This event, organized by Politecnico di Milano, Globus et Locus, Sciences Po in collaboration with stakeholders (Città Metropolitana di Milano, Città Metropolitana di Bologna,  Provincia di Pavia, Provincia di Piacenza, AIM, Associazione Interessi Metropolitani, Metrex, POPSU and Warsaw metropolitan area), is part of the ESPON IMAGINE Targeted Analysis.  It is an opportunity to showcase and discuss how the Integrated Territorial Initiatives have been fruitfully implemented in relation to new regional imaginaries and the general objective of the 2014-2020 Cohesion Policy.

Testimonials and protagonist of ITI experiences, together with other EU initiatives based on an integrated, sustainable, interregional approach, have been invited to illustrate the adopted tools and its potentialities and the conditions under which the different tools have been effective and successful.

The aim will be that of generating “usable knowledge”, producing inspirational stories, to be used as testbeds for a local, regional, national approach to the development of an integrated territorial initiative in the Milan Bologna urban region, as well as a pilot experience at national and regional level.

Inspirational stories will be used to generate a dialogue among regional, national and European stakeholders, aiming at delivering the draft of an integrated territorial initiative and a process of reflective knowledge on the nature and role, limits and potentials of ITIs, identifying to what extent these can be considered  promising instruments to support new coordination and cooperation frameworks in European urban regions and corridors, as well as experimental spaces to build territorial cohesion. 

Further information

• Date: Tuesday 18 May 2021, 9h00-17h00
• Venue: online
• Registration https://tinyurl.com/fwbft3bx
• Contact: valeria.fedeli@polimi.it and piera.petruzzi@espon.eu

ESPON IMAGINE

• ESPON IMAGINE - Developing a metropolitan-regional imaginary in Milan-Bologna urban region
• Article A new narrative to rethink the Milano - Bologna urban area 5 June 2020
• Article A new equilibrium between functional powers and the need for “glocal” strategies and policies 20 October 2020
• Article Functional institutions play a key role in political planning processes 5 November 2020
• Article Metropolitan Governance: call for institutional innovation of the system between Milan and Bologna 12 November 2020