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UDN session ITI and CLLD: lessons learned and ways ahead
Brussels, Belgium 9 October 2019
KolorCommunity in Kazincbarcika
Balázs Wächter LAG manager
The Urban Development Network @ the EU Week of Regions and Cities 2019
Key features of Kazincbarcika
In one of the poorest region of EU (Northern Hungary)
28.000 inhabitants – out moving talent and young generation
Suffering from the collapse of heavy industry (mining)
Borsodchem Zrt – chemistry factory with ca 2500 workers
Nowdays revenue for the city but risk of hazards
Green areas and sculptures
New image - Kolorcity programme from 2015
Creativity, innovation, local co-operation for human
Ca. 35 murals, street arts, festival
Business development
Cooperation among
generations
National level framework – Urban CLLD
Operational Programme for urban and regional development
TO 9 A -Thematic objective: promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
OP – investment priority: Investments in community led local strategies
Specific objective of relevant OP
• To increase activity of local communities in the cities by implementation of local community organisation activities and cultural programmes
Focus and specific objectives of local strategies was determined by the national level OP
Objectives of local strategy
Vision
Innovative city, where the local communities, generations, enterprises cooperate each other and deliver diverse, innovative and creative activities, which can be presented in the rehabilitation of public spaces and buildings.
Specific objectives of strategy
Rehabilitation of public
spaces and green areas
Cooperative City
• encourage higher cooperation levels amongst organisations and generations
Creative City
• encourage creative activities amongst local residents
Digital City
• development of communication platform to promote cooperation between businesses, institutions and citizens
Outputs achieved
• Design and implementation of local CLLD model
• Process to build local participative capacity
• Building trust
• Informative forum
• Partnership building
• Stories from outside of the city
• Mechanism to launch calls and select projects for investment and cooperation activities
• Call for proposal
• Project development
• Project selection
• Ongoing implementation
• Total budget €1,88m
• 2/3 ERDF and 1/3 ESF
Supported projects – activities
•Place for outdoor events
•Developed sport and playground Rehabilitated central parks
•Community biking, hiking, walking, rolling within the city
•Professional leisure sport activities
•Sport days for families Leisure sport
•Event for highlighting the chances and difficulties of patents with cancer
•Day of the Health with information campaigng
•Cooperation among people living with and without handicaps Health
•Kazincbarcika 100 – City of the future - doing creative draws, poets, songs
•Library of city history – photos and interesting stories
•Showhajtás 2020 – search the most colourful school of the city – creative programmes
•Creative, dancing, sculpture design camps for teenagers and children
Creative community
•Modern and informative webpage, developed KolorApp, the city application
•Better information and service for inhabitants and enterprises
•Time banking, special local webpage for gifts
•Local voting – as preparing the participative budget
Digital city
Main successes and first results
• Bottom-up local projects funded by EU investment
• Higher levels of cross-sectoral collaboration
• Building new co-operations – integration and harmonization of ideas, aims
• Implementation of integrated approach
Challenges
Technical restriction for small scale projects (max size 10.000 EUR)
• e.g. procurement process, restricted use of simple financial methods (e.g. flat rate, unit cost) only for technical matters
Cooperation between local and national level administration (Intermediate body)
• Administrative delays of contracting – continuous learning process
„Low” levels of participative/collaborative capacity
• Coaching and facilitating the project development and management, reporting
• Adapting of projects and partnerships to the rules
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