CAENTI (European research action)
The European research action CAENTI, “Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence” is funded under the Sixth Framework-Program of Research and Technological Development of the European Union in the specific program “Integrate and strengthen the European Research Area”, in the Seventh thematic priority “Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society”. It started on March, the 1st 2006 for three-year duration.
The CAENTI consortium gathers fifteen partners that belong to eight countries. The Universities of Franche-Comté (France), of Huelva (Spain), of Liege (Belgium), of Pecs (Hungary), of Alba Iulia (Romania), of Salerno (Italy), the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Tunghai (Taiwan). It also includes eight territorial actors: ACCEM (Spain), Optima (Belgium), Integra plus (Belgium), Adapei of Besançon (France), the network of the Jardins de Cocagne (Gardens of Cocagne) (France), the Valdocco Fundation (Spain), and the Department of Baranya (Hungary).
The CAENTI aims at integrating present research actions on the tools of territorial intelligence to give them a European dimension. To do so, the CAENTI coordinates three comparative research activities:
- The activity tools concerns the design and execution of professional tools to help the actors drafting projects of sustainable development, then to manage them and valuate them.
- Upstream, the activity methods identifies the scientific research protocols and the generic instruments that are used to analyse the territorial information and that will provide technologic solutions to design tools.
- In parallel, the activity governance inventories the uses and principles that will guarantee the respect of the sustainable development ethics by these tools, particularly their ability to improve participation, global approach and partnership.
The organization of an annual international conference of territorial intelligence and the portal of territorial intelligence http://www.territorial-intelligence.eu facilitate the results dissemination.
