
Robin Smail
Robin Smail Training & Consultancy
EU Structural Funds
External Expert
Professional experience
Robin Smail (UK/IE) has nearly 30 years experience of working with regional economic development and EU Structural Funds and currently runs his own consultancy-training company, working across the EU. An economist by training, he worked in the Evaluation Division of the Scottish Development Agency / Scottish Enterprise, with responsibilities in the field of project and investment appraisal, as well as the regeneration of a post-industrial region of Scotland. In the 1990s, he worked as a national expert inside DG Regional Policy looking after technical assistance for the ENVIREG programme of EU co-financed investments in waste water, solid waste and water supply infrastructure. He was subsequently the Director of the Yorkshire & Humberside representative office in Brussels and later Associate Director with a leading communications company (Hill & Knowlton, Brussels). Robin worked for EIPA from 2003 to 2011. As an Expert in EIPA, he published the Handbook “Managing Structural Funds”, and developed trainings on all aspects of the Funds, including the appraisal and evaluation of public capital investment projects and cost-benefit analyses. Robin still teaches macroeconomics across the European institutions and beyond.
Previous courses given by Robin Smail
- Using REACT-EU and the RRF while Implementing the New Structural Funds Programmes, 2021-2027
18-01-2021 - Online - Financial Management and Control of EU Structural Funds: REACT-EU and the New Draft Regulations 2021-2027
25-11-2020 - Online - Cohesion Policy Project Appraisal standards in 2021-2027; Using CBA; The Connecting Europe Facility
04-11-2020 - Online - Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes 2014-2020 and 2021-2027
21/10/20 - Online Course - Financial Management and Audit of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds
29/09/20 - Online Course - The New ESF+ Programmes: Preparing for 2021-2027 and Health Crisis Impact
22/06/20 - Online Course - Draft New Regulations for EU Structural Funds programmes and Emergency Measures 2014-2020
03/06/20 - Online Course - Preparing New Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes for 2021-2027 – Implementation Lessons from 2014-2020 and Taking forward Good Practice
12/12/2019 - Vienna (AT) - Financial Management and Control of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds: Management Verifications, the Audit Trail and the New Draft Regulations 2021-2027
27/11/2019 - Maastricht (NL) - Combining EU Structural and Investment Funds with other forms of Financial Support: Grants, Loans, Financial Instruments, EFSI and InvestEU in 2014-2020 and 2021-2027
14/11/2019 - Rome (IT) - Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes, 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 (2-day Course)
17/10/2019 - Prague (CZ) - Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes, 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 (3-day Course)
16/10/2019 - Prague (CZ) - The Draft New Regulations for Programme and Financial Management of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds – Challenges in Programming, Financial Control and Audit, 2014-2020 and 2021-2027
23/09/2019 - Maastricht (NL) - Implementing the New Regulations for EU Structural Funds programmes in 2021-2027 — Programme Preparation, lessons learnt, and the new OMNIBUS regulation
22/05/2019 - Prague (CZ) - Financial Management and Audit of EU Structural and Investment Funds — Moving from 2014-2020 to 2021-2027
08/05/2019 - Maastricht (NL) - The New Regulations for EU Structural Funds programmes 2021-2027: The new OMNIBUS regulation and challenges for Preparing and Implementing new Programmes
19/03/2019 - Vienna (AT) - Implementation Lessons from EU Structural Funds programmes 2014-2020 and the Draft New Regulations for 2021-2027
06/12/2018 - Vienna (AT) - Financial Management and Audit of EU Structural and Investment Funds
28/11/2018 - Maastricht (NL) - Combining ESIF and EFSI or not? Choices for EU Co-Funding Infrastructure and SME Support Operations
08/11/2018 - Brussels (BE) - Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes, 2014-2020: (2-days Seminar)
18/10/2018 - Prague (CZ) - Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes, 2014-2020: (3-days Seminar)
17/10/2018 - Prague (CZ) - Financial Management and Control of EU Structural and Investment Funds: Management Verifications, the Audit Trail and the new Draft Regulations 2021-2027
02/10/2018 - Maastricht (NL) - Making ESF a Success in 2014-2020: Challenges and Best Practice in Programme Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
11/06/2018 - Vienna (AT) - Programme Performance and Implementation of the EU Structural Funds Regulations, 2014-2020 – Results, Delivery Challenges, Programme Lessons, and the New OMNIBUS Regulation
23/05/2018 - Prague (CZ) - Implementing the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations
21/03/2018 - Warsaw (PL) - Good Practice for Implementing Structural Funds Programmes 2014-2020: Generating Good Projects and Ensuring Result-Orientation
06/12/2017 - Vienna (AT) - Financial Management and Audit of EU Structural and Investment Funds
28/11/2017 - Maastricht (NL)