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1England October 22-26 2008
2Joint action since 1993
- Six Municipalities in the North of Sweden
- Bjurholm
- Nordmaling
- Robertsfors
- Umeå
- Vindeln
- Vännäs
3An alliance for growth
- high quality of community services
- improve the efficiency of municipal activities
- offer services and facilities at lower cost
4Agreement
- Positive development for one municipality is a
positive development for all - Establishment of new business enterprises should
be done without conflict - Job opportunities should be spread throughout the
region - Increased freedom of choice and better service
to inhabitants
5 Aims
- Better efficiency in the public sector through
co-ordination - Work together for development of the region
- The organisation must be based upon democratic
principles
6Functional region
- One labour market region
- 142,000 inhabitants
- 5,000 people commute every day
- Maximum of 45 minutes by car from Umeå to the
other municipal centres - 16,000 business enterprises
7Organisation
- Council of the Region - mayors and vice
mayors - Heads of Municipalities - operative steering
committee - Head of office - prepares the agenda,
carries out decisions, finances and
administration - 20 Thematic Committees - 100 representatives
from all six municipalities
8Committees
- Commercial and industrial life
- Education
- Technique
- Planning
- Tourism
- Staff
- IT
- Environment
- Public transportation
- Purchase/procurement
- Information
- Waste management
- Elderly care
9Examples of successful co-operation
- They all started as projects...
- Joint organisation of tourism
- Joint refugee reception
- Joint library system - United Nations Public
Service Award in 2008 for best innovation in
the public sector
10www.minabibliotek.se
- Minabibliotek.se is the result of many years
- of developmental work
- Participatory Democracy
- Part of the European Capital of Culture venture
- A joint regional web site
11Umeå Region Libraries Strategy for sustainable
development
- The work of the libraries relate to all ten
themes of the Aalborg Commitments and can be
described from all three perspectives of a
sustainable development, social, economic and
ecological. - Results
- Better work environment
- Innovative product development
- Competence development
- Improved professionality
- National and international recognition
12Umeå Region Public libraries Strategy for
sustainable development
- Social sustainability mission
- Spread culture
- Accessible source of information
- Accessible meeting place.
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- Economic sustainability mission
- Increased productivity by sharing costs and
resources. - Create an infrastructure for common investments
(servers, library data systems) - Financial stability through joint procurements
and implementation of Umeå region funding models
and cost distribution - Ecological sustainability mission
- Re-using resources by borrowing books
- Increasing digitalisation of services all
contributes to a better environment - From one tree up to 15000 A4 sheets or 100-150
books can be made
13Sustainable Umeå Region
- Albert Edman, Project leader
14Sustainable Umeå Region
- Project purpose
- Joint regional management system
- Sustainable urban-rural development in functional
labour market region. - Starting points
- Sustainable development is a leadership issue
- Regional growth/development is strengthened by
broad sustainable development perspective - Bottom-up perspective with strong local
involvement. - Process
- Based on Aalborg commitments process.
- Evaluate Aalborg process as a tool from a
functional region perspective. - Cooperation Umeå region and Västerbotten Regional
Council
15Aalborg Commitments?
- EU strategy for sustainable development (2006)
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- Municipalities, cities and towns should be
invited to sign and implement the Aalborg
Commitments. Networks at different levels should
support these activities. -
- European Urban Conference 2004 in Aalborg,
Denmark - More than 500 local and regional signatories in
Europe
16THE AALBORG COMMITMENTS 50 commitments in 10
thematic areas
- 1 GOVERNANCE
- 2 LOCAL MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
- 3 NATURAL COMMON GOODS
- 4 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND LIFESTYLE CHOICES
- 5 PLANNING AND DESIGN
- 6 BETTER MOBILITY, LESS TRAFFIC
- 7 LOCAL ACTION FOR HEALTH
- 8 VIBRANT AND SUSTAINABLE LOCAL ECONOMY
- 9 SOCIAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE
- 10 LOCAL TO GLOBAL
17BETTER MOBILITY, LESS TRAFFIC
- We recognise the interdependence of transport,
health and - environment and are committed to strongly
promoting - sustainable mobility choices.
- We will therefore work to
- 1. reduce the necessity for private motorised
transport and promote attractive alternatives
accessible to all. - 2. increase the share of journeys made by public
transport, on foot and by bicycle. - 3. encourage transition to low-emission
vehicles. - 4. develop an integrated and sustainable urban
mobility plan. - 5. reduce the impact of transport on the
environment and public health.
18Expected results
- Local and regional baseline review
- Six local action plans
- Regional framework with monitoring review system
- Systematic approach to take strategy into
targeted action, new thematic sustainable
networks - New thematic sustainable development projects,
putting innovative ideas into practice
19Local and regional baseline review
- Strengths
- 20 thematic committees in a stable network
creating bottom-up approach developing the region - Well established political co-operation in the
region - Examples
- Umeå region public libraries
- Wind power visualization-Google earth
- District heating (Cooling!) region
- BioFuel Region
- Gender equal and sustainable region
- Umeå European Capital of Culture 2014
20Challenges
- How connect our functional region sustainably?
- Promoting health on equal terms
- Bench-marking with others
- Common vision for sustainable growth
- Procurement of local and regional products
- Climate and energy strategy for the region
21Common wind energy plan for the Umeå RegionUsing
Google Earth to visualize effects
22District heating (cooling) region
- All six municipalities in the region have
district heating systems - More than 70 of the total indoor area in Umeå
- Oil boilers replaced and the amount of
electricity used for heating reduced. - Dåva combined heat and power plant
- One of the worlds most energy effective and
environmentally adapted waste-fuelled plants. - Combination of innovative solutions recover
almost entire energy value of the fuel. - District cooling
- Absorption refrigerators produce district
cooling, driven by district heating
23A region that leads the world in biofuels
The vision To be a world-leading region in
sustainable transport based on biofuels and
bioproducts from renewable rawmaterials.
Therefore we focus on being in the forefront of
societal change, industrial and regional
development, and to increase the availability of
renewable raw materials
24Gender equal, sustainable region
- Develop common knowledge platform on gender
equality in the region - Develop management system to ensure gender equal
service to citizens - Cooperation and knowledge ? gender equal,
sustainable region - Facts about the Umeå region
- European Football Champions 2003, 2004, finalists
2002, 2007, 2008 - Umeå University Center for Gender studies is
National center of excellence - Umeå region has highest of paternal leave days
in Sweden
25- Northern curiosity and passion the art of
Co-creation -
- Mission
- Co-creating sustainability (Stay cool!)
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