Turin joined the International Urban Cooperation program

4.2.2 Turin joined the International Urban Cooperation

Latin America where governments are trying to diversify their commodity-driven economies[37].

4.2.3 “Turin 2030: Action Plan for the Turin of the Fu-ture”[9]

Participative (A city of active towns, citizens, and neighborhoods) The actions are: The Town Plan for the participated city; Turin digital | Civil planning Co - City / AxTO; Turin Performing Arts; New Central Civic Library;

Turin Educational City; New regulation for common goods; The green I would like;

Decide Turin

Participation is one of the cardinal principles of a sustainable and resilient city.

Thanks to the involvement of citizens in the construction of city policies, the Administration responds to the increasingly evolving needs of its communities. It is actual participation that more easily ensures the right balance between the social, economic, and environmental dimensions, especially when participation is broad and transversal, not sectoral or privileged.

With the active participation of citizens, it is also possible to anticipate structural changes in communities, prepare for future and evolving scenarios, thus creating the conditions for resilience. The Participated City listens, communicates, involves, and collaborates internally and externally, and in this way it senses and reacts in time to social, economic, and environmental changes.

In the Participated City, the transparency of administrative and decision-making processes is guaranteed, the data are shared, accessible, and easy to understand so that all citizens are informed and aware and can take action for their own interest and for the common good. Transparency, information, and accessibility of the Administration are therefore essential prerequisites for active citizenship, capable of interacting constructively with the Administration.

In the Participated City, on the one hand, the involvement is aimed at the develop-ment of public policies and the improvedevelop-ment of services, through the collection of opinions, ideas, projects, indications, and recommendations. Participation allows intelligent integration between policies from different sectors, ensuring not only greater sharing, but also more effective policies and services for citizens and citizens.

On the other hand, the Participated City puts citizens in the conditions to be proactive and to get involved in the development of civic life, in the design of public

spaces and in the management of structures, in launching their own initiatives, developing new projects, networks, services, and businesses, organizing solidarity activities in the neighborhoods in the car[9].

Dynamic (A city rich in culture, innovation, opportunities, and talents) The actions are: The master plan for the dynamic city; Turin City Lab; Agile Administration Open for Business; the City of Research for Innovation and Devel-opment; Tourist Turin; University City; UN Campus Century 21; Turin City of food; ATP Finals Turin 2021-2025

Torino Dinamica is an attractive city, both for talents and for capital, for the quality of the economic fabric that characterizes it, for the ecosystem of innovation it has developed, for the cultural offer it knows how to express, and for the strong propensity towards new technologies that distinguishes it. By enhancing the indus-trial, technological, and cultural vocations of the area, Torino Dinamica invests in local knowledge and encourages innovation. It is a curious city, which experiments, supports, and grows skills and projects by acting in a corrective and agile way when necessary. It has adequate technological infrastructure for the development and demand for innovative projects. Identify new opportunities, anticipate and react promptly to events. Torino Dinamica is a laboratory city, where the most advanced technologies are developed and tested, where each district becomes a place of experimentation, which allows projects to overcome the start-up phase by generating services with perceived economic and social repercussions.

Torino Dinamica invests in knowledge and supports its vocation as a univer-sity city, culture, scientific research, also in relation to industrial production and work. It is a city that is home to around 110,000 students who work, live, study, have fun. It is a city within a city, an extraordinary wealth to be promoted and planned to attract more and more talents, to make them grow, creating strong links with the territory, giving them new opportunities for work and life in the city.

In Dynamic Turin, the University City and the innovation ecosystem feed and re-inforce each other in a virtuous cycle capable of always generating new opportunities.

Vocations, in fact, also find expression in a logic of urban development oriented around innovation poles, in particular in the fields of energy and industry 4.0, the circular economy, aerospace, and automotive.

The Dynamic City, full of opportunities and talents, stimulating and at the forefront of innovation, attracts those looking for a fertile place to do business because in Turin they find the right skills and conditions to get their idea off the ground. But

not only that, it also attracts those who are looking for innovation and are willing to invest to accelerate their landing on the market. The Dynamic City knows how to dialogue and intercept these resources and supports them in the settlement phase on the territory[9].

Liveable (An accessible, circular, healthy, and green city)

The actions are: The master plan for the liveable city; Turin towards zero waste;

Green resilient; Sustainability laboratory; Renovated public transport; ITS and mobility as a service; Turin Open Center; Safe roads

The Livable City is a city in which to enjoy a high quality of life, on a par with the most attractive and welcoming cities in the world. It is a city for all ages, for all communities, for those who visit it for a few days, for those who live it daily, for a few months, for a year, or for a lifetime.

