Civil society and municipalities: building sustainability through collaboration

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8.30 | Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 | Welcome remarks

9.15 | Connecting to what’s happening on the ground

Moderated by Juan del Rio

  • Ana Huertas Francisco, ECOLISE Vice President and MiT Coordinator
  • Presentation of the VILCO project, Lucia Aboutaoufilk, 21Solutions
  • Short video from MiT pilots
  • Representatives from MiT pilots (Italy, Portugal and Spain)
    •  Federica Govoni (Valsamoggia - Italy)
    • Ana Abrantes (Telheiras- Portugal)
    • Erika Zárate (Garrotxa - Spain)

10.30 | Coffee break

10.50 | Creating impactful collaboration between citizens and municipalities

Breakout sessions: 4 pre-selected themes + 1 open space

  1. Taking a systemic approach to collaboration
    What are the tools, structures, processes and practices that support community groups and municipalities to approach collaboration systemically rather than in a siloed way?  How can we work well with emergence and complexity, responding flexibly to the energy and interests of citizens and to strategic needs and opportunities as they arise?  What challenges does this present for us as individuals, organisations and institutions?
  2. Resourcing collaboration in a strategic and sustainable way
    How are people currently accessing resources to support this innovative work?  What are the aspects of the work where there is the greatest need for additional resource and the greatest potential to increase the impact of this collaborative activity?  How might we create funding frameworks and programs which would support such collaborations to spread, deepen and operate sustainably?  What are the barriers to funding this kind of initiative (as experienced by practitioners and by potential funders) and how might these barriers be overcome?
  3. Sharing power and nurturing real collaboration
    What are the benefits and the challenges that arise when municipalities enter into genuine co-creation with their citizens?  What tools, structures, processes and practices support us to share power and collaborate creatively across difference?
  4. Exploring the role of the EU to support collaboration
    Where and how does top-down meet bottom-up?  How can EU institutions support and connect to innovative collaborations involving grassroots groups?  Do we know what policy barriers are being experienced and how they might be overcome?  If not, how can we start to collect and act on this information?

12.30 | Buffet Lunch

14.00 | What can the EU deliver to support Communities and Municipalities

Moderated by Sarah McAdam

  • Rudolf Niessler, Director G Smart & Sustainable Growth & Southern Europe, DG REGIO, European Commission
  • Ms Višnar Malinovská, DG CLIMA, European Commission

Followed by Q&A

15.00 | Panel discussion: Collaboration between Communities and Municipalities; Challenges and Possibilities

Moderated by Sarah McAdam

  •  Ana Adzersen, WEBXLs/Fearless Cities
  • Cristiano Bottone, MiT
  • Andrew Cooper, European Committee of the Regions
  • Philippe Lamberts, Member of the European Parliament
  • Katrien Rycken, Coordinator Leuven 2030

 Discussion with the audience

16.45 | Closing remarks

  • Brenda King, member of the Sustainable Development Observatory, EESC member

 End of programme