AGORA Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets

 

The transitional phase in which the Danube Region (DR) cities found themselves after the 2008 economic crisis allowed a window of opportunity to enact positive change on the planning policy level. There have been numerous initiatives in the past aimed to reuse, even temporarily, un-valued physical assets for launching novel forms of economies by a new generation of highly skilled/educated youth. Yet such initiatives remained disparate or difficult to replicate - the biggest provocation remains that of embedding the necessary instruments into governance, creating local capacity and instruments to fast-track urban regeneration.


A crucial challenge is thus to increase public administration (PA) capacity to directly harness local potential: a paradigm shift is now needed towards more flexible, inclusive, and creative instruments for Public-Private-People-led physical and social regeneration (PPPP). To achieve this, cities need to become a key player able to catalyse a critical mass of interest groups from different levels around the broader goal of local socio-economic development: PA needs to become an agency for endogenous growth. At the same time, cities also need to overcome a spectrum of bottlenecks, which include legal, administrative and organisational, financial, technical, capacity, and expertise barriers and gaps.


AGORA addesses this by developing and adopting new governance instruments for PAs, building their capacity for effectively involving and empowering a wide group of stakeholders in the reintegration of vacant buildings and land, public and private, into the productive  city value system. We want to achieve substantial change in the process and workflow of PA at the local level, as well as to launch a transnational policy-learning platform for supporting Danube Region cities in the reintegration and reconnection of local undevalued assets, giving a new sense to abandoned spaces, brownfields, urban areas in decline.

 

 

Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets
Start date
01-07-2020
End date
31-12-2022
Budget in Euro
Overall: 2396870.05
ERDF Contribution: 1892131.33
IPA Contribution: 74580.64
ENI Contribution: 70627.55
Call number
Call 3
Priority
Well-governed Danube region
Specific objective
Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges

Library

Filename Date of upload
_AGORA_TOOLKIT_2022.pdf 11-01-2023 14:11:17
CLUJ_NAPOCA.pdf 09-01-2023 13:34:12
AGORA BROCHURE 23-12-2022 13:13:33
ZENICA_AGORA POSTER 23-12-2022 12:46:39
SZARVAS_AGORA POSTER 23-12-2022 12:40:32
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Project Partners

Name Type Email Country
Cluj-Napoca Municipality Lead partner cvovidiu@yahoo.fr Romania
Development Agency North -DAN ltd ERDF partner Nikolina.zigmund@dan.hr Croatia
European development agency ERDF partner martin.rejmis@eracr.cz Czech Republic
EUTROPIAN GMBH ERDF partner daniela.patti@eutropian.org Austria
City of Kranj ERDF partner Janez.ziherl@kranj.si Slovenia
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