Urb-Al info : newsletter of Urb-Al programme. No 21, first half 2005.
Date: 2005-04-27
Institutions: EuropeAid Co-operation Office
Subjects: Latin America, action programme, cooperation policy, economic development, local authority, serial publication, town

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NEWSLETTER OF URB-AL
PROGRAMME,
European Commission 
horizontal decentralised 
cooperation programme for
cities, urban centres and
regions of European Union 
and Latin America

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
EuropeAid 
Cooperation office 
Latin America Directorate 

ISSN 1725-0420

No21

FIRST HALF 
2005

IN THIS ISSUE 

Since the evaluation of the last call for proposals (October 2004), 21 B projects have
been approved by the Commission. Most of these are now in the phase of
execution. The projects are a consequence of type-A joint projects and cover a wide
range of themes. In this issue we present 9 B projects ranging from the renovation
of the historic centre of Montevideo by its inhabitants to improving safety for
cyclists, and even to the establishment of a virtual centre for the prevention and
treatment of domestic violence in various cities of both regions. 

In the second half of 2004, the Commission launched two new initiatives: the
establishment of the Observatory for local decentralised cooperation EU-LA
and the Documentation Centre for the URB-AL programme.

The Observatory for local decentralised cooperation, the main objective of which is
to compile and disseminate information on decentralised cooperation, will be set up
and coordinated by the consortium formed by the Diputación de Barcelona and the
Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo.

The Documentation Centre,
the purpose of which is to
compile and disseminate
accumulated URB-AL know-
how, in particular methods of
“best practice”, will be
managed by the consortium
formed by the Ayuntamiento
de Málaga and the
Municipalidad de Valparaíso.

The function of these two
new bodies is to diffuse
the many good practices
which have emerged from
the programme, and to
help ensure the durability
of their results.

RICCARDO GAMBINI

EuropeAid 
Cooperation office – 
Head of Unit B2

Montevideo. Renovated facade in the framework of the Project Ciudad Vieja Renueva.

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JOINT PROJECTS SELECTED

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2004 – 31 OCTOBER (REFERENCE EUROPEAID/113113/C/G)

Coordination of joint projects 

Selected coordinator

Country

Project title

TYPE “A” JOINT PROJECTS

Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte

BRA

Ayuntamiento de Granada

ESP

Municipalidad de General San Martín

ARG

Prefeitura Municipal de Piracicaba

Municipio de Querétaro

Comune di Latina

Ilustre Municipalidad de Viña del Mar

Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà
Stadt Graz
Diputación Provincial de Málaga
Diputación Provincial de Huelva
Prefeitura Municipal de Guarulhos

Gobierno de la Ciudad
Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Municipalidad de Curuzú Cuatía
Comune di Segrate
Gobernación Provincial de Mendoza
Ilustre Municipalidad de Riobamba

BRA

MEX

ITA

CHI

ESP
AUS
ESP
ESP
BRA

ARG

ARG
ITA
ARG
ECU

Instrumentos de articulação entre planejamento territorial
e Orçamento Participativo
Integración de los inmigrantes en la ciudad como forma
de combate de la pobreza
Intercambio de metodologías e indicadores para la evaluación
de las políticas sociales de empleo en las ciudades de América Latina 
y la Unión Europea
Políticas e Ações Municipais de Segurança Alimentar:
realidade, limites e possibilidades da interstorialidade
Formación de personal de municipios para utilizar los programas
de cooperación internacional como herramientas de combate
a la pobreza en sus proyectos locales
Manual para o desenvolvimiento urbano dos assentamentos
precarios à dimensão da criança
El ausentismo escolar como indicador de violación
de los derechos humanos: un reto a las políticas públicas
La mujer inmigrada. Igualdad, participación y liderazgo en el ámbito local
Consejo local / internacional de mujeres jóvenes
LIDERAL
PRO-IGUAL
Metodologias de microcrédito como instrumento
de fomento à inclusão sócio-econômica das mulheres
Estrategias para la Transverzalización de la Perspectiva
de Género en las Políticas Públicas
Observatorio participativo: de la e-exclusión a la e-inclusión
Telemunicipio saludable
Modelo de Planificación estratégica de Gobierno Electrónico
Diagnóstico de la incidencia de la Migración e Inmigración
desde realidades diferentes con efectos en la Seguridad ciudadana

Selected coordinator

Country

Project title

TYPE “B” JOINT PROJECTS 

Ayuntamiento de Rubí
Città di Torino
Regione Toscana

AGENDA

ESP
ITA
ITA

Energías renovables y redes de desarrollo local
Boulevard. Recorridos de Salud
Intervenciones de planificación y recualificación urbana:
el enfoque multidisciplinar integrado

Project No

R9-A6-04

R10-A12-04

R10-A14-04

R10-A17-04

R10-A18-04

R10-A19-04

R10-A20-04

R12-A8-04
R12-A10-04
R12-A12-04
R12-A13-04
R12-A14-04

R12-A15-04

R13-A10-04
R13-A11-04
R13-A12-04
R14-A10-04

Project No

R4-B6-04
R5-B4-04
R7-B1-04

Annual Meetings 2005: Provisional Dates

NETWORK No – COORDINATOR

PLACE

N° 6 Ayuntamiento de Málaga
N° 9 Prefeitura de Porto Alegre
N° 10 Prefeitura de São Paulo
N° 12 Diputación de Barcelona
N° 13 Freie Hansestadt Bremen
N° 14 Municipalidad de Valparaíso

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Málaga – Spain
Córdoba – Spain
São Paulo – Brazil
Montevideo – Uruguay
Bremen – Deutschland
Valparaíso – Chile

DATE

14-15 October 2005
8-10 June 2005
23-25 February 2005
13-15 April 2005
November 2005
September 2005

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NETWORK 6

AYUNTAMIENTO DE MÁLAGA

The Ayuntamiento de Málaga lends continuity to Network 6
URB-AL by hosting the 4th annual seminar

In November 2003 the Community subsidies for coordination of the thematic Network 6 URB-AL
“Urban Environment” came to an end. The Ayuntamiento de Málaga decided to build on the experience gained and
the excellent technical and financial results obtained by pursuing some of the activities of the network further.

On the 18th and 19th of June 2004, the

Ayuntamiento de Málaga held a new
annual seminar for Network 6. Attendance
at this fourth encounter was higher than
ever before even though it involved no joint
project workshop. 

