Enhancing intermunicipal cooperation for Sustainable Urban Development in Portugal: a capacity building event
This event aimed at supporting these institutions to better implement their sustainable urban development strategies financed through EU Cohesion Policy and focused on:
- discussing and showcasing innovative intermunicipal/multi-level governance models for sustainable urban development;
- presenting innovative sustainable urban development projects in different themes from Portugal and other EU Member States with a view to upscaling or replicating such projects at CIM/Metropolitan Area levels.
By the end of the two-day event, participants were able to:
- find inspiration in what worked or did not work in other areas;
- build their capacities, skills and knowledge on specific topics related to intermunicipal cooperation for SUD in Portugal;
- build a toolbox to help them adapt and implement innovative ideas to their own context and their specific challenges;
- take a first step on the EUI capacity building learning path and prepare their participation in other events and formats (e.g. City-to-City Exchange, Peer Review).
The specific topics which were tackled throughout the event, in various interactive formats, had been identified by the Portuguese CIMs, Metropolitan Areas and Municipalities through a survey they filled in in November 2024. Some of the challenges that were named included multi-level coordination and participation, need for technical capacity building, attracting and retaining talent, circular economy, managing the digital transformation, and territorial resilience.
The agenda of the event is available on this page and the presentations will be made available here shortly.
Curious to see how it went? Check out our Flickr for images from the event!
Any questions?
Feel free to contact your Urban Contact Point or the European Urban Initiative at capacitybuilding@urban-initiative.eu.