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Partnership City Initiative (PCI) – strategic project of the Strategy for Responsible

Development of Poland

Magdalena Skwarska, Department of Development Strategy

Ministry of Investments and Economic Development

Brussels, 10th of October 2019

International backround of the PCI project

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National backround of PCI

The Strategy for Responsible

Development (SRD)

Objective II –

Development of socially sensitive and

territorially sustainable

• New regional policy paradigm

• Special attention to the medium

and small cities

• Strategic projects

National Urban Policy 2023 (NUP)

• priorities and directions of urban

development

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Ministry of Investments and Economic Development

– institution coordinating the implementation of NUP and SRD

• implementation of strategic projects for cities

• creation of National Urban Forum for coordination of sectoral

ministries

• Organization of World Urban Forum in 2022 (KATOWICE)

Objectives of Partnership City Initiative

Improving the development conditions and supporting the integrated and sustainable development of the Polish cities

1. Strengthening and encouraging partnership cooperation and exchange of knowledge beetwen cities

Strategic

objective

4. Involvement cities into the implementation of the national and European objectives

2. Capitalisation of knowledge and development of bottom-up proposals

Specific

objectives

3. Improving the competence of the employees of institutions dealing with urban management to partnership cooperation and implementation of innovative projects

1. Urban Mobility

2. Urban revitalization

3. Air quality

THEMATIC „SELF – LEARNING „ NETWORKS bringing together a group of cities to diagnose and analyse good practices and innovative solutions around the urban priorities indicated at national level and linked with UA of the UE– supported by

experts and Ministry (2 years duration)

Basic PCI implementation mechanism

• City’s Actions Initiative at each city level taking part in Networks describing the action plan for the specific city’s problems/challenge solutions in the particular thematic scope build around the lessons learned from the exchange of experience and mutual learning phase.

Basic products of the Network

• Improvement Plan: one document for each Network giving feedback to national and EU level - recommendation/guidelines regarding the given policy, proposals of legislative changes, case studies and best practices;

Areas of network activities

• Organisation of network meetings, study visits

• Collecting good practices and innovative solutions

• Additional studies and expert opinions

I. Activities related to the exchange of experience and

mutual learning

• Dissemination of information and mainstreaming at the local level

• Work in each city on the document City’s Actions Initiative

• Establishing a Local Partnership in each city

II. Translating good practices to local level

• Work at the level of the Network on the Improvement Plan

• Development of contributions to the work of the EUUA partnerships – strengthening the Polish partners participating in partnerships

• Information flow among the national and European partnerships within the EUUA and „URBACT cities”

III. Activities related to capitalisation of knowledge and developing bottom-up

proposals of system solutions

General component of disseminating acquired knowledge as part of all operating networks for a wider group of recipients

Szczeciński Obszar Metropolitalny

Cieszyn

Jastrzębie-Zdrój

Czechowice-Dziedzice

Skawina

Wadowice

Wałbrzych

Legnica

Nowa Sól

Olsztyn

Nowa Ruda

Związek Międzygminny ds. Ekologii w Żywcu

Stowarzyszenie Białostockiego

Obszaru Funkcjonalnego

Bojanowo

Kudowa-Zdrój

Nowy Sącz

Opalenica

Pszczyna

Rawicz

Żmigród

Toruń

Katowice

Malbork

Gdynia

Gryfino

Hrubieszów

Łosice

Ostróda

Pabianice

Przemyśl

Stalowa Wola Tomaszów

Lubelski

Świebodzice

URBAN MOBILITY

REVITALIZATION

AIR QUALITY

Lider

City: large

medium

small

Functional Area

PIM - 34 cities/FUA

Operational Programme Technical Assistance 2014-2020

Costs of the functioning of each network

organisation of national meetings of individual networks (venue, accomodation, costs of travel)

work of 3 thematic experts – one for each network

support for cities in establishing Local Partnerships, conducting first meetings and works on City’s Actions Initiative

CPI financing

What is ahead of us?

Dissemination of acquired knowledge as part of all operating Networks for a wider group of recipients – report, publication, conferences

Promotion of recommendations from Improvement Plans

Further support for implementation of the best City’s Actions Initiative (micro-grants for testing, feasibility study, technical documentation, preparation for EU financing)

NEW NETWORKS !!!! Linking with new EU funds

Thank you for your attention!

Contact: pim@miir.gov.pl, magdalena.skwarska@miir.gov.pl