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UPCOMING EVENTS
5th COMUNIS Project workshop: 27-28 July 2011, Province of Asti (IT)
Alpine Space Mid Term Conference - Driving Cooperation for the Alps: 16-17 June 2011, Grenoble (F)
Asti: 5th Transnational project meeting
The local develoment agency Langhe actions by local stakeholders. COMUNIS aims at developing
Monferrato Roero (LAMORO) intends cooperative strategies for inter-
Focus on Evaluation and Adaptation municipal Commercial Location
to combine the project meeting with an
Work package 7 “Evaluation and Adap- Development (CLD). By foster-
open conference. Main local stakehold-
tation” is essential for the viability and ing intra-territorial cooperation,
ers that are (in-)directly involved in the
sustainability of project results and in- COMUNIS wants to overcome
pilot action will be invited.
struments after the official end of the individualistic attempts of prob-
The University of Economy of Asti will project. lem solution on the level of single
present main local results. The confer- municipalities. COMUNIS will pro-
Work Package 7 has the main purpose to
ence will be a good chance to collect vide broadly adaptable guidelines
critically evaluate the project develop-
mid-term project results and carry out a to apply such strategies and offer
ment and implementation in the pilot ar-
first evaluation of the obtained results. practical instruments for assess-
eas as well as the consecutive adaptation
Day 1: Presentations by the project ing local and regional demand
of the CLD strategies and instruments
partners and a sum up of outputs and for the steering of CLD. The proj-
based on the experiences made and les- ect will result in a transnational
activities, both in terms of content and sons learnt in the pilot regions. knowledge management and es-
finance.
Valentina Scioneri tablish sustainable structures for
Day 2: Presentation of official publicity managing CLD in the COMUNIS
Langhe Monferrato Roero
pilot areas. The COMUNIS project
COMUNIS at the Alpine Convention: is part of the European Territorial
Cooperation and co-funded by the
Advantages of inter-municipal CLD in mountain areas
European Regional Development
First results and experiences gained their natural geographic conditions, Fund (ERDF) in the scope of the
in the South Tyrolean pilot area Pas- commercial zones and SMEs offer alter- Alpine Space Programme. It runs
seier Valley gained by the Eurac were native work places to people employed from July 2009 to June 2012.
presented at the third meeting of the in agriculture (see table below).
working group “Demography & Em- These links are decisive for the pre- PROJECT PARTNERS
ployment” in January 2011. servation of rural areas. If commercial Lead partner:
Particularly attention was paid to the areas were to be linked and marketed University of Applied Sciences
challenges and opportunities encoun- jointly, a decisive step towards sustain- Western Switzerland, Institut
tered at implementing inter-municipal able regional development planning Economie et Tourisme (CH).
cooperation for CLD at the local level. with regard to the respective Alpine ERDF-Lead partner:
From a socio-economic point of view, Convention protocol would be taken. Chambre de Commerce et
inter-municipal commercial areas are d’Industrie de Lyon (F).
of utmost importance. Especially in Miriam L. Weiß Other partners:
dezentralized mountain areas, with Eurac research Stadt Sonthofen (DE), Eurac-
Research, Institute for Regional
• Increase a region’s attractiveness as a place to work and to live. Development and Location Man-
graphy
Demo-
• Cooperation and identification with the area to foster motivation to stay. agement (IT), Canton du Val-
• Participation in commercial location development of municipalities with- ais Service du développement
out own suitable areas (e.g. due to topographic reasons). économique (CH), Ministero
dell’Ambiente e delle Tutela del
• Preservation of work places by means of strategic planning and adminis-
Occupation
Territorio e del Mare (IT), Bosch
tration of commercial areas in the region.
Partner GmbH (DE), Regionalent-
• Preservation of decentralized work places; particularly of SMEs.
wicklung Vorarlberg (AT), Società
• Offer work places for people employed in agriculture.
Consortile Langhe Monferrato
• Promote cooperation of enterprises and educational institutions.
Roero, settore progetti europei
• Reduction of costs and administrative capacities. (IT), BSC Poslovno podporni cen-
Administ-
ration
• Joint marketing of commercial locations. ter, d.o.o., Kranj (SI), Association
• Spill-over-effect of joint CLD to other common problem areas. Suisse pour le Service aux Régions
et Communes (CH).
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