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2021 ENTO STUDYLAB “Local governance : what’s next?”

It is time to restart meeting!

One year later because of the pandemic Istituto della formazione continua, ENTO, and the partners of the Interreg Project “GovernaTIVA” are very happy to welcome you to the StudyLab 2021 in Ticino (Switzerland).

StudyLabs have always been events for meeting, visiting on field and sharing.

After Slavutich-Chernobil (Ukraine), Strasbourg (France)-Kehl (Germany) and Tbilisi (Georgia), this time it is up to Ticino (Switzerland) to host a new StudyLab.

As usual, the 2021 StudyLab focuses on a specific topic.

Today, it sounds useful to think about how local governance, and consequently training for local authorities, is going to change, considering lessons learned from the “stress test” represented by pandemic.

More info –> https://entostudylab.org/

August 24th, 2021

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“Vers un épanouissement personnel et professionnel durable dans le nouveau contexte mondial”. RDV les 1er et 2 juillet à Bruxelles.

LES NEWS DU CMAtlv ET DU VIème FORUM MONDIAL

Rendez-vous les 1er et 2 juillet 2021 à Bruxelles !

« VERS UN ÉPANOUISSEMENT PERSONNEL ET PROFESSIONNEL DURABLE DANS LE NOUVEAU CONTEXTE MONDIAL ». 

Sous  l’exceptionnel double patronage de l’UNESCO et du Vice-Président de la Commission européenne Margaritis SCHINÁS,  cet événement est aussi  réalisé avec la collaboration du CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE, de l’UIL : Institut de l’UNESCO pour l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, de l’ICAE : Conseil International pour l’Education des Adultes, de la LLLP : Lifelong Learning Platform, de la FEDE : Fédération Européenne Des Ecoles, de CPMC : CoProgress Management Corporation (Chine), de la CCLAM : Chambre de Commerce Latino-Américaine, de l’Université d’Etat de St Pétersbourg, de CR&DALL (Université de Gasgow), et du CENTRE INFFO, et avec de autres nombreux soutiens.

Au cours de deux journées,  66 experts internationaux interviendront, en plénières et en ateliers thématiques d’échange d’expériences, de réflexion collective et de prospective.

Les échanges seront traduits simultanément en 4 langues : français, anglais, espagnol, chinois.

Envie d’en savoir plus? Cliquez sur ce lien

June 24th, 2021

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ENTO StudyLab – 23-26 October 2018 – Slavutych (Ukraine)

On 26-27 October 2018, the European Network of Training Organizations will organize its second Study Lab in Slavutych – Ukrainian youngest city.

The Study Labs, launched for the first time in 2018, can really give the chance to develop new knowledge and skills, but also networking and cooperation. The Study Lab was developed as real learning experience, as an example of active learning trough meeting public officials, discussing cutting-edge topics and learning through real-time experience. The 2018 ENTO Study Lab in Slavutych offers participants to visit and get in touch with people and places that are not otherwise accessible. Involving mayors, local officials, civic activists and academia gives participants unique opportunity to meet and see who/what is normally not meetable and visible.

Agenda : Discover the full program : StudyLab-October2018 – Agenda

As foreseen in the agenda, on Thursday 26th October two visits are possible: Chernihiv and Cehernobyl. Visit to Chernobyl requires that each participant fill in a specific registration form

Registration : Want to be a part of it? Please registered here

 

July 18th, 2018

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Summer Lab in Charleroi (Belgium): a great learning and working experience

The first ENTO SummerLab, held in Charleroi (Belgium) on 6-8 June 2018, was a great success. I offered also the chance to learn something interesting about the local authorities sector in Belgium.

