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3rd International Meeting of the Territories of Co-responsibility
Braine l'Alleud Novembre 2016, 2nd, 3rd & 4th
Brabant Wallon Province - Belgium



Introduction

Every 3 or 4 years, the TOGETHER Network organises an International Meeting of the Territories of Co-responsibility. Those meetings represent important moments in the network's life.

  • The First International Meeting took place on the 25th of September 2009 in Mulhouse, with the support of the city and the European Council. This meeting was the first step of the informal TOGETHER network. Few months after, the network beneficiated from the Urbact program with 8 pilot cities in 8 different countries.
  • The Second International Meeting, which also took place in Mulhouse on the 22nd and the 23rd of November in 2012 was the end of the Urbact project. It led to an enlargement of the network to all territories developping SPIRAL, leading to the formal constitution of TOGETHER during the year 2013.
  • The Third International Meeting took place in Braine L'Alleud on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of November 2016. It has marked a turning point for the CO-ACTE project. TOGETHER proposed to politics a roadmap beforehand debated largely with citizens and civil society. It has been as well an opportunity to enlarge partnerships with other networks that share similar goals, notably the one part of the CO-ACTE project.

Since 2012 each reunion is the occasion to establish an Extraordinary General Assembly taking in consideration new orientations in order to elect a new board.

Objective : a successful International Meeting in Braine l’Alleud

During the preparation meeting and the CO-ACTE launching project reunion, the exercise was to precise what would be a successful Third International Meeting of TOGETHER. It would be : 1. An enlarge and reinforced network

  • Mobilization of coresponsability territories further than the only SPIRAL community

TOGETHER must become a true network, in every sense of the world, linked with other similar networks (Territories in Agenda 21, transition, eco-village...) All actors should mutualise their experiences and go toward the same direction which will give much more weight and engage a permanent dialogue with national and European politics

  • Promises of a new working group with economical actors to think together about how stepping out of the profit logic at short term to go toward fundamental values.
  • A meeting which, one year after the COP 21 and its redefinition of the Millenium redefinition of objectives, will echoed by proposing their illustration and its concretion by corresponsability approaches in between local and global level.

2. Engaged participants

  • Media coverage which recognized the innovative approach
  • Presence of politics which recognized a different but proactive approach
  • Representatives of various political parties and social organisms which thought about modifying their positions towards one another
  • Presence of DGs from the European Comission and national ministries

3. Content, effects, and upgrade

  • Synthesis of the territorial and thematic reports
  • Political proposals that outcome
  • A large echo which allowed to pose the conditions of a perennial dialogue in between territories – researchers and politicians
  • Re-positioning actors in an ecosystem of corresponsability for the welfare of all
  • Alliances Council : interpretation DG research, new research programs

4. Organization and atmosphere

  • Lot of enthusiasm
  • Lot of public speaking
  • Recreational moments
  • Historical visits
  • Meeting in between stakeholders which do not often meet

Expected Results

  • The progress line towards the corresponsability for the welfare of all promoted by the TOGETHER network has won in visibility and in acknowledgment
  • Proposals of public politics which are coming from it are systematize and debated at an European level with concrete application prospects
  • Citizens and actors participate in the political and research project of TOGETHER to create a loop effect of global mobilization between citizens, researchers, elected politics

Program

Link to a temporary graphic version

Wednesday 02/11/2016
Presentation and enrichment of the CO-ACTE road map proposal
At the Cultural Center of Braine-l’Alleud – Street Jules Hans, 4 – 1420 Braine-l’Alleud
  • 8h00: Welcoming of participants
  • 9h00: Official opening of the meeting : Welcoming words from Mr. Olivier Parvais, Deputy Mayor, President of the Social Action Public Center and Provincial Advisor. Introduction of the day by Mr. Lassaad Ghedami, Mayor of Kairouan (Tunisia) and Mr. Dimosthenis Toulkidis, Deputy Mayor of Kavala (Greece), Board Member of the TOGETHER network.
  • 9h30: Spiral method’s and TOGETHER network’s history by Ms Cécile Sornin, Adjunct of Participative Democracy representing the Mayor of Mulhouse, pioneer in that approach.
  • 9h45: General presentation of the results of CO-ACTE : synthesis of the citizens’ expectations, contributions of the 4 thematic reunions and presentation of the road map proposal which ensued by Mr. Samuel THIRION, General Secretary of the TOGETHER network and presentation of the various participants working on the project – Debate with the public.
  • 10h45: Coffee break proposed by the ASBL OXFAM of Braine-l’Alleud
  • 11h00: Round table on the political interest of the road-map from a local level to the European one with Mr. Olivier Parvais, Deputy Mayor, President of the Social Action Public Center and Provincial Advisor ; Mr. André Flahaut, Budget Minister of the Public Service and Administrative Simplification of the Walloon-Fédération ; Ms Gilda Farrell, ex Division of Research and Development for Social Cohesion chief at the Council of Europe ; Ms Sabine Storme, Ambassador of Cittaslow International.

