gost-predavač: Giovanni Alegretti, supredsjedatelj neovisnog tijela za participaciju u Toskani, Italija
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www.dobra-ekonomija.hrGiovanni (Aldo Luigi) Allegretti is an architect, planner and senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the Coimbra University,
Portugal. Here he is among the directors of the Ph.D “Democracy in the
XXI century” and he coordinates the “PEOPLEs’ Observatory:
Participation, Innovation and Local Powers”. He is a member of the
Working Group “DECIDe” at CES, being part of the coordination board.
Since 2001, he has been assistant professor in Town Management at the
University of Florence, where he got his Ph.D in Town,Territorial and
Environmental Planning. He studied in Brazil, Danmark and Japan with
scholarships of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. He studied in Brazil,
Danmark & Japan.
Expert of the European Commission for the URBACT Programme, he deals
with Participatory Budgets and Interactive Planning since 1998. On this
subject he wrote several books. As a consultant and trainer about
participatory processes, he was invited to hold professional courses by
several Local Authorities (in country such Italy, France, Spain, Greece,
Sweden, Portugal, Senegal Reunion Island), Universities (Harvard Design
School in United States, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia,
International Islamic University in Malaysia, Institute of European
Studies in Vietnam) and NGO (TI in Morocco and Indonesia, TNI in India),
and International Institutions (in Canada’s 2006 UN/World Urban Forum,
in Kenya’s 2006 Africities Forum and in two continental courses on
Participatory Budgeting organised by the World Bank in South Africa and
Senegal).
Since January 2008 he coordinated the scientific training of the
EQUAL-funded project “Participatory Budgeting in Portugal” which trained
more than 600 local authorities and municipal technicians in Portugal
on the issue of Participatory Budget. He also coordinated the scientific
outputs of the EU-funded project “PARLOOCAL” (led by Malaga Province in
Spain)and the three-years study on Participatory Budgeting called
“OPtar”, funded by the FCT of Portugal.
On behalf of its department, dr. Allegretti is also a member of several
international organisations whose aim is to promote networking among
‘best practices’ of urban participatory management (Committee for
Participatory Democracy and Social Inclusion of UCLG and OIDP –
International Observatory on Participatory Democracy). He is member of
the Standing Group on “Democratic Innovations” in the European
Consortium of Political Reserach (ECPR).
Since 2007 he was committed in co-organising a network of municipal
authorities within the CPLP (Community of Portuguese-speaking
countries), which was officially approved by the chiefs of State in July
2008 and formally constituted in March 2009.
At present, he has been appointed as co-chair of the Independent
Authority for Promoting Participation (APP) of the Tuscany Region
(Italy), for the mandate 2014-2019.
He was the founder and co-coordinator of the “Democracine” Film Festival
in Porto Alegre – Brazil, and co-organiser of the “Fest-Cineamazonia –
Itinerancia em Portugal”.