ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | TELECENTRE EUROPE
Strategic overview
The new Board elected in February 2015, assisted
by the Managing Director, carried out a mid-term
review of the strategy adopted in 2013 until 2017.
While revisiting the feedback collected from the
Advisory Board and members, it was evident
for the need of a more targeted and simplified
communication of our advocacy targets to external
audiences, as well as for increased opportunities for
members’ horizontal cooperation (peer learning,
knowledge exchange, funded projects).
its 2-year mandate, as illustrated in the chart below.
Therefore, Telecentre Europe will continue running
flagship campaigns (from GOW to e-Participation),
helping members to develop the capacities of their
e-Facilitators and to align their training programmes
to European standards, and exploring the last sociodigital innovation trends, while it will explicitly focus
its efforts on two sensitive social issues of foremost
importance: youth employability and refugees
integration in European societies.
As a result, 6 strategic priorities were identified to
guide the advocacy efforts of the organisation during
For the development of our community, new
candidates who can make a difference will be invited
to join the network, while our service offer is pulled
out and we facilitate more partnerships and funding
opportunities to members.
All these changes are reflected in a recently released
Strategic Roadmap 2015-2017: in Pillar 1 (Education
& Training), Pillar 2 (Advocacy & Campaigns) and
Pillar 3 (Research & Social Innovation) for the
strategic priorities, and in Pillars 4 (Community
Development) and 5 (Sustainability & Funding) to
give answer to members’ interests, as well as in our
Operating Grant workplan 2016.
Being the above strategic priorities rooted in the
5-pillar strategy and sustained by it, they are also
correlated with different projects and initiatives
carried out by the organisation with the help of its
members.
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