Representatives of the Mazovian Office of Regional Planning in Warsaw took part in the annual meeting of the PLUS Change project partners, which this year took place on 13–15 May in Riga. The aim of the event is to integrate the partners and strengthen cooperation between them, assess progress and plan the next actions.
The first day included a workshop to identify the opportunities and benefits of study visits between practice cases. It was pointed out that both host and guests could obtain useful knowledge, experience and contacts from them. The day ended with a visit to the Kaigu peat bog, during which representatives of the peat extraction company discussed the importance of peat bogs in Latvia, peat extraction, the environmental challenges of peat extraction and the prospect of development of the area after the extraction is finished towards the zone of innovation and clean industry.
For the second day, a workshop was planned aimed at broadening partners’ knowledge on the actions of other project participants and sharing thoughts as to their needs and expectations, as a result of which it was decided to put more effort into the dissemination of the project deliverables and their implementation. In the afternoon, a trial simulation was carried out using the backcasting method to define the goal, identify obstacles to it and find solutions to achieve it. This simulation, once suitably tailored, is to be carried out by each practice case among the stakeholders.
On the third day, tools for creating and publishing maps and managing spatial data, which may be used by decision-makers in regional development planning, were presented. The next session included a presentation of the conclusions of a meta-analysis-based sociological study on the change of behavioural pattern. The final session was conducted in the spirit of dissemination and exploitation of project deliverables and identification of synergies with other projects.
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PLUS Change: https://pluschange.eu/
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