Declaration of Interest for Thematic networks

To be completed by Lead Partner (LP):

Short title of thematic network or ac-ronym RUnUP

Full title Role of Universities for Economic Develop-ment in Urban Poles

Lead Partner (institution and country) City of Potsdam, Germany (provisional)

To be completed by the URBACT Secretariat (US):Project number (serial number/code)

Received by URBACT Secretariat (date)

Eligibility check (date)

Submitted to External Assessment Panel (date)Approved by Monitoring Committee (date)

Form to be submitted to the URBACT Secretariat by 15 February 2008:- in an electronic format (only if applicants have an electronic signature)

to the following address: project.application@urbact.eu;- or by regular mail (documents must be postmarked no later than 15

February 2008) to the following address: URBACT Secretariat194, Avenue du Président Wilson93217 St Denis La Plaine – France

List of documents to be attached:- 5 Letters of commitment- Excel Financial tables- CV of appointed coordinator at Lead partner’s- CV of planned appointed Lead expert

The URBACT II Operational Programme

(2007 – 2013)

Appendix 4Draft No 1, 17.01.2008

Contents

1 PROJECT SYNTHESIS.................................................................31.1 PROJECT IDENTITY ................................................................................................31.2 SUMMARISED DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT (MAX. 100 WORDS)....................................31.3 PARTNERSHIP (5 CITIES FROM AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT MEMBER STATES)..........................31.4 RELATION TO URBACT THEMATIC COVERAGE.............................................................41.5 FAST TRACK LABEL ..............................................................................................41.6 PROJECT COST (IN €).............................................................................................4

2 PROJECT PRESENTATION............................................................52.1 DESCRIBE THE STARTING SITUATION AND THE MAIN CHALLENGES THAT PARTNER CITIES FACE

IN RELATION WITH THE THEME OF THE PROJECT......................................................52.2 SYNTHETIC PRESENTATION OF THE WHOLE PROJECT......................................................62.3 SUMMARY FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE (FIRST 6 MONTHS) ..........72.4 SCHEDULE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE (FIRST 6 MONTHS)........................................82.5 FIRST ATTEMPT AT AN ESTIMATE OF THE CARBON FOOTPRINT AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION

....................................................................................................................93 INITIAL PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT...........................10

3.1 LEAD PARTNER’S EXPERIENCE................................................................................103.2 LEAD PARTNER’S POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT...............................................................103.3 EXPERIENCE AND EXPECTATIONS OF EACH PARTNER...................................................113.4 APPOINTED LEAD EXPERT.....................................................................................143.5 PARTICIPATION OF MANAGING AUTHORITIES OF OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES..................15

4 PROJECT FINANCE ...................................................................15

5 BANK INFORMATION................................................................16

6 DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE LEAD AND PROJECT PARTNERS 17

7. CERTIFYING BODIES...............................................................21

8 CERTIFICATION ......................................................................22 OUTLINE TEXT FOR A LETTER OF COMMITMENT BY A LEAD PARTNER...................................23 OUTLINE TEXT FOR A LETTER OF COMMITMENT BY A CITY PARTNER.....................................24

1 PROJECT SYNTHESIS

1.1 Project identity Short title or acronym (max. 20 characters)

RunUP

Full title Role of Universities for Economic Development in Urban Poles

Lead Partner (institution and country)

City of Potsdam, Germany (provisonal)

1.2 Summarised description of the project (max. 100 words)

1.3 Partnership (5 cities from at least 3 different Member States)

Name of part-ner institution

Type of insti-tution

Convergence/ Competitive-ness

Member/ Part-ner State

Region in which city is situated

LPPP 1 Campobasso

MunicipalityMunicipality Competitive

nessItaly Molise

PP 2PP 3PP 4

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1.4 Relation to URBACT thematic coverageWhich of the seven URBACT II themes do you see your project relat-ing to most strongly? (Please select one theme only, writing ‘X’ in the right hand column)

Priority Axe 1 – Cities, Engines for growth and jobs1.1. Promoting Entrepreneurship X1.2. Improving Innovation & Knowledge Economy1.3. Employment & Human Capital

