FIN-URB-ACT Managing Authority Meeting

The initiation of different forms of cooperation between the managing Authorities and Cities are an important topic within the URBACT and took consequently a vast role also during the FIN-URB-ACT project. Nearly all FIN-URB-ACT partnercities participated with their Managing Authorities.

After presenting some examples of cooperation between cities and Managing Authiorities by single cities, a pannel discussion attended by Sabine Verheyen MEP, Alexander Festl from GD REGIO, J-L Drubigny, Head of the URBACT Secretariat as well as fromthe MA side Ms. Ana Abrunhosa, Member of the Management Board of Portugal and Ms. Luminita Mihalov, Director of the Regional Development Agency for the South East of Romania. In the panel, the cities were represented by Giuseppe Panebianco from the city of Rome. Valuable Expertise was provided by the FIN-URB-ACT Lead Expert Patrick Fourguette, the thematic URBACT experts Pauline Geoghegane, Birgit Nikles, MA from the City of Vienne and Wilko van Kalkeren, from the Provincie of Gelderland.

More information about this meeting , agenda, participant list and presentations can be found under the section events. The conclusion paper of the meeting can be found under the outputs section for download.