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1. Informed Cities Forum
14-16 April 2010
Newcastle upon Tyne

2. governance and management tools
Local
[Sust.
Research Policy
City]
Maker

3. research-based tools
[Tool to cure headaches] [Tool to cure unsustainable cities]

4. research-based tools
[Tool to cure headaches] [Tool to cure unsustainable cities]
[Developed by researchers] [Developed by researchers]

5. research-based tools
[Tool to cure headaches] [Tool to cure unsustainable cities]
[Developed by researchers] [Developed by researchers]
[Supported by EU funding] [Supported by EU funding]

6. research-based tools
[Used by millions [Hardly known
of people] by local policy makers]

7. linkages
Health
Test Approval
Insurance
[Free
Research Patient
head]
Marketing Doctor
[Money]

8. linkages
Test
Local
Research Policy
Maker

9. do research results need 'approval'
by national / EU standards?
Test
?
Local
Research Policy
Maker

10. would such approval result in
financial support for the applicant?
Test Approval?
?
Local
Research Policy
Maker

11. are research results
marketed properly?
Test Approval? Money?
Local
Research Policy
Maker
?

12. who is the doctor?
do consultants know
about research results?
Test Approval? Money?
Local
Research Policy
Maker
Marketing?
?

13. what is the interest
of local policy makers?
Test Approval? Money?
Research
Local
Policy
Maker
?
[Sust.
City]
Marketing? Consultant?

14. what is the interest
of researchers?
Test Approval? Money?
Local
[Sust.
Research Policy
City?]
Maker
Marketing? Consultant?
?
[Publication
promotion]

15. ...and many other questions!
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Research Policy [-?-]
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[-?-]

16. objectives
[ PRIMUS ]
3 year FP7 Coordination Action
enhance the connectivity between research and
policy-making in sustainable development
focus on tools for urban management and
governance

17. elements
Events to analyse the brokerage process and to
learn from each other in personal meetings
Explorative Application of 2 selected tools with
~100 local governments
European Report on urban sustainability based on
the data gathered through the explorative application

18. events
Informed Cities Forum
2 larger conferences for 100-150 participants from
LocGov and Research
- April 2010 and September 2011 -
Informed Cities European Roundtable
3 meetings of national institutions dealing with local
sustainability
- April 2010 - January 2011 - September 2011 -
Informed Cities Implementation Workshops
12 national workshops supporting cities participating
in the explorative application
- between June 2010 and June 2011

19. explorative application
Local Evaluation 21
internet-based questionnaire on local sustainability
processes with stakeholder involvement and
automatic individual report
Urban Ecosystem Europe
excel-based set of 25 sustainability indicators
developed in line with the EU Urban Thematic
Strategy and Aalborg Commitments and many other
established systems

20. european report
combining data about the governance and
management of local sustainability processes with
data about the state of sustainability of a city
does better local governance lead to better local
sustainability?
analysis and findings on the brokerage process
between research (tools) and policy-making
(application)
regional specifics and comparison
needed: large number of participants in explorative
application and good spread across Europe

21. informed cities forum
programme
Small group sessions:
Get to know research-based tools
Explore case examples
Discuss separately and together
Plenaries:
Key note speeches
Feedback from group discussions
Live votes
Meals and breaks:
Get to know and better understand each other...

22. Welcome!