Three moments were particularly meaningful in this regard:

  1. The visit to the Municipality of Charleroi and the meeting with Ms. Pauline Carit, member of the team which is relaunching Charleroi both physically and culturally
  2. The launching conference of the on-line platform “Bureau RH”, a special ICT architecture which permits the integration of different App for Human Resources Management, from Job descriptions to performance evaluation.
  3. The meeting with the mayor of Houyet, Mr. Yvan Petit, who illustrated the refurbishing of the local railway station into an information and training centre for citizens and tourists

As in the premises, the stay in Charleroi gave the possibility to participants to work on the new concept of ENTO Study Tours (renamed in the workshop as “StudyLab”). In the following articles more details about the first test of this new initiative, the StudyLab in Slavutyc next October, will be offered.

Bureau RH: the cloud room 2.0 for a coherent HR management within Walloon local authorities.

The Conseil Regional de la Formation of Wallon Government (Belgium), ENTO member, launched on 8 June 2018 a new webtool for local authorities. Participants to the ENTO SummerLab had the chance to take part to the launching event and to discover a practical solution to improve HR management in local authorities.

Bureau RH it is first of all a platform where different apps connected with local authorities management and specifically human resource management can be found all together.

It becomes a sort of desktop where everything needed for everyday management can be found and accessed in one click.

So, if a local public manager needs to recruit a new workers, he/she will find in the portal a specific application for building up the job descriptions, some videos and manuals for planning and conducting the recruiting process, all modules needed to fulfil the regulatory commitments stated in the rules.

All the information needed to fully understand the potentialities of such a tool were presented by Pierre Petit, CRF Director, and his staff during the meeting which was held in Namur (Belgium).

More information (in French) available at: http://crf.wallonie.be/bureau-rh.html

July 18th, 2018

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Cities in transition: physical and cultural renovation

1° ENTO StudyLab in Slavutych (Ukraine) on 23-26 October 2018

The SummerLab in Charleroi consisted in a series of workshops aimed at defining the new concept of ENTO Study Tours, taking as a reference the first edition that will be held in Slavutych (Ukraine) from 23 to 26 October 2018.

Participants to the SummerLab worked intensively to the definition of the agenda and of the conditions for participating. A special thanks goes to the members of the Organization Committee.

So, we are very pleased to present the results of the work.

In attach to the present Newsletter you can find the Guidelines to ENTO members, which offer detailed information on logistical and administrative issues.

A couple of words should be deserved to the topic  chosen for the StudyLab.

As the visit to Charleroi clearly underlined, many times in their lives cities, towns and more generally communities find themselves in a transition phase.

It could derive from an economic crisis, a shift in the main industrial vocation of the area, as it was the case of Charleroi. It could even come from an extraordinary event, as it was the Chernobyl disaster for Slavutych.

In such a transition phase, local governments are generally in the front line and are called to lead the community towards a safety and prosperous future.

Generally, exiting the crisis requires a rethinking of the community intimate identity. Such a change is not easy to lead. It implies a shift in the local culture, so as to say in the set of assumptions, values and shared norms that inspire citizens’ way of life.

Such a shift can be observed in the prevailing behaviors within the community.

Such a shift also involves the city physical appearance: its buildings, its public and private spaces.

There is a strong interconnection between the external look and the inner spirit of the community. On one way, the look is the mirror of the inner spirit. On the other, changes in the physical appearance influence the citizens’ attitude.

From this point of view, all local authorities share the same mission of the Bouwmesteer Team in Charleroi: to rebuild the city in its physical appearance bat also in its mentality.

How can a local government exercise an effective leadership in the transition phase? Which kind of actions have been proving to be effective in the practice? Which are the implication for policy-making and public management?

We would like to take the opportunity of the visit to Slavutych to reflect on these issues together.

 

City in transitions: the experience of Charleroi

A visitor who arrives at Charleroi has immediately the impression of a City in transition.  Newly regenerated squares and streets, new residential buildings and malls, an attentive refurbishing of urban furniture, like benches and garbage cans. It is a city that wants to leaf beneath its shoulder the long economic crisis connected with the fall down of the traditional mining and steal industry. But of course transition is never easy to lead. Big parts of the city centre, occupied during the crisis by drug sellers and prostitutes are repaved and enlighten in a fashionable way. But still empty of people. Charleroi transition is not just a spontaneous one. It is the result of the Municipality strategy.