If the quality of life can be defined as a set of characteristics that, on the one hand, make daily life pleasant, usable, and efficient, on the other, make it feasible to carry out complex life projects for each citizen because the urban environment facilitates their choices. The Torino Vivibile possesses these characteristics.

It is a beautiful city, with an urban quality that responds to contemporary lifestyles, capable of evolving to accommodate the needs of today’s citizens as well as of the new generations. It is a clean city, where the environment and public spaces are decent and respected.

The Livable City promotes physical activity, but also comfort, which allows citi-zens and visitors to express themselves freely, to adopt healthy lifestyles, to grow and move with full respect for everyone. This means creating spaces for dy-namic, collective, and individual mobility, mobility that focuses on the well-being of people, capable of making young and old alike independent, in every part of the city.

In the Livable City, sport is for everyone and everyone, it is a moment of ag-gregation and collective fun, it is a civic right with a strong inclusive value and a recognized social attitude. It is a city where sports also become a tool for integration and socialization, for the promotion and protection of health and psychophysical well-being, and prevention of the main pathologies related to a sedentary lifestyle.

The Livable City is a green city, rich in natural and landscape-attractive en-vironments, which favors contact with nature and progressively the renaturalization of highly urbanized areas, preserving the environment and the territory. It is a city

that has natural systems capable of coping also with risks and problems related to the climate, it is an environment resilient to changes.

The Livable City is also a sustainable city, capable of rethinking its urban metabolism with a view to efficiency and circularity, reducing consumption, and producing waste. It is a city that changes its paradigm, thinking in an innovative way about the production of materials, products, energy, mobility, trade, culture, and also social exchanges with less impact on natural resources. The Livable City acts in a circular way, so as to maximize resources and not waste them.

Realizing this vision means adopting a holistic and listening approach, devel-oping structured and integrated strategies, for example on air quality, the waste cycle, the circular economy, the well-being and safety of citizens, green infrastruc-tures, animal protection, and more sustainable lifestyles. It means overcoming the perspective of environmental emergencies in favor of forward-looking planning of interventions[9].

Supportive (A city of rights)

The actions are The Town Plan for the solidarity city; Social inclusion plan; Special project for nomad camps; Capital of rights; Coordination guidelines policies for interculturality and participation; Work for everyone; Reorganization of access to the educational service 0-6 years.

The cardinal principle that guides the Solidarity City is the centrality of the person and the promotion of processes of autonomy and growth of individuals. The goal is to give people concrete tools to play an active role in the exercise of their fundamental rights: the right to work, inclusion, education, equal opportunities.

The challenge maximizes resources for investments and active policies in support of welfare and education while keeping the accounts in order.

Human rights and respect for them, the fight against all forms of discrimina-tion, and a positive approach to ensure equal opportunities for all citizens and all citizens represent the heart of the action of the Solidarity City. A Solidarity City opposes zero-sum logic and facilitates dialogue, mutual understanding, and mutual respect between the various parts of society, building spaces to promote and strengthen aggregation, protagonism, and the active involvement of citizens.

Torino Solidale promotes mutual knowledge and respect between citizens and citizens, communicates with the social fabric of the city, with those who bring wealth to it, who enter into a relationship with the city, whether they are residents,

students, commuters, tourists, care, and every other person. The approach of Solidarity City is the intercultural one, assuming the comparison and exchange between cultures and placing citizenship and participation at the center of its work. The Solidarity City responds to existing conflicts in society, avoiding their destabilization and the struggle between its components. Integration and inclusion mean thinking of the city as a set of communities that communicate, listen to each other and are attentive to the processes of knowledge.

Torino Solidale safeguards and promotes the rights of the most vulnerable, guar-anteeing social and health care, providing more opportunities and attention to disabled citizens, increasing integration, working to cope with the criticalities of the nomad camps.

School is one of the main tools of equal opportunity. Investing to guarantee a quality educational path to all girls and boys is the best bet to reduce inequalities, fight prejudice and improve social cohesion. Torino Solidale looks to young people by including them in decision-making and political processes and in support of their personal, professional, and social growth, favoring their full realization and complete inclusion in the social fabric. Torino Solidale invests in scholastic and educational institutions capable of giving due recognition to every type of intelli-gence, respecting the times, inclinations, and attitudes of each one, allowing the growth of capable and aware adults.

Torino Solidale monitors the evolution of needs and the effectiveness of the responses that public services are able to provide. With this information, the City is able to respond to the needs of its communities and accompany them on a long-lasting path of self-determination[9].