UrbanCOOP

The central element of UrbanCOOP project is multilateral urban cooperation and mutual learning among local governments to overcome the gaps in experience and expertise of inter-regional urban authorities through transfer of knowledge and training about ’urban policies’. The project is willing to examine the possibilities and potential of inter-regional cooperation in order to modernize and streamline the operation of local governments.

Through multilateral cooperation, local governments seek to respond to new trends and challenges. As such, this kind of cooperation can serve as a basis for a new urban and regional reform which can also help the individual participating territories themselves to cope with the complicated problems of the present. Through supporting community life by involving residents in policies, empowering them, and ensuring policies are directed at the appropriate spatial scale, UrbanCOOP will make sure that policies operate in an integrated manner to promote balanced urban development.

This all includes the aim of building citizen capacity and representative participation. 

 Project partners:

University of Turin (Italy)

Piedmont Region (Italy)

Regional Development Agency South-West Oltenia (Romania)

Association of Municipalities of Tartu County (Estonia)

Commonwealth of L’Horta Sud (Spain)

Northern and Western Regional Assembly (Ireland)

Gabrovo Municipality (Hungary)

Department for Development and International Projects of Zenica-Doboj Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)