The Ayuntamiento de Málaga bore the costs
of all of the seminar’s activities and the
special arrangements made for the members
of the network.

More than 120 people from 48 European
and  Latin  American  cities  attended  the
seminar,  which  was  devoted  to  3  main
topics:

• Monitoring of the approved joint projects;

• A monograph on Local Agenda 21;

• The various programmes which, together
with URB-AL, are being developed by the
European Commission in cooperation with
Latin America and the access to such
programmes.

The opening plenary session was attended
by Marta García Nart, of the Ministry of
Finance, who explained the inescapable
connection between urban planning and
the environmental characteristics of our
towns and cities. In her speech she referred
to the importance of Local Agenda 21 as
an instrument of commitment and action for
the creation of a more sustainable urban
environment. 

This was followed by presentations by the
coordinating cities on the progress and
results of all of the approved Network 6 joint
projects. The European Commission had
approved 10 type-A joint projects involving
75 cities and 2 type-B projects involving
17 European and Latin American cities (see
www.urbalmalaga.com).

in 

innovation 

Another 
the  work
programme for the 2004 seminar was 
the inclusion of a paper on the various
programmes for cooperation between the
European Commission and Latin America
(EUROsociAL,  AL-Invest,  Alfa,  Alban, 
etc.). The exhibition was organised by 
Marc  Rimez,  representative  of  the 
European Commission Cooperation Office,
EuropeAid.

This meeting of Network 6 was held along-
side the annual meeting of the coordina-
tors of the various URB-AL networks. At
this meeting  presentations  were  made
concerning the various activities of each of
the networks and the management prob-
lems they encounter accompanied by infor-

mation on what experience had shown to
be good practice.

The Ayuntamiento de Málaga is committed
to the sustainable development of the urban
environment through work in the four main
branches of Network 6; the configuration of
the city and the urban region, social cohe-
sion, natural resources and city governance.

The work already begun on setting up the
urban environment observatory (OMAU)
with the establishment of a system of indi-
cators shared by all of the members of the
network, and the re-launch of the Málaga
Agenda 21 form the basis for continuing
the collaboration and cooperation between
the cities of the two continents begun with
Network 6 URB-AL.

Network 6. Fourth Annual Seminar: Pedro Marín, Coordinator of Network 6; Francisco de la Torre, Mayor of Málaga and Marc Rimez,
Project manager of URB-AL Programme.

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NETWORK 14

MUNICIPALIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO

Citizens’ safety in towns

On the 9th and 10th of September last, Network 14 held its first annual meeting in Valparaíso (Chile)
at which members exchanged know-how on citizen safety as a way of arriving at a joint approach
to the problems experienced in their communities.

According to the Network’s experts,

“Latin  America  is  one  of  the  most
violent regions of the world. Rapid and disor-
derly urbanization, social conflict, poverty,
institutional weakness, the poor quality of
education, high unemployment, drug traf-
ficking, a lack of trust in the police and family
breakdown lead to a situation where crime
and violence prevail”.

In Europe on the other hand certain cate-
gories of crime are increasing at a alarming
rate against a background of social conflict
creating a situation of violence, solitude and
individualism. 

Against this background, the purpose of
the first annual meeting of Network 14 was
to discuss the latest proposals concerning
citizen safety.

After  welcome  addresses  by  Gustavo
Paulsen (Coordinator of Network 14), Marc

Rimez (Project Manager of the URB-AL
programme), Vittorio Tonutti (Coordinator
of URB-AL programme) and Wolfgang Pasa
(Head of European Commission delegation
in Chile), the ceremony focused initially on
the speech by Jorge Correa Sútil (Under
Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of
Chile). He made a frank analysis of Chilean
policy on citizen safety. The latest publica-
tion by Network 14, entitled “Citizen Safety
at local level: experience and challenges”,
was presented during a panel discussion
concerning the experiences of cities in the
field of citizen safety. Speeches were made
by Pedro Chabat (Chairman of the Asso-
ciation of Chilean municipalities), Hugo
Acero  (Coordinator  of  the  Colombian
national police force’s regional and munic-
ipal safety programme), who enthusiasti-
cally explained the results of his work in
combatting homicide and other crime in

Bogotá, and Lucía Dammert, expert of
Network 14.

All of the panel members stressed the rele-
vance of this topic and the importance of
local management regarding the policies
on citizen safety, as clearly demonstrated
by Gustavo Paulsen when he said; “Is there
any authority, institution or organisation
which should not feel obliged to play a role
in the prevention of violence and crime?
Furthermore, if we really believe that local
institutional structures are an irreplaceable
source of the means to strive for safety, can
we ignore the responsibility which this places
on those who manage these structures?
Certainly not. More and more cities and
regions of Latin America are showing that
we cannot go on waiting and have begun
to act. Without relenting in their demands
for the greater resources they need or for
autonomy and decentralisation, which is
nothing more than the necessary expansion
of democracy, many local authorities can
demonstrate genuine cases where both
crime figures and, as a result, perceptions of
insecurity have fallen in their areas, some-
thing which, sadly, none of the national
governments of the region can boast”.

In two intense days of workshops more than
a hundred representatives from various Euro-
pean and Latin American cities strove to
produce  proposals  for  joint  projects  on
4 topics: “citizen safety and urban config-
uration”, “citizen safety and inter-sectoral
policies”, “instruments and scope for action
on citizen safety”, and “citizen safety and
civil society”.

As a result of the extensive work and produc-
tive days of the workshops, and involving
equipment such as methodologic monitors,
impellers and supports, 16 profiles for joint
projects were created, which were then
presented at the closing ceremony.

Network 14. Valparaíso. Closing session of the first annual meeting: Marc Rimez, Project manager of URB-AL Programme; Gustavo Paulsen,
coordinator of network 14 and Vittorio Tonutti, Coordinator of URB-AL Programme.

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NETWORK 13

COORDINATED BY THE FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN

Towns and the information society

Approximately 150 people attended the first annual meeting of Network 13, “Towns and the information society”,
held in Miraflores (Peru) from the 3rd to the 5th of November, 2004. The conference was jointly organised
by the coordinating city Bremen and the host city Miraflores.

