Zarządzanie projektami współpracy ponadnarodowej w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Kapitał Ludzki – studium przypadku

Realised since 2004, the projects apply to an extremely diverse area of support for every fi eld of human activity and, taking into consideration the financing source, the majority of them are currently cofinanced by EU funds as part of, among other things, the regional development policy. The process of project planning and realisation is directly related to project management which is periodical i.e. it is a closed entirety consisting of repetitive phases and stages. In relation to the above there is a possibility to formulate principles, ways of planning and realising a project. What are the characteristics of supranational cooperation projects? The most important factor is that, apart from a project benefi ciary, there is a partner without whom we would be unable to realise activities that require partnership. Another characteristic is the so-called added value, understood as the objectives of a project and concrete products and results possible to be achieved only through supranational cooperation which would otherwise be unable to be realised by implementing projects with a national range only. For the purpose of this article the author, as an example of such a project, selected a project realised as part of PO KL entitled “A Change in the Way of Thinking as a Key to Social Integration”.