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What are the Permanent Technical Panels (PTP)?

To ensure that its approach is comprehensive and that its tools are realistic, unbiased and efficient, SHARE elaborates them with the input from the PTP.

What is the PTP?

The PTP is a network of all concerned stakeholders in the Alps: legal authorities, hydropower companies,  research institutes on rivers ecology  or on hydraulic engineering, environmental associations, fishing associations...

The PTP will be active from  September 2011 to 31 July 2012.

PTP members will test and evaluate SHARE's tools and results. According to their feedback and input,  SHARE partners will adjust the custom-made toolbox that they aim to create.

What does the PTP do?

PTP members are involved at several level: specific access to SHARE results, feedback on both approach and tools developed by SHARE, steering commitee

1-Activities

Pilot case studies

SHARE approach and tools are to be tested on 11 pilot case studies. The local PTP is involved in these pilot case studies as both a steering committee and a pool of expert. The local PTP feedbacks to SHARE partners about these approach and tools.

Web platform

The web platform will be a privileged mean to communicate and work within the PTP: members have special access to SHARE's tools and resources. They are allowed to navigate restricted access areas in order to consult, complete, upload, download or comment on them.

Workshops & seminars

The network members will be invited to participate to events, notably:

Online seminars will occur regularly, depending on the evolution of SHARE's results. PTP members will learn how to use SHARE tools via tutorials, examples and trainings. They will assess the tools' efficiency, representative quality and reliability.

The first online seminars are planned for November 2010.

Direct workshops will take place in each partner country at least once. These multilateral meetings will introduce SHARE's multicriteria approach methodology (and its advancement). PTP members will have the opportunity to give feedback and directions on the development of the tools implementing this approach.

Direct workshops are planned for September 2011.

2-Work groups

To be more efficient and manageable, the PTP is divided into 6 groups.

  • 5 national PTPs: Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Germany. Their organisation is closely linked to the administrative and to the legal planning framework in each country. The working language is the mother tongue.
  • 1 transnational PTP: it will provide feedback about issues not linked to a national context, such as scientific background for the MCA, trans-border river catchments… The working language is English.

Advantages

The PTP is a win-win partnership between its members and SHARE project partners:

  • It offers access to specific information & tools:
It facilitates innovation and normative compliance;
It offers documents, educational & training activities, software, events... various ressources for free;
It promotes SHARE's multicriteria approach for hydropower & river management and smooth upgrade of decision support systems.
  • It puts together various actors involved in SHARE issues:
It enables exchanges and sharing of knowledge between specialists in different fields;
It facilitates innovation & Alpine news watch.
  • It assigns specific visibility to different stakeholders involved and to SHARE approach.
  • It collects data, comments and feedback to adapt SHARE's approach & results to local and national background and to a concrete way of management.

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