, mainly carried
out in the 2007-2013 programming
period, and for the purchase of
healthcare equipment, medical devices
and vehicles.
From the total, 858 Mio EUR supported
innovation processes, including the
development of territorial health
networks, the digitalization of health
treatments, including among others, the
Electronic Health Record, telemedicine
and remote assistance.
In OpenCoesione have been identified the operations related to these sectors: 338 operations related to the
development and consolidation of the Territorial Health Networks, 133 operations concern information systems
and the Electronic Health Record and 17 operations dedicated to telemedicine and remote assistance.

9. Reuse and participation:
> At the School of OpenCohesion
> Monithon

10. ASOC engage High School students and teachers in civic monitoring researches to
discover how public money is spent.
The project promotes the principles of aware citizenship, encourages responsible use of
ICT, including open data, and social media, fosters civic monitoring of public funding,
also aiming to implement and transfer innovative practices at European level,
strengthen the educational sector, build a community of active and aware citizens,
improve civic engagement, promote the acquisition of digital skills and key
competences among the students.
At the School of OpenCohesionl (ASOC) is
an innovative interdisciplinary educational
project aimed at high school students.
By working on a storytelling research
based on cohesion projects, they
experience how cohesion policy affects
their territories.

11. ASOC contents translated
ASOC is an international initiative too.
The project’s model, materials and tools are ready for use.
The educational contents are available in English, Italian,
Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan
… and soon they will be released in French and German.

12. ASOC monitoring researches on Health sector
In several cases, students monitored projects directly or
indirectly related to Health (e.g. research and innovation projects
on biotechnology, social inclusion projects for frail people, etc.).
Realization of the digital infrastructure and telemedicine, which intends to monitor, improve
and speed up the health system, through online medical bookings and prescription of medicines,
supporting at the same time the maximum diffusion and use of new technologies.
➢ The Team "Health in Net" of the A. Righi Institute of Taranto
Clinical knowledge on action: an open source web-based platform for integrated cardiologic
data collection, dedicated to the e-health sector with the aim of designing a CliKOn web-based
and open-source software platform that is based on the paradigm of personalized medicine and
more precisely on the management of clinical and health data in the field of clinical cardiology.

13. Monithon.eu

14. www.opencoesione.gov.it
info@opencoesione.gov.it
@opencoesione
www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it
www.monithon.eu