EUROPEAN URBAN I NI TI ATI VE ( EUI ) EXPERT W ORKI NG GROUP Please take your seat in one of the seating groups m arked on the flip charts on the side of the room in view of the interactive part of the session
W ELCOME AND I NTRODUCTI ON TO THE EUROPEAN URBAN I NI TI ATI VE PIA LAURILA & THOMAS de BÉTHUNE DG Regional and Urban Policy - European Commission
MEMBERS OF THE EUI EXPERT WORKING GROUP URBACT Managing Authority – Ministry of Council of European Municipalities Territorial Cohesion & Relations with and Regions CEMR Territories - National Agency (FR) EUROCI TI ES Technical Secretariat - Ministry of EC / Joint Research Centre Territorial Cohesion & Relations with European Com m ittee of the Territories – National Agency (FR) Regions Urban I nnovative Actions ---------------------------------------- Entrusted Entity - Hauts-de-France Expert appointed by the EC Region (FR) Perm anent Secretariat - Hauts-de- France Region (FR)
W HO ELSE I S I N THE ROOM? • City • Region • Member State • EU Institution • Managing Authority • Civil Society/ NGO • Other
Welcome, introduction to the aims of the session and to the EUI 15:00 – 15:15 Pia Laurila & Thomas de Béthune, EC/DG REGIO Current state-of-play: developing the EUI 15:15 – 15:30 Twan de Bruijn, Expert assisting the EC in the design of the EUI Insight into one aspect of how the EUI might work: the experience of working together with URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions 15:30 – 15:50 Giacomo Costantini, City of Ravenna (IT) Cleo Pouw, City of Rotterdam (NL) Inti Bertocchi, City of Bologna (IT) Interactive session: discussion circles on the EUI • Two discussion rounds 15:50 – 17:10 Q&A with audience and concluding remarks 17:10 – 17:30 EC/DG REGIO and Twan de Bruijn, EUI Expert
COHESION POLICY AND CITIES IN 2014-2020 I nvestm ents in sustainable urban developm ent EUR 17 billion of ERDF EUR 1,5 billion of ESF More than 960 integrated urban strategies Capacity building - URBACT III and the Urban Development Network Experim entation - Urban Innovative Actions Know ledge/ evidence for policies - Urban Agenda for the EU and ESPON – European Spatial Planning Observatory Network .
COHESION POLICY AND CITIES IN 2021-2027 I nvestm ents in sustainable urban developm ent: • Minimum 6% of ERDF • Policy Objective Europe closer to citizens Minim um requirem ents for integrated territorial/ urban developm ent: • Integrated urban strategies in place • Local bodies involved in selection of operations European Urban I nitiative – Post-2 0 2 0
EUROPEAN URBAN INITIATIVE: RATIONALE • Urban challenges will be • Support of the Urban Agenda more pressing in the future for the EU • Cities need to scale up • Need to tackle fragm entation cooperation , seek for new of support offered to cities solutions, share knowledge, deliver bottom-up evidence- • More cities to be involved based policy m aking • Need for im proved governance
EUROPEAN URBAN INITIATIVE AT A GLANCE Objectives: (1) Strengthen integrated and participatory approach to sustainable urban development (2) Provide a stronger link to EU policies, in particular to Cohesion Policy Strands of actions: (a) Capacity building: Improve capacities of cities (b) I nnovative actions: Develop transferable and scalable innovative solutions (c) Know ledge, policy & com m unication: for better policy design & implementation, urban mainstreaming, facilitate access to knowledge Creation of interaction for increasing coherence and coordination between (a) (b) and (c) Beneficiaries : all EU urban areas; upon request, support for inter-governmental cooperation on urban matters (Urban Agenda for the EU) Proposed budget : EUR 0,5 billion
CURRENT STATE-OF-PLAY: DEVELOPI NG THE EUI TWAN DE BRUIJN (EU QUEST) Expert assisting the European Commission and providing advice on the design of the EUI
THE CURRENT SITUATION • About EUR 1 7 billion managed directly by cities supporting integrated strategies for sustainable urban development in Member States funded by European Regional Developm ent Fund/ Cohesion Fund and complemented by EUR 1.5 billion from European Social Fund • ‘ Mainstream ’ Cohesion Policy investments that occur in urban areas in Member States and implemented through Operational Programmes = EUR 115 billion • Complemented by a plethora of program m es and initiatives: • URBACT, Urban Innovative Actions, Urban Development Network, TAIEX-REGIO PEER2PEER • Knowledge initiatives: ESPON - European Territorial Observatory Network, EC/Joint Research Centre, Horizon 2020, Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe, national ministries, OECD, UN-Habitat, World Bank, etc.
