To address the objectives listed above and provide answers to the key question, this Work Package primarily applies the following methods:
- Analysis of Policy Trails: This will be done through the following methods
- Documentary analysis: This will involve examination of policy documentation from local, regional and national levels (including within the relevant industrial sector) relating to the 15 specific policy trails. Documentation on each will be prepared in a "trail fiche" (folder). For each policy trail case, an analysis of the relevant policy environment will be prepared. This will prove essential foundation for the interviews to be conducted in the interviews with policy actors for the next step.
- Interviews: For each of the policy trails, approximately five interviews will be conducted with key "actors" (public officials, enterprise managers, representatives of relevant public agencies such as colleges, social partners including trade union representatives. (There will be approx. 75 interviews in all.) The interviews will be conducted and catalogued in a standardized way.