The advantages of becoming Covenant Coordinator are manifold:
- Endorsement and recognition from the European Commission.
- Large visibility on an international scale, notably through promotion of their actions on the Covenant website.
- Networking and experience and knowledge-sharing with European counterparts.
- Scientific and technical feedback on tools and methodologies developed.
- Participation in dedicated discussion groups, workshops and other experience-sharing platforms.
- Last but not least, consolidation of territorial development and strengthening of local governance.
In practice, your administration as Covenant Coordinator, has access to the password-protected area of the website ‘My Covenant’, which offers a platform to share information and key data with the whole Covenant community and to increase the visibility of your administration.
Through My Covenant, you can:
- Keep your profile but also the local authorities’ profiles associated to yours, always up-to-date;
- Invite signatories to be linked to your online profile;
- Keep track of your signatory’s progress (SEAP, SECAP, monitoring...);
- Submit a 18-month extension of your signatories SEAP submission deadline. See how to request an extension;
- Request a 18-month extension of your signatories monitoring submission deadline. See how to request an extension;
- Make your Benchmarks of Excellence (i.e. your key implemented actions) visible to the Covenant community and beyond;
- Upload and share useful resources on the Capacity sharing platform and participate in discussion groups;
- Publish your events in the agenda;
- Network with the Covenant community (through the forums, webinars, events...) and get inspired by their actions.
The extranet (My Covenant) and the public profile are synchronized; most of the information you enter in the extranet directly feeds into the public website.
