| Projects | Country | Organisation | Level of government | Sector | Short english description | | Rijeka’s eBenefits | Croatia | Municipality of Rijeka, Department of Health and Social Welfare | Local level | cross-sectoral | The project Rijeka’s eBenefits has been developed with the target of improving beneficiaries’ access to information, as well as increasing efficiency of the city’s social welfare system and improving communication between city administration and citizens in general. |
| Better Place | Czech Republic | City of Kolin | Local level | cross-sectoral | In 2010 the City of Kolin participated in the Better Place (BP) pilot project. BP is a social responsible online platform which immediately and directly allows users to deliver feedback on how to improve public spaces. BP is part of Kolin’s modernisation and development of the city administration. |
| Fremfærd | Denmark | Fremfærd (organization) | Local level | Public administration, modernisation, institutional affairs, reform | Fremfærd focuses on collective efforts to develop municipal primary tasks and improve efficiency through e.g. working on: enhancing quality and professionalism, including strategic competence development; promoting trust, wellbeing and a good psychosocial working environment when working on the primary task; developing innovation momentum; creating measurement tools and cultures of assessment; promoting good leadership; focusing on citizens; developing employees’ influence on their own work. |
| The Potential Profile | Denmark | Ikast-Brande Municipality | Local level | Education (higher and lower), training and learning | The Potential Profile ensures development of high quality day-care centres via a new and effective form of partnership between public departments. High quality makes it possible for all children, irrespective of conditions and background, to gain optimal possibilities for well-being, development and learning - and to feel valuable participants in the community. |
| We Design for Life | Denmark | Municipality of Kolding | Local level | Public administration, modernisation, institutional affairs, reform | In December 2012 a new vision for the Municipality of Kolding was decided by the Town Council: “We Design for Life - Together we design options for a good life through entrepreneurship, social innovation and education”. |
| Environmental Geographic Information System (GIS) of the Drama Regional Unit – The Application of a Decision Support System & Public Information Tool in the Greek Administration | Greece | Environmental and Spatial Planning Administration of East Macedonia and Thrace Region, Greece | Local level | cross-sectoral | The project was programmed, structured, planned and completed exclusively by the Department of Environment and Hydroeconomy of the Drama Regional Unit, Environmental and Spatial Planning Administration of East Macedonia and Thrace Region-Greece, in cooperation with the IT Department of Drama Regional Unit. |
| The Future Education Vision of Reykjanesbaer Town | Iceland | Reykjanesbaer Municipal Education Office | Local level | Education (higher and lower), training and learning | Since the year 2002, the Future Educational Vision of Reykjanesbaer Town has been formulated for a period of four years at a time. In 2011, the ambitious goal was set to bring all the town’s pre-, primary and secondary schools to the top of national rankings in education. |
| Merger of North and South Tipperary County Councils into a Unified Tipperary County Council | Ireland | Tipperary County Council | Local level | Public administration, modernisation, institutional affairs, reform | County Tipperary, Ireland’s largest inland county, has a population of 158,754 and covers an area of 4,282 km². Tipperary had been administered as two separate local government units since 1838. In July 2011, the national government announced the establishment of a unified county council in Tipperary to replace the existing North and South Tipperary County Councils, to be effective from 2014. |
| Project of Improvement of Quality of Public Services | Lithuania | Alytus City Municipal Administration | Local level | Public administration, modernisation, institutional affairs, reform | The project Improvement of Quality of Public Services provided by the Alytus City Municipal Administration was a long-term project implemented from 2009 to 2015. Its aim was to achieve quality improvements in public services provided by the Alytus City Municipal Administration by creating and implementing a “One-Stop-Shop” public service system and Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and performing external evaluation of the activity of the administration. |
| HSD Campus and HSD Development Fund | Netherlands | Municipality of The Hague | Local level | cross-sectoral | This project was undertaken by the Municipality of The Hague in collaboration with the HSD Foundation and sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund. Its aim is to better facilitate the security cluster in general and stimulate innovation by triple-helix cooperation (businesses, governments and knowledge institutions) in specific. |
