ESSnet activity report 2014 ESSnet programme · •Proposal to the DIME (Annex 9.1) •DIME opinion...

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ESSnet activity report&

2014 ESSnet programme

Martin Karlberg (Eurostat)&

Miguel Angel Martínez Vidal (INE)

DIME 27-28 February 2013

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Martin Karlberg (Eurostat)

DIME 27-28 Februrary 2013

ESSnet activity reportMartin Karlberg, Eurostat

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9.2 ESSnet activity report

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ESSnet activity report• Workshop 2011

• Evaluation 2012

• Communication survey 2012

• New ESSnet strategy• Top-down ESSnets

• Centres of Comptence

• New collaborative portal

• Workshop 2012

• ESSnet programme for 2013 (established rather late…)


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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 coordinationEspecially projects with similar content(Thematic workshops; support from Eurostat project managers; Steering Groups.)

• Centres of Competence and knowledge transferThe last link in the chain, ensuring the sustainability of results.

• Administrative burden


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2012 ESSnet assessment report



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• 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

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2012 assessment report – (selected) findings



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� Coordination problems(“A tendency of fragmentation of ESSnet projects is still visible”)– 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

� Cost/benefit analysis

– “Costs/benefits of implementation are very seldom quantified”

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2013 assessment report (forthcoming)



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� Conducted by Sebastian Sklarß (]init[ a.g.)

� Covers projects starting, ongoing, ending (or providing deliverables) in 2012

� First draft foreseen in March 2013

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2012 ESSnet communication survey



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• 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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2012 ESSnet comm. survey – findings



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• 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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Comm. survey – findings (continued)



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• 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)

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Overview (again!)• Workshop 2011

• Evaluation 2012

• Communication survey 2012

• New ESSnet strategy• Top-down ESSnets

• Centres of Comptence

• New collaborative portal

• Workshop 2012

• ESSnet programme for 2013 (& proposal for 2014!)DIME 27-28 February 2013


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Plenty of input…

…so what has been done?

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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 remainsopen



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1. The ESS.VIPs



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• 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

(Eurostat) Vision Implementation projects (VIP)

ESSnet projects

ESS.VIPs

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1. The Vision Implementation stream



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• The ”top-down” ESSnet projects will be an important 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

(Eurostat) Vision Implementation projects (VIP)

ESSnet projects

ESS.VIPs

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• Principles endorsed by ESSC in (May 2012)

• Pilot Centre of Competence in 2013 (DWH)(Possibly additional pilot Centres in 2014)

• Modalities to be elaborated(agenda item 5 of this meeting!)• Business case/technical conditions?

• Organisational setup?

• Human and financial resources?



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3. ”Bottom-up” ESSnet projects

• All pre-2013 ESSnet projects are ”bottom-up”

• The ”bottom-up” stream is still open, but…

…priority given to the Vision Implementation Stream!



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CROS – the new collaborative portal

Collaboration in research and methodology for official statistics

… the one-stop shop for collaboration in Official Statistics

ESSnet portal– ESSnet projects

CROS portal– Research topics

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ESSnet Workshop 2012 (Rome)

• 3-4 December

• Record participation expected(>100 registered participants; 25 ESS NSIs)

• Structured around the ESS.VIP programme

• Panel discussion on Centres of Competence



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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

• Validation

• Centres of CompetencePilot 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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ESSnet programme consolidation

(See Table 1 of Annex 9.2)

• 20 projects running in 2013

– several projects (MEETS) ending in 2013

– few projects launched in 2014

• 10 projects running in 2014

+ (projects of the 2014 ESSnet programme)



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ESSnet activity report for 2012– next steps•Proposal to the DIME (Annex 9.2)

•DIME opinion towards ESSC (today!)

