Exchanges take the form of one or more targeted study visits, where 1-5 civil servant(s) from an EU Member State authority will be embedded in an EU peer administration from a few days to 3 months taking part in meetings, workshops, preparations of reports, analyses or strategies. For each exchange, a detailed programme will be defined between the host institution, guest civil servant(s) and SG REFORM. The project could entail a series of study visits as well as workshops to enlarge the number of possible stakeholders. In-person events could be combined with online meetings between visits.
The civil servant(s) participating in the exchange will agree on the preparation of a final deliverable, such as a report or study, to be described in the TSI request for support to be submitted.
Potential methods of collaboration through PACE could be:
As a host institution, you prepare a project concept and invite other Member States to join in a co-creation effort to deliver a concrete outcome.
As a sending institution, you define a project, initiative or reform you wish to get help to implement from peer institutions, and you identify a host institutions in other countries.
Identifying an existing TSI project of interest to your institution, and request support to deepen your knowledge on the specific reforms carried out as part of that project through study visits. This can also be done as a multi-country project of several Member States interested in the same TSI project. Examples of TSI projects can be found here.
The implementation of the exchanges should ideally take place during the 12 months following the selection of projects by the TSI Board and adoption of the Financing Decision, i.e. indicatively between March 2026 and March 2027.
