JOINING FORCES Metropolitan governance & competitiveness of European cities Lille CityLab – Workshop 2 : Economic development & labour markets across boundaries.

JOINING FORCES Metropolitan governance & competitiveness of European cities

Lille CityLab – Workshop 2 :Economic development & labour markets across boundaries

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JOINING FORCES : Objectives

1 main focus: Which cooperation mechanisms are/can be developed at the city-region level

Analysis of current situations through 7 main dimensions

• Spatial and strategic planning

• Mobility and transports

• Environmental issues

• Knowledge economy

• Public/private arrangements

• Social inclusion, participation and empowerment

• Attractiveness and competitiveness

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JOINING FORCES : partner cities

8 partners :

Bourgas - BulgariaBrno - Czech RepublicBrussels Capital Region BelgiumEindhoven - SRE - The NetherlandsFlorence - ItalyKrakow - IRM - PolandLille Metropole (Lead partner) - FranceSeville - Spain

Thematic Expert: Tamas Horvath - Hungary

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Monocentric FUA with main LA

smaller than the morphological area

Krakow, Eindhoven

Monocentric FUA with main LA

+/- corresponding to the MA

Sevilla, Brno

Monocentric FUA with main LA

larger than the MA

Burgas

Different local realities (1) Depending on the FUA configuration

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Polycentric FUA with main LA smaller than the MAFlorence, Brussels, Lille

Different local realities (1) Depending on the FUA configuration

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Competences & tasks of LAs • existance and power of the regional authorities• existance, statute and role of chambers of commerce • service provision / local development• regulation powers: planning, others,

Resources :• financial autonomy or not• Importance of local taxes / national tranfers• Existance, form and role of a local business tax

Government systems:• decentralisation/autonomy of LAs• monolevel vs multilevel systems

Existing Governance mechanisms:• cooperations between LAs• private sector involvement• voluntary sector organisations

Different local realities (2) Depending on the national/legal context

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Pooling the local authorities’ forces

• to reach a certain critical mass:– investing capacity – ability to negociate with the private sector – comprehensive approach to the economic system– sufficient importance and diversity to play at global level

• to avoid sterile competition between them :– risk of duplication– careful use of land – relevant use of public money

• to provide relevant services – important enough in size and quality– diversiy– right geographical level

which does not necessarily mean creating new local governments but developing new governance/co-operation mechanisms

First conclusions (1)

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Involving all relevant actors

• starting with the private (profitable) sector

– at every territorial level

– public private partnership if required

– unformal agreement with the private sector when relevant

• not only local but also regional authorities

• voluntary sector organisations

Some crucial economic issues

• Innovation – knowledge economy

• Territorial marketing

• Tourism?

First conclusions (2)

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Flexible instruments required, to be used by joined actors

•Additional Resources

• Relevant Tax system , with incentives for developing the economy in the urban area

• EU Funding provided at the right level, as any economic development strategy cannot be effective at a too small level

•Openess to ressource allocation and re-allocation

• New public processes (procurement , media, open events)

First conclusions (3)

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