Priority Axe 2 – Attractive and cohesive cities2.1. Integrated development of deprived areas and areas at risk of deprivation 2.2. Social integration 2.3. Environmental issues 2.4. Governance & Urban Planning

1.5 Fast Track Label

Are you interested in the fast track label? (Yes/No) NoIf Yes, under which of the seven Fast Track thematic areas below do you wish to be considered (Please select one thematic area only, writ-ing ‘X’ in the right hand column):1 Making healthy communities2 Integrated policies on urban transport3 Developing sustainable and energy-efficient housing stock4 Integrating marginalised youth5 Managing migration and facilitating social integration6 Achieving sustainable urban development7 Re-using brownfield and waste disposal sites

1.6 Project cost (in €)ERDF fundingPublic co-financing (EU PP)Private co-financing (EU PP)Public co-financing (Non EU PP)Private co-financing (Non EU PP)TOTAL

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2 PROJECT PRESENTATION

2.1 Describe the starting situation and the main challenges that partner cities face in relation with the theme of the project(You may use problem tree if possible - 1 page max.)

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2.2 Synthetic presentation of the whole project(Please present here the main objective, issue and expected outputs relating to the implementation of the project over its entire duration – 1 page maximum)

Main objective (please focus on one objective)

Main issue to be addressed in relation with the selected theme (please focus on the core issue)

Main expected outputs (Local Action Plans, good practices, policy recommendations, recommendations, etc.)

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2.3 Summary framework for the Project Development Phase (first 6 months) 1

Objectives Actions to be implemented in relation with the objective

Related outputs

Object-ive n°1

(e.g. Finalising partnership)

1.1. (e.g. Searching for potential part-ners and contacting them by phone, etc.)

1.2. (e.g. Meeting with all partners to agree on project objectives, issues, etc.)

1.3. etc.

(e.g. 1 partnership)

Object-ive n°2

(e.g. Comple-tion of baseline study)

2.1. (e.g. Visiting all partners to com-plete local enquiries)

2.2. (e.g. Realising the “State of the art” of existing knowledge at EU level)

2.3.etc.

(e.g. 1 baseline study)

Object-ive n°3

(e.g. Comple-tion of Final ap-plication)

3.1. (e.g. Completing Final Application Form)

3.2. (e.g. Collecting letters of commit-ment from all partners)

3.3.etc.

(e.g. Final Application Form, 5 letters of Commitment, etc.)

Etc. (add rows if needed)

1 The excel spreadsheet n° 1.5 of the annexed financial tables shall indicate the budget per action.. This must be coherent both with paragraph 2.3 of the De-claration of Interest and with table 1.4 of the budget.

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2.4 Schedule for the Development phase (first 6 months)Please define the schedule for the implementation of the actions listed in section 2.3. Use reference number and short title of the actions listed above.For each action, fill in the boxes corresponding to the period during which the action will be undertaken.

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6(e.g.) 1.1. Searching partners(e.g. 1.2. Meeting with part-ners)

X

Etc.Add rows as needed

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2.5 First attempt2 at an estimate of the carbon footprint and re-source consumption

Activity Estimation of carbon per unit of travel

Total carbon to be con-sumed

Actions to mitigate carbon (e.g. virtual meetings, video con-ference, sustainable meetings)

Flight dis-tances for European meetingsTrain dis-tances for European meetings (km)Car distances for Local meetings kmPublic trans-port distances for local meet-ings kmVirtual meet-ings

0

Other Total

GUIDANCE TO FILL THIS TABLE WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE APPLIC-ANTS PACK

2 Face to face meetings are important but scores will be awarded for efforts to mitigate impact. In the final application waste minimisation (e.g. of paper) will also be evaluated.

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3 INITIAL PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT

3.1 Lead Partner’s experience

3.2 Lead Partner’s political involvementIf an elected representative has been nominated, within the LP’s institution, to follow the project, please indicate his/ her name and responsibilities/ policy field a he/ she is entrusted with.

