Topic 3 : Making local areas active partners in globalisation
Plenary Session
- Plenary Session
- 3.1 Local governance: fostering social dialogue at the local level (LOGOSSD European Forum)
- 3.2 Migration: an asset for the development of local areas
- 3.3 Major transformations: how can we anticipate them together?
- 3.4 Access to basic commodities: how can it be organised and regulated? The example of water.
- 3.5 Digital solidarity: local governments facilitating multi-actor partnerships
- Interactive reporting session
In light of discussions held in the Forum workshops, this plenary session will reflect on potential strategies for asserting the key role of cities and regions in crafting and implementing directives for responsible globalisation, both in their local context and at the global level. Their role takes three forms:
- as a level of governance over economic and social processes, working with the national and supranational levels
- as a forum for building multi-actor alliances for new approaches combining economic, social and environmental dimensions
- as a group actor, in cooperation with other cities and regions, promoting new forms of international solidarity.
Speakers
Special guest: Jean-Philippe Bayon, Decentralised Cooperation’s Vice President, Rhône-Alpes regional Council, France
Moderator: Bernard Brunhes, President of the Forum Managing Committee, Vice-President, BPI Group
Reporting session speaker: Pierre Veltz, Professor, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC)
- Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General, UCLG Africa, Benin
- Bruno Lacroix, President, Rhône-Alpes Economic and Social Council (CESR), France
- Roberto Miguel Lifschitz, Mayor of Rosario, Argentina
- Oumarou Ag Mohamed Ibrahim, President, The Hight Council of the Communities of Mali
- Anne Posthuma, Coordinator, Local Economic Development Program, International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Dave Quayle, Member, Committee of the Regions, United Kingdom
- Odile Sallard, Director, Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD)
- Louis Schweitzer, President, Independent High Commission for Equality and Against Discrimination (HALDE), France
- Willy Thys, Secretary-General, World Confederation of Labour (WCL)
- Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council, United Kingdom
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