Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

Date of latest update: 2024-03-22

Description

Description (EN):

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 addresses this by deploying and adopting new, creative governance instruments for PAs, building their capacity for effectively involving, connecting 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 PAs at local level, as well as to launch a transnational policy-learning platform for supporting Danube Region cities in the reintegration and reconnection of local undervalued assets, giving new sense to abandoned spaces, brownfields, urban areas in decline.

Achievements (EN):

AGORA is an Interreg project from the Danube Transnational Programme of a duration of 30 months, started in July 2020 it will end by December 2022. Through the engagement ofdifferent actors and local stakeholders and the implementation of a series of co-design workshops, territorial partners developed innovative, interdisciplinary and multi-level decision-making processes. AGORA adopts a Quadruple-Helix approach to reach greater public involvement and democratise knowledge in innovation processes in urban and regional planning in order to engage the governmental, research, business, and civil society sectors. Thanks to the Quadruple-Helix approach and to the AGORA framework, co-design communities - including crossdepartmental task force, investors, landowners, young professionals, and service providers - were established by AGORA’s territorial partners. Within AGORA, Territorial Partners have followed a three step process for the development of Urban Regeneration Agendas, a policy document to be linked with other local strategies for local development strengthening institutional capacities. A co-creation process that adopted a participatory approach, calling citizens for an active participation during a series of workshops that started with an initial identification of untapped local opportunities for vacant spaces, continued with a co-definition of governance instruments to unlock underused space potential, and completed with thedefinition of a clear strategy for urban asset reuse at city level which will establish the bases for subsequent Action Plans and mechanisms for their future implementation. Within this process, AGORA cities, districts and regions were supported by Scientific partners that guided their local activities and created moments of peer-to-peer learning to increase their organisational and communicational capacities. The present brochure brings to the reader a summary of the work developed in every AGORA local community, and work package.

Website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Intensity of cooperation of institutional actors and other stakeholders in the programme area in order to tackle major societal challenges (survey based composite indicator)

Expected Outputs (EN):

AGORA will support territorial partners (cities, regions and agencies) to improve their capacities of addressing long-standing challenges related to the recovery and redevelopment of unused city assets, at the same time coming up against new territorial and urban issues and contemporary society’s needs, through a multi-level quadruple-helix cooperation model. From the point of view of administrative capacity enhancement, the joint learning, developing and testing of an operational instrument toolkit will assist the PAs to become leaders of urban regeneration and recovery. As a result, new economic, social, entertainment activities or cultural service hubs will find their space in the cities’ urban tissue, thus improving their growth potential. The project will further produce a meaningful impact at the level of the entire macro-region, using validated instruments to offer a fast-track methodology, in order to accelerate administrative processes and to be able to keep up with upcoming challenges. The project will achieve this result through a two-level comprehensive capacity building and co-design methodology: the local participatory processes defining key strategic Regeneration Agendas will generate institutional learning experience, dialogue and cooperation between public and private stakeholders in the DR area, simultaneously at local and transnational level. The interactive Capacity-building Platform, Guidelines and Policy Recommendations will be the principal outputs towards a better governance of urban regeneration. In addressing the common challenge of the DR of tapping into and valorising unused physical resources of cities, AGORA's contribution to the intensity of cooperation of key actors in the DTP area is manifold: developing networks (AGORAs), sustainable strategies (Agendas), new instruments (Toolkit, and subsequent testing / piloting), as well as enhancing capacities in PAs (Transnational Capacity-Building and Transfer Seminar).

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Governance, partnership

Specific Objective:

Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges (short title). Strengthen multilevel- and transnational governance and institutional capacities and provide viable institutional and legal frameworks for more effective, wider and deeper transnational cooperation across the Danube region in areas with major societal challenges

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority: (11 ETC) ETC specific for transnational cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by developing and coordinating macro-regional and sea-basin strategies

Partners (17)

Lead Partner: Municipiul Cluj-Napoca

Department: General communication, local development and project management division

Address: Moților Street 1-3, 400001 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.primariaclujnapoca.ro

Total budget: EUR 259 542.40

ERDF budget: EUR 220 611.04

Evropská rozvojová agentura s.r.o.

Name: Evropská rozvojová agentura s.r.o.

