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Live Streaming for Global Goals for Cities Manresa

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21 September 2022
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On September 22 and 23, 2022, Manresa (Barcelona) will host the event on Localization of global agendas and Sustainable Development Goals. 

The event Global Goals for Cities is organized by the URBACT National Point Spain and the City Council of Manresa (a city near to Barcelona), in collaboration with the International Relations Department of the Barcelona Provincial Council. 

It will address the localization of the global agendas and the SDGs covering the international, national, regional and local spheres. Therefore, it will have an eminently international perspective that links global and European institutions, as well as the members of the URBACT network.

The sessions will have a triple approach: exhibition, reflection and training, which will allow not only to nurture a multilevel and multilateral dialogue, but also to generate new ideas and knowledge and promote a transfer between municipalities of tools and solutions linked to the specific localization of the SDGs.

PRACTICAL INFO

It will be held at the Sala d'Actes FUB-2 at Fundació Universitària del Bages (see on the map) on 22 and 23 September 2022. 

Check out the program in detail below.

LIVE STREAMING

September 22

September 23

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

You will also be able to follow the conference and participate in the debate through Twitter, sharing ideas, comments and opinions with the hashtag #GG4CManresa.

 

PROGRAM

MORNING, September 22: LOCALIZATION OF SDGs IN CITIES

8.30-9.00

Registration

9.00-9.15

Institutional welcome

  • Marc Aloy, Mayor of Manresa
  • Olivia Paton, Head of the Europe and International Strategy Office, Barcelona Provincial Council
  • Jon Aguirre Such, URBACT Spain National Point

9.15-9.45

Participation and citizenship as keys to just and democratic transitions from the cities: a cosmopolitan approach.

  • Pablo Martínez Osés, La Mundial

9.45-11.00

 

Colloquium: "Do we really count on citizens to decide the sustainable future of our cities?"

Colloquium between institutions

  • Sara Hoeflich, UCLG Learning Manager
  • Céline Ethuin, Project Manager, URBACT
  • Julian Shlach, Secretary of Eurotowns
  • Ana Tapia, Agenda 2030 and SDGs Unit, Barcelona Provincial Council

Moderator: Karma Peiró, journalist

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

 

11.30- 12.00

Indicators And SDGs

  • Mon Culleré, Manresa City Council

12.00-13.15

Round Table: “Should we base sustainable urban development on science or on intuition?”

  • Alice Siragusa, SDG localization team leader at the JRC
  • Ángela León Pizarro, Coordinator Agenda 2030 and Innovation, Provincial Council of Badajoz
  • Ramon Canal, Director of the Technical Office of Agenda 2030, Barcelona City Council

Moderator: Karma Peiró, journalist

13.15-13.45

Presentation of the URBACT GG4C network for the localization of the SDGs (under a participatory and indicator perspective)

  • Céline Ethuin, URBACT Project Manager
  • Stina Heikkila, URBACT GG4C network lead expert
  • Sònia Puyol, Manresa City Council

13.45-15.30

Lunch break

AFTERNOON September 22: GOOD PRACTICES AND TOOLS FOR LOCALIZATION

Small group work, combining different types of spaces and formats, linked to the work axes of the event:

  • Localization monitoring indicators and reports: exposure of cases and tools
  • Budget Alignment
  • Localization methodologies and tools
  • Awareness and citizen participation

These work groups are conceived as spaces for exchange and training between municipalities and institutions. Each of the sessions will develop exchanging and training workshops in a work table format (WorkCafé, Open Space or similar).

15.30-15.45

Welcome and explanation of the dynamics

URBACT Spain National Point

16.00-17.30

Group work sessions

  • Localization methodologies and tools
  • Awareness and citizen participation
  • Localization Tracking Indicators and Reports
  • Budget alignment

MORNING, September 23: STRATEGIC PLANNING AND THE LOCALIZATION OF GLOBAL AGENDAS

The second day will focus on strategic planning as an essential tool for localizing global agendas, with a special emphasis on the Urban Agenda and the different scales it encompasses. In this sense, it will be shown how Urban Agendas, from the New European Urban Agenda to the Local Urban Agendas, represent instruments that allow the SDGs to be grounded and located in cities.

For this purpose, a multilevel dialogue will be proposed, linking the different scales of application, from global to local, and showing practical examples and tools in this regard.

After these sessions, the conclusions of the workshops and work sessions of the previous day will be presented.

9.00-9.30

Registration

9.30-10.00

Inspiring talk on the importance of an urban sustainability strategy for cities.

  • María Sisternas, CEO Mediaurban

10.00-11.15

Round Table: Are we strategists or firefighters?

  • Gonzalo Lacurcia, Technical Consultant for UN-Habitat in Spain
  • Sonia Hernandez, General Secretary of Urban Policies of MITMA
  • Pilar Cervantes, Urban Planning Service Barcelona Provincial Council

Moderator: Jon Aguirre, URBACT Spain National Point

11.15-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.45

Exhibition of Good Practices. Municipal Urban Agendas.

  • Marina Jarque, Office of the future of the city - Viladecans 2030
  • Jose Costero, Director of the Strategic Office, Pamplona City Council
  • Beatriz García-Moncó, Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council

Moderator: Jon Aguirre, URBACT Spain National Point

12.45-13.30

Exhibition of the results of the workshops developed the day before. Discussion and conclusions

URBACT Spain National Point

13.30-13.45

Closing of the Conference

Valentí Junyent, Councilor of the Presidency of the Manresa City Council

13.45-14.30

Finger Lunch

 

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