Salerno (italy)
This event will be the seventh annual international conference of territorial intelligence. The first conference took place in 2003 in Besançon and was the starting point for setting up the European Network of Territorial Intelligence on the basis of the Catalyse Method users network that had progressively been build up in Europe since the 1990’s.
Three conferences were organized before the beginning of the coordination action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence, the caENTI, that was partly funded by the 6th Research and Technological Framework programme of the European Union, in the thematics area "Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society" from March 2006 to February 2009. Three international conferences took place in the frame of the caENTI in Alba Iulia (Romania, 2006), Huelva (Spain, 2007) and Besançon (France, 2008).
The Salerno conference, from 4th to 7th November 2009, corresponds to a renewal of the ENTI network. With 250 participants from 22 different countries, the half of them who were not members of the caENTI and 30 of them coming from outside the European Union, the success of the Besançon conference highlighted the volition to make caENTI achievements durable and to develop them. To this end a project of network of excellence will be submitted at the occasion of the next call for proposals of the 7th Research and Technological Framework programme of the European Union. The Salerno conference will notably be an opportunity for discusing and enriching the research axis resulting from the caENTI: territorial information for sustainable development and fair territorial governance.
The Salerno conference will present a new theme whose relevance has progressively increased during the last years: the place of culture in sustainable territorial development.