Targeted Analysis ESPON IMAGINE - Developing a metropolitan-regional imaginary in Milan-Bologna urban region

Date: 
18 Mai, 2021 - 09:00 - 17:00

ESPON, EUROPEAN UNION, Co-financed by the European Regional Developemnt Fund - Inspire Policy Making with Territoral Evidence

 FINAL REGIONAL FORUM

Sciences Po, Webinar, Compulsory registration

Programme

9 am : Welcome: IMAGINE team & ESPON EGTC

9.15 am: Opening Speech: Feeding new Spatial imaginaries, Patrizio Bianchi, Ministro dell’Istruzione (registered video contribution) 

9.45 - 11.05 am: First panel discussion - Corridors of European Union, regionalisation machines and resources for a new territorial cohesion

Chair: Valeria Fedeli, Politecnico di Milano

This first session will highlight the role of corridors, as spaces of regionalisation and devices of territorial cohesion
It will provide the opportunity to discuss the role of corridors in the project of EU integration

It will present the Milano-Bologna urban region in its relational, interconnected, extraverted nature, introducing scenarios for transforming an infrastructural corridor into a territorial platform
It will establish a dialogue with other EU territories presenting the same feature and aspirations (Rhine-Alpine)

Inspirational story: EGTC Rhine Alpine

Bernd Scholl, ETH Zurich (TBC)

1st Viewpoint: Living like a urban region

Mobility and logistics actors. Question: under which condition the infrastructural corridor can become a territorial platform able to improve liveability and competitiveness?

Marco Piuri, AD Trenord

Marco Spinedi, Presidente Interporto di Bologna

2nd Viewpoint: Competing like a urban region

Question: under which condition the infrastructural corridor can become a territorial platform able to improve liveability and competitiveness?

  • Franco Baraldi, CCIAA BO
  • Sergio Rossi, CCIAA MI
  • Francesco Caracciolo, DG. Confindustria Pavia (TBC)
  • Francesco Rolleri, Presidente Confindustria Piacenza (TBC)

Open discussion

11.05 - 11.15 am Break

11.15 am - 12.40 pm: Second Panel Discussion - Strategic functions challenging administrative geographies

Chair: Paolo Perulli, Globus et Locus

This second session will discuss the mismatch between processes of regionalisation fed by strategic function and the forms of institutional governance

  • It will provide the opportunity to discuss obstacles and opportunities to new regional governance frameworks
  • It will develop hypothesis on how and if ITI can support a new regional imaginary oriented policy design
  • It will establish a dialogue with other EU territories trying to challenge the mismatch between functional and administrative geographies

Inspirational story: ITI case study

Rodolfo Ziberna, Sindaco di Gorizia (TBC)

1st Viewpoint: Growing like an urban region

Universities/research centres. Question: how should new collaborative regional alliances be developed?

  • Francesco Timpano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Piacenza
  • Sandro Rossi, direttore generale CNAO Pavia
  • Marco Simoni, president Human Technopole Milano
  • Dario Zaninelli, Prorettore Politecnico di Milano - Polo Piacenza (TBC)
  • Andrea Zatti, Universitá di Pavia (TBC)

2nd Viewpoint: Seeing like an urban region

Question: how can regional policy-design support a new regional imaginary?

  • Raffaele Cattaneo, Assessore all’Ambiente e Clima, Regione Lombardia
  • Elly Schlein, Vicepresidente Regione Emilia-Romagna (TBC)

Open discussion

12.40 - 2 pm: Lunch Break 

2 - 3.20 pm: Third Panel Discussion - Metropolitan cities and the translocal commons  

This third session will discuss how the translocal character of contemporary strategic commons requires a new eco-systemic vision

It will provide the opportunity to discuss the content of a new urban-rural alliance

In particular, it will develop hypothesis for an interregional strategy inspired by the EU Green Deal perspective

Inspirational story: Interreg RUMORE ; a new urban-rural partnership

Joerg Knieling, Hafen City University

1st Viewpoint: Acting like an urban region: actors and policy networks

Bank foundations, Anci. Question: how to support places and territories?

  • Maurizio Cabras, Direttore Dipartimento Territorio ANCI Lombardia (TBC)
  • Giusella Finocchiaro, Presidente della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna (TBC)
  • Marco Giubilini, Referente Territorio e Digitalizzazione ANCI Emilia-Romagna
  • Claudia Sorlini, Vicepresidente Fondazione Cariplo

2nd Viewpoint: Acting like an urban region: the EU Green deal as a reference for establishing a new translocal alliance

Question: the EU Green deal as a reference for establishing a new translocal alliance? Metropolitan cities/inner areas (MI-BO PV-PC)

  • Isabella Botto, Città Metropolitana di Milano
  • Marco Monesi, Assessore alla Pianificazione, Città Metropolitana di Bologna
  • Valentina Orioli, Vicesindaca

Open discussion  

3.20 - 3.30 Break 

3.30 - 4.30 pm:  Fourth Panel Discussion - Urban regions in the 2021-2027 EU cohesion policy

Chair: Henk Bouwman, Secretary General METREX

The aim of this final session is to open a space for discussion about the role of EU urban regions in the 2021-2027 cohesion policy, stressing their potential both at national and EU level. At the same time the session, with the contribution of national stakeholders, also aims at setting the conditions for the Milan-Bologna urban region stakeholders to take an active role in embedding the regional imaginary within the innovative governance frameworks offered by the Integrated Territorial Initiatives.

  • Xavier Tiana Calablancas, Head of International Relations - Metropolitan Area of Barcelona; ESPON_ MC Italia
  • Mara Cossu, Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (TBC)
  • Andrej Cthaikowski (project stakeholder), City of Warsaw
  • Marco Magrassi, Presidenza Consiglio Dei Ministri, NUPAl (TBC)
  • Carmine Pacente, Responsabile delle Politiche e della Programmazione europea Città metropolitana di Milano
  • Luisa Pedrazzini, ESPON ECT ; Maria Prezioso, ESPON EGTC
  • Wiktor Szydarowski, President 

5 pm: Conclusion and end of the Meeting

  • Alessandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano
  • Piero Bassetti, Globus et Locus
  • Valeria Fedeli, ESPON IMAGINE Coordinator – Politecnico di Milano
  • Piera Petruzzi, ESPON EGTC 

Contact: Marco Cremaschi, Sciences Po, CEE, Coordinator of the ESPON IMAGINE project at Sciences Po: marco.cremaschi@sciencespo.fr

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