How can partners across the world effectively share knowledge with each other? Eurocities has spent over three decades partnering European cities to exchange best practices. For the first time, here, we are presenting our range of methods for effective knowledge sharing. You’ll get an overview of each method, a step by step guide for doing it yourself, as well as potential pitfalls and links to other resources.
Building local resilience in the face of global challenges like climate change, social exclusion and digital transition is an urgent issue. If each of us works to solve it alone, we’ll never succeed in time. But if we can share our progress, taking on effective solutions developed by others and adapting them to our local situation, we can make it together.
In order to enrich the world with local knowledge, just amassing it isn’t enough. We need to be able to share it too. Over decades of connecting cities to exchange knowledge and strengthen local policy with peer-to-peer support, Eurocities has developed a suite of methods for sharing local knowledge that we are making publicly available here for the first time.
Whether it’s a once-off webinar or a years-long community of practice, our Knowledge Sharing Methods site explains the how-to, outcomes and pitfalls involved in each of the methods that we have tried and tested over the years. For our members, there are some extra resources like contacts, templates and examples that can make your knowledge-sharing journey even more seamless and rewarding.
As good as this sounds, sharing knowledge effectively is a tricky business. There are plenty of ways to do it and plenty of ways it can go wrong. With this unique resource, developed, often with the help of EU-funding, through over 100 Eurocities projects over the last 30 years, you can be sure to get off to a good start.
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