The project is organised as follows:

• Monitoring Committee: Urban Development Group
• Steering Committee comprising representatives of the following: French Ministry (MEEDDM), URBACT Secretariat, the European Commission and EU Presidency countries.
• Project Experts / Team: comprising MEEDDM sponsors; CERTU research experts, and Capgemini Consulting project management and domain expertise.
• Member State / Institutions (MS/I) Group: comprising Member States (FR, DE…) and neighbouring countries (TR) from across Europe, 2 European networks of local authorities (CEMR, Eurocities), the URBACT Secretariat, the lead partner of the URBACT Cities’ Group and the European Commission. Representatives of countries are typically from one/two of the Ministries responsible for the urban sustainability agenda. This meets bi-monthly.
• National Support Groups (NSGs): These are set up in the MS by the MS/I representative. They involve central government ministries, national agencies, other national/regional interest groups, experts, and importantly the end customer – cities. Meeting frequencies and construct is determined by the MS/I member. The role is to mobilise country stakeholders.

URBACT Cities Group (“LC-FACIL”) composed of 8 pilot cities and that provides support and challenge to the project. A specific role is also to select and support the piloting process. The pilot cities will take, test, and co-develop the products from the project.
The MS/I group and URBACT cities group form the ‘hub’ of the project. The various NSGs form the ‘spokes’. It is through this design that a collaborative open and transparent process is managed. It is through this process that MS/I members will have fuller knowledge to communicate in their NSG events.

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