INTA41 - Partnerships for sustainable cities and communities - Report

This Congress organised alongside the City of Malmö and the Nordic City Network, was an opportunity to share experience and good practice with city leaders and urban practitioners from around the globe - 23 countries were represented. The sessions featured thematic discussions on partnerships for sustainable cities and communities with technical visits and workshops demonstrating local and international innovative policies.

Today we are living in a period of geopolitical, environmental, and economic uncertainties and rapid societal change. The institutional context that governs our global rule-based society lacks coherency and tools for action. Even at the national scale, State institutions are producing fewer effective development strategies and must work on better representing their people, and this has led to cities rising to fill some of this space claiming to be the appropriate institutional scale where to lead the charge and face the challenges that our world faces. [...]