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| About thirty students participate in this City Council training, within the summer courses and activities of the 37th edition of the International University of the Sea ( Unimar) | A total of 26 students will enjoy, from today until next Friday, the online course 'Urban Agendas: a new way of understanding local governance', one of the training actions of the Murcia City Council within the courses and summer activities of the 37th edition of the International University of the Sea (Unimar).The councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé, participated today in the official opening of the course, together with the president of the Federation of Murcia Municipalities, María Dolores Muñoz, the director of Unimar, María José Portillo, the dean from the Faculty of Labor Sciences of the UMU, Prudencio José Riquelque, and the professor of the Department of Applied Economics of the UMU, Ángel Manzanares, the latter also co-directors of the course.The activity will take place online until next Friday and will be structured in six work sessions, combining four online sessions, lasting five hours, and two virtual study visits, each lasting 2.5 hours.Experts on the subject, including speakers from other countries of the European Union who are designing their Urban Agenda, will present electronically the institutional framework of local urban agendas, as well as multilevel participatory methodologies and work in key networks of local governance.
Likewise, the course will serve as a meeting point for political leaders and technical staff of the local administration for analysis and reflection on sustainable and integrated urban development."The objective is to generate a space for debate and knowledge, both technical, scientific and social, that responds to the concerns and expectations that the process of drawing up the Urban Agendas has aroused", Mercedes Bernabé highlighted.First presentation: 'The Urban Agenda of Murcia.
A route for a decade 'After the opening ceremony, the councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé, opened the first session with the presentation 'The Urban Agenda of Murcia.
A route for a decade ', in which he has synthesized the process in which the City Council is immersed for the implementation of this strategy, "which will mark the sustainable development and growth of the municipality for the next ten years."In this way, he highlighted “the importance of territorial planning to give quick responses to our changing environments and, at the same time, be able to generate vision and meaning to have a city project.
These agendas represent a series of inspiring elements that allow a living approach to the reality of cities ”.The mayor has reviewed her background and contextualization in the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, as well as recalled her priorities in the international, European and Spanish framework, explicitly focused on SDG number 11 to achieve 'Sustainable Cities and Communities', pursuing that they are safe, inclusive and resilient.In this sense, Bernabé has highlighted the commitment and the steps that the Murcian consistory is taking, after being chosen by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda as a pilot experience for the implementation of the Action Plan of the Spanish Urban Agenda, together with the municipalities of A Coruña, Castellón and Alfaro."We are working together on the creation of a document that will help other municipalities and local entities in the design of their action plans", said the mayor, who has clarified to the attendees that "on the City Strategy website, specifically In the Urban Agenda section, you can see all the progress that the City Council is making in the design of our project ”.Among the actions that are being carried out, the councilor has highlighted the role of training “as a key element for the generation of mutual knowledge, as is the case with the course that we inaugurate today together with the International University of the Sea.
the creation of the Urban Agenda Chair is planned in collaboration with the University of Murcia ”.Participatory process of the Urban Agenda Murcia 2030The Murcia Urban Agenda 2030 is in the middle of the participatory process prior to its drafting, which will allow to know the opinion of the neighbors regarding the future of the municipality.The methodology has been designed in collaboration with the UMU and combines different tools, such as work tables of the Social Council, personal interviews with its members, key agents detected from an analysis of networks and political groups. It also highlights the conduct of 1,000 face-to-face surveys carried out with citizens to find out the degree of satisfaction of the population with respect to municipal services and facilities and future prospects and the online consultation, which was carried out from August 14 to 14 of September.
The neighborhood panel, the virtual agoras and the citizen mailbox are other instruments used for this process.Murcia's role in the European Urban AgendaFinally, the mayor has pointed out the involvement of Murcia in the European Urban Agenda as part of the Consortium of Culture and Cultural Heritage, in which Murcia leads the working group of creative and cultural sectors.“Through the new cultural model that is being implemented in our municipality and the declaration of culture as an essential sector in our territory, we are currently developing three interventions within the framework of this working group that are cultural reagents , test tubes and the conquest of the street.
The first is currently being implemented and the next two are in the initial phase ”, Mercedes Bernabé concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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