The plenary sessions were attended by

various figures connected with the topic.
Tadao Takahashi, general coordinator for the
Information Society Programme, SOCINFO,
(Campinas, Brazil) stressed that, despite the
differences between Latin American and Euro-
pean cities, cooperation in the field of the
information society was needed because in
the key areas, the challenges were practically
the same: decisions regarding the appropriate
combination of technologies, critical applica-
tion and community involvement. 

The head of the CISCO working party on a
practical strategy for governance for Latin
America, Juan Carlos Castilla Rubio, stressed
the link between the use of information tech-
nology and productivity and how the use of
these technologies can lead to a higher output
in the public sector in Latin America.

The meeting was addressed by representa-
tives of the organising cities – the Senator

for Education and Science of Bremen, Willi
Lemke,  and  the  Mayor  of  Miraflores,
Fernando Andrade. Willi Lemke underlined
the importance of these personal meetings
for the development of genuine links between
the cities.

be followed for drafting and presenting a
proposal for a joint project.

The  workshops  focused  on  the  four 
main  topics  of  the  network  which  are
described  in  the  basic  document  (see
www.bremen.de/urb-al):

The European Commission was represented
by the Head of the EC delegation to Peru,
Mendel Goldstein, the Brussels coordinator
of the URB-AL programme, Vittorio Tonutti,
and a project manager of the programme,
Miguel Romero. Mendel Goldstein empha-
sised the decisive part played by the cities
in  improving  both  the  socio-economic
conditions and the quality of life of their
populations. He also underlined the contri-
bution made by the latest technological
advances, especially in the field of commu-
nication and information. Miguel Romero
explained in detail the philosophy of the
URB-AL programme and the procedures to

• Government.

• People.

• Enterprises.

• Urban environment.

Eleven ideas emerged for possible future
proposals for joint projects. 

Regarding the basic document, Luis Lozano
called  for  it  to  be  updated  so  it  can  be
presented in its modified form at the forth-
coming annual meeting of the Network to be
held in November 2005.

Network 13. First annual Meeting: Mendel Goldstein, Head of the Delegation of the EC in Peru; Pierre Santini, Mayor of Issy-les-moulineaux; Fernando Andrade, Mayor
of Miraflores; Brigitte Kleinen, coordinator of Network 13; Vittorio Tonutti, Coordinator of URB-AL Programme and Miguel Romero, Project manager of URB-AL Programme.

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TYPE-B PROJECT

Intendencia de Montevideo: Ciudad Vieja Renueva

A few months after the completion of the project “Urban social policy: a proposal for integration in run-down
central areas”, the Intendencia de Montevideo, which has coordinated this experiment, set out some
of the practical results: renovated facades, pedestrian areas and local people aspiring to a better quality of life.

The project has various objectives:

• The creation of a methodology for action

in dilapidated historical areas;

• The  socio-economic  development  of

Ciudad Vieja;

• The development of local people’s skills
and their potential to enter the labour
market;

• The rehabilitation of the local urban area
to encourage a more popular, democratic
use;

• The dissemination of the methods and

Advanced Construction (National Public
Education Administration), the Faculty of
Architecture (University of the Republic),
the  Network  Acercándonos  (children,
young people and family organisations),
employers, municipal authorities (members
of the project: Santo André, Rosario, Turin
and Bilbao), decentralised municipal bodies
of Montevideo and local people’s mutual
assistance organisations. 

Four  work  programmes  have  been
deployed in the Ciudad Vieja (old town)
district of Montevideo: 

• Urban renewal.

results of implementation.

• Training and support for workers.

• Local participation and cooperation.

• Horizontal cooperation between local
authorities and with other municipal
bodies.

The results of these coordinated measures
are as follows:

❍ 72 participants at the Urban Renewal
School (48 graduates, 24 currently in
training, with a projected total in mid-
May of 30 unemployed people between
30 and 55 years of age, 26 young people
between 18 and 29 years of age and
16 single mothers skilled in the trades of
bricklaying, carpentry and metalwork);

❍ 35 construction workers (13 from the
builders’ union and 22 graduates from
the Urban Renewal School) contracted
by Ciudad Vieja Renueva; 

❍ 4 small loans granted by the Employ-
ment Fund to businesses setting up and
investing in the area and providing at
least one new job for each inhabitant of
Ciudad Vieja;

❍ 14 young people in temporary jobs;

❍ 20  young  people  trained  in  catering
through “Ciudad Vieja emplea” courses
– (National Employment Agency), some
50% of whom have been given tempo-
rary or permanent jobs in businesses in
the area.

Montevideo. Renovated facade.

Other participants are 54 small-scale entre-
preneurs on business management courses
and 40 recipients of advice from desk offi-
cers, and more than 35 owners of proper-
ties already renovated or undergoing reno-
vation. 

Lastly under the Inter-Municipal Horizontal
Cooperation Programme technical and
political teams from Santo Andre, Rosario,
Bilbao and Turin, especially those special-
ising in international relations and urban
renewal, are involved in exchange and
methodological discussions concerning the
measures in Montevideo, for example a
Seminar – Inaugural workshop of August
2003, identification of good practices and
a video conference in 2004. Furthermore,
the Conference on Ideas in 2003 enabled
a group of young people from Turin to take
part in a social cultural action project in
the San Salvario area of that city.

The months to come will see an intensifi-
cation of links between institutions with a
view to increasing the sustainability of
Ciudad Vieja Renueva.

Montevideo. Work facade.

Emphasis is placed on the diversity of the
participants involved: state institutions such
as the Ministry of Labour, the Academy for

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TYPE-B PROJECT

Ayuntamiento de Madrid:“Intercity Local Development
Training School” 

This school, which was the result of an initiative to design a project based on the know-how and experience
jointly gained with several members of Network 4 (the Cabildo Metropolitano de Caracas – Venezuela,
the Municipalidad de San Salvador de Jujuy – Argentina, the Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco – Mexico, the Comune
di Roma – Italy and Bidasoa Activa – Spain) came to an end in December 2004.

First phase: training 
attended by participants

throughout the process. The course lasts
one year, after which each student has to
present a final project.

The activities of the school consisted in
providing high level training relating to all
stages of local development. The curriculum
for the courses included a large practical
component which made it possible not only
to put the experience gained to good use in
the local decision-making bodies concerned,
but also to promote the continuous acqui-
sition of know-how between municipalities
and the other protagonists of sustainable
development. There were four attended
training modules:

1) Promotion of business and employment.