Name of elected representative/ official in charge of the projectResponsibilities/ Policy field

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LP’s experience of the problem to be ad-dressed by the networkLP’s experience in European networksExperience of the LP’s named officer in charge of leading the network (Please attach CV)

3.3 Experience and expectations of each partner(1 table per partner, including LP – ½ page max. per partner)Lead PartnerLocal problem and chal-lenge regarding this prob-lematicPolicies and concrete ac-tions developed regard-ing this problematicWillingness to define and adopt a local action plan Willingness to set up an URBACT Local Support Group (Give first ideas of the ULSG composition)

Experience of working in related fields through transnational exchangeExpected learning from the network

Partner 1 CAMPOBASSO Local problem and challenge re-garding this problematic

PROBLEMS: The weakness of the economic environment is due mainly to non-structured micro-enterprises. High unem-ployment rate, mostly among young people.CHALLENGES: Integrate services for enterprises and young citizens to support competitiveness through knowledge and technology transfer strengthening the connections between the university, research centres and enterprises.

Policies and con-crete actions de-veloped regard-ing this problem-atic

Local actors already provide technical assistance to profit and non-profit enterprises to increase their development and innovation. The local actors involved in the economic devel-opment process founded an institution called “Citadel of Eco-nomy” in order to converge all the actions for the achieve-ment of local economic development. Integration of the pro-cess components is needed. A common path towards really integrated strategic policies, even leading to concrete solu-tions for employment, will be drawn through the local actors involved.

Willingness to define and adopt a local action plan

Creation and adoption of a Local Action Plan, complying to programming and planning policies, is needed to boost busi-ness development.

Willingness to set up an URBACT Local Support Group (Give first ideas of the ULSG com-

The Local Support Group will be formed by: Campobasso Mu-nicipality, mainly through “Citadel of Economy” and Business and Social Incubator; Molise University, and Industrial Liaison Office; The Scientific and Technological Park of Molise; Re-gional Association of the Chambers of Commerce of Molise, through the Innovative Business Incubator; Molise Region, as

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position) Managing Local Authority has to integrate all the strategies and actions of the partners with its own programming policies.Other local actors supporting the project are: Province of Campobasso, through its “employment offices”; SMEs Asso-ciations involved in economic and business development (in-dustry, trade, handycraft, agriculture, etc.); The Local Action Group “Molise Verso il 2000”, which operates through the Social Business Incubator.

Experience of working in re-lated fields through transna-tional exchange

Innovation Centre; a project to improve innovation know-ledge and promote new knowledge based enterprises through a real incubator and a virtual incubator; creation of the Citadel Of Economy:URBAN: network of cities.Rosa (Interreg IIIA): a network for research in the Adriatic area, focused on innovation business. Promital (Interreg IIIA) to increase trade and cooperation between Albanian and Italian SMEs.Watercycle (Interreg IIIA): integrated water management systems, creation of environmental enterprisesCriminologia, to improve security for businesses, trade and people. Leonardo – to develop social firms and to help people with disabilities.Adapt – global service. Integra – social firms for social inclusion.Art.6 of Social European Fund “Action”: focused on em-ployment policies.Cooperation Fund– projects regarding social activities.

Expected learn-ing from the net-work

To re-center the role of the University as main actor in the improvement process of the “Citadel of Economy” (whose partners are: Campobasso Municipality, Campobasso Province, Regional Association of the Chambers of Com-merce of Molise, “Matese per l’occupazione”) through the in-tegration and standardisation of services for SMEs to fulfil their need of innovation and increase their competitiveness. In this scenario, the Molise University will have a leading role, translating into actions, procedures and models for the SMEs. Molise Region, as Managing Local Authority has to integrate all the strategies and actions of the partners with its own programming policies for the period 2007/2013. It will imple-ment the results of this project in the planning frame with particular regards to Integrated Project for Urban Develop-ment (PISU).Furthermore, developing the Local Action Plan will be sup-ported by the firm encharged to manage the Citadel of Eco-nomy, called “Centro Fieristico Polifunzionale di Selva Piana S.p.a”.

