Guidelines

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• Guidelines
• for ULSG (Local Support Groups)
• and LAP (Local Action Plans)
• to be created by each partner city of NeT TOPIC

Regarding first ideas and presentations by each
partner Kick-off meeting in Barakaldo. 4-5
february 2009
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This is a first exercise than each partner has to
carry out as a first step of the network
activity. It deals with sharing first ideas and
approaches on ULSG-LAPduring the kick-off
meeting.(So, this is a home-work previous to
the meeting)

• Each city should participate in the meeting
  presenting its own approach, ideas and proposals
  on this issue

To go further in this topic you can look in The
URBACT II Local Support Group Toolkit. A guide on
creating Local Action Plans, that has been
already distributed among the NeT TOPIC partners.
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Definitions

• A Local Action Plan (LAP) should provide for
  each partner a concrete roadmap and a range of
  solutions to tackle the core issues identified at
  the start of the URBACT project.

A Local Support Group (LSG) is a Group of key
stakeholders and project champions who help to
produce a Local Action Plan, validate and/or
input local knowledge, and disseminate to and
mobilise stakeholders
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Producing our own LAP

• The Local Action Plan should include a clear
  outline of the nature and scale of the problems
  relating to the project topic in the Local Action
  Plan area. A fresh and comprehensive
  understanding of the existing situation and the
  problems that exist is essential to enable the
  right solutions to be found.

• Please summarize a first presentation of the
  main problems solutions in your project area
  related to NeT- TOPIC issues. (revising your
  baseline study)

Look in the next slide
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Remember that the themes of NeT TOPIC are the
following

• From mono functional to multifunctional cities
• Building an urban identity
• Recovering abandoned and obsolete industrial
  areas
• Integration and urban cohesion, avoiding
  fragmentation and urban division
• Enhancing new forms of metropolitan governance

In the framework of the Main goal and core theme
of our Network Building New models of urban
development in peripheral cities of metropolitan
areas
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Stakeholder analysis and composition of our ULSG

• Stakeholder analysis will have been carried out
  as part of the baseline study in order to
  constitute the Local Support Group itself.
• In preparing and developing the LAP it will be
  very important to identify who are the
  stakeholders of the Action Plan and what their
  interests are.
• As stakeholders have different interests, it is
  useful to define their
• involvement with the project and how their
  interests differ.

• Identifying stakeholders and their interest,
  motivation, capacity (concerning their
  involvement in the project

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Composition of the ULSG

• Who?
• Size
• Composition

• In URBACT II Networks
• The LSG go from 4 to 43 members
• Core groups broader groups
• Core groups contribute with knowledge and
  responsibility
• Role sounding broad, identifying needs,
  engine of the LAPs.

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REGARDING LOCAL ACTION PLAN (LAP)

• About the LAP, taking into account what the Local
  Support Group Toolkit (A guide on creating LAPs)
  says about the issue

• There is no rigid definition of what a LAP has
  to be
• The composition, territorial level addressed,
  and format, will differ according with the local
  context and the type of partners.
• A LAP may be put in place early enough so that
  its implementation can be monitored during the
  project, or it may be produced as a final output
  of the project.
• Where there is already and advanced Master Plan
  in place, the LAP might be more likely to
  evaluate and propose adjustments to that plan.
• The LAP may be comprised of the research
  component of an action project that is tackling
  the network issues and themes.

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REGARDING LOCAL ACTION PLAN (LAP)

• Added value of the LAP regarding what already
  exists
• A clear contribution of URBACT II to each local
  context
• The LAPs should be addressed to those specific
  themes of the network, with a more specific and
  deeper treatment.
• It may be a big or a small contribution, it
  depends the development stage of the city
• It should improve local policy
• Ensure the dissemination of this added value
• The project should be a catalyst for several
  cities (LAP ULSG)
• The LAP can be an actualization and updating of
  the baseline study
• May be it can facilitate the identification of
  new challenges for the city on the themes or sub
  themes of the network
• The identification of existing constraints in the
  local urban strategy can be also a function of
  the LAPs.
• The LAP can be a strategic framework where
  several plans and projects that already exist can
  be located.

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REGARDING LOCAL ACTION PLAN (LAP)

• The LINKS between the LAPs and the activities
  of the NETWORK
• The LAPs must be bonded/linked to the
  activities of the Network (learning, exchanges
  and knowledge production)
• The network (lead partner lead expert) has
  to play the role of monitoring each LAP.
• The LAPs (as results of the local activities of
  the LSG in each partner city of NeT TOPIC) become
  effective final (or interim) outputs of the
  network.

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Please, answer the following questions regarding
your LOCAL ACTION PLAN (I)

• Which are the specific goals, objectives and
  expected results of your LAP?
• Which are the foreseen activities planned to
  achieve those goals and results?
• How is geographically-defined your local action
  plan?

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Please, answer the following questions regarding
your LOCAL ACTION PLAN (II)

• Is your LAP a mean to reinforce citizen
  participation and involvement of key
  stakeholders?
• Is there already a Master or Strategic Plan in
  place, (advanced or just in a starting point)
  so your LAP will be a complement to that plan?
  How do you foresee the links between them?

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Please, answer the following questions regarding
your LOCAL SUPPORT GROUP

• Are the strategic stakeholders (regarding the
  issues of NeT TOPIC) already involved in the
  ULSG? Who is missing?
• How are you foreseeing the objectives and tasks
  that your LSG can carry out during the project?
  (look at the Guide on creating LAPS of Urbact
  Programme. Page 11)
• Can you give first ideas on how is the ULSG going
  to work (meetings, communication, outputs,
  dissemination, research)
• How your ULSG is going to be involved in
  transnational exchange and learning activities of
  NeT TOPIC?