AGORA Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets
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The transitional phase in which the Danube Region (DR) cities found themselves after the 2008 economic crisis allowed a window of opportunity to enact positive change on the planning policy level. There have been numerous initiatives in the past aimed to reuse, even temporarily, un-valued physical assets for launching novel forms of economies by a new generation of highly skilled/educated youth. Yet such initiatives remained disparate or difficult to replicate - the biggest provocation remains that of embedding the necessary instruments into governance, creating local capacity and instruments to fast-track urban regeneration.
A crucial challenge is thus to increase public administration (PA) capacity to directly harness local potential: a paradigm shift is now needed towards more flexible, inclusive, and creative instruments for Public-Private-People-led physical and social regeneration (PPPP). To achieve this, cities need to become a key player able to catalyse a critical mass of interest groups from different levels around the broader goal of local socio-economic development: PA needs to become an agency for endogenous growth. At the same time, cities also need to overcome a spectrum of bottlenecks, which include legal, administrative and organisational, financial, technical, capacity, and expertise barriers and gaps.
AGORA addesses this by developing and adopting new governance instruments for PAs, building their capacity for effectively involving and empowering a wide group of stakeholders in the reintegration of vacant buildings and land, public and private, into the productive city value system. We want to achieve substantial change in the process and workflow of PA at the local level, as well as to launch a transnational policy-learning platform for supporting Danube Region cities in the reintegration and reconnection of local undevalued assets, giving a new sense to abandoned spaces, brownfields, urban areas in decline.
- Start date
- 01-07-2020
- End date
- 31-12-2022
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2396870.05
- ERDF Contribution: 1892131.33
- IPA Contribution: 74580.64
- ENI Contribution: 70627.55
- Call number
- Call 3
- Priority
- Well-governed Danube region
- Specific objective
- Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
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| _AGORA_TOOLKIT_2022.pdf | 11-01-2023 14:11:17 | |
| CLUJ_NAPOCA.pdf | 09-01-2023 13:34:12 | |
| AGORA BROCHURE | 23-12-2022 13:13:33 | |
| ZENICA_AGORA POSTER | 23-12-2022 12:46:39 | |
| SZARVAS_AGORA POSTER | 23-12-2022 12:40:32 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
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| Cluj-Napoca Municipality | Lead partner | cvovidiu@yahoo.fr | Romania |
| Development Agency North -DAN ltd | ERDF partner | Nikolina.zigmund@dan.hr | Croatia |
| European development agency | ERDF partner | martin.rejmis@eracr.cz | Czech Republic |
| EUTROPIAN GMBH | ERDF partner | daniela.patti@eutropian.org | Austria |
| City of Kranj | ERDF partner | Janez.ziherl@kranj.si | Slovenia |
Project News
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AGORA - AGORA NEWS from Slavonski-Brod
- 19-12-2022
Predviđeni novi sadržaji u Tvrđavi Brod via - Razvojna agencija Grada Slavonskog Broda Read about the vision for the Brod Fortress' future: a building with multifunctional spaces for various contents and activities, manifestations,...
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AGORA - NEW FLAGSHIP ACTIVITY IN ZENICA
- 12-12-2022
On Friday, December 2, 2022, Polytechnic Faculty (Software engineering department) and the company Ant Colony Sarajevo with partner ZeForge organized a Meetup at the Impulse Creative Center of the ZEDA Agency. Participants had the opportunity...
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AGORA - Bottlenecks and drivers of Urban Regeneration in the Danube Region
- 06-10-2022
ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners World Planning Congress presenting: Bottlenecks and drivers of Urban Regeneration in the Danube Region, by Urbasofia's Andrada Lupulescu at Track 3 | PAR7. Social Cohesion and...
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AGORA - PARTNERS @58th ISOCARP WORLD PLANNING CONGRESS
- 05-10-2022
Part of the AGORA Consortium is attending the 58th ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners World Planning Congress in Brussels. AGORA partners from Eutropian, Urbasofia, Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije, and the...
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AGORA - SLAVONSKI BROD's Flagship project in the Brod Fortress
- 16-09-2022
SLAVONSKI BROD's Flagship project in the Brod Fortress 15-16 2022 – two-day IT event. BrodTech Conference is a two-day IT event organized by our local IT scene. This event, which represents the epitome of what we want the fortress to be...
