European Residents Regeneration Network

QEC-ERAN has decided to create a network to sustain residents' participation in area-based regeneration. Citizen's initiatives are developing and represent a new key feature in improving the situation in these areas. Urban Policy is getting more important in General Policy of the EU Members' preoccupations because of the worsening of the situation. Residents' participation contributes to a better understanding and recognition of local problems. This action needs to be support and encourage.

The overall aim of the proposal is to establish the European Residents in Regeneration Network as a citizens platform that interfaces with key EU institutions and programmes which focus on urban development and exchange of experience.

To realise the above overall aim the proposal has the following specific objectives:

• To establish 8-10 local residents in regeneration forums (LRF), in project partner locations. Each LRF would bring together a minimum of 30-35 participants. Each Forum would also bring together a cross-section of local residents (women; older and younger people ; cultural /ethnic diversity )
• Each LRF would undertake a local consultation regarding key priorities for urban regeneration;
• All delegates from each LRF would participate in an online transnational capacity building and exchange of experience action learning programme
• 5 delegates from each LRF would participate in a transnational peer review and development workshop held in Brussels. The workshop would incorporate a meeting with key EU actors in relation to urban development. The working languages for the workshop would be English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
• Establish an online exchange of information, good practice and resources for citizen participation in urban regeneration. This would include profiles of the participants in the LRFs to facilitate inter-citizen exchange.

In short, this proposal in order to respond properly to the expectations of citizens, this project seeks to firmly place the citizen and their locally based organisations at the centre of the actions, and has educational/capacity building and transnational aspects.

For further information on this proposal or QEC-ERAN please click here or email Geraldine Tierney at tierneyg@nwb.n-i.nhs.uk.