Sustainable Food
Implementation Phase
Iván Tosics TPM
30 May 2013, Göteborg
Congratulations and welcome in the URBACT
Community of Practice!
15 Thematic Networks approved
for Implementation Phase
 More than 150 European cities
currently involved
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Implementation to date
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3 calls for proposals
2008: 19 thematic networks & 7 working groups (completed)
2010: 9 thematic networks (completed)
2012: 19 thematic networks (dvpt phase), 15 (impl phase)
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540 partners involved in approved projects
90% cities
Predominance of small & medium size cities
28 Member/ Partner states covered
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Achievements to date
1. Project level
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Thematic outputs delivered by 26 completed projects
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3800 persons involved in Local support groups (call 1 and Call 2 only)
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250 Local Action Plans delivered (call 1 only)
Intangible: new partnerships/ ways of working (ULSG survey 2011)
« 90% declare ULSG has fostered the integrated approach »
« 86% declare ULSG played a useful role in developing LAP »
« 85% foresee ULSG will continue to operate after end of network »
LAP implementation is a major issue (Mid Term Evaluation 2010)
« 20% declare having received funds from OP for LAP implement° »
« 60% declare having no secure funding for LAP implementation »
2. Programme level
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Thematic outputs (Cities responses to the crisis 2010, URBACT results 2011)
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4 Annual conferences
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First Summer University for URBACT Local Support Groups (2011)
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Capitalisation on urban experience and
knowledge
URBACT Project Results published 2011 (Projects call 1)
URBACT final conferences and events (Projects call 2)
URBACT Workstreams launched 2012
• To bring forward URBACT’s answers for integrated &
sustainable urban development to urban threats
(report “Cities of Tomorrow”)
• To identify, harness and transfer good practices from
other ETC programmes (INTERREG IVC, ESPON,
INTERACT) and relevant organisations
• To issue practical recommendations to support
European cities
A wake-up call for cities
The Cities of Tomorrow report is a wake-up call. European
cities are ripe with marvellous opportunities but these
are also under threat.
The crisis has considerably worsened the situation and
dramatically reduced the resources available to cities.
However, most of the threats are due to long term
underlying trends that started much earlier.
Significant proportions of Europe’s youth were ‘NEET’ – not in
education, employment or training – even before the current
financial and economic crisis.
In this context, business as usual is simply burying one’s
head in the sand.
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Threats (Cities of Tomorrow)
Demographic
decline
Economic dvpt &
competitiveness
under pressure
Growing
social polarisation
Depletion of
natural
ressources
Responses
6 URBACT
Workstreams
Workstream 1
Demographic
challenge
in urban dvpt
Workstream 2
Cities for more
& better jobs
Workstream 3
Inclusion
through
social innovation
Workstream 4
Workstream 5
Workstream 6
Addressing sociospacial polarisation
Sustainable mobility
& accessibility
Energy efficiency
in housing
URBACT workstreams outputs
• URBACT Tribune 2012
• Workshops in the URBACT Annual Conference
• Thematic papers and summary, May 2013
http://urbact.eu/en/urbact-capitalisation/outputs/reportscities-of-tomorrow-action-today/
Radical change in framework conditions of
development
Novelties of the present situation:
• for a number of years there will be no
economic growth
• the capacities of the public sector will be
much more limited than so far
• the tolerance level of the people (regarding
inequalities) is sharply decreasing
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Contradicting assumptions between goals
Even strategies designed within an integrated framework
lead to conflicting views
Economic growth is considered as pre-assumption for
creating more jobs while the growth paradigm is heavily
criticized from the perspective of shrinking cities.
Existing technical solutions are emphasized in handling
energy and transport problems while new service delivery
models, the inclusion of unusual suspects and smart
financing are requested against marginalization of the
youth.
Clear energy saving and emission reduction targets are
required for stimulating the demand for retrofit while the
dominance of energy considerations is heavily criticized
from the perspective of deprived areas and the fight against
socio-spatial segregation.
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New ideas are needed in planning and
governance
Urban planning and governance are key issues
which have to address the demographic, rural
(sustainability, food), energy, transport, climate,
security topics at once.
New ways of societal development have to be
found. Besides the idea of green economy there
is need for a further innovation: GREEN SOCIAL
ECONOMY.