•Report updated following DIME opinion

•Report submitted to the May 2013 ESSC

•When the ESSnet assesment report has been finalised:

•Eurostat will make it available to the DIME (on CROS)

•Eurostat will include it as an annex to the activity report to the ESSC (if finalised in time)

DIME27-28 February 2013

Proposed ESSnet programme for 2014 Martin Karlberg, Eurostat

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Martin Karlberg (Eurostat)

DIME 27-28 Februrary 2013

Proposed ESSnet programme for 2014Martin Karlberg, Eurostat

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9.1 ESSnet programme for 2014

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ESSnet programme for 2014- projects1. Vision Implementation Stream (”top-down” ESSnets)

a) ESBRs

b) Shared Services

c) Data Warehouses


a) Knowledge Repository - Including Free & Open Source Software? (FOSS)

b) Seasonal Adjustment

c) (+ possible Centre of competence in the ESBRs ESSnet)

(3. No traditional”bottom-up” ESSnet projects)



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ESSnet programme for 2014- ESBRsPart of the ESBRs ESS.VIP project

(possibly including a Centre of Competence at a later stage)

Objectives

• Strengthening an European system of interoperable Business Resisters

• Improving the quality of the EuroGroups Register (EGR)

• Enabling efficient and secure links between national BRs, EGR and other sources (e-Services)



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ESSnet programme for 2014- ESSnet projects embedded in horizontal ESS.VIP components

Shared Services - objectives

• to put in place an architecture and related governance allowing for the sharing of services across processes and among partners within ESS

• to develop and implement core services and statistical services.

Data Warehouses - objectives

• to conduct analysis, design and implementation of ESS data warehouses… …to support the business of the ESS.VIPs(in particular on transport and price statistics)


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ESSnet programme for 2014- Knowledge Repository Centre of Competence

• Assumption: far more resource-efficient to maintain an already existing knowledge repository than to develop one from scratch.

• Scoping exercise:

• Which elements (suitable ESSnet project outputs; other elements?; FOSS?)

• Maintenance principles (e.g. events triggering updates)

• What type of activities (passive/active information management/gathering only – or helpdesk-like services to ESS practitioners?)

• Appropriate repository structure?



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ESSnet programme for 2014- Centre of Competence for Seasonal AdjustmentObjectives:

• to ensure the sustainability of the JDemetra+ software suite for seasonal adjustment(to which considerable human and financial resources have been devoted in the past!)

• to provide support, advise and training to colleagues in the ESS within the domain of Seasonal Adjustment

Composition

• a group of experts providing support, advise and training

• a group of developers (maintenance of Jdemetra+)

• a Steering Group (setting priorities for improvement requests)

• a User Group (testing of new versions and plug-ins).



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ESSnet programme for 2014– next steps•Proposal to the DIME (Annex 9.1)

•DIME opinion towards ESSC (today!)

•Proposal updated following DIME opinion

•Proposal submitted to the ESSC

•Decision on the 2014 ESSnet programme

o by the ESSC

o in May



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ESSnet programme for 2014

Comments to the proposed ESSnet programme for 2014

by

Miguel Angel Martínez Vidal (INE)


Comments to the Proposed ESSnet programme for 2014 Miguel Angel Martínez Vidal (INE)

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• Essnet top-down approach– It is important to have the roadmap of these

projects and the time planning, even if ESSC can change the priorities in the middle of process, relationship with Sponsorships, other projects, etc

– NSIs need to plan their strategies taking into account the results of these projects

– How can we fix concrete goals for such vast and long term projects? How does DIME plan to follow the right evolution of these projects?...quick wins

• Essnet bottom-up: some other?, new proposals?.



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• ESBRs: It is important that many countries go ahead together . The transfer of results to non participating NSIs must be emphasised.

• Shared services: Relationship with the stocktaking process of the SpS and ESSnet on standardisation



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• Knowledge repository:– Might there exist possible tasks of a center of

competence that cannot be tested in this pilot? Implementation of results, for example

– Is the continuity of CROS-portal the first challenge of this center of competence?

• Seasonal adjustment: the proof that the ESS can support for a long time efforts in enlarging knowledge about a subject.

• FOSS: close relationship between this project and shared services.



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