The regional case study in Alentejo: report on local activities

ADRAL will work in the region’s main city, Évora, which is an Unesco World Heritage City with a recent and positive development in terms of components industry (example: Aeronautics Industry). The city is developing a urban renovation plan with a total budget of 9M€. This plan if well designed combined with the new industry and services investments from private companies can be the key factor for a boost in economic and population development, not only in the city but also in near small towns. The challenge is to combine together a smart, high quality and sustainable urban environment having good housing prices, with a growing specialized investment and employment and also with qualified and abundant human resources. A Smart, Innovative, Industrial and World Heritage City for a new development paradigm in rural cities. The report on local activities will describe stakeholder engagement activities (preliminary activities), focus groups, meeting and discussions about the renovation and promotion of the area (fist round of local activities), activities for discussing the design optin for the local Smart village and a possibile roadmap (second round of local activities), finalization of the case study and conclusions. The report will be delivered by month 10.