UDN session ITI and CLLD: lessons learned and ways ahead

Brussels, Belgium 9 October 2019

KolorCommunity in Kazincbarcika

Balázs Wächter LAG manager

The Urban Development Network @ the EU Week of Regions and Cities 2019

Key features of Kazincbarcika

In one of the poorest region of EU (Northern Hungary)

28.000 inhabitants – out moving talent and young generation

Suffering from the collapse of heavy industry (mining)

Borsodchem Zrt – chemistry factory with ca 2500 workers

Nowdays revenue for the city but risk of hazards

Green areas and sculptures

New image - Kolorcity programme from 2015

Creativity, innovation, local co-operation for human

Ca. 35 murals, street arts, festival

Business development

Cooperation among

generations

National level framework – Urban CLLD

Operational Programme for urban and regional development

TO 9 A -Thematic objective: promoting social inclusion and combating poverty

OP – investment priority: Investments in community led local strategies

Specific objective of relevant OP

• To increase activity of local communities in the cities by implementation of local community organisation activities and cultural programmes

Focus and specific objectives of local strategies was determined by the national level OP

Objectives of local strategy

Vision

Innovative city, where the local communities, generations, enterprises cooperate each other and deliver diverse, innovative and creative activities, which can be presented in the rehabilitation of public spaces and buildings.

Specific objectives of strategy

Rehabilitation of public

spaces and green areas

Cooperative City

• encourage higher cooperation levels amongst organisations and generations

Creative City

• encourage creative activities amongst local residents

Digital City

• development of communication platform to promote cooperation between businesses, institutions and citizens

Outputs achieved

• Design and implementation of local CLLD model

• Process to build local participative capacity

• Building trust

• Informative forum

• Partnership building

• Stories from outside of the city

• Mechanism to launch calls and select projects for investment and cooperation activities

• Call for proposal

• Project development

• Project selection

• Ongoing implementation

• Total budget €1,88m

• 2/3 ERDF and 1/3 ESF

Supported projects – activities

•Place for outdoor events

•Developed sport and playground Rehabilitated central parks

•Community biking, hiking, walking, rolling within the city

•Professional leisure sport activities

•Sport days for families Leisure sport

•Event for highlighting the chances and difficulties of patents with cancer

•Day of the Health with information campaigng

•Cooperation among people living with and without handicaps Health

•Kazincbarcika 100 – City of the future - doing creative draws, poets, songs

•Library of city history – photos and interesting stories

•Showhajtás 2020 – search the most colourful school of the city – creative programmes

•Creative, dancing, sculpture design camps for teenagers and children

Creative community

•Modern and informative webpage, developed KolorApp, the city application

•Better information and service for inhabitants and enterprises

•Time banking, special local webpage for gifts

•Local voting – as preparing the participative budget

Digital city

Main successes and first results

• Bottom-up local projects funded by EU investment

• Higher levels of cross-sectoral collaboration

• Building new co-operations – integration and harmonization of ideas, aims

• Implementation of integrated approach

Challenges

Technical restriction for small scale projects (max size 10.000 EUR)

• e.g. procurement process, restricted use of simple financial methods (e.g. flat rate, unit cost) only for technical matters

Cooperation between local and national level administration (Intermediate body)

• Administrative delays of contracting – continuous learning process

„Low” levels of participative/collaborative capacity

• Coaching and facilitating the project development and management, reporting

• Adapting of projects and partnerships to the rules

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