The Development of Bratislava 2030

The plan is based on the application of four principles 

• Internal processing, which ensured intensive involvement of the city's expert capacities, either directly from the city or municipal organizations. The aim was to link strategic planning to the city's internal processes.

• Involvement of the general, organized, and professional public through public meetings (Metropolitan Forums), surveys, workshops, and especially meetings of Working Groups. Those were composed of the senior or professional staff of the city, city districts, and organizations, as well as third-party experts.

Taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals as defined in the international document 2030 Agenda

Setting up the monitoring system. Measurable indicators are linked to the objectives. They will enable us to effectively monitor how we are meeting the targets.

The plan is based on the application of four principles 

• Internal processing, which ensured intensive involvement of the city's expert capacities, either directly from the city or municipal organizations. The aim was to link strategic planning to the city's internal processes.

• Involvement of the general, organized, and professional public through public meetings (Metropolitan Forums), surveys, workshops, and especially meetings of Working Groups. Those were composed of the senior or professional staff of the city, city districts, and organizations, as well as third-party experts.

Taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals as defined in the international document 2030 Agenda

Setting up the monitoring system. Measurable indicators are linked to the objectives. They will enable us to effectively monitor how we are meeting the targets.

Working Groups

Working groups prepared the new strategy's contents. They engaged in the analysis of the current situation, starting points, and setting up the objectives, measures, and tools for implementation.

The first meetings of the working groups took place in the first half of 2020. Six thematic working groups were set up, consisting of representatives of the city districts.

The topics they researched included culture, education, training, social affairs, energy, transport, environment, and waste. The working groups met three times between April and June 2020 and developed common tasks through facilitated workshops. The meetings aimed to review the current state of affairs, and identify the main problems and priorities, especially from the perspective of individual municipalities. The working groups had 57 members.

In 2021, working groups were assembled from the Municipality's professional staff and external experts based on previous process and findings. The 11 working groups consisted of 116 members in total. The working groups were thematic again but covered a wider range of topics. The working groups met regularly. Their task was to identify the most important challenges and define the goals that Bratislava needs to achieve by 2030 and how to measure this.

Metropolitan Forums

The Metropolitan Forums were an important part of the preparation process for the Bratislava 2030 document. The Metropolitan Forum was created as a space for a joint transparent discussion of urban issues of the capital city with representatives of the organized civil and professional public from the public, private and non-governmental sectors. The basic task of the forums was to provide feedback to the Bratislava 2030 team and the city council and to make recommendations on solutions to specific issues related to the city's development. The meetings were an opportunity to discuss the challenges Bratislava is facing, to name the problems, to jointly create inputs for the vision, and later to verify the formulation of goals and measures.

The first Metropolitan Forum was dedicated to the environment, mobility, and energy. The second forum held discussions on culture, education, and social affairs. The third forum focused on global megatrends and their reflection in the context of Bratislava. The fourth and fifth sessions focused on the future and the search for a strong vision. The two remaining forums presented the preliminary outputs of the working groups and created a space to gather feedback from the public.

Seven Metropolitan Forums were held between March 2020 and September 2021. A total of 175 representatives of different organizations and stakeholders attended. The eighth Metropolitan Forum was a public hearing where the strategic plan was presented in detail and comments were collected.

Watch the recording of the presentation of the strategic plan Bratislava 2030 draft at the Metropolitan Forum

All Metropolitan Forums recordings can be found on our YouTube channel

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