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
Eurostat
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Overview
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Workshop 2011
Evaluation 2012
Communication survey 2012
New ESSnet strategy
• Top-down ESSnets
• Centres of Comptence
• New collaborative portal
• ESSnet programme for 2013
ESSnet Workshop 2012
Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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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 coordination
Especially projects with similar content
(Thematic workshops; support from Eurostat project
managers; Steering Groups.)
• Centres of Competence and knowledge transfer
The last link in the chain, ensuring the sustainability of
results.
• Administrative burden
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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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2012 ESSnet assessment report
• 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
ESSnet Workshop 2012
Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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2012 assessment report – findings
 Coordination problems
(“A tendency of fragmentation of ESSnet projects is still visible”)
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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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State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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2012 assessment – findings (cont.)
 Cost/benefit analysis
– “Costs/benefits of implementation are very seldom
quantified”
 Contribution to the ESS
Not 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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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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2012 ESSnet communication survey
• 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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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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2012 ESSnet comm. survey – findings
• 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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State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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Comm. survey – findings (continued)
• 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)
ESSnet Workshop 2012
Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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Comm. survey – findings (continued)
• 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)
ESSnet Workshop 2012
Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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Overview (again!)
• Workshop 2011
• Evaluation 2012
• Communication survey 2012
Plenty of input…
• New ESSnet strategy
• Top-down ESSnets
• Centres of Comptence
• New collaborative portal
• ESSnet programme for 2013
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…so what has
been done?
State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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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 Competence
3. The normal (”bottom-up”) stream remains
open
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State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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1. The ESS VIPs
ESS VIPs
(Eurostat) Vision
Implementation
projects (VIP)
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ESSnet projects
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
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State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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1. The Vision Implementation stream
ESS VIPs
(Eurostat) Vision
Implementation
projects (VIP)
ESSnet projects
• 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
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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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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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CROS – the new collaborative portal
Collaboration in research and methodology for
official statistics
CROS portal
– Research
topics
ESSnet portal
– ESSnet projects
… the one-stop shop for collaboration in Official Statistics
Learn more about it at parallel session 6 tomorrow!
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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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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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Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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ESSnet programme consolidation
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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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State of play of the ESSnet programme
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Eurostat
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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
Questions? Suggestions!
Which 2011-2012 input has not been
sufficiently taken into account?
Coffee?
ESSnet Workshop 2012
Rome
State of play of the ESSnet programme
Martin Karlberg, Eurostat
Eurostat
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