Today 8 cities have already partly implemented the approach (and 25 new cities expressed their interest for also implementing it), which gives a well-tried method to build indicators about the improvement of well-being, to evaluate the situation and to analyze the impacts, with the support of the Council of Europe (see the website: https://spiral.cws.coe.int). The challenge is now to go deeper by increasing the method accuracy for conception, implementation and monitoring of pilot actions and action plans.

The approach of co-responsibility makes sense to reach the objective of social inclusion :

- by focusing on the well-being of all thanks to indicators developed with the citizens, the proposed approach deals with the problem of social exclusion in all its aspects; that is to say economy, social links, social and personal balance, citizenship, etc. In such a way, the approach makes it possible to identify situations of exclusion at large and to design actions which take all these aspects into account.
 

- the principle of co-responsibility means to design actions that link the interventions of different actors who often work on specific topics, which are not enough coordinated with each other. Considering example of the Multipartite Social Contract which was developed in Mulhouse, it enables to associate different types of actors for social inclusion, giving a much stronger result to the inclusion process.

What motivates you to be part of the URBACT adventure ?

The main objective of this project is to lead to best-practice exchanges between cities implementing the approach of co-responsibility for social inclusion and the well-being of all. The aim is to deepen and to share the methods – particularly concerning the setting up of strategies and local action plans for social inclusion based on indicators and pilot actions, as well as taking into account the future generations – to disseminate and transfer them to other European cities. It would also lead to the creation of links with other URBACT thematic networks, by promoting the integrative character of the proposed approach for municipal and urban policies.

Who would you like to benefit from the work achieved in your project?

This project is meant to enable any city or territory to join more easily the territories of coresponsibility's approach. It is also a way to explain more precisely the methodology of this approach and to make people benefit from the solutions we have already proposed through the implementation of the methodology.
That's why this project is firstly meant to benefit to our programme's partners, but afterwards, to any city interested in implementing the territories of coresponsibility's approach.