 28 April - 1 May 2022  Paluzza (Udine), Italy | Residential Insight Workshop
Organised by the OECD Trento Centre - at the initiative of NextPA
Context
In recent years, the municipalities of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region have been faced with the challenge of their mutual co-operation not only in organising and providing services for citizens, but also in outlining and implementing shared inter-municipal wide-area socio-economic development policies.
Faced with this challenge, starting in 2017, the Summer School for local administrators was conceived as a discussion space for reflecting on the innovative function of municipalities to promote territorial development. Given the small size of many municipalities, developing strategies and planning territorial development with a wide-area perspective and through inter-municipal associations and collaborations opens many new opportunities.
The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking up the world, impacting people's lives, communities, work, business and the wider international environment. It is clear that nothing can be the same as before, as the changes ahead will be radical and difficult to predict. Local governments are at the forefront in facing the challenge, as they are called upon to be a driving force in governing the processes of reconstruction and revitalisation of local economies and societies.
The Summer School, since its inception, contributes to the generation of widespread expertise across the region in driving and governing local development. Each edition of the Summer School brings new local administrators to the Smart Community, i.e. a community of practice made up of all the participants in past editions.
Goal & target group
The Summer School for local administrators - of which this is the fifth edition - is intended as a platform for capacity building and exchange of experiences among local administrators aimed at acquiring knowledge and familiarity with strategic planning and programming. The School helps local authorities to better shape the (long-term) development of their territories including through a more efficient use of public resources, such as regional, national and the EU funds.
The Summer School foresees participation of a maximum of 30 local administrators - 24 from the municipalities of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and up to 6 representing the Veneto Region and the Autonomous Province of Trento. Admission is subject to a selection process after a public call for interest.
The Residential Insight Workshop
In 2022 the Community members expressed interest in organising a residential in-depth seminar, to be reserved only for those who were members of the Community, to address some particularly relevant and topical issues that, although already addressed in the Summer School, were worthy of more specific treatment.
The added value of participating in the Workshop:
- It strengthened the group of administrators who participated and offered them a more "operational" view of governance, how it is built and how it is managed;
- It proposeed some insights - so-called technicalities - that are fundamental for the better management of governance and that also correspond to specific questions that already emerged over time within the Community;
- It offered a network of contacts with members representing the business community and regional and local civil society that can be valuable for the work of the participants as administrators.
The "Residential Insight Workshop" took place from 28 April 2022 to 1 May 2022 in Paluzza, Udine, Italy.
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