2) Concern for the citizen and social welfare. 

3) Local sustainable development.

4) Tourism as a factor of local development.

Second phase:
interactive training course

After completion of the attended training
courses, the school launched its interactive
training course in December 2004. In this
way distance training was provided for 300
technical workers from local bodies and
organisations involved in the development
processes in Latin America and the Euro-
pean Union.

The syllabus was adapted to digital format
and divided into two learning units including
a self-evaluation form and exercises, as well
as a bibliographic base and a good practice
guide.  Tutors  provided  on-line  support

Testimonies

“The interesting feature of the module is
the fact that both students and instructors
were selected as participants. A fundamental
part of the courses was the exchange of
members’ experience and above all the
conferring and the debate between all of the
participants. The participants from Rome
shared their own acquired know-how with
their colleagues and expanded on the topics
dealt with in the module. All showed interest
in reproducing the experience and much
discussion was provoked concerning ways
of adjusting and improving everyday work
in  the  light  of  the  discussions  at  the
school…”. Alessandra Testoni, Officer for
Decentralised  Cooperation,  II  UO  –  XV
Comune di Roma.

“For Venezuela, to talk about cooperation
in a highly disruptive everyday environment
is to think about the antithesis of this situ-
ation. Fortunately for some, the Intercity
Training School project became a space
where Venezuelan civil servants of various
hues declared a truce and gained an oppor-
tunity to listen to each other and to realise
that joint work had to begin at home. In
the same way, we in Argentina, Mexico and
Venezuela  are  beginning  to  scrutinise
ourselves,  whilst  emphasising  our
autonomous aspects and sharing our simi-
larities, and highlighting the importance of
working as equals. The school has enabled
us to highlight the importance of a rela-

tionship based on parity between South
America and Europe for the promotion of
economic, political and social development.
It brought us to share our daily lives in view
of a common reality: the need for urban
areas of growth and development based on
the upgrading of human resources...’.

Ana Sofia Afanador, Coordinator for Special
Projects, Committee for Education, Culture,
Science and Technology, Cabildo Metro-
politano de Caracas, Venezuela.

An example 
of an extension 
of the school’s activities
The Agencia por Jujuy Activa, set up at the
end of 2003, is the result of an initiative by
a group of technical specialists with the
support of the political sector who were
given the opportunity to study and analyse
the experiences of Europe and Latin America
on the basis of the URB-AL programme and
the Intercity Training School.

The Agencia took the form of a public-
private structure for the search for local and
regional development opportunities.

Madrid. Intercity Local Development Training School.

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TYPE-B PROJECT

Provincia di Vicenza:
“International Training Centre in the Upgrading
and Conservation of Historic Urban Contexts”

The concluding seminar of this project was held in the Provincia di Vicenza 
from the 25th to the 27th of November 2004. Work focused on the activities carried out over the previous two years
and initiatives which would be taken in order to successfully continue work already begun.

In addition to the Provincia di Vicenza (Italy)

acting as coordinator, the project involved:
the Ayuntamiento de Málaga (Spain), the
Municipalidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), the
Estado de Hidalgo (Mexico), the Alcaldía de
Villa de Leiva (Colombia), the Alcaldía Munic-
ipal de Nueva San Salvador (El Salvador),
the Prefeitura Municipal de Belém (Brazil),
the Municipalidad de Santiago (Chile) and
the Gobierno Regional de Tarapacá (Chile).
The  company  ENVAR  (Belgium),  which
provided  technical  assistance,  was  an
external participant.

While the general aim of the project was to
increase local authorities’ capacity for action
as regards the upgrading and conservation
of historic urban contexts, the specific aim
was to set up an “International Training
Centre” capable of organising two types of
courses;

• one intended for civil servants with admin-
istrative responsibility for heritage conser-
vation within the participant municipal
areas;

• another, based on the concept of inte-
grated urban restoration and directed at
young graduates with a direct connection
to the local member authorities of the
project.

The technical and scientific parts of the
courses were supervised by Jean-Pierre Errath
and Maria Luisa Cerrillos – scientific advisers

of the training centre – and enjoyed the
collaboration of highly-respected lecturers
from various parts of the world, coordinated
by Professor Vincenzo Zucchi of the Milan
Polytechnic.

The course intended for young graduates
was attended by 19 young people, with a
total of 600 practical and an equal amount
of theoretical lectures. The course for civil
servants was attended by 18 participants
over a period of two months. At the end of
the two months, the young graduates and
the civil servants worked together on the
probation course.

The project was given a website – http:
//urb-al.provincia.vicenza.it  –  in  three
languages (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese)
and  it  contained  all  of  the  information
relating to the initiative. Furthermore, provi-
sion was made for the issue of a three-

Course in the International Centre for Training.

monthly newsletter, the publication of a
manual explaining the project and the annual
production of the Cuadernos del Centro
(Centre Diaries) carrying articles on innova-
tive concepts in the sector of urban manage-
ment and conservation.

The work done was presented in two inter-
national events: the Fifth National Urban
Planning Review in Venice (10-20 November)
and  the  Ninth  International  Seminar
UNESCO-University and Heritage Forum in
the city of Buenos Aires (11-15 October).

Over the two-year period of the work, three
meetings were held with institutional repre-
sentatives of the local authorities partici-
pating in the project. These meetings were
useful for the organisational profile but even
more  so  from  the  point  of  view  of  the
teaching content of the courses, enabling all
the members to ensure the success of this
undertaking.

As a final note it should be stated that the
experience was very positive. The partici-
pants carried out the planned activities
conscientiously with concern to ensure the
future of the international training centre.
They therefore decided to assign perma-
nent legal status in the form of a founda-
tion to the centre and to endow it with a
specific statute. This is most certainly to
ensure the continuation of the activities of
this structure.

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URB-AL PROGRAMME DOCUMENT CENTRE (CDPU)

Málaga-Valparaíso Consortium chosen by the European Commission

The main objectives of this pioneering experiment are to compile and disseminate the successes of URB-AL,
provide methodological support and disseminate best practice.