Partner 2

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Local problem and chal-lenge regarding this prob-lematicPolicies and concrete ac-tions developed regard-ing this problematicWillingness to define and adopt a local action plan Willingness to set up an URBACT Local Support Group (Give first ideas of the ULSG composition)

Experience of working in related fields through transnational exchangeExpected learning from the network

Partner 3Local problem and chal-lenge regarding this prob-lematicPolicies and concrete ac-tions developed regard-ing this problematicWillingness to define and adopt a local action plan Willingness to set up an URBACT Local Support Group (Give first ideas of the ULSG composition)

Experience of working in related fields through transnational exchangeExpected learning from the network

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Partner 4Local problem and chal-lenge regarding this prob-lematicPolicies and concrete ac-tions developed regard-ing this problematicWillingness to define and adopt a local action plan Willingness to set up an URBACT Local Support Group (Give first ideas of the ULSG composition)

Experience of working in related fields through transnational exchangeExpected learning from the network

3.4 Appointed Lead expertPlease designate the Thematic expert you intend to appoint as Lead expert if the project is approved for Development phase (the designated expert should be selected from the URBACT II pool of approved Thematic experts available on the URBACT website).

Name of Lead expertBrief description of ex-perience relevant to the project’s theme (Please attach CV)

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3.5 Participation of Managing Authorities of Operational Pro-grammes

If you intend to associate Managing authorities to the network’s activities, please present briefly how you plan to do so.Regione Molise has to integrate all the strategies and actions of the part-ners with its own programming policies.

Please list Managing Authorities to be involved in network’s activities if available:

MANAGING AUTHORITY INSTITUTIONLPPP1 Regione MolisePP2PP3PP4

4 PROJECT FINANCE

Please complete separate Excel financial tables.

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5 BANK INFORMATION

Name and address of Lead Partner’s bank

Bank account number

IBAN (International Bank Account Number) and SWIFT/BIC

Internal reference If relevant

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6 DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE LEAD AND PROJECT PARTNERS

LEAD PARTNERInstitutionDepartment

Legal status Use the most appropriate 3-character code from the list in the Applic-ants’ Manual

Contact per-sonAddressPostal codeTownRegionCountryPhoneMobile phoneFaxE-mail

Person responsible for Project Coordination at the Lead partnerNameInstitution FunctionAddressCountryPhone (office)Mobile phoneFaxE-mail

Person responsible for Financial management at the lead partnerNamePhoneMobile phoneFaxE-mail

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Person responsible for Communication at the lead partnerNamePhoneMobile phoneFaxE-mail

Financial ContributionSource Legal basis for decision of funding Amount (in €)

PARTNER 1Organisation Municipality of CampobassoDepartment Programming DepartmentLegal status Public AdministrationAddress Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 29Postal code 86100Town CampobassoRegion MoliseCountry ItalyContact per-son Giuliana Carano

Phone (office) +39 0874 405210Mobile phone +39 329 6509469Fax +39 0874 405636E-mail giuliana.carano@comune.campobasso.it

Financial ContributionSource Legal basis for decision of funding Amount (in €)

Municipal Budget 3.200 €

PARTNER 2OrganisationDepartment

Legal status Use the most appropriate 3-character code from the list in the Applic-ants’ Manual

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AddressPostal codeTownRegionCountryContact per-sonPhoneMobile phoneFaxE-mail

Financial ContributionSource Legal basis for decision of funding Amount (in €)

PARTNER 3OrganisationDepartment

Legal status Use the most appropriate 3-character code from the list in the Applic-ants’ Manual

AddressPostal codeTownRegionCountryContact per-sonPhone (office)Mobile phoneFaxE-mail

Financial ContributionSource Legal basis for decision of funding Amount (in €)

PARTNER 4

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OrganisationDepartment

Legal status Use the most appropriate 3-character code from the list in the Applic-ants’ Manua

AddressPostal codeTownRegionCountryContact per-sonPhone (office)Mobile phoneFaxE-mail

Financial ContributionSource Legal basis for decision of funding Amount (in €)