Address: Na Čihadle 55, 16000 Prague, Czech Republic

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.euda.eu

Total budget: EUR 89 731.25

ERDF budget: EUR 76 271.56

Městská část Praha 9

Name: Městská část Praha 9

Address: Sokolovská 14/324, 19000 Prague, Czech Republic

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.praha9.cz

Total budget: EUR 88 648.00

ERDF budget: EUR 75 350.80

Grad Zenica

Name: Grad Zenica

Address: Trg BiH 6, 72000 Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zenica.ba

Total budget: EUR 87 741.93

IPA2 budget: EUR 74 580.64

Столична община

Name: Столична община

Address: Moskovska str 33, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sofia.bg

Total budget: EUR 84 202.00

ERDF budget: EUR 71 571.70

Primăria Municipiului Chișinău

Name: Primăria Municipiului Chișinău

Address: Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Blvd. 83, MD-2020 Chisinau, Moldova

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.chisinau.md

Total budget: EUR 83 091.24

Szarvas Város Önkormanyzata

Name: Szarvas Város Önkormanyzata

Department: NR

Address: Szabadság street 36, 5540 Szarvas, Hungary

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.szarvas.hu

Total budget: EUR 82 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 69 742.50

URBASOFIA SRL

Name: URBASOFIA SRL

Address: Str. Colentina nr. 11, bloc R26, ap. 11, Sector 2 11, 021154 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.urbasofia.eu

Total budget: EUR 249 587.46

ERDF budget: EUR 212 149.34

Pakora.net – Netzwerk für Stadt und Raum

Name: Pakora.net – Netzwerk für Stadt und Raum

Address: Friedrichstr. 23, D-76229 Karlsruhe, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.pakora.net

Total budget: EUR 225 566.10

ERDF budget: EUR 191 731.18

Regionalverband Neckar-Alb

Name: Regionalverband Neckar-Alb

Address: Löwensteinplatz 1, 72116 Mössingen, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rvna.de

Total budget: EUR 215 623.18

ERDF budget: EUR 183 279.70

EUTROPIAN GMBH

Name: EUTROPIAN GMBH

Address: Wolfganggasse 26/20-22, 1120 Wien, Austria

Legal status: private

Website: http://WWW.EUTROPIAN.ORG

Total budget: EUR 153 662.25

ERDF budget: EUR 130 612.91

Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije

Name: Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije

Address: Trnovski pristan 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uirs.si

Total budget: EUR 146 185.00

ERDF budget: EUR 124 257.25

Razvojna agencija Sjever - Dan d.o.o.

Name: Razvojna agencija Sjever - Dan d.o.o.

Address: Trg bana J.Jelačića 17, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dan.hr

Total budget: EUR 136 813.20

ERDF budget: EUR 116 291.22

Razvojna agencija Grada Slavonskog Broda d.o.o.

Name: Razvojna agencija Grada Slavonskog Broda d.o.o.

Address: Vukovarska 1, 35000 Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ra-sb.hr

Total budget: EUR 135 578.00

ERDF budget: EUR 115 241.30

Mestna občina Kranj

Name: Mestna občina Kranj

Address: Slovenski trg 1, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kranj.si

Total budget: EUR 127 536.00

ERDF budget: EUR 108 405.60

Városkutatás Kft.

Name: Városkutatás Kft.

Address: Lónyay 34, 1093 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.mri.hu

Total budget: EUR 121 780.00

ERDF budget: EUR 103 513.00

Асоциация за развитие на София

Name: Асоциация за развитие на София

Address: Moskovska 33, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sofia-da.eu

Total budget: EUR 109 532.00

ERDF budget: EUR 93 102.20

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Cluj-Napoca Municipality

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European development agency

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The municipality of Prague 9

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City of Zenica

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Столична община

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City Hall of Chisinau Municipality

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City of Szarvas

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URBASOFIA SRL

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Pakora.net – Network for Towns and Regions

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Neckar-Alb Regional Association

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EUTROPIAN GMBH

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Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

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Development Agency North -DAN ltd

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Development Agency of Slavonski Brod ltd.

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Mestna občina Kranj

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Metropolitan Research Institute

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фондация „Асоциация за развитие на София” Foundation Sofia Development Association

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Summary

Project name (EN): Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets

Project acronym: AGORA

Project start date: 2020-07-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 396 870.01

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 037 339.51

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 892 131.31.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 74 580.64.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

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

2023-09-22

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

155 / 155 (100%)

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

1 582 / 1 582 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-danube.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-10-06, 2023-01-10 and 2024-01-30.

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