Periodic Reporting for period 2 - TREND (Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development)
Période du rapport: 2022-02-01 au 2024-01-31
The current period of global uncertainty is calling into question the essence of the economic prosperity followed in the last decades. The continuing and progressive changes due to the systemic impact of shocks and stresses at the global level pointed out the need for a convergence of efforts by all countries. The scenario that emerged during the outbreak, alongside climate change and the risks associated with it, has seriously questioned social-economic stability at each level and the confluence of institutions in multilevel governance processes Considering the two pressing crises to tackle, namely, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, transformative development is gaining increasing momentum. The rationale is, social and economic transformations are critical to addressing both structural political-economic conditions and “unruly” contingent, complex and context-specific processes, thereby leading to sustainable, inclusive and resilient development.
The overall objective of TREnD is to contribute to reforming the Cohesion Policy for the programming period 2021-2027 in strengthening the regional capabilities towards shock-absorb development trajectories. The TREnD project’s rationale is to provide the critical mass to featuring metrics of Resilience and Transition Management. The project proposes the path reshaping process methodology grounded on a system of three drivers, allowing the structuring of the platform OPEnAT (based on data science and data analytics): 1. Resilience as the capacity of a local context to develop a new growth path; 2. Transition as the strategic process towards a resilience-based policy-mix; 3. Local/urban Innovation ecosystem as a medium to implement transition policy action. The challenges are twofold, the former related to the post-pandemic scenario; the latter to the cross-domain de-carbonization target (Recovery Fund). The focus is on urban-rural networks and innovation ecosystems to make economies more cohesive to meet the challenges of high uncertainty (resilience oriented) and more innovative to face the cross-domain de-carbonization target (transition oriented).
Regional and Local dimensions are both crucial for the investigation because of the following factors:
• The need for a different policy and institutional focus able to respond rapidly and flexibly to technological, market and social changes;
• The need to develop policy support to be integrated, coordinated and tailored to specific national, regional or even local contexts.
• The need for differentiated (place-based) strategies for the adaptation to specific shocks.
Particularly, cities offer the opportunity to scale up resilience at the regional level, offering coordination, integration and context-specific responses.