Cross-sector networking workshops were held in Warsaw between October 2013 and April 2014 to encourage partnerships between different sectors to solve urban problems. The workshops covered topics like urban space, cycling transportation, and social economy. They resulted in several partnerships and pilot projects between organizations, including developing a cycling map, encouraging cycling to work, and auditing illegal advertisements. The workshops aimed to foster long-term cooperation across sectors to create innovative solutions and maximize resources for improving cities.

1. Cross-sector
networking
workshops
#1 17.10.2013 #4
27.02.2014
#2 12.12.2013 #5
20.03.2014
#3 23.01.2014 #6 08.04.2014
Organizer: Partners:

2. Agenda
20.30 -22.00 CZĘŚĆ NIEFORMALNA
Idea market Panstwomiasto Cafebar drinks vouchers
20.00-20.30 SUMMARY
Workshops’ effects Evaluation of the Hub
18.30-20.00 WORKSHOPS– 2 rounds, 30minutes each
Presentation of projects in 3 groups Coffee, group discussion over projects
18.00-18.30 INTRODUCTION
Getting to know each other Why cross-sector partnerships?

3. Mission
Partnerships
Long-term cooperation
Between business,
administration, science
and civic sector
In a common aim
With shared responsibility
of creation and realisation
of a project
Aims
Common, more efective
problem solving;
Innovations, added value
to projects and cities
Coordunation,
maximalisation
of potential usage
Organisational learning
and improvement
Warsaw
Problems with urban space
Potential: resourses,
knowledge, local CSR
Good practices

4. Good practices in Warsaw
Na miejscu Foundation – Project Krochmalna
• Outdoor playground and sportsfield + community activisation
• 2012-2013
• http://namiejscu.org/wola/
Ochota Civil Dialog Model
• Noticeable changes in urban space + community activisation
• 2010-2012
• http://www.pts.org.pl/omdo/
Power of Colour
• 3 outdoor gyms + noble goal (painting an oncology centre)
• 2013
• http://silakoloru.pl/
EDU
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NGO
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NGO
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NGO
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BIZ.
BIZ.
GOV
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GOV
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GOV
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5. Success factors
Initiation
Getting to know
Common aims
Complementary
resources
Idea on common project
Crystalisation
Trus
Leader
Decision-making
process, communication
Co-responsibility,
interdependence
Formalisation form
Realisation
Little successes during
the project
evaluation
continuation
Circumstances, context, changes

6. Agenda
20.30 -22.00 THE INFORMAL PART
Idea market Panstwomiasto Cafebar drinks vouchers
20.00-20.30 SUMMARY
Workshops’ effects Evaluation of the Hub
18.30-20.00 WORKSHOPS– 2 rounds, 30minutes each
Presentation of projects in 3 groups Coffee, group discussion over projects
18.00-18.30 INTRODUCTION
Getting to know each other Why cross-sector partnerships?

7. A workshop process
Partnership,
cooperation
Inspirations, new
ideas
Added value
to a project
Exchange of knowledge,
skills, networks, resources
Network, coordynation
and synergy effect
Take a snack
and coffee
Choose
a workshop
Seek similarities,
cooperation field,
advise, inspire

8. WAW CITY HUBS
Current Effects

9. 17.01.13, WAW CITY HUB #1
Topic: After-Coference Party
• 150 participants
• 46 people contributed to the
„Contact Wall” pointing what
they seek and offer
• Most people were connected
to public space

10. 12.12.13, WAW CITY HUB #2
Topic: Urban Space
32 participants
Topic: painting over racist expressions from
buildings
EFFECT: constructive feedback
and donation of 300 000 PLN
from Batory Foundation
Topic: movable Urban Table that serves for
organising meetings with neighbours
EFFECT: cooperation with Social
Communication Office in City Hall, usage
of the Table for official social consulting
Topic: Architectural workshops for children
EFFECT: Feedback about potential to make
a start-up, meeting sociologist Mariola
Suszczewicz and creating a project of
natural playground by the Vistula River.
They accessed a BMW Contest together

11. 23.01.14, WAW CITY HUB #3
Topic: Architekture & Art in Urban
Space
41 participants
Topic: idea of new functions for area next
to the Palace of Culture, the Defilad Square
EFFECT: constructive feedback from
business and administrative points of view
Topic: Outdoor light artistic performance
EFFECT: cooperation with different artists,
gaining materials and space to make bigger
light festival, constr
uctive feedback
Topic: Architectural events: movie festival
and workshops
EFFECT: Constructive feedback in terms of
making relations with sponsors and
customer development

12. Pilotage
in chosen
space
27.02.14, WAW CITY HUB #4
Topic: Aesthetics of Urban Space
To cooperation invited partnerships:
Administration + 2 NGOs + Business
Illegal
advertisements
audit
Better quality
design
of signboards

