Example: Vejle's journey
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As explained in The Activity Matrix, this matrix is likely to be unique for each REFLOW pilot city, as it will reflect different strategic choices to unlock the transition towards circular and regenerative cities, and thereby different approaches and activities to do so via collaborative governance arrangements.
In this section, we present an example of an hypothetical collaborative governance transition journey in Vejle, in order to show how the activities in the Menu can be creatively articulated in connection with the Portfolio Approach and the Activity Matrix.
This example is based upon Vejle’s Action Plan and follow up conversations with the city in the context of the REFLOW project. Vejle already shows a well defined governance structure for the transition to circularity, articulated into:
A Local Steering Committee participated by different City Departments as well as by external stakeholders, including Universities, Social Organizations and Environmental Protection Agencies. This Committee coordinates and steers the local REFLOW’s activities, making decisions and monitoring progress towards the achievement of the set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
An Advisory Board, yet to be fully defined, in charge to provide key knowledge in support to the implementation of the prototyping activities and their further scalability. Five Working Groups, each dedicated to a specific scenario (being each scenario, in turn, place-based) consisting of different stakeholders and in charge of implementing the planned activities.
According to Vejle’s vision and Action Plan for the transition to circular cities, the collaborative governance transition journey is sketched in three (simplified) horizons:
A short term horizon where the governance structure is fully tested according to the activities envisaged in the Action Plan
A medium term horizon that introduces practices of circular public procurement and circular local waste plan that are coherent and integrated with national plans
A long term horizon that integrates the learning and lessons learnt throughout the previous horizons to build a holistic resilience strategy for the City that embeds the circular economy as a strategic means to unlock multiple spillover benefits across society, economy and environment
As an example, we zoom in the "Define" phase of the journey, focusing on its specific activities:
Lastly, the Portfolio Canvas Tool provides an example of the suggested tools collection according to the specific journey in the "Define" phase:
