City under review role
EUI received a total of 9 applications from 9 EU Member States, with a majority coming from less developed countries. Seven of the applications have been approved:
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Applicant
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Country
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Territorial focus
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Topics
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Municipality of Schaerbeek
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Belgium
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FUA
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Governance – inter-departmental collaboration for more sustainable project delivery
Stakeholders – building strong and lasting partnerships with citizens and private actors.
Monitoring – developing appropriate indicators to measure impact
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Municipality of Pescara
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Italy
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City
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Stakeholders – focus on local green deal and the formalisation of stakeholder’s role in strategy implementation
Monitoring and evaluation – improving impact measurement and alignment with other initiatives (SDG)
Functional Urban Area – metropolitan collaboration and setting up a governance framework which can operate at metropolitan level
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Municipality of Szombathely
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Hungary
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FUA
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Funding and Finance – lack of public funding requires innovative solutions
Cross sectoral – collaboration between public and private sector operators in the healthcare sector
Cross border collaboration – focus on working with neighbouring authorities for better quality projects
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Dienvidkurzeme municipality
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Latvia
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FUA
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Stakeholders – focus on working with the private sector to encourage business startup
Sustainable tourism – a focus on the fishing industry and the ambition to increase tourism in the city
Governance – explore new forms of associations or cooperatives especially in the local produce sector
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City of Stalowa Wola
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Poland
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City
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Strategic dimension – focus on economic transition of the city to address out-migration through a shared vision for the strategy
Funding and Finance – the need for diverse sources of funding from public and private sources should be addressed
Monitoring – identifying suitable tools and systems to track progress and have a real time analysis.
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City of Malmö
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Sweden
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City
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Strategic dimension – how can indicators help with prioritisation of urban actions
Monitoring – how to develop both short and long term indicators
Governance – how can indicators and data collection be synchronised across different organisations
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ADI Cluj Metropolitan Area
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Romania
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FUA
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Strategic dimension – focus on working across the 19 municipalities for a more coherent and integrated approach for the strategy
Monitoring and evaluation – evidence-based data collection and tools for monitoring and reporting are needed
Funding and Finance – planning project pipelines to support the use of blended funding sources.
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Peer reviewer role
A total of 29 applications were received from 11 EU Member States, seven coming from Spain and six from Italy. Over 90% were from smaller cities with less than 500.000 inhabitants and 18 out of 29 applications came from Article 11 cities. After a careful assessment, 20 peer reviewers coming from 10 Member States have been approved. A total of 16 out of 20 are from Article 11 cities and 12 from less developed or transition regions.
What’s next?
Our team of experts is currently working on the matchmaking phase: this means finding the best possible peer reviewers to help on the guiding questions that the cities under review brought forward.
Following this process, the teams of experts, cities under review and selected peer reviewers will be put together in groups and will be invited to join the two Peer Reviews organised this Autumn.
Congratulations to all our new colleagues!
If you are also interested in joining the Peer Review adventure, please remember that EUI is organising two calls for Peer Reviews yearly, usually in March and in October. If you need a little push, find inspiration here, where previous beneficiaries are sharing five reasons to apply to join a Peer Review, or book a consultation with a member of the Capacity Building team to get tailored advice.
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