 28 August - 2 September 2022  Paluzza (Udine), Italy | Sixth edition
Organised by the OECD Trento Centre - at the initiative of NextPA
Context
In recent years, cities and municipalities in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia has been faced challenges linked to the organisation and provision of public services, but also in outlining and implementing shared inter-municipal wide-area development policies.
Within this context, the Summer School for local administrators was conceived in 2017. It aims at providing space for discussion and reflection upon public sector innovation and improvement of public sector functions to ensure integrated territorial development. Given the small size of many municipalities, developing strategies and planning territorial development with a wide-area perspective and through inter-municipal associations and collaborations opens many new opportunities.
High-impact crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, in the heart of Europe, are shaking up the world, affecting people's lives, communities, work, economic activities and, more generally, nations and the international context. Local governments are on the front line and called upon to be an active and driving force in governing the processes of reconstruction and revitalisation of local economies and societies.
The Summer School, since its inception, contributes to the generation of widespread expertise across the region in driving and governing local development. Each edition of the Summer School brings new local administrators to the Smart Community, i.e. a community of practice made up of all the participants in past editions.
Goal & target group
The Summer School for local administrators - of which this was the sixth edition - is intended as a platform for capacity building and exchange of experiences among local administrators aimed at acquiring knowledge and familiarity with strategic planning and programming. The School helps local authorities to better shape the (long-term) development of their territories including through a more efficient use of public resources, such as regional, national and the EU funds.
The Summer School foresaw participation of a maximum of 24 local administrators from the municipalities of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. Admission was subject to a selection process after a public call for interest.
The Residential Insight Workshop | 28 April - 2 May 2022, Paluzza (Udine, Italy
In 2022 the Community members expressed interest in organising a residential in-depth seminar, to be reserved only for those who were members of the Community, to address some particularly relevant and topical issues that, although already addressed in the Summer School, were worthy of more specific treatment.
The added value of participating in the Workshop:
- It strengthened the group of administrators who participated and offered them a more "operational" view of governance, how it is built and how it is managed;
- It proposeed some insights - so-called technicalities - that are fundamental for the better management of governance and that also correspond to specific questions that already emerged over time within the Community;
- It offered a network of contacts with members representing the business community and regional and local civil society that can be valuable for the work of the participants as administrators.
The "Residential Insight Workshop" took place from 28 April 2022 to 1 May 2022 in Paluzza, Udine, Italy.
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