GETTING READY FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Tori Transnational Meeting
February 19-21, 2025

DAY 0 – WEDNESDAY – 19.02

Evening session

Welcome to Tori, welcome to the Ice!
Transfer from Riga and Tallinn Airport

20:00

Welcome Reception and Dinner Location

Villa Wesset
Supeluse street 26, Pärnu

(https://www.wesset.ee/en/restaurant)

Welcome speech by the municipal mayor Lauri Luur

Day 1 – THURSDAY – 20.02

9:30 – 10:00

Transfer from hotels to Levikivi

https://www.levikivi.ee/en-levikivi.html

10:00 – 10:15

Ice-Breaking Coffee
Location: Levikivi

10:15 – 10:30

A Warm Welcome to the Participants (LP + Tori)
Official opening and welcome with project representatives and regional media, with administra-tive representative,
• Municipal architect

10:30 – 11:00

Inspiring Project Implementation through ERDF in Estonia

• Valga Urbact project “Space for people” (https://urbact.eu/sites/default/files/2023-01/Space4People_IAP_Valga.pdf) presentation by Lea Vutt

11:00 – 11:20

Getting Ready for Implementation of Econnecting Projects (LE)
• Measuring the success of the plan. How to design Key Performance Indicators
• First Ideas for Risk Assessment
• Prioritization of Actions – a how-to guide
• Co-creation tools for providing feedback to be used with your ULG

11:20 – 11:35

Coffee Break

11:35 – 13:00

Econnecting Implementation Workshop (LE)
In Peer-Groups:
• We will use the iPestl tool from the URBACT TOOLBOX
• The letters in iPESTLE stand for seven ‘headings’ to look at when assessing your local con-text: information, Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental.
• Which of these areas causes the Implementation Challenges you face in your city
• Also think about the conditions that make things easy – where are the opportunities you could make use of to help your implementation?
• For the conditions that cause implementation barriers, which of the conditions could you al-ter and how?
Poster-Presentation in with one speaker and discussion.

13:00 – 14:00

Networking Lunch
Location: Levikivi

14:00 – 17:00

14:00 – 17:00 Snowshoeing adventure in Riisa Bog (https://loodusegakoos.ee/where-to-go/national-parks/soomaa-national-park/riisa-study-trail-4-dot-8-km)

17:00 – 19:00

17:00 – 19:00 Econnecting Implementation Role Play (LE)
• In 5 groups, discuss the one case (from the Tori, selected by Helle-Triin) from the per-spective of 5 different social groups (single mom, schoolteacher, major, elderly man (widow), single 20-year-old female, head of LGBTQ+ association of Tori etc.)
• Write down in one poster, what are the benefits and obstacles for the development of that the specific perspective and action
• Develop proposals how to improve that specific actions, what activities would you add?
• Prepare a poster internally about the perspective and person
• Role-Play Theater in the Tori TV station, live discussion about the new IAP developed by city-architect Helle-Triin and her team.

19:00 – 21:00

Network Dinner
Location: Levikivi

21:00

Transfer to hotels

Day 2 – FRIDAY – 21.02

9:30 – 10:15

Transfer from hotels to Jõesuu village

10:15 – 10:45

Visiting Tori cider farm in Jõesuu village (https://www.siidritalu.ee/en/)

11:45 – 12:45

Guided tour in Jõesuu village
• Guided tour by the authorities to the IAP sites in villages
• Guided Walk to the forest and explore tourism potentials of Tori
• On-site co-creative workshop and discussion about the potentials

13:00 – 14:00

Networking Lunch
Location: Kohvik Zool (https://puhkaeestis.ee/et/kohvik-zool)

14:00 – 15:00

Guided tour in Tori Stud Farm
Location: Tori Stud Farm (https://maaelumuuseumid.ee/en/tori-stud-farm/)

15:00 – 17:30

Our Econnecting MANIFESTO (LE)
Location: Tori Community Center (https://torikultuur.ee/tori-rahvamaja/)

The guiding question for our Manifesto: Within the urban-rural divide, how can we develop thriving villages and hubs for the region?

Inspiring (and short) input about the New Leipzig Charta about place-based solutions and func-tional areas (=the role of regional planning) (LE)

As a starting point: Each partner presents their selected key mobility and urban regeneration projects of their IAPs (5 min per project)

Group work (4 groups) with four key questions:
1. The 30-minutes territories: What is needed in terms of planning towards a zero-carbon city region?
2. The accessible and welcoming region: How can we stop the population loss and improve quality of life on the regional level?
3. The green region and communities: How can we support the green transition of regions and cities?
4. Urban and regional governance: participation, dialogue in the planning and implementation process. How can we improve the role of unions and city cooperations.

Presentation of a rough first draft of the Manifesto and discussion

17:30 – 18:00

Communication and Next Steps (LP+LE)
• Preparations for the Final Conference

18:00

Transfer to Klaara-Manni Holiday Center (https://klaaramanni.ee/en/).

18:30 – 21:30

Farewell Dinner in Klaara-Manni Holiday Center
Dinner (for those interested, a relaxing time in the hot tub sauna is available).


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