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Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED Programme)

4th Summer school on local development strategies and European projects

 

16, 24-25-26, 29-30 June & 11 July 2020 Remote participation


Organised by the OECD Trento Centre - at the initiative of NextPA

Context

In recent years, the Municipalities of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (NE Italy) have faced the challenge of cooperation, both in the organisation and provision of services for citizens that is their most consolidated role and in jointly designing and implementing socio-economic development policies at the wide area level, being the latter often quite a new function for them.

The Summer School for local administrators was conceived as a response to this challenge and an opportunity to think specifically about the innovative function of promoting territorial development through cooperation among municipalities, also in view of the territorial development plans and related "Development Agreements" shared with the regional administration.

Since this is a substantially new function for most local authorities, the Summer School – in 2020, its fourth edition takes place - offers local administrators / municipal councillors a capacity building and experience sharing platform, enabling them to acquire knowledge in strategic planning and programming, while considering the best use of EU funds.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic upends lives of people, families and communities. It drastically transforms work and economic activities, national and international contexts. The resultant changes in all spheres of life will be radical and difficult to predict.

Local governments are at the forefront of the current crisis. They are called to be an active and driving force in the governance of the processes of reconstruction of local economies and societies.

 

Goal

The goal of the Summer School is to provide training opportunity for local administrators to acquire essential knowledge and tools to guide sustainable development of the territory during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In this framework, it seeks to ensure that planning  (a practice to identify and structure coherent interventions that can be financed by European funds or other resources) is also undertaken at local level in the context of international, national and regional policies. 

 

Methodology

The fourth edition of the Summer School, held in the current exceptional situation, is based on several essential assumptions:

Confirming and acknowledging the centrality of governance in decision-making processes

Everyone - businesses, public administrators, representatives of civil society, research and knowledge community - will be called upon to play an active role. To be effective, it is essential that appropriate forms, methods and instruments of governance are identified. Building skills to govern these processes is crucial.

Leveraging the tools of communication and the digital society

Waiting till it is safe to meet in person is not an acceptable option. We need to immediately start building a common understanding of the reconstruction and sustainable development of the different territorial contexts. This requires a space to share new knowledge, exploit the potential of the digital network and the information society.

The Smart Community: Value of the Community of Practice

At this stage, it would perhaps be impossible to start from scratch in the construction of a training path (in the strictest meaning of the term). But strengthening the already existing networks is possible and urgent. The Smart Community is a substantial opportunity for this purpose.

Attendance

The Summer School foresees participation of a maximum of 30 local administrators - 24 from the municipalities of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and 6 representing the Veneto Region and the Autonomous Province of Trento. Admission is subject to a selection process after a public call for interest.

   
 

Key Content

  • Acquire knolwedge of concepts and tools to design local development policy interventions methodologically for the success of concrete operations;
  • Develop strategic vision to build development policies consistent with the potential of the territory and in the global perspective of post-COVID-19 reconstruction;
  • Acquire knowledge of concepts and tools for an integrated approach where sustainable development policies at territorial scale are in line with Agenda 2030;
  • Understand the architecture of European programmes as opportunities for local development, taking into account the most recent reconstruction-oriented developments;
  • Understand ways of implementing governance for local development in which public, business community and civil society come together and of managing negotiation processes within the "teamwork" logic.
   
 

Materials & Information

Agenda

Agenda (also in Italian)

 

OECD Contact

Paolo.Rosso@oecd.org   

 

Links

OECD Trento Centre: integrated local development

 

  
 

PARTNERS

 At the initiative of

NextPA ‌‌

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