| Local Human Rights in Utrecht – Empowering a Local Network with Global Value | Netherlands | Municipality of Utrecht | Local level | Justice, police, human rights and security | The City of Utrecht has been actively working on promoting a human rights culture in the city since 2010. The city is aware of the importance of its role in defending people’s human rights and fitting the identity of an open, social city in which many social and civil organisations undertake their activities. |
| Social District Teams | Netherlands | Municipality of Zaanstad | Local level | Regional policy and development, decentralisation | In 2013, pilot studies were initiated on working with ‘Social District Teams’. Unlike most Dutch municipalities, Zaanstad chose to put the Social district teams to tender outside the municipal organisation and with multiple contractors. |
| Action Programme for Large Families – Three Plus Family | Poland | Municipality of Lublin Department of Health and Social Affairs | Local level | Public health and social welfare/affairs | The Action Programme for large families: Three Plus Family (Rodzina Trzy Plus) was introduced by the legal Act No. 429/XIX/2012 of 29 March 2012 of Lublin City Council. The programme is addressed to all families residing in the area of the City of Lublin with three or more children up to the age of 18 or 25 (if they are in full-time education). |
| Solidarity Barn Project – Celeiro Solidário | Portugal | Campolide Parish Council | Local level | Public health and social welfare/affairs | The Solidarity Barn Project (Celeiro Solidário) began as a citizens’ movement that aimed to create awareness for the importance of solidarity and the reduction of food waste. |
| Digital Pathology | Portugal | Cova da Beira Hospital (CHCB) Centro Hospitalar Cova da Beira, E.P.E. | Local level | cross-sectoral | The “Digital Pathological Anatomy” is an innovative project in Portugal, based on the interaction between different hardware and software combinations aimed at creating a global management platform for all data and images generated in a pathological anatomy laboratory. |
| SocialXChange – More than a Charity Shop | Romania | General Direction of Social Care and Child Protection, 6th District, Bucharest | Local level | cross-sectoral | SocialXchange is a new concept of social solidarity designed to promote involvement and mutual benefit in support of community relations. It is based on a shop, which effectively manages community resources available in order to equitably redistribute them among people who want to participate in charity, but also among those with low income who do not want to depend on begging. |
| LGBT-Friendly Ljubljana | Slovenia | Municipality of Ljubljana | Local level | cross-sectoral | With the goals of significantly reducing homophobia and empowering lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT), the City of Ljubljana addresses special care and attention to the LGBT community. It offers diverse support to the development, organisation and implementation of projects and programmes for the LGBT community. |
| Home Debt Intermediation Service | Spain | Barcelona Provincial Council | Local level | cross-sectoral | Home Debt Intermediation Service “Servei d’Intermediació en Deutes d’Habitatge” (SIDH), protects the right to housing by preventing the loss of homes due to mortgage loan repayment difficulties. SIDH offers free specialised legal advice and intermediation with financial entities to defend resolution proposals. |
| New Sustainable Management Model – Street Cleaning Services and Solid Waste Collection | Spain | Public Sanitation and Environmental Protection Municipal Limited Liability Company, Seville | Local level | Environment, climate change, agriculture (incl. food safety) and fishery | A Public Sanitation and Environmental Protection Municipal Limited Liability Company “Limpieza Pública y Protección Ambiental S.A. Municipal” (LIPASAM), was created in March 1986 to attend to the City of Seville. LIPASAM was exhausted, in the middle of an economic crisis, and it was necessary to increase city cleaning activities while reducing an unsustainable budget for the City Government. |
| The Rural Accelerator | Sweden | Municipality of Sjöbo | Local level | cross-sectoral | Sjöbo is a small town and the seat of Sjöbo Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden, with about 8,000 inhabitants. The main objectives of the Rural Accelerator are to develop ideas and businesses in the countryside based on the special features rural areas offer. |
| Sprouts of Karşıyaka | Turkey | Karşıyaka Municipality | Local level | cross-sectoral | The actual goal of this project is to support successful university students throughout their education who have no or insufficient income and live in the İzmir Karşıyaka province border. At the same time, it is aimed to include the local administration of Karşıyaka in maintaining equal opportunities for students. |