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Urban Resilience: LIFE+ projects and European policies

4-5 April 2014 – Colombes – Agrocité unit (4 rue Jules Michelet, Colombes 92700 - FR)

Place

The R-Urban project (LIFE10 ENV/FR/000215) will host this platform meeting (see presentation sheetof the project and partners in the joint PDF).

Aim and topics

Urban resilience can be defined as the ability of an urban territory/community exposed to hazardssuch as Climate Change, disaster, economic and social poverty, to resist, absorb, accommodate toand recover from these.

A resilient approach addresses the following stakes:- Reduction of the environmental impacts of the cities/territories (pollution/wastes)- Mitigation/Adaptation to climate change- Answer to economic and social issues

The objective of this LIFE+ platform meeting is to bring together practitioners from all over Europe todiscuss on the urban resilience challenges:• To share and benefit from the experiences of completed and ongoing LIFE projects focusing on thediverse aspects of the urban resilience (successes, problems, needs, etc.);

The meeting will takeplace in this eco-built

building (the AgroLab) onthe site of the AgroCité



• To discuss the current stakes, key issues, mechanism to address them as well as the necessity ofimproved tools – how to foster the change at institutional level to local level ?; and• To conclude on recommendations on how the LIFE programme and the European Commission ingeneral could support this topic (for example through its Reference Framework for EuropeanSustainable Cities – the project EU Cities Adapt, etc.).

The platform will focus on three thematic of the resilient approach and put emphasis on themethods and tools common to all these aspects:

- Infrastructures and planning,- Waste management,- Resource management (energy, water, etc.).

At the end of the meeting, a minute and publication will be made.

R-Urban project in Colombes (AAA).

Detailed provisional agenda (see timing in the joint Excel file)

4 April:

Introduction (40 mn)

- Urban resilience definition, stakes and challenges highlighted in link with EU policies andprograms. (5-10 mn).

- Presentation of the agenda of the meeting. (5 mn)- Introduction of the non-LIFE projects participants (H. Martin-EC-Head of Unit; H. Bergerat-

National Focal Point LIFE at the French Environment Ministry, Central team-Astrale GEIE,Monitoring team-Astrale GEIE, chairs, others, etc.). (10mn).

- Presentation of the Life+ project R-URBAN and of the main project stakeholders present at themeeting. (15 mn)



1) State of the art and presentation of the thematic areas (2h15)

The projects will be presented by thematic (Infrastructures and planning; Waste management;

Resource management (energy, water, ...)).

For each thematic:

Brief presentation of the theme (PowerPoint to be prepared before the meeting): Europeanpolicy strategy and main driving regulations, the different scale of actions, presentation ofthe LIFE+ project statistics on the theme (10 min).

Short presentation of each LIFE+ project in the thematic (5 to 10 mn.) (Power Point to beprepared by each project before the meeting).

Lunch and visit of the AgroCité unit (1h30)

In the frame of the LIFE+ project R-URBAN, a unit developed to promote urban agriculture andprovide support for cultural and educational activities (see pictures in p. 1).

Free and fair financial participation to the Buffet cost (prepared by local stakeholders and inhabitantsof the AgroCité with some local products).

2-3-4) 3 chaired thematic workshops (3h in total):

For each workshops (1h):a) 30 mn presentation: 10mn PowerPoint presentation from voluntary LIFE projects (3 max) (to

be prepared before the meeting), highlighting: Feedback on tools/methods used/developed Description of the main successes/obstacles to a resilient approach Recommendations in terms of:

o Institutional restructuration (reorganisation of the services, capacity building,emergence alternative practices)

o Project elaboration and management / partnerships > ways for improvemento

Efficiency on awareness raising / civic participation / Initiation of the change(incentive systems, boomerang effect, etc.)

b) 30 mn structured debate on these issues with the audience (30mn)During the presentation and the debate, a paper board will be used and information structured forcapacity building and preparation of the synthesis of the workshop.

