URBACT Spanish French 02/05/2005
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. Cities URBAN I II PPU:
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| The URBAN program should help to improve the relevance and effectiveness of politics and actions lead to struggle against the concentration of economic, social and environmental problems which arise in small, medium-sized or large European towns and cities, taking the specific characteristic of each one into account. The program should also fuel the reflections on further Community policies on urban matters, on the basis of concrete local experiences in the field. |
| The contribution of the URBACT program to the URBAN and UPP program |
| A large majority of Europeans live in
cities. In spite of the determining part they play in the economic growth,
the employment and the competitiveness, the cities experience strong
difficulties: unequal urban growth, forming areas of economic and social
relegation, and deterioration of the environment. With a view to solving
this strong concentration of social, economic and environmental problems
in the cities, the European Commission has lead, since the end of the
eighties, several actions favoring integrated approaches of urban
regeneration. For instance, 59 Urban Pilot Projects and 118 projects in
the name of URBAN I, have been helped par the European Commission in favor
of these goals between 1989 and 1999. Taking into account the
noticeable improvements in the concerned zones, the Commission proposed to
the Member States a new initiative called URBAN II, having in prospect,
the implementation of innovating strategies of sustainable social and
economic regeneration, in small and medium cities, or in areas in crisis
in the big cities. The areas affected, are in particular characterized by
high levels of unemployment, criminality and poverty, and by inadequacy of
public services. These innovating strategies must rely on skilled implementation structures within the cities (elected representatives and technicians), a strong local partnership with the inhabitants, the private sector , the services of general interest and the other communities, an integrated territorial approach, and consistency between the strategy of the area in crisis, and the one driven at the level of the agglomeration. The URBAN program insists most particularly on the necessity of developing knowledge and exchanges of good practices in the field of integrated urban management. It encourages a better linking between the Community and the national interventions in the urban areas. |
| In this
spirit, the URBACT program, which shall be implemented between 2003 and 2006, and which is
in priority directed at the cities having benefited from the URBAN I, II
and UPP programs, is more particularly expected to reach the following
goals: - the creating of a flow of good practice exchanges between the cities concerned by the program, in particular by the setting up of thematic networks bringing together on the basis of voluntary participation, the cities and their public and private partners; - the accumulation of knowledge and know-how, drawn from the experience acquired by the cities, thanks to the URBAN and UPP programs, - the improvement of the action capacity of the different actors of the city in the fields covered by the same programs, - the dissemination of knowledge, thanks to information tools such as a web-site, or the building up of a tool-box bringing together the most performing operational modes, - the enrichment of reflection about urban policies to be set up in the following years. |
| The Monitoring Committee has adopted the terms of reference for the thematic |
| networks on 20 February 2003. |
| Proposals deal with the core issues of the URBAN programs : |
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social exclusion the inclusion of populations of foreign origin physical regeneration of urban areas transport and environment economic activity (SMEs, innovation...) and employment as an instrument of inclusion training questions concerning urban crime prevention the information society young people: from exclusion to inclusion public-private partnerships citizen participation governance of projects integrated approach |
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| The National Policy Database tables describe the key aspects of national urban policy in the Member States of the European Union. Updated regularly by national experts engaged by the URBACT Secretariat, their primary interest is to provide information to municipal decision-makers in order to facilitate the establishment of cooperations. |
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