More than 1000 European and Latin

American cities have taken part in the
URB-AL programme since it was set up seven
years ago. The 13 networks on which the
programme hinges have drawn up a large
quantity of informative material on subjects
connected with local policy. These docu-
ments, which are the product of work by
experts, coordination groups, annual meet-
ings and discussion forums, have resulted in
the development of 137 joint projects to
date relating to every aspect of urban prob-
lems. This makes URB-AL one of the most
active and successful of the programmes
launched by the Commission.

The URB-AL programme had not provided for
the setting up of an office to conserve this

valuable source of urban know-how. This need
was expressed by the independent experts
who performed the assessment of the first
phase of the programme and ratified it in the
Valparaíso Declaration. Consequently, in light
of  this  necessity,  the  coordinators  of  the 
URB-AL networks decided at their meeting in
Málaga to make a proposal to the European
Commission for the creation of a documen-
tation  centre  to  store  all  of  the  projects
approved by the European Commission over
the years.

The documentation centre will hold all of the
information generated by the various URB-AL
networks in one location in order to conserve
it and disseminate the work carried out since

the beginning of the programme. Thought
will be given to the creation of a manual of
good practice which will include the joint proj-
ects of greatest interest from the point of view
of  the  utility  and  exemplariness  of  their
proposals and measures.

The CDPU will also provide methodological
support for the cities which continue to develop
activities (joint projects types A and B) for which
training courses will be organised for inter-
ested towns and cities.

In order to realise this ambitious project, the
cities of Málaga and Valparaíso have set up a
consortium which will rely on support from
the University of Málaga (www.uma.es), the
Corporación  de  Justicia  y  Democracia  de
Santiago and the Centro Iberoamericano de
Desarrollo  Estratégico  Urbano  (CIDEU)
(www.cideu.org), an association which encom-
passes 60 Spanish and Iberoamerican cities
with considerable experience of strategic terri-
torial planning.

The  central  headquarters  of  the  URB-AL
programme documentation centre will be
located in the city of Málaga within the prem-
ises of the Málaga Urban Environment Obser-
vatory (www.omau-malaga.com). Further-
more, the CDPU will have a Latin American
office in Valparaíso (Chile) dependent on the
Málaga Coordination Centre. The intention
therefore is to maintain direct contact with the
Latin American cities forming part of the various
networks.

The CDPU project entailed the creation of two
libraries  (one  in  Málaga  and  the  other  in
Valparaíso) to hold all of the URB-AL material
in electronic form. These data will also be avail-
able on the Internet in order to facilitate access
by any user.

The Mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre and the Head of Programmes of the Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Pedro Marín inaugurate
the works of Building OMAU, where the Center of Documentation of the URB-AL Programme will be located.

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OBSERVATORY OF EU-LA LOCAL DECENTRALISED COOPERATION

Compilation and diffusion 
of information on decentralised cooperation

The Observatory of European Union/Latin America Local Decentralised Cooperation is an initiative of the consortium
formed by the Diputación de Barcelona, the Intendencia de Montevideo, the Fundacion CIDOB, the Universidad
de la República Oriental de Uruguay and the Fundación para la Paz y la Democracia de Costa Rica.

The project emerges from the conclusions

of the Conference on Past and Future
Decentralised Cooperation between the EU
and Latin America in the field of urban poli-
cies held in Valparaíso (March 2004), iden-
tifying  the  need  for  an  instrument  for
compiling, systematising and disseminating
the results and impact of the centralised
cooperation between both regions.

The Diputación de Barcelona took respon-
sibility for the general coordination of initia-
tives and, to ensure the proper deployment
of the measures, two field offices were set
up, one in Barcelona (Europe) and another
in  Montevideo  (South  America)  as  well 
as a secondary field office in San José de
Costa Rica (Central America and Mexico).

The primary mission of the observatory
will  of  course  be  to  observe  what
happens and compile information on
decentralised cooperation. This is no
easy  task  since  apart  from  the  main
programmes for support for decentralised
cooperation, initiatives in this field are
highly dispersed.

There is therefore a fundamental need to
establish a methodology for the compila-
tion  and  systematisation  of  data;  data
relating to those actively involved in decen-
tralised cooperation projects which are being
or have been carried out, sources of finances,
impact and results of decentralised coop-
eration, methods of decentralised cooper-
ation, etc.

All of this work of systematising information
will serve to place an online resource centre
at the disposal of the users of the observa-
tory, offering amongst other things data-
bases (operators, programmes, projects,
etc.), statistics, documentary references,
publications and articles, a guide to finan-
cial resources, a catalogue of best practice,
and information on particular systems in
Europe and Latin America.

This work will also have to serve as a basis
for investigative activities, the aim of which
will be to generate know-how relating to
local decentralised cooperation.

Specialists are expected to contribute to the
production of various publications: a year-
book on EU-AL decentralised cooperation,
a magazine, a collection of studies and a
collection of methodological publications.

The observatory will also grant an annual
investigation prize for completed works on
decentralised cooperation. The prize will be
€3,000 and, in addition, publication in the
collection of studies.

One  of  the  priority  objectives  will  be  to
promote training in the field of decen-
tralised cooperation for officials and local
representatives. A training plan will be drawn
up to include on-line and attended courses.
The latter will be held to coincide with the
regional workshops (debate and exchange
on local decentralised cooperation), which
will promote the observatory alongside the
annual meetings of three organisations:
Eurocities, Mercocities and CONFEDELCA.

Finally, the Observatory will be a forum for
debate and exchange. An annual meeting
of specialists from both continents will be
held. The specialists will be people with a
distinguished background in decentralised
cooperation from the political, managerial
or academic point of view.

In its activities the observatory will there-
fore try to analyse and capitalise on deci-
sive contributions from the world of Euro-
pean-Latin American decentralised initia-
tives from the point of view of more dynamic
urban development in both regions, better
local government structures, citizen partic-
ipation, the internationalisation of territorial
collective organisations and mutual learning
between local representative bodies.

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TYPE-B PROJECT

Barcelona Activa:“New technologies as an instrument 
of consolidation and support for micro enterprises”

Barcelona Activa, which is the local development agency of the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, along with seven
other cities, have devised this project in order to encourage enterprise initiative through a package of multimedia topics
and applications to facilitate decision-making by businessmen and employers who have recently set up businesses.

