Strategic Development Plan of Kaunas City Municipality up to 2022
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APPROVED by the Decision No. T-127 of 2 April 2015 of Kaunas City Municipality Council STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF KAUNAS CITY MUNICIPALITY UP TO 2022 KAUNAS MUNICIPALITY VISION AND PRIORITIES VISION FORMULATION UP TO 2022: KAUNAS TURNED INTO A SUSTAINABLE AND CIVIC-MINDED CITY LEADING IN ADVANCED BUSINESS AND INNOVATION. A CENTER OF MODERN AND INVOLVING CULTURE, HOME TO LEARNING AND HAPPY PEOPLE. PRIORITY AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. PRIORITY AREA. SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION AND ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS. 1.1. AIM Kaunas turned into the most favourable city for business in Lithuania Ensuring favourable conditions for business and encouraging 1.1.1. OBJECTIVE entrepreneurship 1.1.2. OBJECTIVE Increasing the city’s investment attractiveness 1.2. AIM Kaunas turned into the cultural leader of the Nordic and Baltic region 1.2.1. OBJECTIVE Increasing the quality and availability of cultural services 1.2.2. OBJECTIVE Developing the public cultural infrastructure Ensuring the preservation, management and popularization of cultural 1.2.3. OBJECTIVE heritage Kaunas turned into a competitive cultural and conference tourism 1.3. AIM attraction centre Developing the public infrastructure that improves the public tourism and 1.3.1. OBJECTIVE general image of the city Creating favourable conditions for the development of tourism services and 1.3.2. OBJECTIVE improving their quality 2. PRIORITY AREA. DEVELOPING A CLEVER AND CIVIL SOCIETY 2.1. AIM Educational services matching the needs of a learning society 2.1.1. OBJECTIVE Forming an effective formal and non-formal education institution network 2.1.2. OBJECTIVE Developing an academic, learning and clever city 2.1.3. OBJECTIVE Ensuring the implementation of a purposeful youth policy Conditions created for the inclusion of all social groups in sports 2.2. AIM activities 2.2.1. OBJECTIVE Improving the quality and availability of sports services 2.2.2. OBJECTIVE Developing the public sports infrastructure 2 2.3. AIM High-quality and publicly available healthcare and social services 2.3.1. OBJECTIVE Providing high-quality and safe healthcare services 2.3.2. OBJECTIVE Improving social services quality and availability, reducing social exclusion 2.4. AIM Effective city management, high quality of public services 2.4.1. OBJECTIVE Increasing the quality of urban management and public services 2.4.2. OBJECTIVE Improving and expanding the range of the city’s e-services Shaping the city image, developing international and cross-institutional 2.4.3. OBJECTIVE cooperation 2.5. AIM A safe and communal city 2.5.1. OBJECTIVE Ensuring public order in the city 2.5.2. OBJECTIVE Promoting and nurturing the community spirit 3. PRIORITY AREA. SUSTAINABLE TERRITORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT Efficient and modern engineering supply infrastructure 3.1. AIM Renewing and developing the water supply and wastewater management 3.1.1. OBJECTIVE infrastructure 3.1.2. OBJECTIVE Increasing the efficiency of energetics systems and energy consumption High-quality and safe transport infrastructure 3.2. AIM 3.2.1. OBJECTIVE Ensuring the quality of transport infrastructure 3.2.2. OBJECTIVE Developing the public and non-motorized transport systems A safe and clean environment, efficient waste management 3.3. AIM Protecting and preserving the environment, development of efficient 3.3.1. OBJECTIVE municipal waste management 3.4. AIM Sustainable city area development, high-quality living environment 3.4.1. OBJECTIVE Planning a sustainable development of urban areas and their infrastructure 3.4.2. OBJECTIVE Improving the living environment and public infrastructure 3 PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT MEASURES OF KAUNAS CITY MUNICIPALITY Abbreviations used in the document: KCMA shall mean Kaunas City Municipality Administration; KCM shall mean Kaunas City Municipality; NGO shall mean any non-governmental organization; PHQ shall mean any Police Headquarters. Measure implementation Implementati Competent Item No. Measure indicator on period authority 1. SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION AND ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS 1.1. Kaunas turned into the most favourable city for business in Lithuania 1.1.1. Ensuring favourable conditions for business and encouraging entrepreneurship Established structure operating under the Strengthening of partnership principles, i.e. KCMA, business cooperation of the the KCM’s advisory body promotion municipality, for the issues of economic institutions, business promotion development of Kaunas associated 1.1.1.1. institutions, city; 2016–2022 business associated business Studies on business structures and structures and higher environment in Kaunas city higher education education carried out and presented institutions institutions regularly; Number of the signed cooperation agreements Number of the initiated and supported fairs, conferences encouraging new business ideas and development of Development of the business relations; KCMA, business system for Number of the implemented promotion 1.1.1.2. 