Public enterprise Nasursa, through the Territorial Observatory of Navarre, leads RePlan subproyect. Its partners are the Greek region of Kozani (Western Macedonia) and the Italian region of Lazio.

RePlan project means to make the most of the different participating regions planning experiences, discuss them and analyze certain aspects in their local application and their assessment through monitoring procedures: observatories and indicators.
Some experiences are already running others are going to be enriched with common work. The hopped outcoming is the creation of an observatories network over the European Spatial Development Perspective measures application regionally and locally.

At the beginning of the project, a regional observatories benchmarking was made in order to check the viability of the future observatories network. Its main conclusion is that these observatories make an important monitoring activity for the society. This work has to be reinforced by the implementation of an efficient network which supports their research paper.
Because of RePlan's partners found some communication difficulties when talking about monitoring procedures, they've developed a common terminology which helps a lot to clarify some concepts and to keep on working fluently.

Last RePlan's meeting was held between 12th and 16th April in Rocca Priora (Lazio) and Kozani (Western Macedonia). Apart from the subproject’s partners, external experts from Rome and Thessaly universities were also present at the meeting because they are developing RePlan’s common methodology of work. It is based on the multifactorial analysis of some selected data through which participant regions will obtain information about their territories. This information will be useful to compare the general development of these regions, and also for the introduction and creation of a network of Spatial Planning Management Observatories.

Each participant region’s planning system is being analysed in RePlan subproject too. The aim of this activity is to carry a comparative analysis and a benchmarking of the spatial planning systems of the three partner’s countries at a national, regional and local level out. The objective of the exchange of experiences is to transfer best practices developed in each region.

One of the most important steps of RePlan will be the spreading of the obtained results. In the last meeting, partners agreed that dissemination process of the project will consist of two different activities: training actions and an official publication.
Training actions will be developed during September in all participant regions. Each partner will organise local seminars addressed to key-experts and policy makers who are involved in spatial planning development. On the other hand, RePlan will publish a book in English language including the compilation of the innovative methodology tested in the project, as well as CD-Rom with the analytical presentations of RePlan written in English, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Information and results presented in this book are expected to be distributed to ProgreSDEC partners, users, staff, members of the academic society, and those involved with politics through a specific publication programme.

RePlan’s final programme meeting will take place in Lazio. That will be the right moment for the partners to check the subproject’s progress and results and to make a self-assessment about these twelve months work progress.

More information about RePlan in websites:
www.replan-progresdec.eu
www.progresdec.org

Sonia Calvo López - Nasursa

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