The project is led and coordinated by the

Ayuntamiento  de  Barcelona  through
Barcelona Activa whose members are the
cities of Bilbao (Spain), Roma (Italy), Buenos
Aires and La Plata (Argentina), Santiago and
El Bosque (Chile) and Montevideo (Uruguay).

The project will draw on its members’ exten-
sive previous experience of both interna-
tional cooperation and the promotion of
enterprise initiative and small and micro-
enterprises. In practical terms, Barcelona and
El  Bosque  have  already  collaborated  on
another project within the framework of
URB-AL, which resulted in an open-source
multimedia application, the Plan de Empresa
On Line, (on-line business plan) which is
being used by all of the members and enables
them to improve their support services via
Internet for entrepreneurs who need to
develop their business plan.

This B Project will take the form of a combi-
nation of multimedia applications, topics and
tools which can be adapted to the interests,
specific characteristics and needs of each of
the members. In this way each municipality
will have an opportunity to amplify its support
services for business initiative and the creation
and consolidation of new enterprises.

The project will also facilitate the creation
and exchange of cultural and technological
points of reference between various areas
of innovation and enterprise-creation in Latin
America and Europe. The ultimate benefici-
aries will be entrepreneurs in each of the
local contexts, who will be given new ways
and means of increasing their business oppor-
tunities and improving the competitiveness
of their enterprise projects through the new
technologies and by drawing on various testi-
monies and experience.

Barcelona Activa

Ayuntamiento de Barcelona:
Local Observatories of Participative Democracy 

The establishment of nine local observatories of participative democracy has been launched in the cities of La Paz
(Bolivia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cuenca (Ecuador), El Bosque (Chile), São Paulo and Porto Alegre (Brazil),
Barcelona, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain) and Saint-Denis (France).

This B project is the result of the work

carried out on the A project “Interna-
tional Observatory of Participative Democ-
racy” which revealed the great diversity of
content of existing participative practices.

At the third International Conference on
Participative Democracy (November 2003),
a  number  of  important  aspects  were
discussed with the aim of contributing to
the development of practices and of encour-
aging the establishment of new parameters
for democratic political action. The conclu-
sions reached indicate the need to:

• create  new  mechanisms  by  means  of
which a better knowledge can be gained
of the degree of development of partici-
pative democracy in cities; 

• work towards the adoption of shared
criteria for the definition of the aims of
participative processes: citizenship, equality,
confidence and effectiveness;

• define shared objective criteria which can

be applied in different contexts.

The solution found was the local observa-
tories of participative democracy which will
make it possible to satisfy these needs and
make qualitative progress in the dissemi-
nation of the mechanisms of participative
democracy.

The objectives are as follows:

• Configuration of the observatories on solid
bases of participation and involvement of
all of the various agencies (public admin-

istration, civil society and the academic
world);

• Agreement on common points of refer-
ence for a system of evaluation to be
applied in each observatory;

• Completion of the process of analysis and
critical deliberation on the processes of
participative democracy in each region;

• Consolidation of stable and permanent
links between the cities working towards
a common objective of greater and better
participation by the citizen in local govern-
ment;

• Achieving the transfer and exchange of
know-how generated by the local observa-
tories to other municipalities involved in the
processes of participatory democracy.

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TYPE-B PROJECT 

São Paulo:“Local community centres 
for women striving for equality”

The participants in the A project—
local government of São Paulo
(Brazil), Montevideo (Uruguay),
Rosario (Argentina), Consejo de
Vigo (Spain) and Regione Toscana
(Italy), and the external member
REPEM (Red Popular entre Mujeres
en América Latina y Caribe) –
which was concerned with the
employment and income prospects
of women, identified the need to set
up collective premises for
community action.

The aim of this B project is to develop the

exchange of experience in the field of
applied public policies between the munic-
ipalities involved, resulting in proposals for
new public policies. Five local community
centres for women will be set up in São
Paulo and one in Montevideo, the specific
objectives of which will be to:

• Increase the powers of public authorities
to  implement  policies  on  equality  and
autonomy for women by involving partic-
ipants who will lend legitimacy to this policy; 

• Develop the skills of local civil servants and
groups of women from poor sectors of
society in order to develop services focusing
on women; 

• Create a capacity for community action
by  guaranteeing  respect  for  women’s
economic, social and cultural rights and to
improve their skills in the areas of leader-
ship, negotiation and community action;

• Establish a link between local action and
the network of existing organisations,
NGOs, associations, groups and forums
working on related areas.

The centres will be set up in places where
women’s living conditions are most precar-
ious and where there is a need for public

services, particularly for women. Each centre
is expected to serve between 200 and 400
women every month.

The main purpose of this innovative project
is not only to provide services for victims of
domestic or sexual violence but also, as a
priority, to focus on providing information
to citizens with a view to promoting their
active involvement in community life and
participative democracy.

Women of São Paulo meet to discuss the project.

Ayuntamiento de Leganés:“Virtual centre for the prevention
and treatment of domestic violence”

The implementation of A project “The phenomenon of domestic violence” revealed the weaknesses of the different
systems of social protection in the prevention and treatment of this phenomenon.

field and very limited services for the treat-
ment of perpetrators.

Italy (Comune di Genova), Spain (Ayun-
tamiento de Huelva and Ayuntamiento de
Leganés), Chile (San Felipe), Argentina (Villa
María and Fundación del Sur) and Brazil
(Prefeitura  Municipal  de  Río  Claro  and
Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlandia) are
joining forces in order to make improve-
ments in this area.

The aims of this multi-focus project (inform-
ative, preventive, awareness raising and ther-
apeutic) are as follows:

• The establishment of a virtual centre for
the prevention and treatment of domestic
violence which serves as a platform for
promoting training measures and direct
intervention;

• Raising public awareness of the phenom-
enon of domestic violence through basic
informative  measures  which,  while

respecting the particularities of each local
situation, will help to develop preventive
action at both primary and secondary level;

• Increasing the technical intervention skills
of local community workers active in the
area of domestic violence through special
on-line training;

• The designation of a specialised depart-
ment for the treatment of perpetrators
of violence in the home and its devel-
opment as a pilot project;

• Increasing public awareness of the Euro-
pean Union’s involvement in the fight against
domestic violence by consistently publicising
the progress, results and outcome of
the shared project (profile-raising).

