Enabling communities of practice

This report is the final product of the Phase 1 of the project "Knowledge Sharing for Better Implementation of EU regional policy - KNOW SHARE". The report provides a condensed overview of the co-design process and puts forward a proposal for enabling the creation of bottom up communities of practice among national and regional administrations in charge of the management of European structural and investment funds. The issue of creating a community of practice for exchanging knowledge goes beyond Regional and Cohesion policy and is common to various policy areas. The innovative approaches and principles developed in this project are therefore of broader interest, and could potentially be of great relevance for other initiatives aiming at fostering knowledge sharing, collaboration and learning