FOCUS AREAS • The EUI aims to increase the coordination and coherence of the current urban-related programmes and initiatives of Cohesion Policy – identified strands : • Support of capacity building • Support of innovative actions • Support of knowledge, policy development and communication • The EUI aims to strengthen the link betw een these program m es and initiatives of Cohesion Policy and wider EU policy, particularly m ainstream Cohesion Policy
PROBLEM: LACK OF COORDINATION AND COHERENCE • Beneficiaries struggle to understand who does what • Outputs are not fully capitalised upon • There is unexploited potential in the shared goals of Urban I nnovative Actions and URBACT as well as in actions of Urban Developm ent Netw ork , in actions supported by Cohesion Policy through more than 9 5 0 integrated urban developm ent strategies implemented on ground, in actions of m ainstream Cohesion Policy investments
‘Everybody is doing their bit of the puzzle, but everybody is doing it in their ow n w ay’ EUI Expert W orking Group Mem ber
PROBLEM: WEAK LINK TO WIDER POLICY • Weak link at the ‘exit-point’ of Urban Innovative Actions and URBACT projects to mainstream Cohesion Policy programmes • Weak link between the know ledge generated by the urban-related programmes and initiatives of Cohesion Policy and the Managing Authorities that could use this knowledge under the mainstream Cohesion Policy programmes
INCREASING COORDINATION AND COHERENCE • Designing of ‘EUI support trajectories’ which ensure that actions of different programmes and initiatives are implemented in an optimal manner and bring along coordination and coherence • A com m on and explicit program m e fram ew ork for the EUI • A rolling EUI w ork program m e where responsibilities for different actions are clearly defined and scheduled • Opportunities for staff m em bers in the different strands to work together • For example, creation of an internal dashboard that displays data regarding how each strand (capacity building, innovative actions, knowledge & policy) is progressing with its work
DETAILS OF ONE PROPOSED SUPPORT TRAJECTORY • Use URBACT’s Transfer Netw ork methodology to transfer a selection of innovative solutions tested by the Urban Innovative Actions • EUI approved good practice + ‘m entoring’ city + fellow cities – such action proposed to be supported under capacity building • Phase 1: understanding of good practice and tailoring down the transfer methodology • Phase 2: begin transferal and produce transfer plans + transfer diaries
STRENGTHENING THE LINK TO WIDER POLICY • EUI National Contact Points – setting up of a netw ork of specialists across the EU where each Member State has a knowledgeable Contact Point which informs cities of the urban-related programmes and initiatives under Cohesion Policy and liaises with the programme managers at the EU level • Policy entrepreneurship – identification of policy issues of interest and corresponding solutions and transferring this knowledge on well-functioning policies to policy-makers
SUPPORTING KNOWLEDGE, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, AND COMMUNICATION • Purpose is to help urban areas access and use know ledge to improve their policy development • Policy-makers are overloaded by the quantity of information - reduce inform ation overload by: • Identifying policy areas of interest • Identifying policy solutions in these areas • Carefully screening these policy solutions • Directly presenting these screened solutions
SUMMARY • The EUI will: • Increase coordination and coherence between the urban-related programmes and initiatives of Cohesion Policy • Strengthen the link between these programmes and initiatives and mainstream Cohesion Policy (and wider EU policy) • Support knowledge , policy development , and communication • It could do this by: • Increasing accountability , predictability , and common understanding – designing of EUI support trajectories – one example: transferring innovative solutions developed through capacity building networks • Establishing EUI National Contact Points • Reducing information overload by carefully screening solutions that work well and transferring them to policy makers
I NSI GHT I NTO ONE ASPECT OF HOW THE EUI MI GHT W ORK: THE EXPERI ENCE OF W ORKI NG TOGETHER W I TH URBACT AND URBAN I NNOVATI VE ACTI ONS – GOOD PRACTI CE CASE I GIACOMO COSTANTINI, Deputy Mayor for Tourism and Smart City, City of Ravenna (IT)
RAVENNA Ravenna is a middle-sized city by the Adriatic Sea Our assets: • Culture & Art / UNESCO Heritage • Sandy beaches and maritime landscape • Commercial Port and industrial district • Lifestyle and tourism
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