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Economic development & Labour markets

Explore how cities manage complex city regions, tackle economic challenges, and engage citizens for effective governance in the metropolitan context.

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Economic development & Labour markets

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  1. URBACT City Lab – Metropolitan GovernanceWORKSHOP 2 – Economic development & Labour markets12 February 2010 - Lille

  2. Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 1 1) How do cities deal with the complexity of managing both the morphological and functional city regions which are cleaved by national, regional and local administrative boundaries? • What are the main challenges facing cities when it comes to intervening in economic and employment development at different spatial levels (legal powers, financial capacity, critical mass, skills and know-how, spill-overs, competition with other cities, beggar they neighbour policies….) • What responses have been tried in relation economic development & employment? • How are competences best attributed between levels of government?  What goes where in economic development and employment– are there appropriate spatial scales for specific functions? Title of presentation I Friday, 20 December 2019 I Page 2

  3. Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 2 2) What types of innovative arrangements do they develop in order to overcome the resulting political, financial and/or administrative divisions? • How to support innovation and creativity at city level? • How can mainstream city functions and investments be used to influence labour markets and the economy (land use planning, regeneration, procurement, employment, local administration and regulation)? • How can finance, taxation and pooled funding be organised across boundaries in relation to different fields ? (e.g. financial instruments for supporting SMEs)? Title of presentation I Friday, 20 December 2019 I Page 3

  4. Economic development & Labour markets KEY QUESTION 3 3) How does the citizen remain engaged and the system maintain legitimacy in increasingly complex governance arrangements? • What role for the private and third/voluntary sectors in the governance of economic development ? • How can the metropolitan framework best support or integrate local or neighbourhood initiatives in order to reduce polarisation and fully use human and material resources? • How to lever-in supra-municipal support without losing local control? Title of presentation I Friday, 20 December 2019 I Page 4

  5. Speakers (morning session) • Ab Hoosting & Harm Mertens, City of Eindhoven / Samenwerkingsverband Regio Eindhoven (NL) - Brainport project – Joining Forces partner • Istvan Ferencsik, Ister-Granum/ Esztergom (SK–HU) - Solidarity fund – EGTC partner • Joan Miquel Pique, LocalRet, Barcelona (SP) • Moderator: Paul Soto, URBACT Thematic Pole manager • Rapporteur: Thierry Baert, Lead Partner Joining Forces Title of presentation I Friday, 20 December 2019 I Page 5

  6. Speakers (afternoon session) • Thierry Baert, Lille Metropole, Joining Forces Lead Partner • Tobias Chilla, University of Luxembourg, Espon Metroborder project • Christian Vandermotten, Université Libre de Bruxelles • Moderator: Paul Soto, URBACT Thematic Pole manager • Rapporteur: Thierry Baert, Lead Partner Joining Forces Title of presentation I Friday, 20 December 2019 I Page 6

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