13. 27.02.14, WAW CITY HUB #4
Topic: Aesthetics of Urban Space
53 participants
Topic: Illegal adertisements audit
EFFECT: cooperation within the City Office
- aproval of Building Audit Inspector,
finding volunteers among students,
constructive feedback, choosing space for
pilotage - Stary Mokotów
Topic: Better quality design of signboards
EFFECT: cooperation with
a) City Office – including the project into
Warsaw Revitalisation Programme,
b)Foundation e-Państwo: design a web
portal –a prototype is in progress
c) Lokalny Certyfikowany -common brand,
d) Museum of Modern Art. – special
exhibition in may.
e) Good Looking Studio – and paint model
signboards

14. 20.03.14, WAW CITY HUB #5
Topic: Urban Social Economy
Urban
Social
Economy
Foundation
for Civil Society
Development
Coordination of Social
Economy (Warsaw City Hall,
Social Communication Unit)
Cooperative
for Novelty-
Book readers
Activatorium

15. 20.03.14, WAW CITY HUB #5
Topic: Urban Social Economy
51 participants
Topic: Social economy coordination
EFFECT: constructive feedback, not known yet
Topic: Cooperative for novelty-book readers
EFFECT: constructive feedback, not known yet
Topic: Activatorium, an urban start-up mixer
EFFECT: constructive feedback, not known yet
Topic: Zlepszejpolki.pl – An Internet portal
to buy and sell social economy products
EFFECT: constructive feedback, not known yet

16. 2. Visual identyfication
of cycling campaigns
1. How to encourage to cycling? Context
of the European Cycling Challenge
3. RoweremDoPracy.pl – a business idea
to involve emplyees to cycling
08.04.14, WAW CITY HUB #6:
Topic: Cykling Transport
Business partners:
NGO partners:
Project leaders

17. 08.04.14, WAW CITY HUB #6:
Topic: Cycling Transport
45 participants
Topic: How to encourage to cycling? Context of the European Cycling
Challenge
EFFECT: Cooperation with
a) Decathlon – possible city stands in D. stores, prizes
b) 3 NGOs of Bicycle activists – help in networking, events and PR during
the campaign
c) Cooperation with AkzoNobel – automatic mobile loaders attached to
Veturilo, Warsaw city bike system
Topic: Visual identyfication of cycling campaigns
EFFECT: a) a student of Academy of Fine Arts made a project of Warsaw
cycling map, possible use to the website, stands and maps
b) „Cool art Cooperative” can make a movie to a campaign showing
proper interactions on the road between pedestrians and cyclists
Topic: RoweremDoPracy.pl – a business idea to involve emplyees to
cycling
EFFECT: Pilotage of the start-up model with cooperation with
Responsible Business Forum, Possible also with Decathlon, constructive
feedback, Student from the Academy of Fine arts will design a bike stand

18. Agenda
20.30 -22.00 THE INFORMAL PART
Idea market Panstwomiasto Cafebar drinks vouchers
20.00-20.30 SUMMARY
Workshops’ effects Evaluation of the Hub
18.30-20.00 WORKSHOPS– 2 rounds, 30minutes each
Presentation of projects in 3 groups Coffee, group discussion over projects
18.00-18.30 INTRODUCTION
Getting to know each other Why cross-sector partnerships?

19. WORKSHOPS’ SUMMARY
Prizes and thanks
Discussion: Time limit 20:30
Project leaders
• What have you learned?
• What kind of added value or potential
the workshop has brought?
Everyone
• How today’s discussion may influence
the city?
• What have you enjoyed and what not?
• What have you learned/got to know?
• Do you see anoy potential for cooperation?

20. Agenda
20.30 -22.00 THE INFORMAL PART
Idea market Panstwomiasto Cafebar drinks vouchers
20.00-20.30 SUMMARY
Workshops’ effects Evaluation of the Hub
18.30-20.00 WORKSHOPS– 2 rounds, 30minutes each
Presentation of projects in 3 groups Coffee, group discussion over projects
18.00-18.30 INTRODUCTION
Getting to know each other Why cross-sector partnerships?

21. The informal part
Invitation
to the next Hub
– 15.05.14
Call for projects
Continuation
of conversations
Wyjście poza
tematykę 3
projektów
Evaluation
questionnaire
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współpracy przy
swoim pomyśle?

22. The WAW CITY HUB Team
LABORATORI
UM EE
Bartosz
Stodulski
BIZ.
CITY PARTNERSHIPS
Katarzyna Jaroniec,
Sylwia Borkowska,
Marta Jędrzejewska
NGO
PROJEKT:
POLSKA
Paweł
Ciacek
NGO
GOOD
LOOKING
STUDIO
Bartłomiej
Leśniewski
BIZ.

23. Feel invited
to meet
and cooperate!
Contact:
Sylwia Borkowska
+48 515 267 580
contact@citypartnerships.org
www.citypartnerships.org
Organizer: Partners: