2nd Workshop-lab, L'Hospitalet

Project Partners, with the coordination of the Lead Expert, exchanged news on the progress of their Local Action Plans. LAPs should contain specific operational output that will address the problems identified by the partner at the beginning of the project and draw on the results of the exchange and learning activities implemented by partners over the project’s lifetime. Each Local Action Plan should provide each partner with a specific roadmap and a range of solutions to tackle the core issues identified at the start of the URBACT project. With just one month to go before the delivery of the LAP, project partners had the chance to put together their documents’ progress. The

session was intended to be a joint exercise where project partners listened, asked questions and made suggestions in order to improve all partners’ LAPs.

Another workshop session was devoted to reflecting on the lessons and recommendations that emerged from the joint exchange work carried out during the course of the project, so that they can be included in the Guidelines and Recommendations for carrying out Urban Planning Processes. This document intends to make use of the main findings and conclusions attained in the network’s context, so that other cities with similar problems or interests can also benefit.

Partners also started to define the network’s Final Event, which will take place in L’Hospitalet on 2-3 March 2011. This closing event is intended to be a presentation of the final conclusions and knowledge gained throughout the course of the network. The partner cities will present their experiences, the Local Action Plans produced, as well as the Guidelines and Recommendations for carrying out Urban Planning Processes and Bank of Urban Transformation Practices documents.