At the Academy of Music and the Art school – Rue du Château, 45-47

Intervention to present what the meeting and TOGETHER network want to propose to politics by Mr. Samuel Thirion, General Secretary of TOGETHER.
  • 21h:00 Departure of buses to the train station of Braine-l'Alleud
Thursday 3/11/2016
Thinking about the perspectives opened by the road map
At the Academy of Music and the School of Arts - Rue du Château, 45-47

Drums of the Academy of music of Braine-l'Alleud : "Visite d'un monde sonore !"

  • 18h30: Animation "Kitchen" : Transposable kitchen is a project of Thorsten Baensch and Christine Dupuis since 2000. It is an artistic act, participatory, already presented in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Courtrai, Kuala, Lumpur, Louvain-la-Neuve, Munich, New-York, Singapor and Tunis. Transportable because she drives, she writes her own story by showing the state of the links which unite us throughout social statuses, origins, encouraging to not avoid the idea of a common future in choice or restriction. Kitchen is place of theater, a place of cuisine and a place to share. Exchanges through years gathered a thousand recipes which allowed to publish 7 editions of artists' books.
  • 19h30: Walking dinner realized by « Benin Solidarity », « Fair Peace in Middle East », « Ray of Hope», « Third World Team », « Oxfam » and the Consultative Comission for the International Solidarity
Friday 4/11/2016
Bring the road-map through the network and to authorities
At the Academy of Music and at the School of Arts – Rue du Château, 45-47
  • 9h00: General Assembly of TOGETHER presided by the city of Mulhouse

Speech by Mr. Olivier Parvais, Mayor Adjunct, President of the Social Action Public Center and Provincial Advisor ; Mr. Lassaad Ghedami, Mayor of Kairouan (Tunisia) and Mr. Diminosthenis Toulkidis, Mayor Adjunct of Kavala (Greece), board member of TOGETHER Presentation of the Activity Report by the board of direction of the network Presentation of the Financial Report by the Surveillance Council (city of Charleroi) Debate on the performance reviews and perspectives

  • 10h30: Coffee break proposed by l’ASBL OXFAM de Braine-l’Alleud
  • 10h45: What objectives and what strategy for the after Braine L'Alleud and the 3 upcoming year. Election of a new Board of Direction.
  • 12h00: Buffet lunch offered by « Restô et compagnie »
  • 13h00: Departure to Brussels

At the seat of the governing board of the Comity of Regions - Room JDE 70 - Rue Belliard, 99-101 – 1040 Brussels

  • 14h00: Meeting with European Authorities, presentation and debate on the road map proposal
  • 17h00: End of the meeting

Partners

The Commune of Braine-l'Alleud, the Inter-Departmental Direction of Social Cohesion (SCID) of the Walloon Region and the TOGETHER Network itself are the 3 CO-ACTE project partners in charge of the organization and the conduct of the Third International Meeting of the Territories of Co-responsibility. To them are added the following partners:

  • The AECEA EU (Europe for Citizens Program), the Meeting co-financer
  • The Brabant Province for a cross-provincial perspective, the Meeting co-financer
  • The Walloon Region, for a inter-community and transverse perspective, the Meeting co-financer

Report of the meeting

Click here (Only in French)

Photos of the event

Follow that link to see the pictures of the event : https://www.flickr.com/photos/wikispiral/albums/72157676999213915

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