Workshop 1: Infrastructures and planning (1h):The debate will focus on large scale resilience, urban planning and green/blue infrastructures.Chairs (tbc): Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, LADYSS), Bertrand Vallet (French Ministery of Ecology)

Workshop 2: Waste management, recycling, reuse (1h):The session will address issues of waste management and recycling at different scales and theircontribution to an increased territorial resilience.Chairs (tbc): Prof. Fionn Stevenson (University of Sheffield) Christine Aubry (INRA Paris AgroTech)



Workshop 3: Resources management and close circuits (1h):This session will focus on issues related to the management of natural resources and renewableenergy production in the urban frame.Chairs (tbc): Jérôme Gleizes (EcoRev), Jean-Louis Laville (Le Labo, CNRS).

5) Debate on transversal issues (1h)Session 1 (30mn): Participatory approaches and local governance of resilient projects:This session will focus on the mechanisms of enabling participatory approaches and local governanceof resilient projects. Compilation of a list of good practices and operational tools relevant.Chairs (tbc): Prof. Irena Bauman (University of Sheffield), Emilie Hache (University Paris WestNanterre), Doina Petrescu (AAA – University of Sheffield) and Capucine Dubois (LIFE Monitoring team-

Astrale Geie)

Session 2 (30mn): Towards increasing resilient strategies for territories :

European policy National/Regional/Local policies and scaling up strategies

Existing Fundings and projects financed

What are the levers for improvement of this system?

Chairs (tbc): Hervé Martin (Head of LIFE Unit – EC), Remo Savoia (LIFE Centrale Team-Astrale GEIE),Cedric Deverchère (LIFE Monitoring team-Astrale GEIE).

Visit and buffet at the RecyLab unit (1h30)

In the frame of the LIFE+ project R-URBAN, the RecycLab, an ecologically built unit has beendeveloped to promote urban recycling and provide support for cultural and educational activities.

Address: 4-11 bd. d'Achères, Colombes 92700.

Top-Down :

Objectives/expected results

Coherence ?

Bottom-up :

Monitoring/indicators

Recommendations?



5 April, morning :

Exchange of experience, with local and institutional stakeholders (1h45)

3 different type of stakeholders invited to share with the project managers and experts:

- Inhabitants and associations

- Private companies

- Institutional representatives

Each one will talk about its experience through the LIFE+ project R-URBAN. The discussion will thenbe extended to other kinds of projects/initiatives, and more generally to the vision and expectationsregarding the concept of urban resilience. The method and detailed description of this workshop willbe specified after the first elements of the thematic presentations are received.

Chairs (tbc) : Constantin Petcou (AAA), Capucine Dubois (Astrale Geie)

Meeting conclusion (45min)

A synthesis of the main tools and feedbacks of the meeting will be carried out. Recommendations forthe European Commission and LIFE+ program will be proposed.

Buffet

Participation

The voluntary projects/participants for taking notes, chairing and/or presenting their project(PowerPoint) during the state of the art (morning) or thematic workshops, should contact us.

Contact

Astrale GEIE:Capucine DUBOISMonitoring expertASTRALE GEIE - Oréade-Brèche4 rue de la Gendarmerie17220 LA JARRIET: +33 5 46 35 94 24F: +33 5 46 35 87 94Cell : +33 6 87 63 66 18Email : [email protected]

R-Urban LIFE project - AAA (Atelier D’Architecture Autogérés) :

Constantin Petcou



Rue du Canada Paris 75018 France.

Tél. : 01 53 26 72 20

Email: [email protected].

Map and indications

To reach the project site, you have to take the train from Paris: Gare Saint-Lazare (train station),direction “Ermont Eaubonne”, until the train station « Le Stade » (15 mn trip). Then you have to walk5-10mn to the project site where the meeting will take place: 4 rue Michelet, in Colombes (see mapbelow).

Accommodation

Meals : Free and fair financial participation to the Buffet cost (prepared by local stakeholders andinhabitants of the AgroCité with some local products).

Accommodations are at the charge of the beneficiary.

Suggestions:

1) There is a youth hostel close by the coordinating beneficiary premises of the R-Urban project(AAA). This place offer very competitive prices, but there are only few single rooms so itshould be booked in advance, for the rest, they propose different type of common rooms.You can contact them:

« Ce Fuaj » : 27, Rue Pajol, 75018 Paris, 0033 9 50 88 79 60.

In this case, you will be able to come with the coordinating beneficiary on the project site inthe morning with public transport.

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