The intention underlying this comprehensive
strategy is to endow the public and the
authorities with ways and means of dealing
with  the  problem  and  assisting  those
affected by it.

Leganés. Participants at the conference.

Although every municipality had suffi-

cient resources for working with the
victims, only two had a department working
with the aggressors.

In short, primary preventive measures are
very rare; the professionals concerned are
insufficiently trained with no specialisation
at all amongst professionals in the health

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TYPE-B PROJECT

Gemeente Utrecht: Increasing cyclists’ safety 

The “MOVILIZATION” project,
coordinated by the city of Utrecht
is the continuation of the A project
“Integration of the bicycle
into the transport system
of medium-sized cities in Europe
and Latin America”.

Transport systems define the quality of

life of millions of people in every city in
the world. Unfortunately, the negative
impacts of urban transport (dangerous levels
of atmospheric pollution, congestion, noise,
threats to public safety) act as an impedi-
ment both to greater economic develop-
ment and to the well-being of individuals.
Furthermore, the number of vehicles in the
world continues to increase despite the fact
that they consume high quantities of non-
renewable energy and contribute to carbon
emissions.

These trends underline the need to find
appropriate environmentally sustainable
solutions for the urban transport dilemma.

The experience gained with the A Project
can be summed up in two points:

• Studies  show  that  in  many  cities  the
bicycle can make a major contribution to
the development of a sustainable transport
system.

• Town-planners and architects are seeking
more tools and greater knowledge in
order to be able to promote greater use
of bicycles in towns.

The members of the project recognised that
the bicycle has enormous potential in most
cities but that this lack of safety prevents its
promotion as a viable mode of transport.

By developing tools such as campaign mate-
rials,  by  implementing  traffic  measures
(cheap and simple) and by developing and
deploying road safety education material,

the  mobilisation  project  is  designed  to
improve safety for cyclists and therefore the
“cycling environment” in the participant
cities.

This project is useful for cities with a high
percentage of cyclists. However, those cities
which are trying to promote the use of the
bicycle will also benefit from the results of
the project. The activities consist of the devel-
opment and launch of educational and
promotional campaigns combined with the
deployment of simple and effective traffic
(infrastructural) measures.

Utrecht.
Information 
campaign.

Provincia de Treviso: Observatory for Road Safety– OROS

• The problems and needs of the areas

involved;

• The specific powers and technical skills of

each member.

The OROS project comprises various meas-
ures covering many topics (children’s rights
in the road safety field, the management
of mobility, the use of land and new tech-
nologies) as implemented by the member
with the best knowledge of the subject so
as to obtain the best results. 

The expected results of the project are as
follows:

• Pilot measures: an information campaign
to improve citizen awareness, informa-
tion on new technologies for vehicles
(safety and environment), road-safety
education at school, measures relating
to mobility management;

• “The  International  Charter  for  the
protection of the right of children to

road safety” accompanied by training
for children and an analysis of the causes
of road accidents and their implications
for individuals;

• The  establishment  of  two  “Driving

Training Tracks” for students;

• A White Paper on land use and infra-
structures taking account of the needs
of children and young people; 

• A “Safe Roads Area” certificate;

• A feasibility study for the “The Urban
Reference Centre for Sustainable Ecology
and Mobility” in Brazil; 

• Two annual courses for members on the

eight project topics;

• Local awareness-raising seminars;

• A Virtual Observatory for Road Safety –

OROS.

Treviso. Logo of the project.

The purpose of this project, which is
based on an A project “Vi.Co.Ro.Sa”,
is to improve quality of life,
mobility and safety in towns.

The OROS project is based on an analysis

of three elements:

• The guidelines of the European Commis-
sion on Road Safety and in particular the
“European 
Safety  Action
Programme”;

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PROJECTS

More than 80 projects have been completed within the framework
of the 13 networks of phases one and two of the Programme

More than 80 projects involving the exchange of experience have now been completed within phase one.
Two projects of phase two, one B project and one of Network 10, are also complete.
In the second half of 2004, 12 joint projects were brought to conclusion.

Coordinator

Provincia de Vicenza

Country

Project number

Project title

Italy

B2-P1-02

Centro internazionale di formazione per la 
valorizzazione a la concersazione di contesti 
storici urbani

Internet: outil de perfectionnement de la 
démocratie locale

Observatorio internacional de democracia local

Ciudad en acción

La dinamización local del mercado laboral

Turestrategia

Recurso-Residuo-Recurso «R que R»

Modelo rector de capcitación ambiental para 
tomadores de decisiones locales (MRCA)

Mejorar el medioambiente urbano: identificación 
de las acciones a implementar para valorizar 
los espacios verdes y los centros históricos 
de las zonas urbanas

Organización de las areas metropolitanas e
instrumentos de intervención

Méthodologies et outils pour la mise en place 
d’observatoires de l’inclusion sociale dans les villes

Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte

Brazil

R3-P2-00

Ayuntamiento de Barcelona

Stadt Gent

Ayuntamiento de Donostia-San Sebastián

Diputación Provincial de Málaga

Ayuntamiento de Sant Boi de Llobregat

Spain

Belgium

Spain

Spain

Spain

Gobierno de la ciudad de México D.F

Mexico

R3-P8-00

R4-P2-02

R4-P4-02

R4-P8-02

R6-P1-02

R6-P2-02

Comune di Ariccia

Italy

R6-P3-02

Mancomunidad de Municipios
del Área Metropolitana de Barcelona

Spain

R7-P8-01

Mairie de Saint-Denis

France

R10-A1-03

CONFERENCE

Forging links between territories

The EU-AL local partnership conference coordinated by the Municipalidad de Valparaíso and the Diputación
de Barcelona published the results of its work in a book entitled “Forging links between territories. Local
decentralised cooperation between the European Union and Latin America”. It was published by Victor Godínez,
coordinator of the group of experts, and María del Huerto Romero, executive coordinator for the conference.

This book describes the main contri-

butions  made  by  the  experts  as
initially presented to the conference in
March 2004. The various sectors and
disciplinary backgrounds of the contrib-
utors meant that more than a decade of

experience of decentralised cooperation
was on hand to cover a wide range of
topics relating to the urban environment:
citizen participation, the role of local
players  in  development,  combatting
poverty, international relations between

the parties involved in the various regions,
the problems of decentralisation and the
resources available in the framework of
this form of local cooperation.