2016–2022 promotion of small and medium institutions business entities enterprises (SME) development programmes (measures); Number of SMEs which have received the support Number of the initiated / supported events intended KCMA, business for increasing the social promotion Increasing the social responsibility of businesses; institutions, 1.1.1.3. responsibility of 2016–2022 Number of the implemented associated business entities measures contributing to business increasing the social structures responsibility of businesses 1.1.1.4. Increasing the attractiveness of the central part of the city to business and residents 4 Measure implementation Implementati Competent Item No. Measure indicator on period authority Draft project for improving the visual attractiveness of the Old Town prepared and Development of the being implemented; KMSA, Kaunas 1.1.1.4.1 Old Town as the Cooperation conducted in 2016–2022 Old Town . model zone for order to prepare and Society cultured leisure time implement the programme of system-traditional events of the Old Town Improved environment of Development of Laisvės Alėja (pavements, Laisvės Alėja building facades, lighting, 1.1.1.4.2 (Liberty avenue), as planting, etc.); 2016–2022 KCMA . the business and Strategy for development of service centre Laisvės Alėja prepared and being implemented. Dissemination of information Number of the organized KCMA, business encouraging events encouraging promotion entrepreneurship of entrepreneurship; institutions, 1.1.1.5. the residents; Number of the participants 2016–2022 associated organization of in such events; business events, Number of information structures competitions, initiatives trainings Number of the implemented projects for development of business promotion institutions; Development of Developed science and KCMA, business business promotion 1.1.1.6. technology park 2016–2022 promotion institutions where Technopolis; institutions KCMA has a stake Number of economic operators established in the science and technology park Technopolis 1.1.2. Increasing the city’s investment attractiveness Preparation and Formalized investment KCMA, business implementation of attraction strategy promotion 1.1.2.1. the investment (programme) prepared and 2016–2022 institutions, attraction strategy being implemented higher education (programme) institutions Created analogue of Invest KCMA, public Lithuania (Investuok institution Invest Presentation of the Lietuvoje) for Kaunas city; Lithuania, 1.1.2.2. city to the potential Created database (placed in 2016–2022 business investors the new web site or promotion www.kaunas.lt) for institutions investors in the Lithuanian, 5 Measure implementation Implementati Competent Item No. Measure indicator on period authority English, German and Russian languages; Number of the organized presentations of the city to the potential investors Prepared procedure for fast track coordination procedures containing the transparently described KCMA, public Provision of procedures for selection of institution Invest administrative the potential investors and Lithuania, 1.1.2.3. 2016–2022 assistance to the for possible provision of the business potential investors administrative assistance to promotion them by the municipality in institutions order to accelerate the internal coordination procedures Number of the prepared area planning documents, technical projects; Prepared area development Conversion of the plans (for the areas of the former production former aviation plant, 1.1.2.4. (industrial) areas or former meat-processing 2016–2022 KCMA present production plant and other areas); areas Attracted private investments (thousand EUR); Number of newly established enterprises Number of the prepared area planning documents, environmental impact Development of reports, technical projects, investment projects; 1.1.2.5. business and 2016–2022 KCMA industrial areas Attracted private investments (thousand EUR); Number of newly established enterprises Number of the initiated amendments to legal acts with a view to reduce the amount of neglected Initiation of buildings and areas in the 1.1.2.6. improvement of 2016–2022 KCMA city; legal acts Number of the initiated amendments to the respective legal acts which are directly associated with 6 Measure implementation Implementati Competent Item No. Measure indicator on period authority improvement of business environment and / or reduction in administrative burden in Kaunas city Number of the prepared and implemented public-private partnership investment projects;