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7. CERTIFYING BODIES3

Please indicate in this table the certifying bodies proposed for each partner.4

Partners Certifying bodies5

LP City of…(Name, Surname, Institution, Function, address, telephone number, fax number, email address,

additional info if necessary)

PP1 City of Campobasso

(Name Giuliana, Surname Carano, Institution Municipality of Campopbasso, Function Diri-

gente, address Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, tele-phone number +39 0874 405210, fax

number+39 0874 405636, email address giuli-ana.carano@comune.campobasso.it, additional

info if necessary)

PP2 City of...(Name, Surname, Institution, Function, address, telephone number, fax number, email address,

additional info if necessary)

PP3 City of...(Name, Surname, Institution, Function, address, telephone number, fax number, email address,

additional info if necessary)

PP4 City of...(Name, Surname, Institution, Function, address, telephone number, fax number, email address,

additional info if necessary)

3 According to Article 16 of Regulation (EC) 1080/2006. 4 Before the expenditure can be claimed to the Commission, every partner has to fill in and sign a checklist indicating the proposed certifying body (a model of checklist shall be provided by the URBACT Secretariat). The filled in and signed checklist must be sent to the national authority concerned. Evidence of the approval has to be sent by the national authority to the URBACT Secretariat in order to provide the certifying body with a personal login and password to access PRESAGE-CTE.5 In the case of a centralised financial management system, only the certify-ing body at LP level needs to be indicated. In the case of a decentralised or mixed financial management system, the certifying bodies of the partners spending, ac-counting and claiming a part or the totality of their contributions need to be indic-ated.

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8 CERTIFICATION

I hereby certify that the information stated in this application is to the best of my knowledge accurate and true.

Signature (elected Member):

Name (capital letters):

GIUSEPPE DI FABIOPosition:

MAJOR OF CAMPOBASSO MUNICIPALITYDate:05/02/08

Signature (Lead Partner Fi-nancial Responsible:

Name (capital letters):

Position:

Date:

Official stamp

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Official stamp

Outline text for a letter of commitment by a Lead partner(On Lead partner’s institution headed paper)

URBACT Managing Authority194 avenue du Pdt WilsonF-93217 Saint Denis la Plaine Cedex

DateDear Sir,

The city of XXX wishes to be the Lead Partner in the activities of the URBACT thematic network named RUnUP. Our network project builds on an initial partnership of 5 Cities in total that belong to ZZZ Member or Partner States and we consider that we have achieved a good balance between conver-gence and competitiveness Objective regions by having WWW cities from convergence regions.

The specific challenge we wish to address in our city is AAAAA.

We are convinced that by working through this URBACT network we will be able better address these challenges. In this context if successful with our proposal we commit to put in place a URBACT local support group made up of key local stakeholders relevant to the theme of our network. This local support group will work to define and implement a Local Action Plan using the knowledge and expertise generated by our joint working.

To this end we also formally commit to engaging the funds needed to co fin-ance ERDF. In the first phase, this is estimated to amount to BBB €

Yours sincerely6 _________________________________Name in capital letters:_________________________________Function:_________________________________

6 The signatory person has to be an elected representative with authority to sign for the Lead Partner city

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Official stamp

Outline text for a letter of commitment by a city partner(On partner’s institution headed paper)

URBACT Managing AuthorityDélégation interministérielle à la Ville194, avenue du Pdt WilsonF-93217 Saint Denis la Plaine Cedex

DateDear Sir,

The city of XXX wishes to join in the activities of the URBACT thematic net-work named RUnUP led by the City of WWW.

The specific challenge we wish to address in our city is AAAAA.

We are convinced that by working through this URBACT network we will be able better address these challenges. In this context if successful with our proposal, we commit to put in place a URBACT local support group made up of key local stakeholders relevant to the theme of our network. This local support group will work to define and implement a Local Action Plan using the knowledge and expertise generated by our joint working.

To this end we also formally commit to engaging the funds needed to cofin-ance ERDF. In the first phase this is estimated to amount to ZZZZ €

Yours sincerely7 _________________________________Name in capital letters:_________________________________Function:_________________________________

7 The signatory person has to be an elected representative with authority to sign for the Partner city.

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Official stamp