About this learning event

The CEF Coordinators are one of the pillars of the governance of the organization and have an important role in achieving the Strategic Direction 2022-2026 with a higher goal to contribute to sustainable development by supporting the transformation of public institutions into learning organizations. This event is their bi-annual gathering for knowledge sharing, team building, and joint planning.

As the number of complex transnational challenges grows continually, there is visible need to address them together through partnerships and collective action. Solving these challenges requires learning, adaptation, cooperation, and distribution (Kapucu, Beaudet, 2020). At the meeting we will identify some of the pressing regional challenges arising from the consequences of climate change and the need to transit to a more sustainable way of living.

Organizations and networks are governing systems that enable collective action (Kapucu, Beaudet, 2020). This view is essential to develop systems-level perspectives, or to understand the self as just one part of a larger, relational network that is constantly in motion. At the meeting a framework of collaboration will be presented that describes how different network tools can be used to strengthen capabilities of the public institutions and their employees.

The framework for the development of the network of the CEF Coordinators embraces three strategic and human-centric focuses – development of human capital, institutional transformation into learning organization, and agile governance for sustainable future. It puts the accent on building trust and developing mature relationships to advance the Network of CEF Coordinators to an ecosystem. This means enabling multi-stakeholder value co-creation and allowing knowledge sharing and exchange to become the accelerator in the capacity development of public institutions in a complex world.

The framework envisages moving the cooperation with the CEF Coordinators from individual projects and activities into consistent collaborative relationships and co-creation of learning initiatives, joint projects, and development interventions. It embraces the fact that for a co-creation to emerge high level of maturity of the relationship must be achieved to answer challenges of the environment that the public institutions are facing today (e.g. climate change, financial instability, lack of transparency).

This concept will be the central content of the workshop with the aim that the participants understand it, experience it, and take it into a phase of planning the next steps through learning and knowledge sharing.

What will you learn

• Deepen the understanding of the concept for the development of the network of the CEF coordinators (draft prepared by the CEF)
• Experience developing and deepening working relationships from cooperation to collaboration, to co-creation to ecosystem for collective action
• Discuss the importance and practical ways of transitioning from cooperative to collaborative relationships within the CEF constituency
• Co-design new mechanisms for interaction within the network
• Envisage together the future roles of a CEF Coordinator
• Assemble a leading team of the network

Who should attend

CEF Coordinators from Central Banks, Ministries of Finance and Tax Administrations from the CEF Constituent institutions; other selected officials from line ministries

Faculty

• Natasha Ilijeva Acevska, Senior Officer, Leadership and Learning Ecosystems, CEF
• Ivana Angelova, Specialist, Leadership and Learning Ecosystems, CEF
• Ladeja Godina Košir, Founder and Executive Director, Circular Change 
• Dr. Janez Potočnik, former EU Commissioner for the Environment, Co-chair of UNEP, International Resource Panel (TBC)
• Stephen Gianotti, Founder of the Woodland Group; TEDx Speaker

Partners

This event is delivered as part of the Greening Human Capital of Public Institutions of the Western Balkans project implemented by the CEF and supported by The Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy and the Climate Change Fund of Slovenia.

Partners

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