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REGIONAL DIMENSION FOOD CHAIN
Governance related: City of
Land Use Plan
Amsterdam
Governance related: City of
Land Use Plan
Amsterdam
Public Discussion of Urban Food / Social Food topics
Governance related: City of
Public Discussion of Urban Food / Social Food topics
Amsterdam
•13-4-2015
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Governance related: City of
Public Discussion of Urban Food / Social Food topics
Amsterdam
•13-4-2015
•18
Capacity Building
Pilot Training Scheme for Elected
Representatives
70 eligible applications were received from which 30 were
selected. Venue: Brussels
6 from Italy, 4 from Spain, UK,
3 from Romania, 2 from France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal,
1 from Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Norway, Poland
• Seminar 1: 8-10 April Integrated approach (horizontal between
departments, vertical between layers of gov, geographical
between neighbourhood, city, region)
• Seminar 2: 16-18 September on participative approach,
involving stakeholders
• Seminar 3: 2-4 December on sustainability and change
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Capacity Building
National Training Schemes for Local Stakeholders
1-2 seminars/country, national language, for ULSG members.
 Czech Rep – Slovakia: Brno, 20/21 May 2013
 Denmark-Finland-Norway-Sweden: Malmö, 29/30 May
 France-Belgium: Paris, 11/12 June
 Germany: Berlin, 27/28 June
 Greece-Cyprus: Athens, 6/7 June
 Hungary: Budapest, 9/10 May
 Italy-Switzerland: Rome, 23/24 May
 Poland: Warsaw, 16/17 May
 Portugal: Lisbon, 6/7 June
 Romania: Bucharest, 21/22 May
 UK-Ireland: London, 6/7 June
No date yet: Est-Lat-Lit, Neth-Belg, Spain
DAY 1
Estimated time
Topic
09.00 – 09.30
30 min
09.30 – 10.00
REGISTRATION
Opening
Welcome by the Host Institution, Trainer and Facilitator
Get to know each other + give&take setting
Objectives and programme for the seminar
60 min
10.00 – 11.00
URBACT method
Urbact Video, Lecture on the Urbact Method, Group discussion, feedback
11.00 – 11.20
100 min
11.20 – 13.00
COFFEE BREAK
ULSG Road Map
Group exercise: Road Map puzzle. Debriefing. Lecture on ULSG Road Map
13.00 – 14.00
60 min
14.00 – 15.00
LUNCH BREAK
Mutual learning/Networking
Projects marketplace
20 min
15.00 – 15.20
130 min
15.20 – 17.30
COFFEE BREAK
Stakeholder analysis
Group discussion: Why do we need stakeholders? Introduction on stakeholders analysis & engagement. Group
exercise: analysis grid on real projects. Peer review (2 projects) with guided Qs on stakeholder analysis and
engagements. Debriefing
30 min
17.30 – 18.00
Reflection time
Reflection on the day guided by LSG coordinators. Sharing key learning points
18.00 – 18.30
20.00 – 22.00
Session for LSG coordinators
NETWORKING DINNER
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DAY 2
Estimated time
Topic
09.00 – 10.30
External input
Roundtable? Conference style? Q&A?
20 min
10.30 – 10.50
130 min
10.50 – 13.00
COFFEE BREAK
Defining problems
Introduction on defining problems
Group exercise: case study + problems table
Group presentations
Debriefing
60 min
13.00 – 14.00
60 min
14.00 – 15.00
LUNCH BREAK
Surgery
Give and take, TBD
30 min
15.00 – 15.30
Reflection time
Reflection on the day guided by LSG coordinators
Sharing of key learning points
LSG plan and take aways
30min
15.30 – 16.00
Closing
Evals
Salutation by Trainer and Facilitator. Salutation by the Host Institution
DEPARTURES
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16.00
Capacity Building
Summer University for Local
Stakeholders
Dublin, 28-30 August, 3 days, appr 400 participants
8 topics, LAB & ULSG work structure: action planning
TED talks
Master Classes
Field visits
Eligibility and cost covering
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Programme level covers: LP+LE travel and accomodation
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Project level covers: in average 2 persons/ULSG
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OECD delimitation of functional urban areas
• OECD identification of FUAs
– population grid from the global dataset Landscan (2000). Polycentric
cores and the hinterlands of FUAs identified on the basis of commuting
data, including all settlements from where at least 15% of the workers
commute to any of the core settlement(s).
