Conception and dissemination of methods and tools of territorial intelligence accessible for the territorial actors and respectful of a sustainable development ethics (WP6)

This activity essentially aims at giving a European dimension to research actions widely engaged at a local level, even at a national scale, on technical tools for the actors and on territorial data sets.

1. The Catalyse Toolkit will model and harmonize the tools of the existing method Catalyse, which has been used by all partners in over twenty sites in Europe. It will allow the dissemination of tested and friendly-user tolls for territorial and community diagnostic, development partnership evaluation, local resources repertories and territorial indicators analysis.
2. Several research activities and experiments are currently carried out concerning the design and realisation of an on-line “Inclusion Itinerary Accompaniment File”. This file (quite similar to a “social file”) is useful to accompany persons within development partnerships and to evaluate itineraries in a network environment.
3. The caENTI participants are also carrying out research activities on territorial indicators which can be mobilised in the Catalyse Method framework to compare territorial data with the information collected with such files as “Inclusion Itinerary Accompaniment File”. Some free on-line cartographical representation tools were developed in both local and national contexts (for example the urban policy GIS in France http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/). Comparative research activities will allow the design of a European portal of institutional indicators useful for actors and available on the Internet in the framework of an on-line Territorial Information System.
4. In the same way, the Rural School Observatory, which gathers a national and more recently a European team network, constituted a national database on pupils’ itineraries. The caENTI will help provide a European dimension such data set.