URBACT City Lab Metropolitan Governance WORKSHOP 2 Economic
URBACT City Lab – Metropolitan Governance WORKSHOP 2 – Economic development & Labour markets 12 February 2010 - Lille
Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 1 1) How do cities deal with the complexity of managing both the morphological and functional city regions which are cleaved by national, regional and local administrative boundaries? § What are the main challenges facing cities when it comes to intervening in economic and employment development at different spatial levels (legal powers, financial capacity, critical mass, skills and know-how, spill-overs, competition with other cities, beggar they neighbour policies…. ) § What responses have been tried in relation economic development & employment? § How are competences best attributed between levels of government? What goes where in economic development and employment– are there appropriate spatial scales for specific functions? Title of presentation I 02/10/2020 I Page 2
Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 2 2) What types of innovative arrangements do they develop in order to overcome the resulting political, financial and/or administrative divisions? § How to support innovation and creativity at city level? § How can mainstream city functions and investments be used to influence labour markets and the economy (land use planning, regeneration, procurement, employment, local administration and regulation)? § How can finance, taxation and pooled funding be organised across boundaries in relation to different fields ? (e. g. financial instruments for supporting SMEs)? Title of presentation I 02/10/2020 I Page 3
Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 3 3) How does the citizen remain engaged and the system maintain legitimacy in increasingly complex governance arrangements? § What role for the private and third/voluntary sectors in the governance of economic development ? § How can the metropolitan framework best support or integrate local or neighbourhood initiatives in order to reduce polarisation and fully use human and material resources? § How to lever-in supra-municipal support without losing local control? Title of presentation I 02/10/2020 I Page 4
Speakers (morning session) § Ab Hoosting & Harm Mertens, City of Eindhoven / Samenwerkingsverband Regio Eindhoven (NL) - Brainport project – Joining Forces partner § Istvan Ferencsik, Ister-Granum/ Esztergom (SK–HU) - Solidarity fund – EGTC partner § Joan Miquel Pique, Local. Ret, Barcelona (SP) § Moderator: Paul Soto, URBACT Thematic Pole manager § Rapporteur: Thierry Baert, Lead Partner Joining Forces Title of presentation I 02/10/2020 I Page 5
Speakers (afternoon session) § Thierry Baert, Lille Metropole, Joining Forces Lead Partner § Tobias Chilla, University of Luxembourg, Espon Metroborder project § Christian Vandermotten, Université Libre de Bruxelles § Moderator: Paul Soto, URBACT Thematic Pole manager § Rapporteur: Thierry Baert, Lead Partner Joining Forces Title of presentation I 02/10/2020 I Page 6
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