Wednesday 21st March 2018

09:30 -10:00 Arrival of participants

Welcoming & participants registration

10:00 - 10:30 Opening plenary session:

  • Raul Cunha President CIM do Ave - PT
  • Rosário Azevedo – Intermunicipal Executive Secretary. CIM do Ave - PT
  • Beatriz García. Project Manager – SODEBUR – Spain

10:30 - 11.30 Workshop

Moderator: Elsa Nunes, IrRADIARE and Vera Soares, CIM Ave

  1. Brief introduction on the best practice methodology – Beatriz García (SODEBUR).
  2. Presentation by each partner of 1 Best Practice Example from the represented region – part 1 (10 minutes per partner).

* Ave Intermunicipal Community – CIM Ave (Portugal). 

* SODEBUR (Spain).

* Tipperary County Council (Ireland).

* BSC, Business Support Centre Ltd Kranj (Slovenia).

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break networking

11:45 - 12:15 - Presentation by each partner of 1 Best Practice Example from the  represented region – part 2 (10 minutes per partner). 

* Region of Western Greece (Greece)

* Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency Nonprofit Ltd (Hungary)

* Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bistrița-Năsăud (Romania)

12:15 - 13:15 Focus group – evaluation of the presented best practices examples

13:15 - 13.30 Conclusions on the workshop

13:30 - 15:00 Networking light lunch

Management meeting

15:00 - 15:30 COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION (Tipperary County Council):

Ø Lessons learnt from the project first year: aspect for improvement

Ø Next steps and partners task distribution

16:00 - 17:00 EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES (All partners)

  1. SWOT analysis. Partners will present in 5 minutes the conclusions of territorial reports. 
  2. Project partners: stakeholders meetings. Partners will inform on the stakeholder involvement: main issues, difficulties and inputs. 

NEXT TRANSNATIONAL MEETING (Hungary) – June 2018 (KDRIÜ)

  • Place, dates and foreseen agenda for the next event

- Workshop “Social Innovation”

- Study Visits

  • Tasks to be developed

17:00 - 17:45 PROJECT MANAGEMENT (DEX S.A.& SODEBUR)

  1. Lessons learnt after the presentation of the PR2.
  2. Administrative and financial follow up. Next steps.
  3. Policy Learning Platform. Submission of good practices

20:00 Partner’s official dinner.

Thursday, 22nd March 2018

9:30 Study Visit:

9.30 Departure. MEETING POINT

10.00 Visit to the Landscape Laboratory Association

  • Presentation of Incubator Guimarães Rural Base
  • Presentation of Landscape Laboratory

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Departure from Guimarães to Póvoa de Lanhoso

12.00 Visit to PLAKO – UTOPIA project

13.00 Lunch

14.15 Departure from Póvoa de Lanhoso

15.00 Visit to the VIMASOL - Renewable energy

  • Presentation of the Vimasol Pellets
  • Visit to the production

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30 Departure