Local Action Plan of Split, Croatia
Context
The Youth Centre is located in the city of Split, which is the second largest city in Croatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. The Youth Centre’s magnificent building benefits from an extremely favourable location, at the heart of the Split peninsula. Split’s historic core was included in the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1979. In addition to the concentration of cultural and historical monuments, the core and its surroundings hold most of the city’s cultural institutions.
Purpose
City of Split, in collaboration with its partners, and particularly CEDRA Split as the Croatian national partner, was mandated to lead the development of the Local Action Plan (LAP) to identify policies, strategies, actions and tools to develop on the local territory according to the principles of NEB and SE with a focus on a Youth Centre and the network of similar initiatives in the Urban Agglomeration of Split, Split Dalmatia County and Croatia.
Actions – Roadmap – 2024
Each of the described Pillar will contain description of the Actions that will be taken in order to achieve the established goals.
Policy Development
Raise awareness and improve collaboration between all stakeholders including сity administration, sector leaders on national and regional level with aim to develop all elements of the social enterprise development ecosystem.
Business Skills and Organizational Development
Increase the business and organizational governance skills of organizations who operate (or aspire to operate) a social enterprise.
Promotion and Awareness
Raise awareness and promote the social enterprise model to the general public how the model can help deliver upon social, community economic, cultural and environmental mandates.
Research and Opportunity Identification
Use research to understand wider social enterprise sector and identify and support new social enterprise opportunities in both city of Split and Urban agglomeration areas.