The book is available in full on the conference
site: http://www.conference2004.cl

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CONTACTS

Your Commission contacts

Riccardo GAMBINI
Head of Unit:
Coordinator:
Vittorio TONUTTI
Projects Managers: Miguel ROMERO, Fernando MUÑOZ, 
Marie TILBURCK
Carmen DURAN

Secretary:

Address: 
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EuropeAid Cooperation office
Latin America Directorate
Unit B2 “Centralised operations: Latin America”
URB-AL Programme
J54 4/13
B -1049 Brussels (Belgium)
Phone:
Fax:

(32 2) 295 20 24
(32 2) 299 10 80

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/urbal/index_en.htm

@

DELEGATION

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Cuba

Ecuador

Mexico

Nicaragua – Costa Rica – El Salvador
Guatemala – Honduras

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

CONTACT

Francesca PESSINA
Tel.: 54-11-4805 3759

francesca.pessina@cec.eu.int

http://www.delarg.cec.eu.int/

Angel GUTIERREZ HIDALGO
Tel: 591-2-278 22 44

angel.gutierrez-hidalgo@cec.eu.int

http://www.delbol.cec.eu.int/

María Cristina ARAUJO
Tel.: 55-61-248 3122 – Fax: 55-61-248 0700

cristina.araujo@cec.eu.int

http://www.delbra.cec.eu.int/

Joachim ROTH
Tel.: 562 3352 450

Joachim.roth@cec.eu.int

http://www.delchl.cec.eu.int

Carlos AYALA SAAVEDRA
Tel: 57-1-621 60 43 

carlos.ayala-saavedra@cec.eu.int

http://www.delco.cec.eu.int

Robert.steinlechner@cec.eu.int

http://www.deldom.cec.eu.int 

Robert STEINLECHNER
Tel.: 537 204 0327

Jean-marie.abbes-cottin@cec.eu.int

http://www.delcol.cec.eu.int 

Jean-Marie ABBES
Tel.: 593 2 2523 912

Cristina MARTINEZ CASTELLANOS
Tel.: 52 55 5540 3345

cristina.martinez-castellanos@cec.eu.int

http://www.delmex.cec.eu.int 

Inmaculada ROCA I CORTES
Tel.: 505 270 4499 – Fax: 505 270 4484

Immaculada.ROCA-I-CORTES@cec.eu.int

http://www.delnic.cec.eu.int 

Patrícia ARTIMAÑA
Tel.: 506 283 2959

Patricia.artimana@cec.eu.int

http://www.delcri.cec.eu.int 

Vera VALENTE
Tel.: 595 2 206 069
vera.valente@cec.eu.int
http://www.delury.cec.eu.int/paraguay/presentacion/paraguay.htm

José Luis ARTEAGA CESPEDES
Tel: 51-1-212-11-35

jose-luis.arteaga-cespedes@cec.eu.int

http://www.delper.cec.eu.int

Mylène TESTUT
Tel: 598-2-1944 0126

mylene.testut@cec.eu.int

http://www.delury.cec.eu.int

Jean-Charles FIEHRER
Tel: 58-212-991 51 33 

Jean-charles.fiehrer@cec.eu.int

http://www.delven.cec.eu.int

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ADDRESS BOOK

Information sources

NETWORK 9
Local finance and participative budget
Co-ordination:Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre
Contact:
Address:

Clóvis Magalhães
Programa URB-AL Rede 9
Pç Montevideo n°10
CEP 90010-170 – Porto Alegre – RS
Brasil
55 51 3289 3442
55 51 3228 4729
portella@gpo.prefpoa.com.br 
urbal9@gpo.prefpoa.com.br 
www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/URBAL/

Tel.:
Fax:
E-Mail:

Internet:

NETWORK 10
The fight against urban poverty 
Co-ordination:Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo
Contact:

Pedro Aguerre
Secretaria Municipal de Relações Internacionais
Programa URB-AL Rede 10
Palácio Anhangabaú – Viaduto do Chá, 15 – 
7o.andar
CEP 01002-020 – São Paulo-SP 
Brasil
55 11 3107 0318 / 3113 8554
55 11 3113 8526 
pedroaguerre@prefeitura.sp.gov.br 
www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/secretarias/relacoes_
internacionais
www.portal.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/urbal 

NETWORK 12
Promoting the role of women in local decision-making
Co-ordination:Diputación Provincial de Barcelona
Contact:

Tel.:
Fax:
E-Mail:
Internet:

Neus Gómez (executive coordinator)
Gemma García (assistant coordinator)
Gabinet de Relacions Internacionals
Còrcega 300, ppal. 1ª
E-08008 Barcelona
España 
34 93 4022055
34 93 4022473
gomezmn@diba.es
www.diba.es/urbal12

Address:

Tel.:
Fax:
E-Mail:
Internet:

Address:

Tel.:
Fax:
E-Mail:
Internet:

NETWORK 13
Towns and the information society
Co-ordination:Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Claire Klindt
Contact:
Office Network 13
Address:
Kreuzstrasse 72
D-28203 Bremen
Alemania 
49 421 369540
49 421 3695 425
claire@whitebalance.de
www.bremen.de/urb-al/

Tel.:
Fax:
E-Mail:
Internet:

NETWORK 14
Citizens’ safety in towns
Co-ordination:Municipalidad de Valparaiso
Contact:
Address:

Gustavo Paulsen
Programa URB-AL Red 14
Blanco 1663 – Oficina 1002
Valparaíso 
Chile
56 32 939 571
56 32 939 572
red14@urbalvalparaiso.cl
www.urbalvalparaiso.cl

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Observatory of EU-LA local decentralised cooperation
Co-ordination:Diputación de Barcelona
Contact:
Address:

Agustí Fernández de Losada Passols
Córcega 300, ppal. 1ª
E-08008 Barcelona
España
34 93 402 20 55 
34 93 402 24 73 
fernandezlosadapa@diba.es 
www.diba.es 

URB-AL Programme Document Centre
Co-ordination:Ayuntamiento de Málaga
Contact:

Pedro Marín Cots
Luis Guillermo Tapia
Plaza de la Alcazaba s/n
Ed. Aparcamientos
E-29012 MÁLAGA
España
34 952602777
34 952223092
info@omau-malaga.com 
www.omau-malaga.com

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