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Title: The European Learning Network LNet Enterprise in deprived urban areas


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The European Learning NetworkLNetEnterprise in
deprived urban areas
  • Delphine Michel Greater London Enterprise
    Brussels
  • Amsterdam, June 28th, 2006

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  • Network of economic development practitioners
    that will identify and facilitate the exchange of
    best practice and the development of new policy
    instruments on the theme of enterprise in
    deprived urban areas

3
  • Where is the idea coming from?
  • GLE commissioned by the LDA in 2003 to review
    good practice in Inner City Enterprise (ICE) in
    European Cities
  • Objective to analyse the potential of deprived
    urban areas as key drivers for economic and
    social change
  • One of the ICE report recommendations - Creation
    of a trans -national network focusing on
    enterprise in deprived urban areas

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  • LNet objectives
  • To identify the barriers to inner city enterprise
    in our cities as an essential component of
    understanding successful interventions
  • To understand the policy context at the national
    and urban level
  • To assess the success of different policies from
    a practitioner perspective i.e. What sort of
    investment projects and programmes can we design
    to encourage enterprise and innovation in
    disadvantaged urban areas?

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  • Three themes
  • Enterprise gap and Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Social enterprise

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  • Four areas
  • Business support  
  •  
  • Governance issues
  • Investment
  •  
  • Skills

7
  • LNet context
  • July 2004-February 2007 (32 months)
  • Budget 1,134,826
  • Partners profile
  • 7 partners in 5 countries GLE lead partner
  • 4 old MS and 1 new MS 4 public equivalent
    bodies and 3 public authorities

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Hamburg TuTech Innovation GmbH
London GLE LDA
Brussels GLE
Amsterdam City of Amsterdam
  • Milan
  • Milan Metropoli Development Agency
  • Milan province

Prague Prague Technology Centre
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  • LNet learning principles
  • Mutual understanding and terminologies and
    approaches of each city (city profiles)
  • Bringing together policy and practice
  • Feeding best practice into policy
  • Making policy more practitioner-friendly
  • Learning from success AND failure

10
  • LNet learning process
  • Common templates for collecting and collating
    best practice
  • Quality Assurance through peer-review
  • In-depth analysis of the three vertical themes
  • Questionnaires
  • Experts workshops

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  • Project delivery
  • One or two cities lead on a theme
  • Amsterdam and Prague entrepreneurship
  • Hamburg Innovation
  • Milan social enterprise
  • London initiates and supervises
  • All partners undertake research and policy
    development work
  • Three workshops, study visits and local public
    conferences

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  • Project delivery Dissemination
  • Events
  • 1 launch Conference London, October 2004
  • 2 dissemination events
  • Prague April 2005
  • Brussels March 2006
  • 1 final Conference, December 2006
  • Local events in some partner cities

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  • Others
  • A website www.thelearningnetwork.net
  • Promotional materials
  • A 4000 contacts database
  • Publications
  • A prospectus
  • Monthly newsletters
  • Press releases

14
The European Learning NetworkFuture of the
network and associate membership
  • Delphine Michel Greater London Enterprise
    Brussels
  • Amsterdam, June 28th, 2006

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  • Why a future to LNet?
  • Interest/demands and feedback from
  • Economic development practitioners in our cities
  • Local/regional/national policy makers
  • European Commission
  • Enterprise and Social inclusion fits with the EU
    objectives
  • Lisbon objectives
  • Urban sustainable development

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  • Thematic and interested parties
  • Thematic
  • Deprived urban areas
  • Linking social inclusion and enterprise
  • Current LNet themes
  • Worklessness
  • Population mobility and local services
  • Creative industries
  • Production industries
  • SME finance
  • Others?
  • Interested parties
  • Current LNet partners
  • 60 other organisations all size and EU/non EU
    countries

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  • LNet could look like this
  • Structure
  • Core partners large cities
  • Associate members organisations working with
    some core partners on specific sub-projects
  • Observers organisations willing to learn from
    specific subprojects and who can give an input
    (case studies policy context) to the sub-project

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  • Working already on LNet succession strategy
  • Promotion of LNet to get feedback
  • European/local events
  • LNet is organising succession strategy workshops
  • LNet had meetings with the European Commission
  • And in the meantimebefore the new LNet
  • Access to our working documents
  • Promotion of case studies and activities
  • Priority for LNet events
  • Involvement in the preparation of the next LNet
    project

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  • More info?
  • Delphine Michel

lnet_at_gle.co.uk
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