[OpenSpending] EU Budget and Spending Contract Research Opportunity

Wed Feb 25 09:39:38 UTC 2015

Hi Rufus,
am reading your info on the research opportunity below with high interest.
May I come back to you with some quick questions, clarifications:
- first of all, what is the deadline for expressing interests and sending
the required docs? (surely, as soon as possible, but still...)
- would OKF accept (small) team application or it is a call for individual
experts?
- to what extent would OKF be interested in having a series of thematic
papers on the topics listed below and enriched with infographics (where
useful) rather than having one narrative report
based on our experience, in case of orientation both journalists and
professionals prefer thematic notes to narrative reports (even if
multi-section ones)

I look forward to hearing from you
Bests,
Petra

On 24 February 2015 at 18:28, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to advertise the contract research opportunity below that Open
> Knowledge currently have available. If you are interested please email me (
> rufus.pollock at okfn.org) including both an approximate quote (or day-rate)
> and a short CV or cover letter explaining your qualifications and interest.
>
> All the best,
>
> Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge)
>
> EU Budget and Spending Contract Research Brief
>
>
>    -
>
>    Summary: produce a research report on EU budgeting and finances
>    -
>
>    Total time for the project: Negotiable - likely around 10-20 person
>    days
>    -
>
>    Timeline: Strong preference for delivery by early April (however later
>    is possible)
>    -
>
>    Output: a multi-section report suitable for publication on the web
>
> Context
>
> There is currently a substantial gap in public understanding and scrutiny
> of many aspects of the EU budget and spending. This is a major issue to
> address as understanding and accountability of public finances are of
> fundamental importance to democracy and public integrity across the EU (as
> evidenced by the problems in the recent financial crisis).
>
> The current unavailability and/or opacity of EU budget and spending data
> is a significant problem for researchers, journalists and activists who
> wish to advance an informed public conversation about public finances in
> the EU. Data is either scattered across different locations, available in
> opaque formats or hidden deep in unknown EU websites. (For an overview of
> the current situation see http://community.openspending.org/research/eu/)
> Research Project Brief
>
> Produce a summary and overview of EU budgeting process, key datasets,
> availability, inter-relationship, and structure. Produced in a form that is
> publicly usable by others including non-experts.
>
> This work can build on and extend existing work such as:
> http://community.openspending.org/research/eu/
>
> Specifically we want to produce:
>
>
>    -
>
>    [Required] A description of the EU budget process (how are budgets set
>    and agreed)
>    -
>
>       Description and process diagram for the MFF (multi-year financial
>       framework)
>       -
>
>    [Required] Overview of where money comes from and how mechanism works
>    -
>
>       Basic funding mechanism
>       -
>
>       Which member states etc
>       -
>
>    [Required] Overview of where money flows to. This should include 1-2
>    page description of main "funds" and areas of expenditure including:
>    -
>
>       Links to (detailed) data sources if any
>       -
>
>       Description of efforts to obtain detailed data so far (e.g. FoI
>       requests, EU data releases) and their timeline
>       -
>
>       Description of decision-making process over expenditure
>       -
>
>    [Desirable] Summary of keey research / investigations so far (e.g. FT
>    investigation of structural funds, academic research)
>
>
> NOT required
>
>    -
>
>    Any detailed financial analysis of current expenditures
>
>
> Other requirements:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Final report prepared in "markdown" format. (If you do not know what
>    markdown is do not worry - it easy to convert from word or similar to
>    markdown)
>
> Appendix
>
> This appendix lists some of the key datasets related to EU spending and
> budgeting of which we are already aware.
>
> Dataset
>
> Type
>
> Comments
>
> EU Budget - Annual
>
> Budget
>
> Multi-annual Financial Framework
>
> Budget
>
> Financial Transparency System (spending under the EU Commission)
>
> Spending
>
> FTS contains all spending executed by the European Commission
>
> Regional Funds - Structural Funds & Cohesion Funds
> Spending
>
> Data on Structural Fund payments are of significant interest to
> journalists, but the barrier of entry is currently high as the data is
> being published by member states in various formats.
>
> Agricultural subsidies (CAP)
>
> Spending
>
> Contracts (Tenders Electronic Daily)
> Spending
>
> TED contains all official EU contracts but also all major major contracts
> (greater than 100k) by EU member states. Again whilst important and
> interesting (especially  to journalists) this is probably a lower priority
> dataset.
>
>
>
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