For this transition, a specific team of architects, urbanists and designers has been created within the local administration. The team is under the lead of Mr.Georgios Maillis, Bouwmeester de Charleroi. The name of the positions comes from Flemish language, one of the three official languages in Belgium, and means “Master of construction”. 

It is a name historically rooted that underline the responsibility of re-building the city.As Ms. Pauline Cabrit, a French landscape architect member of the team and working in Belgium since 2013, clearly stated, the aim of the Bouwmeester Office is to rebuild Charleroi, both physically and mentally. It is an effective way to say that the job cannot be considered finished when the construction site is completed. A cultural construction site needs to be managed, too. It involves people perceptions, expectations and behaviors. How to effectively manage such a work is a good question to be deepened in next StudyLab in Slavutych (Ukraine).

More information: http://www.charleroi-bouwmeester.be/

 

In Houyet the railway station becomes a meeting point for citizens and tourists

Houyet is famous for the castle occupied by the Belgian Royal Family as country residence. A second and maybe most important reason for being so famous consists in being the birthplace of our friend Pierre Petit. And it is not by chance that the Mayor of Houyet’ surname is also “Petit”. Mr. Yvan Petit is the mayor of the village for many years and he is also the big brother of Pierre.

So it was a sort of family visit the one we had in Houyet and it gave us the chance to learn about the steps a small village in Belgium is undertaking in order to remain attractive for residents who mainly commute to other cities and to tourists who still bring on the traditional vocation of the area.

Today ca. 4’000 people live in the 10 settlements that merged together as a result of Wallonian territorial reform. The municipal surface is incredibly big compared to the number of inhabitants: more than 122 square kilometer.

Of most interest is the Railway Station, which was transformed in a public space for citizens who need information about municipal services but also take part to ICT cou

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s to improve their knowledge of computers and internet. It is also a welcome point for tourists who come there for visiting such a gorgeous countryside, for wandering and cycling or for canoeing along the Leese River.

Thank you Pierre and thank you, Yvan for your great hosting!

 

More information (in French) on: http://www.houyet.be/

 

July 18th, 2018

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ENTO SummerLab 6-8 June 2018

From Summer School to SummerLab

In 2017 the Centre of Expertise for Local Government Reform decided not to continue supporting the CoE-ENTO summer school, a training of trainers in local governments sector. In 2017 the 8th  dition of the summer school was organized in Sofia (Bulgaria) in cooperation the National Association of Municipal Clerks in Bulgaria (NAMCB) and the Hans Seidel Stiftung. 

During the  Bureau Meeting held in Strasbourg in March 2018 it was suggested to take the chance to rethink completely the summer school in order to offer to ENTO members a brand-new initiative. In the  discussion, it was underlined how the most appreciated opportunity offered in ENTO summer school and annual conference consists in visiting and learning directly from the field experiences and  practices undertaken by training institutions and local governments in different national contexts.

So, why not to strengthen the value of summer schools and annual conferences as study tours? 

In  such perspective, these initiatives can be even opened up not only to trainers from ENTO members but also to participants in ENTO members courses. In this way the international study tours can  be an opportunity for trainers but also a way for enriching the overall offer that training institutions which are members of ENTO can offer to their participants/students. 

Study tours as real  learning experience

We are all aware that study tours can really give the chance to develop new knowledge and skills, but also networking and cooperation. It is also true that study tours are  ometimes looked at as just “paid holidays” for participants and according to such a prejudice they are considered skeptically. We would like to develop a special format of study tour which can be  asily organized in different countries by ENTO members and which is well structured from the point of view of teaching methods.

That is why we are going to organize a workshop, a SummerLAB, for trainers from 6 to 8 June with the aim of designing such new study tour concept. The format is expected to be declined each year in a different nation/region by one or more ENTO members.  he format should consider the value of cross-bordering: each study tour could give the chance to visit also neighbor countries or regions, so that a comparison within different local government  and  raining systems can be conducted. Each study tour should be of great interest for trainers but also for directors of training institutions, for graduate and ENTO  

Why in Charleroi (Belgium)?

