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UDN session ITI and CLLD: lessons learned and ways ahead
Brussels, Belgium9 October 2019
An expedition in new ways of sustainable driven urban-rural local development
Dan Melander
The Urban Development Network @ the EU Week of Regions and Cities 2019
Sustainable city – open to the world
Gothenburg SwedenThe smart city for development, investment and research
The world’s most sustainable destination in 2018
The second biggest city in Sweden
Urban, rural and coastal
international.goteborg.se
Sustainable city – open to the world
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Sustainable city – open to the world
Main objectives
• Climate smart business development
• New cooperation urban and rural areas
• Test development of 4 local hubs
• Local economy and sustainability
URBAN RURAL GOTHENBORG
Geographical coverage: North Gothenburg 140 000 inhabitants
Thematic Objectives
• Five test beds and
• Research forum – Mistra Urban Future
Manchester, Kisumu, Cape Town
• Cooperation with Hannover Region
www.goteborg.se/stadslandet
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Sustainable city – open to the world
Progress on key actions, outputs and first results
• Local hubs for innovation- and sustainable development SMEs,
• Penta Helix – Locals, companies, NGOs, city admin and researchClimate innovations, Circular economy and industrial symbiosis
• Enables Climate KIC and Leader EU projects.
• An integrated part of Gothenburg’s strategic sustainability and business development work.
• Support to 99 companies and 17 research projects
• Inter municipality regional cooperation
• Sustainable urban food strategies
• Electric last mile city logistics
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Sustainable city – open to the world
Main achievements and challenges
The need of new ways of looking at peri-urbanisation
• Connecting rural and urban for a new more sustainable urbanisation.
• Offers significant new opportunities as innovative areas for sustainability as a
driving force for new economic development.
New climate smart urban green production with social sustainability
• Examples: Agroforestry as a tool for climate smart and social fair green city
production, value chains and eco tourism with new E-Logistics.
Learning processes in co-creative local hubs and network
• Based on local areas different life patterns identities and demographics.
• It takes time to build trust, relations and learning for local green and social
business innovations and growth.
• Using Penta Helix tools as cros-sector colaborations *
* In this case based on five stakeholder types: local people,
associations, civil businesses, public administrations and research.
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Main challenges that will be discussedRound 2
Capacity for administrations to co-create and innovate
• Closing the gap between local government and local processes
• Changing organisational cultures and structures that reinforce segregation and lock people into a silo-ed way of thinking and working
• Developing the ability to work with the complexity of bottom up, relation- based processes at local level
• Supporting local people, businesses and agencies as the best resource for sustainable local economic development
• Upskilling politicians and managers to absorb expertise and participate in innovation processes
Sustainable city – open to the world
Contact details
Dan Melander
Project manager - Urban Rural GothenburgBusiness Region Göteborg,
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +46(0)31 - 367 61 72
www.goteborg.se/stadslandet
www.facebook.com/stadslandetgoteborg