Slovenian Case of Strategic Green Transition Transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Slovenian “Regional Development Agency for Podravje – Maribor (RDAPM) hosted a two-day workshop on capacity building for green transition in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for local representatives. They presented a lot of case examples of how to prepare a strategy, how to engage stakeholders, how to motivate citizen participation, how to prioritise activities in order to ensure the successful implementation.
Within EUKI project, Strategic Approach to Green Transition (SAGT) a workshop was conducted in the City of Tuzla, where the representatives of the municipality and their Business Incubator (BIT Centar) hosted the representatives of RDAPM. The two day workshop that took place on June 10 and 11 was attended by 8 participants from Tuzla.
RDAPM has been facilitating knowledge transfer within and beyond the Podravje region (Slovenia) for over 30 years. Currently, as the coordinator of the CCRI pilot region and a CSS demonstration within the Horizon project CircSyst, RDAPM is a key regional player in the field of green transition.
Its expertise and experience have not gone unnoticed. Due to the similarities between the regions, Maribor was selected as an exemplary case by the City of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for preparing strategic documents for green transition.
The workshop was a result of successful screening interviews conducted using RDAPM’s methodology, which combines theoretical knowledge with practical experience.
As Borut Jurišić, the project leader at RDAPM, said: “Knowledge transfer is all about the small tricks that you cannot specify in the methodology, but need to apply in practice to get the job done. To teach those tricks, both sides need to develop mutual trust and understanding of the situation and, above all, conduct live sessions for the exchange of experience!”
Esmir Spahić, the head of development planning and management at the City of Tuzla, added: “We are now confident that Tuzla will become the first city in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a strategy for green transition by the end of the project.”
The EUKI project, Strategic Approach to Green Transition (SAGT), is enhancing the City of Tuzla’s capacity to prepare strategic documents that will facilitate the city’s green transition.