Urbact III: subsidieoproep voor 20 action-planning networks

Deadline

16 juni 2015

Doelstellingen

URBACT’s mission is to enable cities to work together and develop integrated solutions to common urban challenges, by networking, learning from one another’s experiences, drawing lessons and identifying good practices to improve urban policies. The core strand of activities of the URBACT III Programme is composed of transnational exchange and learning networks. URBACT transnational networks aim to impact local policies and practices by supporting the design and implementation of sustainable and integrated urban policies. There are 3 different types of networks:

action-planning networks
implementation networks
transfer networks

The main objective of Action Planning Networks is to improve the capacity of cities to manage sustainable urban policies and more especially to strengthen the capacity to design integrated strategies for sustainable urban development. Action Planning Networks are expected to support an organised process of exchange and learning among peers across Europe, with a view to improving local policies through concrete action planning. By taking part in an Action Planning Network, cities exchange on specific policy challenges and share experiences, problems and possible solutions, generating new ideas to address challenges related to sustainable urban development. As a starting point, cities willing to get involved in Action Planning Networks shall identify a policy challenge they want to address at local level. Then, they shall commit to develop an Integrated Action Plan that will address this challenge. This Integrated Action Plan will thus be both a driver of the exchange and learning activities, and a key concrete output of their participation in the Action Planning network. Cities willing to get involved in Action Planning Networks shall also commit to work on their policy challenges with a participatory approach involving all relevant stakeholders (from within the local administration and beyond, civil society, private sector, associations, etc.) in the action-planning process. These key stakeholders will be gathered in an URBACT Local Group. They will be actively involved in the transnational exchange activities and in the development of the Integrated Action Plan to be produced by the city. The participatory approach shall improve the action-planning process and the subsequent delivery of the local policies (strengthening the evidence base, ensuring ownership of the problems identified and of the solutions/ policies developed, creating the conditions for a successful delivery, etc.).

Budget

The total eligible cost for an Action Planning Network shall be between 600.000€ and 750.000€.

Begunstigden

The URBACT III programme area consists of:

The 28 EU Member States
Partner States Norway and Switzerland. Partners from Norway and Switzerland cannot make use of ERDF allocations, but as official partner states in the URBACT III programme partners are co-financed at 50% by national funds.
Instrument for Pre Accession (IPA) countries. Partners from IPA countries can participate in networks using IPA funding, without receiving ERDF co-financing
Other countries. Partners from other countries, anywhere in the world, can participate with their own funding.

The main beneficiaries (city-partners) for Action Planning Networks shall be cities from EU 28 Member States, Norway and Switzerland willing to develop integrated strategies and action plans for sustainable urban development. Under URBACT III, the beneficiary “city” refers to the public local authority representing:

Cities, municipalities, towns;
Infra-municipal tiers of government such as city districts and boroughs in cases where they are represented by a politico-administrative institution having competences forpolicy-making and implementation in the policy area covered by the URBACT network concerned in which they are willing to get involved;
Metropolitan authorities and organized agglomerations in cases where they are represented by a politico-administrative institution having delegated competences for policy-making and implementation in the policy area covered by the URBACT network.

There is no limit of size (population) for cities wishing to participate in URBACT activities.In addition to city partners, Action Planning Networks can also include a limited number of other beneficiaries (non-city partners). The list of other eligible beneficiaries (non-city partners) is defined as follows:

Local agencies defined as public or semi-public organisations set up by a city, partially or fully owned by the city authority, responsible for the design and implementation
of specific policies (economic development, energy supply, health services, transport, etc.)
Provincial, regional and national authorities, as far as urban issues are concerned;
Universities and research centres, as far as urban issues are concerned

In order to be eligible, other beneficiaries (non-city partners) must be public authorities or Equivalent Public Bodies.For Action Planning Networks, other beneficiaries can join the partnership only after the first approval for Phase 1. All partners involved in Phase 1 application shall be cities. The final partnership for Phase 2 can include a maximum of 3 non-city partners.

Info & contact

Meer lezen: http://urbact.eu/open-calls-networks Contact in Vlaanderen: Ahmed.abdelhakim@agentschapondernemen.beT 02 553 37 04