The ENTO SummerLAB will take place in Charleroi (Belgium). In fact, in the same days the Conseil Régional de la Formation is going to present some innovative  tools  for fostering HR management in walloon local authorities: something very interesting also for ENTO participants! So, the workshop will be a study tour experience by itself. 

 

Save the date for the first ENTO SummerLab, an initiative aimed at making a step forward from the successful experience of ENTO summer school.

Here the full program : ENTO_summer-school_2018_Program

May 24th, 2018

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From the Congress great interest to ENTO activities

During the ENTO bureau meeting in Strasbourg, a specific session was devoted to sharing information and views with Congress Secretariat Representatives, Ms. Marité Moras and Mr. Dimitri Marschenkov. Mr. Marschenkov explained the activities that the Congress is undertaking within the Neighbourhood Programme, especially with Morocco and Tunisia. He underlined that one of the priority consists in strengthening the training capacity of local training institutions and associations. That is why he showed a specific interest in ENTO training of trainers initiatives and  specifically in the job-shadowing programme. 

Ms. Moras illustrated the state of the art of cooperation programs with Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia. She expressed a specific interest in the proposal of a certification in the field of local leadership as described in the VESTA action plan.

Both Mr. Marschenkov and Ms. Moras underlined as a cutting-edge topic for all projects within the Council of Europe is gender mainstreaming, so ideas and training proposals that deal with such a topic can be of great interest.

They also expressed their intention to come back to ENTO with concrete cooperation proposals in the next months.

April 26th, 2018

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15-16 March: Bureau meeting in Strasbourg

As foreseen by ENTO rules of procedure the first bureau meeting of the year was held in Strasbourg and offered the chance to have very fruitful meetings with representatives from the Council of  urope. Within the Council, ENTO has special relations with the Congress of local and regional authorities and with the Centre of Expertise for local government reform in the Democratic  overnance Department. 

The main goal of the Bureau meeting was to develop an action plan to be assumed by ENTO in order to continue offering interesting opportunities to its members even in  he lack of significative financial resources. 

New ideas about the annual ENTO summer school have been discussed and they are going to be proposed to you in this newsletter. 

April 26th, 2018

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Slavutych (Ukraine)

Slavutych is situated on the left bank of the Dnieper River, 40 kilometers from Chernihiv, 45 kilometers from the city of Pripyat, 50 kilometers from Chernobyl (both in Ivankiv Raion) and 200 kilometers from Kiev.
While being geographically located in Ripky Raion (part of Chernihiv Oblast), administratively it belongs to Kiev Oblast.

The city was built in 1986 shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to provide homes for those who had worked at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. They were evacuated  from the abandoned city of Pripyat. Slavutych is named after the Old Slavic name of the nearby Dnieper. 
From the start, Slavutych was planned to become a “21stcentury city”. Compared to other cities in Ukraine, Slavutych has a modern architecture with pleasant surroundings, and the standard of  iving in the city is much higher than in most other Ukrainian cities. During the construction of the city, workers and architects from eight former soviet republics became involved: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR. As a result, the city is divided into eight districts named after the capitals of  he contributing republics,[2] each with its own unique style and atmosphere. 

(From Wikipedia)

April 26th, 2018

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Job shadowing among ENTO members?

What about spending 1 week, 1 month or even more in another ENTO members looking at how things are working there, exchanging views about the most effective ways to deliver training?
That it the basic question underpinning the idea of organizing a job shadowing program within ENTO. 

Some funding opportunities would also be available: for example for universities which can apply for ERASMUS+ granting. But even other kind of organizations can find ways for strengthening  their links with other institutions.

That is a topic which is going to be discussed in next ENTO SummerLab. 

Still now, who is interested in such an opportunity, please show up writing to paolo.crugnola@edu.ti.ch

April 26th, 2018

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