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ACTION 10.5

To redefine the notion of public/private cooperation, articulating the economic and legal instruments to make this possible and training professionals specialising in this sphere

Through the approval of the most pertinent legal and economic instruments, it is necessary to design a map of options that would make it possible to suitably support cooperation between the public sector and the private sector (for profit or non-profit). We start from a twofold problem of ideologisation and confusion between subcontracting or outsourcing and the scheme for public/private cooperation. Public/private cooperation must be coordinated through a system of shared discretion where all parties have something to gain (i.e., a win-win scenario), where the benefits and risks are shared, and where the creation of public value and the target goal of service for citizens are guaranteed. In order to suitably manage these public/private partnerships it is important to benefit from suitable public and private managers, professionals who are familiar with the institutional framework and the laws applicable to both sectors and who have the ability to implement these partnerships. In this respect, it is proposed that investment be made in training specialists in this sphere and in the formation of cross-disciplinary work teams which will use an overall picture to lend support to all ministries, organisations and agencies of the Government of Catalonia that wish to foster these types of partnerships. The same model must be replicated on a local scale, putting together these teams to enable them to offer this inter- and intra-administrative support.