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| The City Council, through the European Programs service, dependent on the Department of Urban Agenda and Open Government, participates in the transnational meeting organized by the city of Porto | The Murcia City Council, through the European Programs service, dependent on the Department of Urban Agenda and Open Government, led by Mercedes Bernabé, has been present at the 'Urbact Innovator' transnational digital meeting, organized by the city of Oporto, a project that aims to implement innovation in the public sector in order to improve the functioning of city councils.In this way, Murcia has presented the results of the consultation to the Local Police, a participatory process in which the officials themselves have had the opportunity to get involved and contribute their experiences in improving their environment and internal service processes.

After having analyzed and filtered the proposals, the project is currently studying the feasibility and implementation of the selected ideas.The meeting, which was attended by the cities of Rotterdam (Netherlands), Paris (France), Porto (Portugal), Veszprém (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Turin (Italy), has also allowed Each city will present its progress within the project, serving in turn as a platform to share and share the local situation experienced in each place in the face of the COVID-19 crisis and its impact.Within the context that marks the global pandemic situation, Mercedes Bernabé emphasizes that “now more than ever it is vital to maintain an exchange of experiences and good practices of new training mechanisms and training of public employees, promoting the incorporation of new tools and knowledge that keep us at the forefront of innovation and citizen participation ”."The meeting concluded positively, putting in order administrative issues related to the project and presenting the progress reports of Murcia to Europe and the Secretary of Urbact", highlighted the mayor, who adds that "the objective is to promote sustainable and integrated urban development in cities throughout Europe and whose fundamental pillar is the improvement of the efficiency of public administration ”.'Innovator' is part of Urbact, a European Territorial Cooperation program, whose objective is to promote sustainable and integrated urban development in cities throughout Europe, as an instrument of Cohesion Policy and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Likewise, the initiative's fundamental pillar is compliance with Thematic Objective Eleven (OT: 11) of the European Commission, which defends 'The improvement of the efficiency of public administration'.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia