Peer-to-peer panels

Categopry 'Activities - Advice - Peer-to-peer panels'

An INTA Panel is an international voluntary advisory service in support to public authorities or private sector stakeholders, providing a coherent and specific urban development vision, based on highly intensive exploration of all issues and opportunities. This unique development problem-solving process provides policy-makers with an external vision and new operational plans as well as recommendations for its implementation.   

The INTA Advisory Service is developed to assist urban policy makers to make justified policy choices and provide them with support for strategic debate.  

A worldwide flexible resource with top-level hands-on experience.  Due to the generosity of its members INTA is able to bring together, from its wide membership' expertise, international panels of up to 15 urban practitioners including public and private developers, local and regional development officials, members of the financial community, architects, planners, engineers and academics, with extensive experience in the issues to be reviewed.

  Advantages of the Panel Process

Mobilize a broad range of international talents to provide solutions to specific urban development on issues that might not generally receive this level of attention
Facilitate development of creative solutions that involve both public and private sectors
Bring public attention and enhanced credibility to the projects of local authorities
Address complex issues and make recommendations that might be difficult for an involved party to suggest
Attract private sector interest and involvement
An integrated approach that covers a wide range of urban and local or territorial development issues
A foresight vision linked to a pragmatic and operational approach
Practitioners, who are not consultants but Peers, sharing, in a voluntary way, their experience, expertise and strategic vision.

INTA's value

35 years promoting the exchange of experiences between urban practitioners from over 50 countries
Extensive practice in all areas of urban development
Mastering the processes of integrated urban production
Advice fit to the needs of implementation
 A Panel in practice
One week of work comprising field visits, audit of urban project by interviewing local players and a working group offering an uncommon space for debate
A new and stimulating vision of urban development
Setting monitoring instruments to support the implementation of urban strategies

2011 Brignoles, France

The international peer-to-peer review took place in Brignoles from 16-21 October 2011.

The Municipality of Brignoles, a town of nearly 18 000 inhabitants in the French Provence, has called on INTA to review its strategic development potential: how to give new dimensions to the City centre and make it an active, inclusive and vibrant pole contributing to the overall development of the agglomeration ?

2011 Azores

magazine azores2 The Panel, composed of a mix of international and local experts, researchers and practitioners, went to visit 3 different islands (Pico, Terceira and San Miguel), interviewed local stakeholders of the tourism sector, especially hotel owners visiting their premises in order to, at the end of the week, present publically some proposals about the tourism and hospitality strategy in the Azores.

This Panel was held together with the 2011 edition of the Summer Course and was a response to an invitation by the Observatory of Tourism of the Azores (OTA) and its partners :

- to enlarge the international base of experiences of OTA by sharing practices and knowledge on tourism development,
- to evaluate the trends in the hospitality industry of the Azores.

2011 Le Port, La Reunion

INTALaReunion From 9 to 16 April an INTA peer-to-peer panel was in the City of Le Port, in La Reunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean south east of Madagascar. A team of 10 practitioners was helping the involved parties to define a path for the future of a 85ha area on the rear of the main harbour. The island of 800,000 inhabitants imports almost everything and needs to expand its harbour and logistic zone, linking them to the rest of the infrastructures.

2010 Bordeaux, France

alt The urban district of Bordeaux has 27 municipalities and 702,522 inhabitants (2006). Founded in 1968, this supra municipal authority has competences in networks (water, sanitation, traffic, roads, parking, transportation) as well as housing, urban planning, sports facilities, economic development and environment.
The President of the urban district of Bordeaux (CUB), Mr Vincent Feltesse calls today INTA to come and reflect on the long-range vision of the metropolis of Bordeaux. Indeed, projects for the next 15 years are already under way, but it is necessary to consider the type of projects that will have to be put up for 15 years after.