Intensify our role within the European Union urban policies and especially in relation to the European Urban Agenda.
1.- Introduction
One of THE main objectives included in our Strategic Plan 2018-2022 refers to “Enhancing the profile as European professional expert body” (chapter 6 of the document) improving “the expert profile into Urban Agenda of the European Union. Pact of Amsterdam”.
With the EU Urban Agenda completing its second year of positive partnerships, a more globalised urbanism is emerging across the EU, which has brought with it, its own definitions, challenges and opportunities in equal measure.
In the last months new contacts with the Committee of the Regions representatives have been opened to collaborate; so ECTP was invited to the meeting held in Cork about the role of secondary cities in the development of the EU Agenda (May, 2018) and to participate in the meeting on Urban Impact Assessment to contribute towards this process, focused on the New Urban Agenda and the spatial planning and governance. Also, ECTP is present during the Territorial Cohesion (NTCCP) and Director-general’s meetings where the follow up of the urban agenda is discussed.
Exco proposes this WG to improve internal collaboration following the idea that ECTP can feed the European documents with the perspective of the practitioners and experts in urban policies.
2.- WG Objectives
The objective of this workshop is to elaborate a plan of action which makes concerns from European planning practitioners more visible and more present in meetings and documents within the European Union and the Committee of the Regions.
3.- First ideas to start. The working group on the EUA:
– proposes ideas and suggestions to running processes and preparatory documents
– works on the implementation of the EUA, in each country, European wide, providing a comparative analysis, …
– ensures that member associations commit to be involved in dissemination and participation sending one or two Papers for the workshops according to their capacity.
Members are:
– Joris Scheers (Working Group Chair)
– Géza Salamin
– Markus Hedorfer
– Laura López
– Chantal Guillet
– Anna Nikolaou
– Janet Askew
– João Teixeira
– Henk van der Kamp
– Luc-Emile Bouche-Florin
– Vincent Goodstadt
– Miran Gajsek
– Gerhard Vittinghoff
– Ignacio Pemán