The metropolitan covenant for the work and for the sustainable development
About this good practice
The metropolitan covenant for the work and for the sustainable development is a deal, signed by public and private actors in the metropolitan area of Bologna. It has two objectives: contribute to a timely response to the emergency situation from Covid19 and select some strategic projects divided into 3 priority clusters for sustainable development and growth: 1. Supply chains, quality of work, training and competences, youth, women; 2. A new challenge of sustainability for the territory regenerates and moves; 3. Well-being, inclusion and contrast to fragility.
It achieves its objectives by involving, as main actors, the public authorities of the metropolitan area and sharing objectives and actions with other bodies, public and private, representatives of the local relations system.
The covenant involves 51 actors, that signed it, with the coordination of the Metropolitan City of Bologna, including Unions of Municipalities, Municipality of Bologna, Chamber of Commerce, business associations and trade unions, University and research world, Third Sector system, Banking Foundations, the two Dioceses, the key actors of the education, social and health system and the participatory system.
The beneficiaries are all the citizens of the area.
The contents of the new covenant follow the indications of the Next Generation Eu, the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the new European Green Deal.
Resources needed
The resources needed are internal and actors’ working staff as follows:
-6 meetings with the actors involved
-involvement from July 2020 to January 2021 of technical offices: the general director, 3 directors of areas, 2/3 officers of the 3 areas
-written contributions by actors
-3 working groups
Evidence of success
The cooperation of the actors helps to share proposals and solutions to face the issues of the Covid19 crisis. The projects in the clusters are considered priorities for new funding. Cluster 1 includes proposals to promote the circular economy: a pilot action for the transition through the circular economy in the mountain territory was put in place, involving local businesses in a participatory project that created guidelines for enterprises to promote the introduction of circular economy.
Potential for learning or transfer
The good practice is easy replicable and potentially interesting for other regions because the principal need is the willingness of the different institutional actors of the territory to take part in a participatory work and to exchange ideas to face the issues emerged from the Covid19 crisis and to promote the recovery of the territory in a sustainable way, promoting also circular economy in the business system.The Metropolitan City technicians, together with the pact’s actors, selected the projects and included them in the planning and programming tools. The Metropolitan City is coordinating their implementation on the territories, involving the competent actors. Since Jan 2021, in addition to the project for the transition to circular economy in the mountains, many projects concerning mobility, urban regeneration, entrepreneurship, tourism, welfare structure, culture and school, have been financed also thanks to the resources of the national plan of recovery and resilience.
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