• OECD defined four categories (total functional urban
area):
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–
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small urban areas with a population of 50 – 200 thousand;
medium-sized urban areas (200 – 500 thousand),
metropolitan areas (500 thousand – 1,5 million);
large metropolitan areas (above 1,5 million population).
• 29 OECD countries: 1175 functional urban areas. Public
database: www.oecd.org/gov/regional/measuringurban
• European OECD countries: 659 functional urban areas
(29 large metropolitan areas and 88 metropolitan areas).
European
OECD
Countries
Austria
Belgium
Czech Rep
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Rep
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Large
Metropolitan
Medium
metroarea
sized urban
politan area (0,5 mill-1,5
area
(1,5 mill - )
m)
(200 th–500)
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Small urban
area
(50 th– 200
th)
3
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4
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2
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SUMM
Share of pop
in FUAs (%)
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6
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101
56,5
58,9
45,6
53,8
55,3
49,7
62,8
64,3
49,8
49,7
50,3
50,8
80,2
72,1
44,5
55,2
53,9
36,9
39,1
62,7
52,7
55,6
73,0
Madrid
Barcelona
6,400,189
3,446,701
Valencia
Sevilla
Bilbao
Málaga
Zaragoza
Las Palmas
1,482,901
1,347,611
1,007,708
859,889
766,042
581,146
Granada
Palma de Mallorca
Murcia
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Valladolid
Vigo
Alicante/Alacant
A Coruña
Córdoba
Pamplona/Iruña
Cádiz
San Sebastián/Donostia
Oviedo
Santander
Gijón
Vitoria/Gasteiz
Salamanca
León
Elche/Elx
Burgos
Almería
Sabadell
489,098
484,021
472,148
430,858
423,909
423,653
377,850
367,795
340,601
333,732
318,247
311,865
293,546
283,074
276,983
245,068
237,074
234,818
214,549
211,622
202,857
202,043
What is RURBAN…?
Rural-urban links can take different forms
Conventional contiguous city-hinterland forms:
• morphological,
• functional area,
• broader economic area,
• urban-rural region including also the rural hinterland
A-spatial forms (Andrew Copus):
• generic areas: not requiring contiguity in urban-rural links
• organized proximity: translocal globalization of rural
business for which proximity is irrelevant
The OECD study on RURBAN discusses 11 case studies
which all belong to the first forms.
EU level interventions required for
integrated urban development
• For the success of EU2020 integrated planning
(green and social economy strategies) is
needed on the level of functional regions.
• This new approach needs policy guidance and
financial support from the EU, initiating crosssectoral and cross-territorial planning on the
functional region level. Integrated solutions are
needed: green economy (retrofitting), social
economy (including the low skilled)
New elemenst in European policy
making for the 2014-2020 period
• ITI: place-based integrated approach,
potentially on metropolitan level (larger
cities)
• CLLD: people-based integrated interventions
on local (smaller municipalities) and
neighbourhood level
• Horizon2020: spatially blind innovative
economic actions
Integrated sustainable urban development
Example: Member State A
Regional
ERDF OP
I
T
I
Total allocation
for ITI at least
5% of Member
State’s ERDF,
delegated to
cities
National/sectoral
ERDF OP
ESF OP
City 3

City 1
City 2
City 3


City 25
City …
CF OP
+ additional
ESF and CF,
if appropriate
The metropolitan agenda and the new
EU planning period (2014-2020)
The development of tools of different
policies is speeding up
• Cohesion Policy 320-350 bn eur (?)
– within ERDF the ITIs
– within EAFRD the CLLDs
– innovative urban actions around 0,3 bn (?)
• Innovation Policy: Horizon 2020 appr. 80
bn eur
Potential links between metropolitan
ideas and European policies
• narrow metropolitan areas (zero-sum game):
ITIs, led by cities, in conjunction to CLLDs, led
by public-private-thirdsector partnerships in
smaller areas
– the need for defined boundaries and (at least
delegated) fixed institutional structure
• broader metropolitan areas (win-win type
cooperation): link to regional innovation
strategies, led by administrative regions and to
Horizon2020 innovation partnerships
– can and should be kept on flexible spatial level
• RURBAN areas?
contact@urbact.eu
www.urbact.eu