{"id":2699,"date":"2018-04-12T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2018-04-12T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:07:24","slug":"terrassa-discusses-common-objectives-with-the-spanish-cities-of-eurocities-in-a-meeting-in-valladolid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/en\/2018\/04\/12\/terrassa-discusses-common-objectives-with-the-spanish-cities-of-eurocities-in-a-meeting-in-valladolid\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrassa discusses common objectives with the Spanish cities of EUROCITIES in a meeting in Valladolid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2701\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"wp-image-2701 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-2-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-2-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head officer of International Affairs from Terrassa, Joan Chic\u00f3n, with some colleagues from other cities \/ Photo: Valladolid City Council<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Valladolid hosted this week, April 10th and 11th, a meeting of the contact officers of the Spanish cities members of EUROCITIES, the most important network of cities in Europe. Terrassa, together with its urban system (with 10 more municipalities from Vall\u00e8s Occidental that reach more than 410,000 inhabitants) has been part of the network since 2008 and, since January 2017 and together with Barcelona, \u200b\u200bhas the vice presidency of the working group of Branding Management &amp;\u00a0City Attractiveness<em>,<\/em>\u00a0within the Forum of Economic Development (EDF) of the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2702 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1-300x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1-1024x265.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-adelante-con-escudo-1.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The meeting in the Castilian locality was carried out at the Valladolid Town Hall and at the headquarters of Valladoli+D, the municipal agency responsible for developing the network at the transversal level throughout the City Council, as well as in citizen level<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This meeting was agreed during the General Assembly of EUROCITIES in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where the Spanish cities of the network held a small meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2706\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Anna-Lisa-Boni-426x426-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2706\" class=\"wp-image-2706 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Anna-Lisa-Boni-426x426-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Anna-Lisa-Boni-426x426-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Anna-Lisa-Boni-426x426-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Anna-Lisa-Boni-426x426-1.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Lisa Boni \/ Photo: European Lab<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The event had two parts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">A presentation with the participation of the hosts, with a direct conference from Brussels with the secretary of EUROCITIES, Anna Lisa Boni, who talked about the future challenges of the network. The Valladolid City Council also exhibited its European projects and innovation, such as REMOURBAN (urban transformation and smart cities), S2CITY (intelligent systems), TT (transport and technology), CENCYL + (sustainable cities network ), INLIFE (about dementia on elderly people) and URBAN GREEN UP (transforming urban spaces with solutions based on nature).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">A thematic session divided into areas such as the European strategy of cities, the Urban Agenda and urban empowerment. Terrassa spoke of its link with the Urban Agenda, while Barcelona presented some of its projects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2703\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"wp-image-2703 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-1-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Valladolid-1-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Valladolid City Council<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some of the <strong>topics discussed<\/strong>\u00a0were:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">1. Make the defense posture on the cohesion policy of cities to the Ministry (Community Funds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">2. Governance and collaboration: a joint strategy of Spanish cities from the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">3. Take advantage of the joint synergies of cities for participation in initiatives and projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">4. Active presence of Spanish cities in the decision-making bodies of EUROCITIES to create advocacy in the cities of the South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">5. Cohesion policy, Urban Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals (ODS), future of the network and future of Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">6. New Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 and the situation of cities against the cuts in Community Funds in cohesion policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">7. Analysis of the management model of the departments of International Relations in the different cities of the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">8. Human and budgetary resources for the management of projects autonomously of the municipal services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Eurocities1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Eurocities1-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Eurocities1-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Eurocities1-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A total of 12 Spanish cities are currently full members or associates of EUROCITIES and 9 of them participated these days in Valladolid: Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMadrid, Sevilla, Fuenlabrada, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Gij\u00f3n, Valladolid and Terrassa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valladolid hosted this week, April 10th and 11th, a meeting of the contact officers of the Spanish cities members of EUROCITIES, the most important network of cities in Europe. Terrassa, together with its urban system (with 10 more municipalities from Vall\u00e8s Occidental that reach more than 410,000 inhabitants) has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-action","category-local-action","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrassa.cat\/internacional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}