Area Based Collaborative Entrepreneurship in Cities

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-12-02

Description

Description (EN):

Across European cities local entrepreneurs are joining forces in new ways, forming collectives to stimulate business growth and innovation and to create a more attractive business environment. Area Based Collaborative Entrepreneurship (ABCE) means entrepreneurs collaborate by co-investing in facilities or technology, market their urban district collectively, improve shared public space, etc. The value of such collectives is increasingly recognized by local governments and policy measures to stimulate these initiatives are being developed. Area based collaborative entrepreneurship fosters urban regeneration as the participating firms are most often strongly connected to their neighbourhood and committed to social goals. Neighbourhood liveability and social ties between local stakeholders are enforced. ABCE supports inclusive growth, cooperation and cohesion and helps to address the negative impacts of globalization such as economic restructuring, income inequality and the decline of urban areas. The current policy instruments of the project partners seek to promote knowledge-based SME innovation and access to funding but they show a lack of attention to the emerging networked and locally anchored types of initiatives that promote inclusive growth, innovation and regeneration. For this reason we intend to develop recommendations for four OPs and one other policy instrument in European regions by capturing local learnings systematically, identifying critical success conditions and sharing them across regions in Europe. Five European urban regions are involved in this project: Amsterdam, Athens, Manchester, Vilnius, and the conurbation Varazdin-Cakovic (Croatia). All regions currently experiment with ABCE and initiated this project to share experiences and gain deeper insights in order to develop more effective policy instruments.

Achievements (EN): In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 37 policy learning events. It has also identified 15 good practices, produced 5 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 75 people.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

The overall objective of the project is to generate innovative and effective policies and policy instruments that foster or stimulate area based collaborative enterprises, thereby optimising their capacity for increasing SME competitiveness and contributing to improvement of the socioeconomic situation in European cities. Through activities such as sharing investment or development costs and collectively marketing their urban district, ABCE contributes to the creation, development and growth of SMEs. At the same time, collectives are often intertwined with their surroundings and committed to local more social or environmental goals, such as strengthening neighbourhood liveability or reinforcing social ties between residents. Investing in collectives may therefore be viewed as a means to stimulate urban regeneration, inclusive growth, cooperation and cohesion. Area based collaborative enterprises often feel frustrated with local government and existing rules and regulations which are not designed to facilitate their activities. On the other hand, municipalities aiming to stimulate collaborative initiatives, are in search of effective policies to support ABCE with the legal, financial, political and technical challenges they face. Collaborative initiatives and authorities are both looking for new knowledge and methods to empower the initiatives. The sub-objective is to develop concrete methods of support for use by governments and actors within collectives themselves, which lead to: a. improved accessibility of regional and local policies and instruments, and especially the ERDF, for (projects regarding) ABCE; b. effective municipal and regional policies for area based collaborative enterprises; c. development of policy tools that facilitate (rather than inhibit) the economic, social and environmental goals of collaborative enterprises; d. development of effective policy tools to support collaborative enterprises in tackling the various challenges they face.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The outputs of the project are: • 1 Common frame of analysis for a shared understanding of area based collaborative entrepreneurship (ABCE) and of existing policies, • 5 ‘State of play’ studies of participating regions, summarizing the current situation of ABCE, relevant policies, ambitions and barriers, • 5 Regional studies of best and worst practices: 2 to 6 cases of ABCE will be selected per region, depending on how well these cases serve as exemplary for best and worst practices in an interregional context, • 2 or 3 best practice case studies based on two site visits to a best practice in another European region (not a partner region), • 1 Policy evaluation report with key conclusions and lessons learned. • 5 regional action plans ready for implementation describing partner’s proposals for improving policies and policy instruments concerning area based collaborative entrepreneurship in urban environments, • 1 monitoring and evaluation tool that will be used to monitor and evaluate the results of the regional action plans, • a large number of events, seminars, workshops, etc., • a wide variety of communication instruments. The general result of the project is: the development, testing and implementation of a number of innovative and effective policies and policy instruments that foster or stimulate area based collaborative entrepreneurship, thus contributing to the improvement of the socioeconomic situation of urban areas in the partner regions and in other large European cities. The specific results of the project are: • municipal policymakers and civil servants will have effective policy tools, rules and regulations to facilitate and stimulate area based collaborative entrepreneurship, • new rules, regulations and instruments that facilitate rather than inhibit, the social, economic and ethical goals of collaborative enterprises, • area based collaborative enterprises are better capable of contributing to city performance and broader societal, spatial and economic goals.

Thematic information

Urban development SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, supporting SMEs in all stages of their life cycle to develop and achieve growth and engage in innovation

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Address: Postbus 1025, 1000 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hva.nl

Total budget: EUR 365 854.00

ERDF budget: EUR 310 975.90

Δήμος Αθηναίων

Name: Δήμος Αθηναίων

Department: Sustainability and Resilience Office

Address: 63 Athinas Str./ Aiolou 47, 10552 Athens, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.cityofathens.gr/

Total budget: EUR 31 839.00

ERDF budget: EUR 27 063.15

Grad Čakovec

Name: Grad Čakovec

Address: Ulica kralja Tomislava 15, HR 40000 Grad Čakovec, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cakovec.hr

Total budget: EUR 57 097.00

ERDF budget: EUR 48 532.45

Manchester City Council

Name: Manchester City Council

Department: Policy, Partnerships and Research

Address: Town Hall, Lloyd Street, M60 2LA Manchester, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.manchester.gov.uk

Total budget: EUR 67 784.00

ERDF budget: EUR 57 616.40

Grad Varaždin

Name: Grad Varaždin

Department: Department for Economic Affairs

Address: Trg kralja Tomislava 1, HR 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varazdin.hr

Total budget: EUR 73 576.00

ERDF budget: EUR 62 539.60

Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet organizacije i informatike

Name: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet organizacije i informatike

Department: Faculty of Organisation and Informatics

Address: Pavlinska 2, HR 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.foi.unizg.hr

Total budget: EUR 80 349.00

ERDF budget: EUR 68 296.65

Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο

Name: Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο

Department: Department of Geography

Address: 70, El. Venizelou Str.,, 17671 Athens, Greece

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.hua.gr

Total budget: EUR 91 811.00

ERDF budget: EUR 78 039.35

Mykolo Romerio Universitetas

Name: Mykolo Romerio Universitetas

Address: Ateities g. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mruni.eu

Total budget: EUR 95 902.00

ERDF budget: EUR 81 516.70

Saulėtekio slėnio mokslo ir technologijų parkas

Name: Saulėtekio slėnio mokslo ir technologijų parkas

Department: Project management

Address: Saulėtekio al 15 - 316, LT-10224 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ssmtp.lt

Total budget: EUR 119 788.00

ERDF budget: EUR 101 819.80

The Manchester Metropolitan University

Name: The Manchester Metropolitan University

Department: Institute of Place Management

Address: All Saints Building Oxford Road, M15 6BH Manchester, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mmu.ac.uk

Total budget: EUR 174 684.00

ERDF budget: EUR 148 481.40

Gemeente Amsterdam

Name: Gemeente Amsterdam

Department: Economic Affairs

Address: Jodenbreestraat 25, 1011 NH Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.amsterdam.nl/economie

Total budget: EUR 183 548.00

ERDF budget: EUR 156 015.80

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Athens municipality

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The City of Čakovec

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Manchester City Council

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The City of Varaždin

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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics

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Harokopio University

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Mykolas Romeris University

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Sunrise Valley Science and Technology Park

Area Based Collaborative Entrepreneurship in Cities

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The Manchester Metropolitan University

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Economische Zaken Amsterdam

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Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

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Summary

Project name (EN): Area Based Collaborative Entrepreneurship in Cities

Project acronym: ABCitiEs

Project start date: 2018-06-01

Project end date: 2022-05-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 342 232.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 140 897.20

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 140 897.20.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Interreg ABCitiEs Action plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2020-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan Varaždin / Čakovec

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2020-07-27

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan City of Vilnius

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2020-09-04

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Interreg ABCitiEs Action plan - Municipality of Athens

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2022-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan City of Manchester

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2020-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Policy evaluation report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2022-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

vtv dnevnik 07112018 foi

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2019-05-10

Languages: hr

ABCitiEs on national television in Croatia

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2019-10-22

Languages: hr

ABCitiEs The Power of Collective Action

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2019-09-01

Languages: en

ABCitiEs Interreg Europe Meet-up in Croatia

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/

Publication date: 2023-07-26

Document date: 2019-12-17

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-10-31

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258 / 258 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 084 / 2 085 (99.95%)

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