The GREENS IN BIG CITIES Meeting and the 9 th CENTRAL EUROPEAN - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The GREENS IN BIG CITIES Meeting and the 9th CENTRAL EUROPEAN ROUND TABLE

• f Green Local Councillors

2013 Monika Vana and Gerhard Jordan Die Grünen Vienna

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Greens in Big Cities

Greens in Big Cities Network: Founded in 2001. MEETINGS: Berlin 2005 Amsterdam 2006 Vienna 2007 Istanbul 2009 Budapest 2010 Thessaloniki 2012 Berlin 2013 TOPICS discussed: Traffic, drug policy, urban planning, city budgeting, health and environment, anti-corruption strategies, multicultural heritage, public participation. Greens of the following cities are involved in COORDINATING the network (Steering Group): Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Helsinki and Vienna.

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Greens in Big Cities

8th Meeting of GBC Network Date: May 31st - June 2nd , 2013 Venue: BERLIN (for the second time, after 2005) Supported by Die Grünen Berlin and Heinrich Boell Foundation

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Greens in Big Cities

Main topic of the 8th GBC meeting: public participation. Presentation from Vienna (Monika Vana): THE „VIENNA CHARTER”, a participative project The GBC meeting was also linked with a conference on AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

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Greens in Big Cities

Forum „Thinking urban development in a European way”

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Greens in Big Cities

Urban development: Examples from Budapest (Ágnes Somfai) and Helsinki (Outi Silfverberg)

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Greens in Big Cities

A „best practice” from France: „Age-friendly city Lyon”, presented by Pierre Hémon, Deputy Mayor of Lyon.

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Greens in Big Cities

Discussion on representative vs. direct democracy: two inputs from Switzerland (Bruno Kaufmann and Yahya Hassan Bajwa).

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Greens in Big Cities

June 2nd: Forum with „spotlights on Greens in government” - experiences with public participation in Falun (Sweden), Brussels and Ghent (Belgium), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France), Vienna (Austria) and several cities in Switzerland.

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Greens in Big Cities

At the 8th GBC Network Meeting in Berlin, Greens from 10 European countries were present: Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Central European Round Table in Vienna

Participants 2005

Participants 2007

Central European Round Table of Green Local Councillors:

• held annually since 2005
• organized by the Greens of Vienna and supported by the Austrian Green Foundation

(Grüne Bildungswerkstatt)

• aim: to strengthen Greens on the local level by exchanging experiences and learning

from each other

• participants: Green local councillors and activists from Central and Eastern European

countries, particularly EU 2004 and Ex-Yugoslavia.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Opening session of the 9th Central European Round Table with Gerhard Jordan, Leonore Gewessler (Green European Foundation, Moderator), Monika Vana (Member of the City Assembly in Vienna, speaking) and Georg Egger (Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, Vienna).

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Participants in the sessions of the first day (location: headquarters of Die Grünen Vienna, Lindengasse 40).

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Input by Gabriele Tupy (local councillor, Vienna) on urban gardening and farming projects in the 21st district of Vienna, Floridsdorf.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Heidi Sequenz (local councillor, Vienna) presenting the community garden project „Donaucity-Kaisermühlen” in the 22nd district of Vienna that the participants visited in the excursion on 13th October.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Tamás Jakabfy, local councillor of LMP in Budapest- Józsefváros (district 8), presenting gardening projects in Budapest.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Irena Ščurić and Vlasta Toth, local councillors of „Zelena Lista” in the districts 1 and 2 of Zagreb (Croatia), showing projects in Zagreb.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Presentation of ideas for cross- border cooperation „from below”: The example of Döbling and Kispest, the 19th districts of Vienna and Budapest.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: Discussion „Social Europe - a broken promise?”, organized jointly by GEF (Green European Foundation) and Grüne Bildungswerkstatt. Speakers: Romuald Jagodzinski (European Trade Union Institute, Brussels), Alexandra Strickner (ATTAC Austria) and Zoltán Zarándy (LMP, Hungary). Moderation: Monika Vana.

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Central European Round Table

11th October 2013: „Social Europe” - Discussion on minimum social standards, Green Jobs, working time reduction, public services, gender.

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: On the second day, the meeting place was in Rathaus, the Town Hall of Vienna (built between 1872 and 1883).

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Experiences from Green local politics in Central Europe. Inputs by Ágnes Somfai (City Assembly of Budapest, PM-Dialogue for Hungary), József Kóbor (City councillor in Pécs, LMP-Politics can be different) and Petr Štěpánek (district councillor in Prague-4, member of the City Government of Prague between 2006 and 2009).

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Inputs from Green district councillors from Zagreb (Zelena Lista and „Za Grad”) and Belgrade (Zeleni Srbije).

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Working group on public services and experiences with privatization in Eastern European countries.

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Working group on public participation.

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: For the first time, Greens from Montenegro (Positive Montenegro - PCG) took part in a Central European Round Table.

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Inputs by „Naša Stranka” („Our Party”) from Sarajevo and by DOM (Democratic Renewal of Macedonia) from Skopje.

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: Discussion on EU enlargement towards the West Balkans. Inputs by Austrian MEP Ulrike Lunacek and by Vedran Horvat (Office of Heinrich Boell Foundation Croatia, Zagreb).

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Central European Round Table

12th October 2013: In the discussion on EU enlargement towards the West Balkans, feedbacks were given by participants from all ex-Yugoslav countries present.

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Central European Round Table

13th October 2013: The main topic is a presentation of the features of the Green campaign for the General Election that took place on 28th September 2013. Campaign manager Martin Radjabi presented several new elements used to mobilize voters beyond the „traditional green electorate”.

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Central European Round Table

13th October 2013: The presentation on the Austrian Green election campaign triggered an interesting discussion. Die Grünen Austria scored 12.4% of the vote giving them the position of „European Champions”.

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Central European Round Table

13th October: Excursion to the community garden „Donaucity/Kaisermühlen” in district 22, Donaustadt.

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FOLLOW-UP, OUTCOME

GREENS IN BIG CITIES

Next meeting to be held in BARCELONA in 2014. Topic: Social politics.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN ROUND TABLE

Annually in Vienna. The focus

• n the countries of former

Yugoslavia has received a very positive feedback.

NETWORKING

Improvement of the „Green Successes” tool ?

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Thanks for your attention!

Monika Vana, Gerhard Jordan greeningthecities.wordpress.com